Epic WTF

This is creeping into the 'video games encourage violence' realm. Maybe they do? I was an angry kid.

I see your point and I’d have to ponder how to distinguish between both realms, as it were.

Initially I think it’s a matter of scope and pervasiveness. Some games might be violent, but not everyone plays them, and you kind of know what you’re getting into with a video game. Plus, the relative realism of TV and film has been proven to affect people’s way of thinking, eg trump rebranding himself with his tv show.

On the other hand, one would hope that something like a film for children wouldn’t glamourise or trivialise violence, injury, combat, guns, etc., but the exact opposite is almost always true. The general population have been constantly nudged towards normalising that behaviour for decades, and it does have a psychological impact.