Children as young as four re-enacting "violent computer games" - Association of Teachers and Lecture
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[QUOTE=gav618;35439873]The future of game covers, you can't miss this right?
[img][/QUOTE]I wonder if this game would be safe for my children?
okay, [b]WHO GIVES A SHIT[/b]
Kids have always reenacted gun fights before "violent video games", and now suddenly its a bad thing and that video games are at fault of it? Really?
It's fucking easiest to say that it's all fault of violent videogames.
The problem is with fucking parents who do not give two shits about what their kids are doing.
I have seen numerous times people getting 18+ games for 10 year olds without any fuzz.
It's not like playing violent videogames makes you a murderer. GTA 3 was my first game, but if your parents pay enough attention to you then it's all right and nobody has got issues with telling the difference between a game and reality.
Plus what the fuck, me and my friends used to play in the flat and reenact C&C Renegade characters. Mutants fighting with GDI bitch.
This article actually has some truth to it. I too spent most of my childhood killing pretend Russians in gunfights and the like, but I have seen what the article is talking about first hand and I could see why it could be considered a problem.
I was in the park yesterday when I saw some kids playing what was obviously a game of war/gun fight/whatever. I really didn't think anything of it because, like I said, I did the same thing and could see the fun in it. I was only really bothered when I walked past them and heard their dialogue. They described how they were in an airport and there was a nuke or something and they had to gun down the civilians to get away from it. It carried onto one of the boys going into "slow-mo mode" and hitting another kid with a pretend throwing knife.
I mean, its not that bad, but you have to admit that many of todays kids are influenced by Call of Duty. Parents really should censor their kids more.
The most frustrating thing about this is that I know I don't have the power to prove to these people that they're wrong.
[QUOTE=dookster;35445420]The most frustrating thing about this is that I know I don't have the power to prove to these people that they're wrong.[/QUOTE]
They'll believe what they want, no matter how much you try.
When I was in third grade and me and some other kid were playing soldier, the monitors put us in timeout for a week. I was pissed.
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