[Documentary] The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide

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"The blood on our Controllers" is an amateur documentary made to denounce the role of the video game industry in the normalization of the Palestinian genocide, through its close relation with the military industrial complex and the representation of Arab communities in games. It is a collaborative work between developers, artists, animators, and academicians to show how our games are doing wrong or right, what the game industry could be and what needs to be done for it to happen.

It's time for those who have been the loudest for so long to try and learn to listen.

Speakers (in order of appearance): Hippolyte Caubet, Rami Ismail, Younès Rabii, Florent Maurin, Meghna Jayanth, Holly Nielsen, Rasheed Abueideh, Elodie Roblain, Florence Nichols Smith

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I might have a look at it with my fiancé who’s not at all into gaming, but really invested in fighting against the palestinian genocide

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'll Gladly check it out when I'm home. Hopefully the reception here is mature.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Representation of Arabs in games... let me check my notes how the terrorists of the last 30 years looked like... Ah yeah makes sense that terrorists in games looked like that.

Next the only black US president is going to complain that the presidents are almost always portrayed as white?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean... "the terrorists" of the last 30 years are mostly white guys with AR-15s so... (https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/ is an aggregator that looks somewhat legit). And a good percentage are kids using daddy's gun to bust a cap in Little Timmy during storytime so... I guess we also should be bringing back kid killing from Fallout 1 and 2?

But hey, say what you REALLY mean since the people in the back didn't quite see your ass after that last comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Those are not terrorists, they have no political agenda to push, they "just"snapped and go on a rampage.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

... white people who shoot children for the sole purpose of making people hurt and spreading terror aren't terorists because... they don't care enough?

Jesus fucking christ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Mass shooters are obviously despicable, but they wouldn't generally be terrorists. The definition of terrorist requires a political motivation. But even if you did include school shooters in the count, they still would be greatly outnumbered by the amount of people in actual terrorist groups. Some like Hezbollah are effectively armies. Also, I can't think of a game where you deal with isolated mass shooters.