Give me your untruths, your lies, your misinterpretations -they're good for me

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At a certain point in this TED talk about video games, the speaker shows a video that includes what appears to be nighttime TV footage of soldiers shooting at something (you know, with those indistinct white blobs moving across a greenish black background). The images are accompanied by the following voice-over: "What troubles me is not that video game violence is becoming more like real-life violence, but that real-life violence is starting to look more and more like a video game".

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