How do I convince my dad that games aren't "Evil"?
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I can get any game I want.
You've never met my mom. She hates it when we say kill instead of KO in fighting games. I honestly don't understand it. She never played video games as a kid, so that may contribute to her thought of it's influence.feather240 said:
EDIT: I like your avatar, Thing-Thing was a fun series.
Common ground, and work your way up from there.RootbeerJello said:
As in, find something with shooting in it that he wouldn't mind like I dunno Links crossbow training on the Wii (just 'cause it was the first thing that jumped to my head) that is fairly harmless since it's mainly shooting pots and targets, then work your way up so something like a Duck hunting game etc. etc.
If that doesn't work he's just old, generation gap, nothing you can do about it.
Good luck
Or you could use the usual argument winner I use, "Would you rather I was here, safe at home playing video games, pretending to be violent, or out on the streets with some friends getting drunk, drugged up and ACTUALLY being violent and ruining my life?"
or something to that effect, it's good for 2 reasons, 1, it presents gaming as a seriously good thing from a parental point of view, no parent wants to see their child in a horrible state or ruining their lives and 2 it tugs on the guilt strings.
I personally knowing your dad can say that he is indeed unreasonable and as you have said yourself "a dumbfuck". There is like a 0.008% chance of convincing this guy of anything, indeed that's under 9 thousandths!RootbeerJello said:
At least he's considering having me building you a gaming computer now!
... wait a minute... he hates games but is okay with you having an object that enables you to play them... Jaysuess Christ logic flaws... I say get some freaking aliens to mess with his brain... you got connections right?
EDIT: Expanding on my logic flaw- I say it's all an act and when you turn 21 he's gonna throw a party with oiltankers of beer, a bus load of hookers, and every GTA game in existence... along with every M rated game you have ever asked for.
My dad's the same. He believes that "if you like to shoot people in a game, what makes you think they won't want to shoot people in real life?"
I have to take a great effort not to smack myself in the forehead.
Although, I haven't tried arguing that books/movies/THE BIBLE have similar concepts. He'd probably tell me not to argue with him and lock up my computer.
I have to take a great effort not to smack myself in the forehead.
Although, I haven't tried arguing that books/movies/THE BIBLE have similar concepts. He'd probably tell me not to argue with him and lock up my computer.
You, my friend, have won several interwebs.thiosk said:
I had a partner who was kind of like this. Needless to say we're not together anymore.RootbeerJello said:
You probably can't change his mind. Why should you, anyway? It's not like he's stopping you from playing the game. Just agree to disagree.
The simple thing to do is to Get the worlds most violent,evil game,after not playing a game for 2 weeks (That games Dante's inferno) and say the Withdrawl has made you want to go to hell,this will let him see it could be worse,or he'll call a Exorcist.
This times a thousand. If your dad still acts like a tool when you try to reason with him with these books and studies, well, you'll just have to accept that your dad is an idiot and go back to enjoying your games. Turn the gore to maximum if possible just to annoy him further.LimaBravo said:
My mom used to be against me playing semi-realistic games with guns in them, but she realized that they weren't doing anything bad to me and just got over it. Then again, my parents aren't braindead.
Tell him he's being racist. Then after a week or so, switch to "Fascist" for about another week. Then agree with everything he says for a week in a totally dead, emotionless voice. Then go buy yourself a pistol (real or fake, doesn't really matter), and set it next to the mouse everytime you game. When he starts to say something, reach for it menacingly without saying a word.
You don't, normally. I've noticed that the older generations are set in their ways. My mother doesn't like me playing violent video games but understands that I'm not going to be influenced into shooting people on the street.
If he's not taking them away, throwing holy water on you and hog tying you down, I wouldn't worry too much.
If he's not taking them away, throwing holy water on you and hog tying you down, I wouldn't worry too much.
When my mother sees me shooting shit up in a game, and ask shy, I say, cause they are the bad guys. I lol every time.