six high school seniors wear tshirts spelling out "RAPE?"

[lunasun]

127. Excellent points in first article and a fantasy to think young kids are not being bought the

Mature rated games by their paranoid parents who think life is better for them inside in their basement vs. the big bad real world of real interaction and will bow to the games wanted by their kids
It may be at it's end but the culture mentioned is still around plenty...

"Yet disclaiming liability is clearly no help. Game websites with huge community hubs whose fans are often associated with blunt Twitter hate mobs sort of shrug, they say things like ‘we delete the really bad stuff, what else can we do’ and ‘those people don’t represent our community’ -- but actually, those people do represent your community. That’s what your community is known for.

Suddenly a generation of lonely basement kids had marketers whispering in their ears that they were the most important commercial demographic of all time. Suddenly they started wearing shiny blouses and pinning bikini babes onto everything they made, started making games that sold the promise of high-octane masculinity to kids just like them.

By the turn of the millennium those were games’ only main cultural signposts: Have money. Have women. Get a gun and then a bigger gun. Be an outcast. Celebrate that. Defeat anyone who threatens you. "