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Besides, I've seen dead bodies rolled out of hotel rooms under bloody sheets every night on the news, since I was born. And it'll still be that way. Famous starlet showing her snatch getting out of an Escalade. It's acceptable to be bombarded with otherwise reprehensible imagery, so long as it's not a game or movie.
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None of that should be seen by a child in my opinion, there´s nothing to gain from that but it can destroy quite a bit in a child´s mind.

Originally Posted by Fathom Zero

I think you should pause and think about your past. Old(er) people seem to find new ways, every generation, to say that the new generation is worse than theirs. It's ageist (learned a new word, thanks for that ). I didn'thave any money growing up, so all my family had was an SNES until 2002 or so, when we got a PS2. I eat, slept, and breathed Super Mario World. I had one game, andI was thinking about it constantly, just as obsessive as if I woud've had Doom. (Obsession in my mind, being far worse than exposure to violent imagery.) When I wasn't playing it, I was talking about it to friends.

Well, I just describe how I percept the world. Being influenced by SO much information all the time is not a very good thing to begin with. Now imagine a lot of that information is violence-themed...can´t have any positive effect on half-developed minds. I don´t think that has anything to do with my generation or the younger generation, it feels like the wind is getting rougher in these past years if that makes any sense in english.

Originally Posted by Fathom Zero

Coincidentally, playing a shit-ton of games as a kid makes you a lot of friends. Just thought I'd put that out there.

I don´t think I really understand what you mean by that.
Playing a lot of games gives you a shitload of pop-culture-reference material, a lot of inside-jokes and some gamer-friends but if you mean something different, I don´t know what you mean I´m afraid

Originally Posted by Fathom Zero

It's just, people find it really easy to lose perspective, which is sad. I'll never lose connection with how hard it was, sometimes, getting a hold of great games, having people tell me I can't do something, can't watch something, simply because I wasn't of age proper. Suppression of information to youths is disgusting and something I find intolerable.

Depends. There are things that people of a certain age simply shouldn´t do or see, it´s really that simple. You don´t show splatter-movies to a 5 year old, you don´t give a 10 year old hardcore porn, you don´t let a kid drink alcohol, things like these. I´m not talking about a few months in age difference or something, I´m talking about years.

I agree that the whole debate about violence in games and how it influences the players is overexaggereting things but still, a kid shouldn´t play things like Gears or Condemned simply because it´s (in most cases) too early for things like that.


Hope that makes sense to you guys, my english is kinda leaving me every now and then