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Mother Shares How Video Games Radicalized Her Son To Run Around And Pick Up Coins
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The gambling monetization is an entirely new problem, but the "{something} is corrupting the youth" is both a trope and an utter joke. It used to be that television is corrupting the youth, and before that, radio. Any new media technology ends up with people decrying over their pearl-clutching, "but think of the children" reasons.