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COD has sold how many copies this year? Few million? How many people of those few million went on shooting sprees?Comment
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"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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This is a great point because it takes the parenting aspect a bit further. Not only do you need to talk with your kids and explain what they are seeing but you also need to know where your child is at mentally. My three children are all very different in what they can handle compared the others when they were the same age.
I was exposed to about as much violent media as one could find as a kid. My parents owned a chain of video stores so I was also able to see any violent movie or video game I wanted. At a young age I was drawn to violent games and I use to search high and low for the most violent ninja movies of the 80's.
I don't let my kids have the same freedoms that I did because I think seeing Terminator when your 6 might be a bit much. That being said I never acted out, brought a weapon to school, threatened authority, or wanted to kill anything. It was never real to me.Comment
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I don't worry too much about violent video games ever getting banned,
it's just too slippery of a slope to decide what's violent.
WWE, UCF & Madden are all, in some way, violent & if games like Halo, CoD
& GTA are banned, you can bet someone's going to want WWE, UCF & Madden banned also.Comment
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It's the parenting. My sons know that there are boundaries. We have DirecTV, but I'm thinking about cutting it out, because I don't think that the time we watch it justifies the bill we're paying monthly. Even with the stuff that they ARE allowed to watch, you still need to monitor it somewhat because there are little slick things that are thrown into the entertainment. A lot of the shows on Disney/Nick show parents to be buffoons and idiots, and the kids are the smart and intelligent ones. Basically teaching an environment of disrespecting the parents. That's where parents come in, they need to let the kids know that's not cute.Comment
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+1 for parenting.
I started playing Grand Theft Auto III when I was 11 and managed to have a normal life free of violence...minus this time where I smashed my brothers Green Bay Packers helmet on the sidewalk.
But seriously, it is all about the parenting in this situation. Playing the Grand Theft Auto series at 11 is way too young. However, my parents sat me down and explained the difference between virtual reality/real world and what is acceptable behavior.Comment
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I can't wait until people start blaming crappy sports games for the increasing obesity rate.Comment
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Honestly I don't have a problem with video game violence, as an adult I will steer myself away from the ones I don't want to play. It's the under 17's that worry me. You hear the 12 year olds squeaking away on COD, GTA dropping racial, sexual slurs and you just wonder what the parents must be thinking if they heard this stuff. On more then one occasion I have demanded (especially if the Brat has a Kinect) to speak to a parent and told them what their child has been saying, what they have been doing etc and more often then not the parents are apologetic and promise to keep an eye on their kids more. We need to make the ratings more 'enforceable' of which the only way I can think is to go after the parents. Stop the main source of supply for these kids getting the games and the problem will die down a little (I'm not naive, kids will get the game however they can)
I work in the movies as an assistant editor and have worked in a variety of genres. I remember as a 20 year old doing a horror movie for Universal and having to look on a daily basis at a fake body being hacked up on a scene we were cutting. I am perfectly fine. The thing that always makes me chuckle is that for the MPAA we have to give and get detailed notes on how long said violent scenes last, what can be trimmed, how much language is contained, and it's usually because they are concerned about minors viewing it, even if it's an R Rated movie.Last edited by Ollienyy; 01-17-2013, 08:13 PM.God Bless The USAComment
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Parenting is part of it, no doubt, but there are other influences as well.
Not everyone is the same, we are all different.
Lt. Dan talked about growing up in the disco era and 80's. We would go to the mall and leave our car unlocked in that era. Now, we don't think twice of locking doors.
Our boys play WOW, and the oldest plays COD, BF, etc...... These boys are A's and B's students and one is straight A's. They don't sit on their rear ends 24/7 playing video games.
And that is another huge difference between my childhood and our sons. We used to play baseball everyday till the sun went down in the neighborhood, same with football, capture the flag, shooting birds with slingshots, playing strip poker with the neighborhood girls, lol etc..... that's when there was usually a parent home during the day.(except for the strip poker lol)
Now, both parents are working to make ends meet and put food on the table. Huge difference. We live out in the boonies in a neighborhood that doesn't encourage kids to hang out and play football till sundown, etc.......
Once, I did a hypothesis in college that TV and movie violence causes a higher chance of someone committing a crime. I couldn't prove my hypothesis based on a questionnaire we completed.
Sound like the same ish is happening today, just a different era.
Let's not forget in the same era I was growing up in, rock stars tried to protect their art against the people attacking their lyrics. That is why you have warning labels on CD's.Comment
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I knew this was going to happen as soon as the NRA said violent video games were to blame(then releases a game a month later). Politicians have wisely smartened up as the Video Game lobby is quite powerful and gamers are not going to vote for someone advocating the demise of Violent Games. Us gamers are a powerful group if we chose to be.
What I find funny is that the NRA membership is getting old and shrinking yet they slam something millions of young people enjoy. I would not be part of something that uses video games as a scapegoat.My dog's butt smells like cookiesComment
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Last edited by PVarck31; 01-18-2013, 12:59 AM."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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