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		bcrosby95 on March 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just... Probably referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_congressional_hearings_on... Keep in mind when these games were released there was no rating system for video games. The ESRB came about because of these hearings.

rchaud on March 12, 2021 [–]

And yet by 1995 Bill Gates was appearing in a video promo for Doom on Windows, wearing a trenchcoat and carrying a shotgun. For obvious reasons, this kind of nerdy frivolity wouldn't really be palatable after 1999.

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