I feel so safe knowing there are millions of people in the world that play a game about killing and death...
No they don't.
I mean, technically, they do, but the whole point/buzz of COD is not that you "killed" someone. It's the feeling of satisfaction you get from beating a fellow competitor, and having faster reactions than them.
Driving analogy: I got across the line in first place, ahead of the rest of the field.
I had faster reflexes to control my car better than everyone else.
You round a corner in COD, someone knifes you, in your face.
You scream at the screen, because although you are still repeatedly stabbing your R3 stick in, the game registered that
XX-mR-sUpErBeAtUrAsS-XX managed to push his stick in first.
Naturally, you feel that this was unfair, but the game respawns you, and you get the chance to go look for
XX-mR-sUpErBeAtUrAsS-XX, and using your knowledge of the game and maps and people's predictability, you find him where you thought he'd be, and you sneak up and knife him in the back.
You haven't killed him.
He isn't dead.
Blood didn't come out of him in some heinous way and dribble onto your boots.
You haven't got to worry about the reprisals, or maybe getting rid of the evidence.
But you do feel satisfaction, because you used your skill and cunning to make a sprite on the screen fall over, and somebody, somewhere, will now be screaming at their screen, that you are a camper, and you love to whore Ninja pro.
Then you round a corner, and knife someone, and BOOM! you have that awesome feeling again, that you hit the button first, and you deserved those points, and you are truly a superior player than
[G!rl]Itsy-Bitsy-XX.
This is why millions of people play COD, because they are better than the other competitor for a split second, and they feel good about coming first in the R3 race, or R1 if they use bullets, or whatever button controls their claymore. They are good enough that they can reign down superior domination on people using their AC130 or Chopper Gunner, and maybe someone will be telling their friends on a forum later that night that "Oh this guy on the other team was so good he got this many kills and no-one could touch him, we all went 3-1-16 blah blah blah, I think he was a haxxorrr...."
Then you round the corner and
[G!rl]Itsy-Bitsy-XX knifes you in the back......
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