Episode 128: Religious Trauma Simulator

Bo and Charlie finally answer the questions that have plagued society our entire lives:

Do video games cause violence?
And, if so, is there a good ROI on that or should we just teach our kids to play "cops" instead?

Along the way, we read...

An op-ed in Newsweek in which Contrarian "Journalist" CHRISTOPHER J. FERGUSON takes up the cause of defending Instagram but also Video Games. Lord knows what drives this man.
A Kotaku story about the engineer responsible for the PlayStation Store noncing his way out of a job and onto a bargain-basement To Catch A Predator which mostly seem like YouTube clout sharks playing on the moral panic du jour. (Charlie also found a tweet with Discord screenshots suggesting this awful YouTube guy does, in fact, do this 'cause he hates gay people. She admits it's a bogus-looking tweet, but asserts that her stance on this guy's methods is vindicated by it.)

We also discuss:

The british movie Gatwick Gangsters and how the Soviets still have the nukes! They still got 'em, folks!
Christian dating sims and bipolar Christian video game companies.

Last, here's our additional sources, because we're nothing if not Responsible Journalists.

I would have put something here, but all the PlayStation exec Grindr convo tweets have been deleted and the screenshots removed from the YouTube video. So, take that with a grain of salt. Scam stuff going on here, I tells ya. Don't trust folks makin' a buck off pedo panic junk!

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