"Horric" Videogames being blamed for UK riots by Supernanny Jo Frost

[zarguhl]

I don't get it? Is she trying to say that killing people is wrong? It's so confusing.

 

[Dark Prophet]

This blaiming games for all things bad is getting seriously out of hand, like WTF. I blame people like her for giving those rioting assholes an excuse. After that and all the other stupid shit that has been written about games and their relation with riots the looters will go and say "but I was only looting, burning stuff and beeing an ass because I played GTA" or something like that.

 

[khoryos]

again BS as far as I know there isn't any game that has the player rioting (except for HL that shows you how to use a crowbar).
DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH!

State of Emergency.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Let's blame Tetris when a construction accident happens. with unknown sources to boot.

 

[Wintermoot]

again BS as far as I know there isn't any game that has the player rioting (except for HL that shows you how to use a crowbar).
DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH!

State of Emergency.

what do you mean state of emergency?

 

[khoryos]

again BS as far as I know there isn't any game that has the player rioting (except for HL that shows you how to use a crowbar).
DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH!

State of Emergency.

what do you mean state of emergency?

It was a game all about rioting.
It was also awful, but the moral guardians seldom care about that sort of thing.

 

[Yopaz]

I fully agree-I won a Team Deathmatch on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and immediately went outside and deployed a Tactical Nuke on 10 Downing Street. If I remember correctly, I killed everyone in Europe.

Yeah, but they respawned 5 minutes after so it's no big deal. You do make a valid point though. I played Viva Piñata for 4 hours and after that I've had nothing against people hitting piñatas with sticks and even done so myself a few times.

 

[Manji187]

Riots like this have been around for decades, hell they used to blame comics.

"They" also like to blame music (Marilyn Manson and the like).

Yeah...the world makes so much more sense when there's a scapegoat to pin it all on. (/sarcasm)

Bunch of simpletons.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

Ah Jo, you know what this gibberish will do to you. 15 minutes in the naughty chair for you

I guess the best weapon against idiocy as this is to just ignore it

 

[thefrizzlefry]

Why does this matter? I mean, really. Some professional babysitter thinks that games are bad? So fucking what? She can think what she wants to think, and I'm going to continue not giving a damn.
Haters gonna hate, I'm gonna play Mortal Kombat.

 

[sniddy_v1legacy]

I bet they let people play for 15 mins then turned it off suddenly and the aggressive response was 'hey - what'd you do that for!'

It was like the 'try taking the game away from your child and see how he reacts' odds on you'd get the same response if you took book from a child reading - but it's the evil games causing it

And rock and roll, and rap music.....



Or it could be that violent people are violent, and the riots have many, many root causes including a disenfranchised youth, a poor, in money and moral, government and a bleak future for many.

But, no lets blame it on gangs and games.....

And becuase the media says so it is so and BAHHHHHH go the sheep-el.

 

[CyberPAL247]

What's this about "points" for violence? Games grew out of points long ago, only multiplayer really uses it. It's like nobody cares to see how in-depth a game can get these days, and just see blood and killing and instantly conclude it's a violent kill-fest that corrupts the youth of the world. Just because they can't tell the difference between pixels on a screen and a real person doesn't mean everyone else has the same retardation.

She ends her nonsense by saying games should be legally restricted by age, and shops who sell to those below the age limit should be fined. Which they are already.

Asking her to know the difference between most games made 20 years ago and most games made now is a rather futile effort.

She is obviously referring to Grand Theft Auto, but has no understanding of it.

She saw the wanted stars and thought that they were points.

 

[Glowbug]

I think we should all go to amazon.com type in supernanny in the search and give all her books 1 star reviews. Say that her parenting techniques have caused your children to be so violent and out of control that they are constantly starting riots in school.

After watching that Jimquisition episode (I like that man far more than is legally acceptable) I would agree that's both a good idea and an evening's entertainment.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

What I really want to know is where the fuck are they getting these photorealistic murder simulators from? Because I fucking want one.

But yeah, idiot woman says idiot thing. No one either cares or is surprised.

 

[Farther than stars]

And yet crime rates continue to dwindle. But people who are anti-GTA and such forget that the entertainment industry is primarily what is keeping teenagers off the streets and away from causing such alleged mayhem. Trust me, when gangsters start complaining that they aren't getting enough new recruits, because too much of today's youths are inside playing video games, I wouldn't worry too much about them.

 

[Riobux]

Jo Frost is obviously some kind of psychologist or sociologist, not some random TV nanny that only got famous because of the sheer number of adults who just want to be told how to raise children.