Oh ooh.. guess WHO'S back...

[Bob The Mercenary]

Originally Posted by Zesty

Sorry to ramble, but it's late and I'm feeling cantankerous.

No, that was perfect.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by Zesty

It seems like parents today are just bloody desperate to shove reponsibility off on anything they can, and force our already overburdened legal system to do their work for them. They would rather violate my personal freedoms than actually turn off the Tivo and do their jobs as parents.

What amazes me, is kids playing violent video games gets blamed for all the problems with 'today's youth', and yet pregnant women drink and smoke in bars on a constant basis, and nobody cares.

It's amazing how this is said to protect 'life', yet it's really to 'protect responsibility'.

[Zesty]

Originally Posted by Bob the Mercenary

No, that was perfect.

heh...thanks.

And, Mirai_Gen: Oh, that gets me too. It just didn't seem to be in the scope of this discussion. Though if we'rei ncorperating it, then again, I can use my mom as an example. The moment the doctor told her she was pregnant, she dropped her cigarettes in the trash. Dad kept smoking but never in the house, and never around her. She put my basic needs above her own wants.

At the weekly Magic game I go to, there's a girl that got knocked up. She was sitting around talking about how she's finally stopped drinking for the durration, and she's "Trying" to give up cigarettes. I started to say something, but it wouldn't change anything, other than just make things tense for the rest of the night.

It's getting harder to keep my mouth shut, though, as I look around my town and see kids my age (24, for the record) pumping out kids. They're too self-centered to put the kids needs completely above their own WANTS, and I think that's what this whole thing boils down to: Parents who just can't be bothered to do their jobs, because they can't put their children's needs completely above their own wants.

I've done a reseach paper on the topic of the topic of this crusade agaisnt video games, and I honestly had to put the research material down and walk away several times. Not because I was bored, or my eyes were crossing from the tiny print, but because I was getting too angry to focus on my work properly. In one article, parents were being shown clips from Grand Theft Auto, and saying to the reporters "This is the first time I've seen this shocking and despicable stuff, and it shocks me!" Well, it shocked me too. The concept of a parent not knowing the content of a game they bought their own children just amazes me. If they can't be bothered to put in the time with what their kid is doing, then they shouldn't have the kid, plain and simple.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by Zesty

And, Mirai_Gen: Oh, that gets me too. It just didn't seem to be in the scope of this discussion. Though if we'rei ncorperating it, then again, I can use my mom as an example. The moment the doctor told her she was pregnant, she dropped her cigarettes in the trash. Dad kept smoking but never in the house, and never around her. She put my basic needs above her own wants.

And the fact that she made that choice is what I happen to like. Nobody forced her to do it, she did it herself, and nobody had to remind her of a law.

In a related note, Tycho and Gabe are doing something for ESRB. I am very excited.