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SO furious right now: Idiot Parents Edition

Débuté par Guest_Draken_* , mars 23 2015 04:30

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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:30

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None of this should have come as a shock to me. Honestly, I wasn't shocked by it. But it still made me so angry. 

 

I'm teaching a 2nd grade class today (I'm a guest teacher today). And a large amount of the kids piped up and started talking about how they love playing Call of Duty Advanced Warfare and GTAV. These are 7 and 8 year olds. One kid even said, "My dad let's me play GTAV and he just tells me 'don't do that in real life...'" 

 

!

 

So then the whole class had to witness Mrs. "Draken" stand up in front of them and lecture everyone on how their parents are ruining the entire point of video games' ratings, and they are making video games look "bad" for "all those people who love to condemn video games." 

 

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been in a Gamestop and watched an employee deliver that awkward, "Are you aware of this game's rating?" speech to an idiot/ignorant parent with a kid who is barely out of first grade.

 

 

augh!!! grrr...

 

If you are one of those parents, I hope a PS4 falls on your head and breaks your neck. 


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:33

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You can try this at home, you can be just like me.

 


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:33

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Pardon me but I can't see where is the problem... Seriously.


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:34

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Eewww, kids...

 

Even if they are on the other side of the world of me they still aren't on a desireable distance.


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:36

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If you are one of those parents, I hope a PS4 falls on your head and breaks your neck.

 

Kind of ruined your argument there, bruh.

 

But eh.

 

Maybe it's a little extreme at 7 or 8.

 

But I played GTA 3 and murdered a whole bunch of NPCs at that age.

 

It was especially fun mowing down police men.

 

I'm one of the most chillest dudes in my city.

 

No urge to kill, pillage or rape whatsoever.

 

Cruellest thing I've done is throw water at my cat for fun.


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:37

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Cruellest thing I've done is throw water at my cat for fun.

Calling peta on your ass right now
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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:38

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Cruellest thing I've done is throw water at my cat for fun.


You better sleep with one eye open from now on, he/she will most likely look for a chance to murder you in your sleep after that.

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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:40

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Kids dad has the right idea. My father pretty much told me the same thing back when I was playing the original Quake and I havent murdered anybody yet.
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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:41

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Calling peta on your ass right now

You better sleep with one eye open from now on, he/she will most likely look for a chance to murder you in your sleep after that.

 

Cats are so funny though.

 

Everything they do is comedy


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:42

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I probably played Doom when I was 7 or 8, lol. And I haven't murdered anyone lately.
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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:47

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What's worse is that these same parents let their kids play online with those games... Where they are subjected to the foulest people imaginable.

Parents like that should be sterilized.

Also a phenomenon I noticed when I was a teenager:
People who shouldn't have kids always have like 6-8 of em. @_@

Whereas people who are/would make good parents (Properly attentive, makes good money, has good morals) have one or two... Sometimes none.

Depressing.
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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:48

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i gotta ask, so what? i've been playing violent video games since i was 4...


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:49

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What's worse is that these same parents let their kids play online with those games... Where they are subjected to the foulest people imaginable.

Parents like that should be sterilized.

Also a phenomenon I noticed when I was a teenager:
People who shouldn't have kids always have like 6-8 of em. @_@

Whereas people who are/would make good parents (Properly attentive, makes good money, has good morals) have one or two... Sometimes none.

Depressing.




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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:50

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I was killing Mudokons en masse at the ripe age of 6 using various methods such as tricking the blind to walk into bone grinders, land mines etc, making the mentally depressed commit suicide via slapping and utilizing wildlife who are at the brink of extinction as bioweapons.


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:50

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You guys do realize that the more parents allow their very very young children to play these games, the bigger the push for more and more watered down content there will be from anti-video games/"video games are the devil" groups , right? And when the push is strong enough - they get what they want - especially the higher up their position in law and politics. 

 

My point is that these parents are contributing ammunition to the side of the debate that wants to eradicate - or at the very least water down - all video games...


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:52

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You guys do realize that the more parents allow their very very young children to play these games, the bigger the push for more and more watered down content there will be from anti-video games/video games are the devil entities, right? 

 

My point is that these people are contributing ammunition to the side of the debate that wants to eradicate - or at the very least water down - all video games...

 

Can you provide evidence of the connection, at least?


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You guys do realize that the more parents allow their very very young children to play these games, the bigger the push for more and more watered down content there will be from anti-video games/"video games are the devil" groups , right? And when the push is strong enough - they get what they want - especially the higher up their position in law and politics. 

 

My point is that these parents are contributing ammunition to the side of the debate that wants to eradicate - or at the very least water down - all video games...

oh yes, because a billion dollar industry really gives a flying **** about what a few people think, hell they barely give a **** about what the majority thinks


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:54

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Can you provide evidence of the connection, at least?

 

Pretty much any time there's a famous headline in which a kid kills, it's almost always cited that "so and so listened to this kind of music and also played x, y, and z video games." And that's when gaming companies have to brace themselves and defend their games, stating that "Ratings are on the box for a reason."

 

It wasn't a gaming company's fault that Adam Lanza killed all those children. But sure enough, his musical tastes and his gaming interests were cited and highlighted to spark outrage. And Lanza was even old enough for the rating restriction. Imagine the response to a minor getting a hold of the games. Yuck.


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:54

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Age restrictions are there for a reason certainly, but should be viewed more as "guide lines" rather than strict rules. Not everyone will express violent behavior or other side effects after being exposed to such games as the OP mentioned (depends of course how excessively a kid interacts with it).

 

Of course as I said, generally a child shouldn't interact with such medium yet,  but it isn't the end of the world though. A parent that actually keeps tab on their kids social behavior and such and knows how it is affecting their child is vital. If it goes for the worse, then yeah remove that game from them.


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:55

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Relevant.

Yup. Exactly that!

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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:56

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oh yes, because a billion dollar industry really gives a flying **** about what a few people think, hell they barely give a **** about what the majority thinks

 

Are you sure about that? Wasn't there a huge movement started by gamers who felt that video game companies needed to stop caring about what everyone thinks and to just exercise their creative freedoms? I've heard a lot of folks complain that gaming companies are being too accomodating nowadays. So... I dunno. Mixed messages.


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:57

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Are you sure about that? Wasn't there a huge movement started by gamers who felt that video game companies needed to stop caring about what everyone thinks and to just exercise their creative freedoms? I've heard a lot of folks complain that gaming companies are being too accomodating nowadays. So... I dunno. Mixed messages.

Depends of what you mean by accommodating


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 04:58

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Depends of what you mean by accommodating

Watering down content to please everyone. 


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 05:01

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Watering down content to please everyone. 

thats more to please the ESRB


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Posté 23 mars 2015 - 05:01

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Pretty much any time there's a famous headline in which a kid kills, it's almost always cited that "so and so listened to this kind of music and also played x, y, and z video games." And that's when gaming companies have to brace themselves and defend their games, stating that "Ratings are on the box for a reason."

 

It wasn't a gaming company's fault that Adam Lanza killed all those children. But sure enough, his musical tastes and his gaming interests were cited and highlighted to spark outrage. 

 

Okay...

 

But, where's the evidence where game companies diluted their violence as a result of that killing?


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