[Shower thought] The way the gaming press uses the word "simulator" has surpassed Jack Thompson levels of ignorance. Back when Jack Thompson was crusading against video games, he would use the word phrase "murder simulator" to describe games he disapproved of. You see this now when gaming news sites talk about Hatred. They'll describe it as a "murder simulator", as though the word "simulator" is interchangeable with "game". You see it places like here in this Kotaku article. The description is fucking absurd. "Simulator" is meant to be an accurate representation of real life. I don't think Hatred can, in anyone's right mind, be described as "an accurate representation of real life". The game is in black-and-white. The walls tear away like tissue paper. The player can hold several weapons at a time. The player can mow down thousands of people, hundreds of which are cops or other armed forces, while absorbing fire like a sponge. A decade ago, it was a lawyer with barely any knowledge of video games using this terminology. Now it's the people who are meant to be representative of the video gaming industry. That's fucking baffling. What's more baffling is the lack of distinction these people make between reality and deliberately absurd, over-the-top fiction.