The current parlance among certain legs of the alt right. Specifically the organized misogyny movement and among incels.
Have you ever fired a gun? Because even so far as there is anything even remotely realistic in these games. If they’re your primary experience with fire arms, you’re going to be no more prepared or aware of how to use one than anyone else who’s never held on in their hands. After playing a round of Call of Duty you are unlikely to be able to even load a fire arm depicted there without further instruction.
I wouldn’t call anything that happens in a Mortal Combat game “realistic”. Unless you’re positing that it’s physically possible to rip a man’s spine out bare handed, and there is anything like that much blood in a human body. If goriness of depiction had an impact on real world violence. Exploitation cinema of the 70’s would have likely proven the media-violence connection. And yet we’ve got a like a century of repeatedly debunking it for every category of media.
