This is dialogue (it's from a magazine).

> A: 現実場面では **気★い** が山のように出て事件も **死ぬほど**
> 起こしてて、タブー云々と言ってるうちに表現が現実に負けちゃってるじゃん、最近って。
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> B: 俺も別に[奇]{き}をてらって **タブー演る** わけじゃなくて.

I absolutely don't understand the first part of the first sentence. What does
気★い mean? What does 事件も死ぬほど起こす mean? Although I know タブー and 演る separately, I
can't get the meaning of タブー演る. And I'm not sure about the meaning of 奇をてらう.

Can somebody help me?
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Meaning of 気★い、死ぬほど、and タブー演る in a dialogue
> 現実場面では気★いが山のように出て事件も死ぬほど起こしてて

"In real world, there are a lot of crazy people, also committing far too many
crimes". As has been pointed out, "気★い" is "気違い" with a letter masked, which
is analogous to writing "f*cking" instead of "fucking". This sentence sounds
like it's taken from a transcript of an interview, and this particular word
violates the publishing/broadcasting industry's common guideline for
discriminatory words. (This is where you'd picture the editor and the
interviewee going back and forth. See the meaning of the next sentence and
it'll be clear.)

"死ぬほど" is a word that exaggerates the issue at hand. Its literal meaning would
be something like "(so much so that) it'll kill", but it's like how Samuel
Jackson uses "fucking" in Pulp Fiction; it can be used for almost anything,
but it won't make you sound intelligent.

> タブー云々と言ってるうちに表現が現実に負けちゃってるじゃん、最近って

"We make big deal out of this guideline [in our industry], but nowadays those
are behind the reality". The speaker is saying he thinks those industry
internal guidelines are a joke, when you see far worse (mentally picture mass
murderers and psychopaths) in the real world.

You can tell that the speaker is a performer of some sort (probably a
comedian), someone in the industry. He isn't articularing it very well, but
the reader does feel his sense of vague dissatisfaction with rules under which
he has to operate.

"タブー" is the literal translation of the word taboo, but in this context it
refers to the aforementioned guideline. "Taboo" is actually quite an apt
choice here because they not only use these words deemed discrimanatory, but
they also do not talk about the existence of the guideline itself. (Remember
the first rule of the Fight Club, everyone?)

> 俺も別に奇をてらってタブー演るわけじゃなくて

"It's not like I perform [acts] that goes against those guidelines just to
garner attention." "奇をてらって" is "do something strange or eccentric" or "try a
new thing". "タブー演る" is "タブーを演る" with a particle dropped. It refers to his
performing some kind of acts that actively use the words that violate the
guidelines.

BTW I don't think it's normal to write "演る" and have it read "やる". You either
write it like やる (verb:do), or 演じる (verb:play) and read えんじる.
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