Video games have the power to make you feel. Your position as an active participant in the story, not just a passive observer, means they can create potent emotions within players. That being said, I still know they’re not real, unlike Elon Musk, apparently.
In what is a truly unhinged tweet, Musk wrote that he’d never completed GTA 5 because it “required shooting police officers in the opening scene. Just couldn’t do it.” I don’t care about cops at the best of times, but least of all in a video game. The implication here that somehow, shooting police in a video game is any indication of real-world character is just baffling. Video games are not real life. The police officers you kill in-game don’t have a family, dreams, or anything else that makes you a bad person for killing them.
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