Study Suggests Violent Video Games Don’t Cause Aggression, Damned Cheating Computers Do
So there’s me, shortly before George W. Bush was elected, sitting on the carpet in my mom’s living room, playing Tenchu 2 on my PlayStation. Remember the the Tenchu series? You’re forgiven if you don’t, there hasn’t been a game in the series since 2008. The important point here is that the Tenchu series was a stealth ninja game that started on the original PlayStation, and it could be bitch-hard in places. Especially in Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins. At least for me, that day in the futuristic year 2000, as I sat on my floor and failed to clear a stealth section. And failed. And failed again. After so many tries, honestly it wasn’t really that many, something in me, stealthily, broke. I went temporarily bugfuck insane. I started screaming and bashing my controller on the carpet. It was soft carpet, but it still managed to break. The destruction of an item I was way too unemployed to replace brought me back to my senses and I