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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by meowkit on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:06AM (#27060745)
Its not a reality check its more akin to mindfulness meditation. Momento mori, a reminder that it is so easy to die of stupid things in this world.

> I can imagine that it sends some people down the drain and incentivises violence.

As far as I’m aware, this is not the case for video games and violent movies, so I don’t buy it for liveleak content.

Propoganda for terrorism and cartels is a whole other argument though.

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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by RamblingCTO on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:28AM (#27063785)
> Its not a reality check its more akin to mindfulness meditation. Momento mori, a reminder that it is so easy to die of stupid things in this world.

I find it very weird that you need gore for a memento mori.

> As far as I’m aware, this is not the case for video games and violent movies, so I don’t buy it for liveleak content.

Well, if I think about how I felt while watching this stuff (very, very uneasy) versus how I felt while gaming or watching movies I'd say there's quite a difference. So I would argue that the brain indeed processes those things differently.

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