Why are parents always freaking out about the violence, blood, language, and sexuallity of games? The game's not real or anything. Besides all that stuff is in real life along with video games. Video games don't make people violent. In fact, they release stress making you less likely to be violent. Have they ever stopped to think, "Hey, mabye my lack of parenting skills is causing Johnny to be violent, instead of HALO." But of course they don't. They have to blame video games, not their disfunctual family.If you try and protect your little "angel" from all the "bad" stuff in life one of two things will happen. One: He grows up to hate you, moves away at the age of 18, and never sees you again. Two: He becomes a pussy, and constintely gets the crap beatten out of him. Both of those outcomes are bad. So don't be an overprotective parent. But don't let your little monster do whatever he wants. Just allow him to play some video games. What do you guys think?
What's up with the parentals?
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Don't forget the kids who have parents who believe they'll always be able to tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and when they go off and do anything against the laws of society, it can't be their fault.
Seriously, we've heard this all a million times. Yes, some video games can damage a child's psyche, but what is a child doing playing said games in the first place? It's a parent's responsibility to know what games their kids are playing, but it also is never going to stop. How many people on this forum who are over 30 have kept 'magazines' under your mattress back when you were a kid? I believe Adam Sessler said it best after his debate with Jack Thompson: "Adult things get into the hands of children. Children like to fancy themselves as adults, and so they do adult things. Sometimes its good, sometimes its not good, like smack. This isn't something new that came about on the era of video games."
And to all the parents out there, he then followed it up with something beautiful: "Oh, I don't understand these ESRB ratings, they're far too difficult. *Picks up GTA4* M, Mature 17+, hang on, let's look at the back. Blood, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol. Where's the f*ck*ng mystery? My god, the game is called Grand Theft Auto."
Although children will always find a way to get a hold of these things, parents need to step up and admit that they need to watch their children in even the slightest bit. And to you people who are dealing with parents saying that all video games are bad, sit them down, try to explain your point of view, or even try to get them to play a game with you (not Gears of War or Halo, that would destroy the point). Not all video games are bad, and there are some people who need to accept that while some video games are higher up on the violence scale, they're labeled M for a reason.
And as a side note, companies like Bungie really need to stop adding fuel to the fire. Making Halo 3 soda is perfectly fine, but backpacks and lunchboxes? I hardly think that they're targeting adults with that stuff.
Seriously, we've heard this all a million times. Yes, some video games can damage a child's psyche, but what is a child doing playing said games in the first place? It's a parent's responsibility to know what games their kids are playing, but it also is never going to stop. How many people on this forum who are over 30 have kept 'magazines' under your mattress back when you were a kid? I believe Adam Sessler said it best after his debate with Jack Thompson: "Adult things get into the hands of children. Children like to fancy themselves as adults, and so they do adult things. Sometimes its good, sometimes its not good, like smack. This isn't something new that came about on the era of video games."
And to all the parents out there, he then followed it up with something beautiful: "Oh, I don't understand these ESRB ratings, they're far too difficult. *Picks up GTA4* M, Mature 17+, hang on, let's look at the back. Blood, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol. Where's the f*ck*ng mystery? My god, the game is called Grand Theft Auto."
Although children will always find a way to get a hold of these things, parents need to step up and admit that they need to watch their children in even the slightest bit. And to you people who are dealing with parents saying that all video games are bad, sit them down, try to explain your point of view, or even try to get them to play a game with you (not Gears of War or Halo, that would destroy the point). Not all video games are bad, and there are some people who need to accept that while some video games are higher up on the violence scale, they're labeled M for a reason.
And as a side note, companies like Bungie really need to stop adding fuel to the fire. Making Halo 3 soda is perfectly fine, but backpacks and lunchboxes? I hardly think that they're targeting adults with that stuff.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEclectic Dreck said:
*starts singsonging* Video killed, the raaaaay-di-oh, star~.
Anyway, yeah, this topic has been done to death, parents are stupid and overbearing, kids look for excuses to anything, and none of it is the video game's fault.
That's how I feel about it, since me and many of my friends have been killing Nazis and demons before we were going to school, and we live semi-normal lives, I'd think.
WinEclectic Dreck said:
To be honest I think its more the occasional gamer that plays violent games are more prone to violence. When me and my brother play games such as GTA, we go on the occasional rampage but we understand the difference between the gaming world and reality.
When one of my brother's friends came round and started playing GTA he started laughing maniacally and running down every pedestrian he could see. While he foamed at the mouth (joke), me and my brother looked at each and realised we had created a monster.
hell, I used to live in Chicago, and I was exposed to violence and all that when I was 8, video games didn't do shit to me.
Hell, school introduced me to all the bad things in the world, mainly drugs and alcohol.
Which if used at the right time in the right place can be very nice.
Hell, school introduced me to all the bad things in the world, mainly drugs and alcohol.
Which if used at the right time in the right place can be very nice.
Hey, my mother plays GTA IV and she says it's nowhere near as fun as "whacking ho's with a shovel in San Andreas was". Not all parents are bad, sometimes you get one of them which is good even though the other parent is usually a moralist baby boomer. Like what happened to me. Thank God my dad hasn't figured out that anime has Japanese religious references sometimes, or he'd flip.
So basically there are cases of awesome parents, but you tend to get at least one dud one in your family.
So basically there are cases of awesome parents, but you tend to get at least one dud one in your family.
Obviously video games are not the cause of violence or any of that nonsense. Most violent situations in a video game (i.e. shooting someone fifty times in the face with an automatic missile launcher) are hardly within the ability of a child to replicate.
However, certain things in a video game, such as harsh language, I would prefer to keep away from children. At least you can keep such things away from them until they join the amazing public education system.
However, certain things in a video game, such as harsh language, I would prefer to keep away from children. At least you can keep such things away from them until they join the amazing public education system.
what, exactly, is "harsh language"? why is it "harsh"? and how does it hurt kids? do you mean german and korean, the languages of strangled cats? becuase i totally agree, had i been exposed to either of those as a kid it probably would have driven me mad, if people from those countries werent born from spores, with a full genetic memory of all their ancestors they would be fucked up.
My parents were always pretty cool with it. Of course, they taught me responsibility.
Oh, and knowing the difference between games and reality.
Oh, and knowing the difference between games and reality.
This again?
I'm so sick of this ridiculous argument. If you parent your kids well, then games won't have any effect on them, because you'll introduce them to the mature games when they're...
*gasp*
Mature enough to handle the content.
What a foreign concept!
I'm so sick of this ridiculous argument. If you parent your kids well, then games won't have any effect on them, because you'll introduce them to the mature games when they're...
*gasp*
Mature enough to handle the content.
What a foreign concept!