Children as young as four re-enacting "violent computer games" - Association of Teachers and Lecture
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I wonder if some parents ever even see what the arrows in the following image are pointing to.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6WeDM.jpg[/IMG]
Yes, the title's absolutely correct. And fifty, sixty years ago children as young as four re-enacted violent movies, playing Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, War Games. Have you forgotten already?
Back in my day we used to play Manhunt in the school.
Today the news might take that to mean we went around hunting, suffocating and eviscerating each other; or at the very least beating on each other in a "violent" way.
What we actually did was play Manhunt, i.e. large scale tag around the school/ neighborhood. Great fun that was.
I remember I was messing around with some younger kids (I was 15, they were maybe 7 or 8) and one of them pretended to throw a knife at me. I went along with it and asked, "Where'd you learn to do that? Call of Duty?" He nodded ecstatically and we just kept going.
The whole violent video games thing is blown way out of proportion
[QUOTE=V12US;35411899]When I was a kid, we had toy guns and played war out on the playground. .[/QUOTE]
You're a stonecold killer now because of that. Ban these violent videogames such as The haloes.
Like Tarantino would say: BECAUSE ITS FUN.
Protesting video games because they cause "violent behavior" in your children only proves you're a terrible parent and it would be better if the kid were put into a foster family.
It's one thing to actively prevent your kid from playing shooters (When I was 4 my mom was worried about Chex Quest and wouldn't let me play it until my dad convinced her that it was perfectly fine), to prevent the off chance of the kid actually thinking violence is cool, but just randomly buying your kid CoD and then going insane because they're reenacting some battles at recess proves that you have no idea what you're doing.
By the time I was eight I had watch all the terminator, and lethal weapon movies. My parent's never though it a big deal nor did I.
[quote]So if teens find it difficult to separate fiction from fact of their virtual personalities how are my four and five year olds supposed to read and cope? Yeah, they believe the violence is real and recreate it in play.[/quote]
Funny, if you say this about an adult, they're declared [b]insane[/b].
Remember when rap music was going to create a generation of Bloods and Crips?
When I was a kid, I ran around my backyard with a stick fighting imaginary orcs and Nazgul. Clearly, Tolkien's famous quadrilogy is a bad influence on youngsters and should be banned.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;35435933]When I was a kid, I ran around my backyard with a stick fighting imaginary orcs and Nazgul. Clearly, Tolkien's famous quadrilogy is a bad influence on youngsters and should be banned.[/QUOTE]
Shit, you probably shot up your school while screaming about orcs
Well, I obviously couldn't allow them to get their hands on the One Ring.
My mom seemed a little mad when she came in and I was playing TF2, when she comes in I pause the game and console usually comes up
She saw that I got killed by "Jesus" with a flamethrower and got a little peeved
I used to play Knights with some kids around the neighborhood and we would act out our deaths in excruciating detail. Often including decapitation, gurgling noises, loss of limbs, fun, wholesome, and child friendly things like that.
I imitated Mario Party and did ground pounds, but I was smart enough to do it on a bed. Though I also imitated Alvin and the Chipmunks, slid down my railing and broke my arm- not so smart that time.
[QUOTE=Irockz;35411886]My mum watches me play PC games a lot.
She likes to comment on how realisticly proportioned femShep is in ME2.[/QUOTE]
I can't handle my parents watching me do anything on the PC.
As soon as they do;
-show desktop
-start opening folders and notes
-click on random applications
-alt tab around
until they go away.
When I was 9 I played a game called Pedo Man where I was a pedophile and I would chase after my friends and imprison them. Hell, I even remember posting some of my mspaint depictions of the game on my first account on Facepunch, again when I was 9.
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I also played Doom 3 when I was 6.
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I wonder if there's a connection...
Well, now I want to plant C4 on a jeep and run it into a tank
ITT: We tell stories about what kind of stuff we re-enacted as a kid.
Me and my little brother used to pretend we were knights, even had wooden swords and shields... We turned out fine.
I find it funny how people say this happens, considering I've been playing 16+ games ever since I was about 7 or 8. I think really, it's about telling the kids it's not real, and it's not something you should try to reproduce apart from maybe playing around. I don't think 4 year-olds should really be playing 18s, though. Even though there aren't many decent kid's games about any more, I really think kids should start off playing the classics. If I can, I'm definitely getting my first kid a NES and Super Mario Bros, just to show him how games used to be.
I remember that pretty much all of our 5th and 6th graders gathered in the elementary school to play Smackdown on the grass. It got pretty realistic, people were lifted into the air and thrown around, kicks and hits were exchanged. It was pretty intense, though it got banned after a teacher realized what was going on. Nobody in that group played videogames, I remember I had a SNES with Donkey Kong Country on it, and I was the "rich gaming fucker." :v:
[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;35438543]I remember that pretty much all of our 5th and 6th graders gathered in the elementary school to play Smackdown on the grass. It got pretty realistic, people were lifted into the air and thrown around, kicks and hits were exchanged. It was pretty intense, though it got banned after a teacher realized what was going on. Nobody in that group played videogames, I remember I had a SNES with Donkey Kong Country on it, and I was the "rich gaming fucker." :v:[/QUOTE]
Fight club for kids?
[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;35414485]I wonder if some parents ever even see what the arrows in the following image are pointing to.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6WeDM.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
The future of game covers, you can't miss this right?
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My dad hunted animals through his childhood, had a bunch of weapons and had a fucking shotgun when he was 12, he's not a violent person now
When we were 9 to 12 we played as the game Alien vs Predator and we didn't knew about it.
But we pretended there was helicopters we had to sneak trough to get to our objective.
We used sticks and weapons and used our imagination to "think" there was a russian enemy army behind that hill. We sneaks up and scout the whole area.
When someone got shot we grabbed his arms and dragged him to cover.
Yes, we was tough sons of bitches a'right, killing Spetsnaz 'n' all
I play CoD with my little cousin all the time, and he's only 4 years old
I played Silent Hill, Tekken and Resident Evil when I was 7.
I turned out pretty fine.
I think this is appropriate
[video=youtube;3ZcNXe20dXI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZcNXe20dXI[/video]
[QUOTE=V12US;35411899]When I was a kid, we had toy guns and played war out on the playground. Noone cared. Why is this suddenly such a problem? Children know what they're doing is fake. They don't mean physical harm on eachother. It's a game, obviously. Just because war is ruthless and no fun in reality doesn't mean that the game that kids play is the same.
These days, I seriously believe that children are better at telling appart fact from fiction than adults.[/QUOTE]
On Monday, some local reanactors came to my history class to give a little act and describe what some of the backgrounds were for people who joined the militia, and what events made them base their opinions and political sides. After that, we went out to the courtyard and they fired their muskets into the sky a bunch of times, it scared a couple janitors and probably some other people because only our class knew about it.
There have never been any of these problems with guns and shit in Massachusetts, people are becoming too stupid to realize that games are not the root of the problems that causes real violence.
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