On New Year’s Day we can see shrines decorated so much. They look very vivid.But have you ever been to shrines in ordinary day ? There you will find the shrine buildings stand quietly. The buildings seem to be empty. Yes, empty. In old Japanese faith, Gods do not stay in this world all the time. In only specific days they come to our world, for example on New Year’s Day and festival days. As for the festival days, People invite not only village gods but all the gods in Japan. The festival yard are filled with spirits of many gods. But this is an extraordinary situation. After finishing the festival people must get ordinary situation to lead ordinary life. At the end of the festival, the ceremony to get rid of all the gods is needed. In many cases the strongest and most awful god appears and drive other gods away. But in Nishiure-Dengaku we can see a very unusual scene. There at the end of the festival an aweful god called Shizume appears. He is a representative of the gods to be got rid of. In solemn atmosphere he sits at the edge of the festival yard and gives a moan of pain. Then priests come up to and arrest him to take him away. In this way the festival finishes and from that morning village people go back to their ordinary life.
It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.
Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.
I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.
The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:
A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.
B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.
tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.
I cant agree with this post more
Dude fucking seriously.
I can be a abrasive piece of shit, but it costs $0.00 to be nice to kids in online games and positive reinforcement is a good thing.
PSA: Halloween is pretty much here and it only takes on second to send a sick child in the hospital a Spook-o-gram. The best part about this is that $1 gets donated to CHLA’s Helping Hand fund each time you send one out. So let’s help some kids have a spectacular Halloween by sending them spook-o-grams and helping cause!!
This literally costs nothing but your time so please do it, you could make a kids Halloween.
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