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THis is off topic but I was thinking about making a halloween costume that was Jesus on the cross. My idea was that I could make the cross out of foam and glue it to my hands and one foot so while I was walking around it would be a sort of nonsensical brown thing on my back but when people asked what I was I could just assume the crucifix position and look dead.
Fantastic.
I once knew a girl who went to a Halloween party as the Bondage Virgin Mary.
EVERYONE UNDER 18 SHOULD BE LOCKED INDOORS AT ALL TIMES
CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD AND THE MEDIA (MAFIA) CUT OFF
air do you think it is okay for a ten year old kid to play that he is a guy cutting the heads off of innocent people and shooting holes in police officers
kids are not as great at distinguishing fantasy from reality and not as awesome at making good judgement calls as they think they are
this is where responsibility should fall on the parents, however
Agreed.
Parents are expecting the media to do the policing for them, and that is bad parenting. They should be doing this shit themselves. That's what parenting is about. Being aware of what your children are doing and making sure they aren't being harmed in some way.
Bingo!
I'm going to be a hell of a Foster/Adoptive Parent.
"Stop playing that violent game. Here, sniff this glue and look at Magic Eye pictures instead."
"Nine of the patients who had the surgery were infected with the Bacillus pyocyaneus in the eyes that day, which eventually led to the removal of their eyes," Xinhua said.
"Nine of the patients who had the surgery were infected with the Bacillus pyocyaneus in the eyes that day, which eventually led to the removal of their eyes," Xinhua said.
The only real problem I see with restricting sales of violent or sexual games to minors is that in many cases, minors aren't the ones buying the games.
Really, how many 8 year olds do you know that happen to have $50 just lying around?
It's the lazy, stupid, apathetic parents who buy the games for their children without taking 5 goddamned seconds to look at the game before letting the kid play it. And as long as these pathetic excuses for parents are allowed to raise their spawn, kids will still play violent games.
My only beef with it is that it's not a legal thing with movies or books or anything else (except porno). So doing it for games is pretty much the government saying it's as bad as pornography.
The movie industry is able to police itself with standardized, voluntary rating system. I don't know why people think that games are really any different.
Besides, the government-instituted a rating system that existed in the 1930's amounted to state censorship. If the same thing happened with games, I'd wager that the censorship would be much more restrictive than it ever was with movies, since there would be no real political opposition.
Jack Thompson's a douche.
A) How the hell are Gabe and Tycho racketeers? Not Rocketeers, but racketeers. How is it Take Two's fault that kids are playing this? These games aren't meant for little kids. Parents need to learn to look at what their kid wants instead of blindly buying it for them. Would you have taken your kid to see "The Punisher", or rent it for them, if they were much under 16? Probably not. Why the hell are you letting them play GTA?
C) Jack Thompson can suck me dry.
Wiggin, parents tend to hear and see a lot more about movies from the ads shown on TV during the nightly news or Oprah or whatever to be better informed about that media.
Video games are another story, and most lazy parents will be left high and dry as far as what they should let their kids play.
Wiggin, parents tend to hear and see a lot more about movies from the ads shown on TV during the nightly news or Oprah or whatever to be better informed about that media.
Video games are another story, and most lazy parents will be left high and dry as far as what they should let their kids play.
There's that thing on the front, that says "Rated M, for Mature." On the back, as the parent looks to see what the game is about, is the same label, usually with additional info as to why it received that rating. "Huh. This game has strong, prevasive language, drug and alcohol use, sexual content, and graphic violence. Sounds perfect for my 10 yr old!" Something's not right there. I think we need to start making parents be responsible for their children being exposed to inappropriate games, and not the publishers. Why? Because the publishers aren't the ones giving the game to little kids for Christmas.
Wiggin, parents tend to hear and see a lot more about movies from the ads shown on TV during the nightly news or Oprah or whatever to be better informed about that media.
Video games are another story, and most lazy parents will be left high and dry as far as what they should let their kids play.
There's that thing on the front, that says "Rated M, for Mature." On the back, as the parent looks to see what the game is about, is the same label, usually with additional info as to why it received that rating. "Huh. This game has strong, prevasive language, drug and alcohol use, sexual content, and graphic violence. Sounds perfect for my 10 yr old!" Something's not right there.
How many lazy ass parents are going to look at the game as opposed to just stand there at the checkout register.
Point taken. What should be done, I think, is they seperate the "M" games from the others. So, you'll have games like Zelda, Mario, whatever (Nintendo examples, because I can't think of others), in one section. In another, with a big-ass sign in front of it, are the "M" games. That sign'll say, "These games are for mature players only. Read back of game for additional rating info." Then, parents will have no excuse for buying their kids this crap.
Point taken. What should be done, I think, is they seperate the "M" games from the others. So, you'll have games like Zelda, Mario, whatever (Nintendo examples, because I can't think of others), in one section. In another, with a big-ass sign in front of it, are the "M" games. That sign'll say, "These games are for mature players only. Read back of game for additional rating info." Then, parents will have no excuse for buying their kids this crap.
They already have no excuse. Any parent who buys their 10 year old kid a copy of GTAIII without reading the back has failed miserably.
A lot of places tell the employee to inform a parent about the M rating and what that means, but your average high school student/college student/failure working a part-time job at EB Games probably won't care enough to talk about the M rating as long as they can get their pitch about the subscriptions and pre-orders in.
If gaming continues to become more popular, in ten years I bet there will have been many changes to the rating system, all for the better. The problem is most parents who weren't raised on video games don't know shit about the medium, because it is frequently undergoing drastic changes, so it's understandably hard to keep up with when you're looking from the outside in.
Point taken. What should be done, I think, is they seperate the "M" games from the others. So, you'll have games like Zelda, Mario, whatever (Nintendo examples, because I can't think of others), in one section. In another, with a big-ass sign in front of it, are the "M" games. That sign'll say, "These games are for mature players only. Read back of game for additional rating info." Then, parents will have no excuse for buying their kids this crap.
They already have no excuse. Any parent who buys their 10 year old kid a copy of GTAIII without reading the back has failed miserably.
That's what I keep saying, but Scarlet's right, too. Most parents aren't going to read the back. I say, take away any reason for them to not look at the back, other than being a blind, deaf fuckwit, and in that case, why are you shopping for games? You're blind and deaf.
scarlet st. wrote:
A lot of places tell the employee to inform a parent about the M rating and what that means, but your average high school student/college student/failure working a part-time job at EB Games probably won't care enough to talk about the M rating as long as they can get their pitch about the subscriptions and pre-orders in.
Which is why, instead of having employees inform the parent, you have a sign. The employee might not say anything to a parent, but a sign always says what's on it, unless there's graffiti, of course.
If gaming continues to become more popular, in ten years I bet there will have been many changes to the rating system, all for the better. The problem is most parents who weren't raised on video games don't know shit about the medium, because it is frequently undergoing drastic changes, so it's understandably hard to keep up with when you're looking from the outside in.
I agree with this. I'm content with waiting a generation.
When I was 11 years old, my mother brought me and my friends to see the South Park movie, and when I saw 300, I heard at least a dozen kids who couldn't have been older than that in the theater. Movies have been a popular medium for so long, without anything really changing, so anyone to complain about it now would just seem like a crazy person. But video games are new, and evolving at an alarming pace, so it's only natural that it would be subject to scrutiny.
If gaming continues to become more popular, in ten years I bet there will have been many changes to the rating system, all for the better. The problem is most parents who weren't raised on video games don't know shit about the medium, because it is frequently undergoing drastic changes, so it's understandably hard to keep up with when you're looking from the outside in.
Frankly, this is always the problem. The generation who knows jack shit about a given medium overreacts. It happened with comic books and TV. This will only cool down when all of the retards who don't know anything about it and can't be bothered to take 10 minutes on a Saturday to learn die and all of the people who were raised with games and know how to deal with them take over the world and flip out over whatever new shit the whippersnappers of their day end up doing that could potentially damage the fabric of space/time.
When I was 11 years old, my mother brought me and my friends to see the South Park movie, and when I saw 300, I heard at least a dozen kids who couldn't have been older than that in the theater. Movies have been a popular medium for so long, without anything really changing, so anyone to complain about it now would just seem like a crazy person. But video games are new, and evolving at an alarming pace, so it's only natural that it would be subject to scrutiny.
I saw kids, by which I mean that they were probably 7, at Ghost Rider. I remember sitting there, thinking, "Wow. Not something I would do, but hey, their parents are here, and they thought their kid could see this." That's what we need with video games. Not a ban, or really anything that Jack Thompson wants, but an increase of information for parents.
I often wonder if when I was little, my mom would have bought me today's mature games because they didn't have them back then. All the violence back then was either 8 bit or 16 bit and cartoony. I'd think that she wouldn't though based on how she'd get really mad if she caught me watching some rated R movie on HBO. Oh yeah, and that time when I was like 10 and I wanted her to buy me a Mad Magazine but she said no because on the cover it said it was intended for people 13 and over.
I think most parents need to fucking wise up and start saying 'no' to their children.
That's another thing I say frequently, and loudly, just haven't done it here yet. I hate most kids my age on the principle that they're whiny, spoiled, little shits. "OMG! My parents didn't get me the exact, brand-new car that I wanted even though I can barely drive, the HBO in my room got cut off, and I don't have the right cell phone plan so I can text all my friends during school!" In this situation, I quote my favorite movie, The Ref. Ahem: "Welcome to the real world, kid, where, most of the time, things don't go your fucking way."
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Fantastic.
I once knew a girl who went to a Halloween party as the Bondage Virgin Mary.
adopt me
right now
I could see two dudes saying "let's pretend we're _______ so we can get money" on something less fucking complicated.
Like, I just read this car manual, maybe we can pretend we're certified mechanics and fix this car and charge exorbitant prices.
Not I just read an article on this cataract laser surgery and I think we can do this. Just keep your hands steady and we'll give this a shot.
Oh God, that's nightmare inducing.
That picture is awesome.
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Dang.
I mean, seriously, DANG.
Really, how many 8 year olds do you know that happen to have $50 just lying around?
It's the lazy, stupid, apathetic parents who buy the games for their children without taking 5 goddamned seconds to look at the game before letting the kid play it. And as long as these pathetic excuses for parents are allowed to raise their spawn, kids will still play violent games.
Just saying.
Besides, the government-instituted a rating system that existed in the 1930's amounted to state censorship. If the same thing happened with games, I'd wager that the censorship would be much more restrictive than it ever was with movies, since there would be no real political opposition.
A) How the hell are Gabe and Tycho racketeers? Not Rocketeers, but racketeers.
C) Jack Thompson can suck me dry.
Video games are another story, and most lazy parents will be left high and dry as far as what they should let their kids play.
There's that thing on the front, that says "Rated M, for Mature." On the back, as the parent looks to see what the game is about, is the same label, usually with additional info as to why it received that rating. "Huh. This game has strong, prevasive language, drug and alcohol use, sexual content, and graphic violence. Sounds perfect for my 10 yr old!" Something's not right there. I think we need to start making parents be responsible for their children being exposed to inappropriate games, and not the publishers. Why? Because the publishers aren't the ones giving the game to little kids for Christmas.
How many lazy ass parents are going to look at the game as opposed to just stand there at the checkout register.
They already have no excuse. Any parent who buys their 10 year old kid a copy of GTAIII without reading the back has failed miserably.
That's what I keep saying, but Scarlet's right, too. Most parents aren't going to read the back. I say, take away any reason for them to not look at the back, other than being a blind, deaf fuckwit, and in that case, why are you shopping for games? You're blind and deaf.
scarlet st. wrote:
A lot of places tell the employee to inform a parent about the M rating and what that means, but your average high school student/college student/failure working a part-time job at EB Games probably won't care enough to talk about the M rating as long as they can get their pitch about the subscriptions and pre-orders in.
Which is why, instead of having employees inform the parent, you have a sign. The employee might not say anything to a parent, but a sign always says what's on it, unless there's graffiti, of course.
I agree with this. I'm content with waiting a generation.
When I was 11 years old, my mother brought me and my friends to see the South Park movie, and when I saw 300, I heard at least a dozen kids who couldn't have been older than that in the theater. Movies have been a popular medium for so long, without anything really changing, so anyone to complain about it now would just seem like a crazy person. But video games are new, and evolving at an alarming pace, so it's only natural that it would be subject to scrutiny.
Frankly, this is always the problem. The generation who knows jack shit about a given medium overreacts. It happened with comic books and TV. This will only cool down when all of the retards who don't know anything about it and can't be bothered to take 10 minutes on a Saturday to learn die and all of the people who were raised with games and know how to deal with them take over the world and flip out over whatever new shit the whippersnappers of their day end up doing that could potentially damage the fabric of space/time.
I saw kids, by which I mean that they were probably 7, at Ghost Rider. I remember sitting there, thinking, "Wow. Not something I would do, but hey, their parents are here, and they thought their kid could see this." That's what we need with video games. Not a ban, or really anything that Jack Thompson wants, but an increase of information for parents.
That's another thing I say frequently, and loudly, just haven't done it here yet. I hate most kids my age on the principle that they're whiny, spoiled, little shits. "OMG! My parents didn't get me the exact, brand-new car that I wanted even though I can barely drive, the HBO in my room got cut off, and I don't have the right cell phone plan so I can text all my friends during school!" In this situation, I quote my favorite movie, The Ref. Ahem: "Welcome to the real world, kid, where, most of the time, things don't go your fucking way."
We shouldn't have local news. It should be outlawed.
Sent to its room until it learns how to fucking give me news about my local community.