Man Who Committed Mass Pickup at Nightclub Had Logged 100 Hours in Dating Sim
Do dating sims cause people to become more prone to committing acts of pickup in real life? We asked psychologists for the answer
By Staff Writer #4
Authorities are reporting that the man recently arrested in connection with picking up over fifty women at a local nightclub had spent over 100 hours playing Clannad, a popular dating simulation video game.
"These games are quite dangerous in that they give people the skills to more effectively carry out mass acts like this," said Harvard psychologist Michael Somebody. "The human brain can't tell the difference between real pickup and simulated pickup, and so people become more desensitized and less hesitant about using the pickup skills they learn in these games."
Dating simulations, or "dating sims" as they're known in the gaming community, are a popular genre of games in