Why We Love Sex and Violence
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Discusses the history of death in games.
Kierkegaard frames all questions of escapism in the context of death anxiety, reminds me of the question of suicide.
Is video game heroism an attempt to defeat death?
discussions of violent video games treat violence and death as an unfortunate side effect of how games are made, but tackling this idea head on “would be to attempt to overcome our own aversions to reminders of our mortality and inspect how this media consoles us… against the specter of our inevitable demise.”
