Line #123 Quotes/VideoGameCrueltyPotential


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3	[[folder:Films]]
4	->"[=KaiserRollSöze92=] asks, 'Can you kill your mom?' You actually can Kaiser, [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment but you'll lose]], so you want to avoid that."
5	-->-- '''Blair Trigger''', ''Film/FinalDeployment4QueenBattleWalkthrough''
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8	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
9	->'''Brian:''' What are you playing?\
10	'''Tim:''' ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII''.\
11	'''Brian:''' She's drowning.\
12	'''Tim:''' Yeah.\
13	'''Brian:''' Is that the point of the game?\
14	'''Tim:''' It depends what mood you're in, really.\
15	'''Brian:''' What sort of mood are you in, then?\
16	'''Tim:''' Well, I got a letter from my girlfriend this morning three months too late [[DearJohnLetter explaining why she dumped me]]. It was full of "You'll always be special" and "I'll always love you" platitudes designed to make me feel better while simultaneously appeasing her deep-seated sense of guilt for running off with a slimy little city boy named Duane and destroying my faith in everything in the world that is good and pure.\
17	'''Brian:''' So it didn't really work, then.\
18	'''Tim:''' No, it '''''made me want to drown things!'''''
19	-->-- ''Series/{{Spaced}}''
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21
22	[[folder:Music]]
23	->''You can show your neighbors you [[VideoGameCaringPotential love them]]\
24	Or just beat the dogshit out of them''
25	-->-- Music/{{Brentalfloss}}'s VideoGame/{{Civilization}} WithLyrics
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27
28	[[folder:Video Games]]
29	-> ''As a [[{{Pyromaniac}} Pyro]], you can often set enemies on fire and retreat, leaving them to [[KillItWithFire die from the burning]].''
30	-->-- ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Player Tip''
31
32	->'''''Zat''' was doctor-assisted homicide!''
33	-->-- '''[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Medic]]''', ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013''[[note]]Also spoken in his home game, but in a different context.[[/note]]
34
35	->''Ouch! Mario, you did that on purpose, didn't you?! THAT'S! JUST! MEAN!''
36	-->-- '''Kooper''', ''VideoGame/PaperMario64''
37
38	->''"If you whack a Whacka, they drop a Whacka Bump. Those are supposed to be delicious. They fetch a high price in gourmet auctions, too. Yup, super-precious delicacies. Still, whacking a defenseless creature to get one... You'd never do that, right, Mario?"''
39	-->-- '''Goombella''', ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''
40
41	->''Make poor Luigi lose a life...''
42	-->-- ''Videogame/NESRemix'', ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' stage objective
43
44	->''"I thought I was a moral person. '''I was wrong.'''"''
45	-->-- [[http://steamcommunity.com/id/WPE/recommended/203770/ Steam review of]] ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII''
46
47	->''Don't you hate it when you go to Cool Beans, and they don't got your strawberry chino... [[DisproportionateRetribution So you gotta]] [[BoomHeadshot blow they fuckin' head off?]]''
48	-->-- '''[[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Frank Ocean]]''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''
49
50	->''That was uncalled for! But a lot of fun to watch!''
51	-->-- '''The announcer''', ''VideoGame/NFLBlitz''
52
53	->''[[SarcasmMode Very funny.]]''
54	-->-- '''[[TheDragon Jin]]''' if the player jumps in a BottomlessPit while controlling him, ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2''
55
56	->''You're a disgrace to your mother!''
57	-->-- '''Ninten''' when using the Bullhorn on Giegue, ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''
58
59	->''It's a lovely day in the village, and you are a horrible goose. Make your way around town, from peoples' back gardens to the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, [[HollerButton honking a lot]], and generally ruining everyone's day.''
60	-->-- UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch news ad for ''VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame''
61
62	->''"During winter, it pleads with you not to cut off its fur with big, watery eyes. You do it anyway... because that's how you roll. YouMonster."''
63	-->-- In-game description of [[SweetSheep Woolies]] in '''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'''
64
65	->''And that's how I sold an empire's own people back to them as food.''
66	-->-- '''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/653obc/ive_done_something_awful/ This Reddit user]]''', playing ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''
67
68	->''"Somewhere in the galaxy a future Space Hague just spontaneously appeared and they don't know why...'' yet"
69	-->-- '''Another Reddit user''', responding to what the last guy did playing ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''
70
71	->'''Queen:''' Kris Don't Hit The Cars!\
72	''[If Kris hits a car]''\
73	'''Queen:''' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Haha Okay Actually Hit All The Cars]]
74	-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''
75
76	->'''WANTED SPONGE'''\
77	~~~~\
78	Hit 25 [=NPCs=]
79	-->-- An achievement in ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsTheCosmicShake''
80
81	->''"You've got some nerve... Bringing out [Ogerpon] NOW [[TheResenter of all times]]?!"''
82	-->-- '''[[Characters/PokemonScarletAndVioletKieran Kieran]]''', ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet - [[DownloadableContent The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk]]''
83
84	->''"PLEASE NOTE THAT I WOULD NORMALLY NEVER DO THIS KIND OF STUFF WITH MY SIMS!! I ONLY GOT BORED OF THE SIMS 1!!!" reveals a disclaimer on one video created by the unnervingly-named user [=StarSweetieSqueaker=], who forced eight Sims to wet themselves before setting them alight in a single room decorated with circus wallpaper. [=StarSweetieSqueaker=] is probably not a deranged psychopath living out sick, twisted fantasies of murder and torture. They are, most likely, an ordinary person -- or at least, an ordinary ''VideoGame/TheSims'' player.''
85	-->-- '''Amelia Tait,''' [[https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2017/01/i-want-cheat-him-and-set-him-fire-why-are-we-sadistic-towards-our-sims "'I want to cheat on him and set him on fire': why are we sadistic towards our Sims?"]]
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88	[[folder:Web Animation]]
89	->"Switch up your protagonist as much as you like, they're still controlled by a player; an entity as ethically restrained as UsefulNotes/JosephStalin playing with his bath toys."
90	-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/Prototype2''[='s=] attempts to give a [[VideoGameCaringPotential tragic backstory]] to a controllable monster.
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92	->"If you give them guns, they will shoot old ladies. If you give them cars, they will run over old ladies. If you give them aircraft, they will ascend to the highest possible height and hurl themselves out onto an old lady. And if you give them customisable outfits, their first instinct will be to take off all their clothes and run around the streets hip-thrusting in the faces of old ladies. If you try to stop them doing all this, they'll hate you for it. Not only does ''VideoGame/{{Saints Row 2}}'' not stop you, but it keeps score! Every single one of my examples has a little mini-game attached."
93	-->--'''''Zero Punctuation'''''
94
95	->"I don't wanna successfully slalom anything! I wanna gravely injure my skier!"
96	-->--'''[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]]''', [[https://homestarrunner.com/toons/disk-4-of-12-world-games playing]] [[Creator/{{Epyx}} World Games]]
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99	[[folder:Webcomics]]
100	->'''Ken:''' Everyone seems to agree ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is pretty damn awesome, though there are some questions about general misogyny and depictions of torture.\
101	'''Arnold:''' Those are some pretty high-minded concerns for a guy who's currently driving a taco truck in circles in a stadium parking lot, purposefully running over pedestrians.\
102	'''Ken:''' Because that's ''my'' decision, not the game's.
103	-->-- ''WebComic/{{Shortpacked}}''
104
105	->''"I don't know why you'd include a riot gun and a zebra in [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain the same game]] if you don't expect me to interact with both of them at the same time."''
106	-->--''WebComic/AwkwardZombie'', "[[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/conserving-ammo Conserving Ammo]]" [[note]]It gets [[NonLethalKO the same end results]] as the tranq pistol.[[/note]]
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109	[[folder:Web Original]]
110	->''The name, dating as it does to the late 70s, is not directly tied to video games, but rather the larger tradition of the penny arcade. And yet there is something damningly on point in the link between sadistic depravity and playing games...at the end of the day, when it comes to Arcade, you’ve got to admit: he’s the very image of a gamer.''
111	-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/blog/youre-on-the-global-frequency-spider-man-and-the-x-men-in-arcades-revenge/ Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on ''VideoGame/SpiderManAndTheXMenInArcadesRevenge''
112
113	->''God, look at me. This was supposed to be [[PacifistRun my quest for peace]], and I've becomes addicted to ''[[OmnicidalManiac destroying suns]].
114	-->-- '''[[http://www.computerandvideogames.com/198344/blog/galactic-civilizations-diary-final-entry/ Tom Francis]]''' playing ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations II''
115
116	->''I got scared when I tied a pleading woman to the train tracks, watched her turn into a cloud of chilli and then realized that was a secret achievement. It felt like the game was saying, "Ha! I knew [[InLoveWithYourCarnage there was as much wrong with you as there is with me!]]"''
117	-->--'''Creator/{{Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-red-dead-redemption-hates-women/ "6 Things Red Dead Redemption Taught Me About (Hating) Women"]]
118
119	->''You can even simulate 9/11 if you want, which a disturbingly large number of people have done. Everyone grieves in their own way.''
120	-->--'''[[http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/why-your-children-s-video-game-sucks-minecraft-1688203198 Drew Magary]]''' on ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''
121
122	->You know, the game where y'all make me levels, tweet them to me, I play them and then I rage the fuck out!
123	-->--'''WebVideo/DashieGames''' opening [[OnceAnEpisode each episode]] of his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' series
124
125	->''The game loaded levels with civilian scientists, told us not to shoot them, then gave the scientists guns and grenades because it knew exactly how much was wrong with us. It was like [[ThoughtAversionFailure telling someone not to think of a pink elephant]] after giving them a pink elephant gun. It was a psychology test the entire generation failed.''
126	-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-dick-moves-everyone-pulled-in-classic-video-games/ on]] ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997''
127
128	->''You are in a verdant forest. All around you are the sounds of small animals rustling in the bushes, creating an orchestra of ambient, peaceful sounds. The gentle morning sun turns the dew into a soft steam rising from the blades of grass. A young doe eyes you warily in the distance but, sensing your kindness, slowly approaches. All is as it should be.''\
129	'''[[AC:>kill deer]]'''\
130	''Wh...why?''\
131	'''[[AC:>murder the shit out of deer]]'''\
132	''You slaughter the deer in the most horrible fashion you can think of, for absolutely no reason. The gentle silence is broken by painful screams and the misty grass is tinged red with blood. You are soaked in its entrails.''\
133	'''[[AC:>frolic]]'''\
134	''[[WhatTheHellPlayer Wow. There is something really wrong with you]].''
135	-->--'''[[Website/{{Cracked}} Robert Brockway: Word Puncher]]''': ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/revisiting-old-school-text-adventures-as-a-jaded-modern-gamer/ Revisiting Old-School Text Adventures as a Jaded Modern Gamer]]'' [[note]]He just gets more psychotic from then on out. [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment The game eventually retaliates]] by [[spoiler:siccing [[HopelessBossFight a grotesque phallus-beast]] to rape him to death]].[[/note]]
136
137	->''The most useful part of sneaking is undoubtedly the 'stealth throw'. While firing a missile weapon or attacking in melee will get you noticed immediately, throwing things at people will not. Stock up on dead enemies' weapons, clothing and severed body parts and you can pretend you're some gruesome comedy version of [[VideoGame/SplinterCell Sam Fisher.]] You know you want to.''
138	-->-- The ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' wiki, on [[http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/40d:Adventurer_mode Adventure Mode]].
139
140	->VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': where the [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar Geneva Convention]] screams out in pain.''
141	-->-- Website/Bay12 forums poster '''Oliolli'''
142
143	->''If [[VideoGame/Hitman2 Agent 47]] is a scalpel, Agent 32 is several dozen scalpels glued [[BearsAreBadNews to an angry bear.]] Watch out, targets (and also anyone else within a couple of hundred metres).''
144	-->--{{Website/YouTube}} comment, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfXuhHq1_n4 "Playing Hitman 2 with Agent 47"]]
145
146	->''The reason anyone goes for master rank Dark Magic in ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic 6 or 7''? One word: Armageddon. Hell, that's the only reason I use dark magic in those games anymore.''
147	-->-- ''{{@/Raekuul}}''
148
149	->''These types of items can be used to destroy objects or even other summoned items (e.g., a club can be used to hit an animal; [[WouldHurtAChild steak can be attached to a baby to attract lions]]; rockets can be lobbed at a man).''
150	-->-- [[http://kotaku.com/5311425/scribblenauts-as-hilariously-explained-by-the-esrb The ESRB on]] ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}''
151
152	->''Montezuma and Shaka are angels compared to us!''
153	-->-- [[http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=444996 Shirastro]] of Civilization Fanatics
154
155	->''Now I’ve taken nearly everything from Nazeem. I’ve taken away his political affiliations, his income source, his wife, his sleep, and all his worldly possessions. What more could I take from him at this point? His soul.''
156	-->-- ''[=TheRhinoMonk=]'' on [[https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/ays7h3/the_slow_death_a_guide_to_ruining_nazeems_life/ ruining Nazeem's life]] in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''
157
158	->''"You are all horrible awful people and I love it"''
159	-->-- A Twitch chatter's response to Shenpai and co laughing about throwing a baby, "[[https://youtu.be/JPBeua1nijY?t=4698 IMMATURE GAMER HOURS \| Jackbox Party Pack]]"
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162	[[folder:Web Videos]]
163	->'''Mayor of''' '''''VideoGame/SimCity''''': ''We'' have tornadoes, and earthquakes, and giant radioactive lizard monsters that destroy our buildings!\
164	'''Mayor of''' '''''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines''''': None of those things are good.\
165	'''Mayor of''' '''''[=SimCity=]''''': No, they're not. I know they're not. Why do I always try to use that as a selling point?
166	-->-- ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhd9UF-tM1E&list=PL0u5ZHidq4X48xzpr-IfP8nHVFhtQfitZ&index=33&t=0s SimCity vs Cities: Skylines]]"
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168	->"Play a ''Sim'' game for a couple of years and you'll really reconsider the concept of a kind and loving god."
169	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''
170
171	->"It's more fun to break the windows, anyway, so [[{{Ragequit}} fuck it]]. 'EXTRA! EXTRA! [[GoingPostal Paperboy goes MAD!]] Here's some ASS-ifieds! Here you go, ''Daily Douchebag''! 10% off your next purchase of FUCK YOU! Cloudy with a chance of ASS-KICKING! Dear Abby: Make 'em eat shit! Crosswords: can you spell C-U-N-T? Horoscopes: You will achieve greatness -- in '''HELL!!'''"
172	-->--'''''The Angry Video Game Nerd''''' on ''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}''
173
174	->'''Nerd''': Why is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everyone in the entire airport tryin' to kill you]]? What did Kevin do to instigate all this?\
175	'''Creator/MacaulayCulkin''': I mean, maybe because they had me pelting innocent businessmen [[IKnowMaddenKombat with baseballs]]? "Here comes Kevin [=McAllister=]! He gives 'em a big ol' concussion with a fuckin' baseball!" Right to the dome, look at that! '''BAM!'''
176	-->--''The Angry Video Game Nerd'' on ''Film/HomeAlone'' games
177
178	->'''Darla''': Ashamed you got beat up by a ''girl?'' I'm just gonna back run home to daddy!\
179	'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7EhU5Y59M#t=135s Dunkey]]''': Oh really? ''[[KneeCapping fires bazooka at her knee]]'' How're gonna do dat?
180	-->-- '''[[LetsPlay/VideoGameDunkey Dunkey]]''', "How to Play ''VideoGame/Fallout4''"
181
182	->"Invade peoples' privacy 10 times and you ''[[Series/ThePriceIsRight get a new car!]]''"
183	-->-- '''George Weidman''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILVX9W3vRY on]] ''VideoGame/WatchDogs''
184
185	->'''Jack''': Don't do it man! He's your buddy! He '''takes you places!''' He goes -- he goes, ''"Hey, Friend! Why're standin' way over there, Friend? ''That'' seems really weird, hm. Imma just gonna eat some hay and think about my wife and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUytlAKC9Rg#t=1422 horse gets hit by falling box]]'' -GOH!"''\
186	'''Rich''': maniacal laughter\
187	'''Jack''': You horrible dickhead.
188	-->-- ''WebVideo/PreviouslyRecorded'' on ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''
189
190	->"[[AnEconomyIsYou Being a merchant]] was surprisingly fun and exciting -- especially when you found out that you could land on pirate starbases and become an illegal drug dealer. Hell, you could traffic in human slavery if you wanted. You could even [[SinkTheLifeboats tractor beam in ejected pilots]] that '''you''' shot down into your cargo hold and then later sell them as human slaves! JESUS! Talk about adding insult to injury. It's that kind of freedom, that little personal touch of pointless cruelty that makes you feel like a real, authentic [[SpacePirates space bastard]]."
191	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on ''VideoGame/WingCommanderPrivateer''
192
193	->"I know I'm supposed to be all '[[TheChosenOne the one]]', but I have too much fun killing everyone."
194	-->-- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y05TDInaeU Indiscriminate Murder is Counter-Productive]]" by Music/MachinaeSupremacy.
195
196	->"Did I do something ''nice''? That's not what you're supposed to do in video games! Quick, how do I bring the car in here to run you over?"
197	-->-- '''Marik''', ''WebVideo/MarikPlaysBloodlines''
198
199	->"You're an Aspirant, are you? That is oh-so-very-close to a certain drug you would take for a pain of the head. Allow me to remedy that situation where you don't have one already. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LClq8qIIdZ4&t=3m48s Proceeds to bludgeon him with a chain-covered bat]]''
200	-->--''{{LetsPlay/Tear of Grace}}'' playing ''VideoGame/Fallout4''
201
202	->'''Steve the Avatar:''' You guys just have to have the right perspective on this. We're in a new world! A new place! A world where nobody knows us. A world whose problems we aren't indirectly responsible for. A world not full of the vengeful ghosts of our dead relatives and lovers. A world we probably won't destroy. Do you understand what this ''means?''\
203	'''Iolo:''' You'll finally stop--\
204	'''Steve:''' ''Nobody's gonna see it coming.''
205	-->-- LetsPlay ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII: [[http://lparchive.org/Ultima-VII-Part-2-Serpent-Isle/ Serpent Isle]]''
206
207	->"They probably never intended for a cynical guy in his 20s to play [[VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} this game]]. This game is clearly for kids. This is the game that parents can pick up for little Timmy and be like: 'You can be creative! You can learn vocabulary as you go! It's educational!" And there's me: trying to shoot people to get business for my graveyard."
208	-->--'''WebVideo/RTGame''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwjecQI3y0s playing]] ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} Unlimited''
209
210	->''Get ready to hug, compliment, and pet your way through a harmonious world full of peace and friendship...or just brutally slaughter everything in sight until the streets run red with monster blood! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!''
211	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/HonestTrailers Honest Game Trailer]]''' for ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''
212
213	->''Alright, so we're checking out the only game where you can torture a hundred people by forcing them to live their entire lives in an underground bunker in order to see what sort of terrible human beings they grow up into...it's VideoGame/TheSims4!''
214	-->--'''[=GrayStillPlays=]''', [[https://youtu.be/oTDAJQoAyuI "i made 100 kids spend 50 years underground"]]
215
216	->''It's amazing, how quickly this game turns you into a monster.''
217	-->-- '''WebVideo/SsethTzeentach''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAjXDDQPJ0 on]] ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'' after just describing how he created a colony staffed completely by psychopaths, and sets them to work turning raiders and even useless colonists into [[GenuineHumanHide furniture]] after harvesting their organs.
218	[[/folder]]
219
220	[[folder:Real Life]]
221	->"I'm going to go for violence, 'cause I know that works."
222	-->-- '''Peggy Schroeck''', during her first ever role-playing game session, 1988
223	[[/folder]]

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