Comments on: Don’t Ban Video Games — Start Using the Age Ratings

By: mma

mma — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:11:58 +0000

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By: Moloch

Moloch — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:43:01 +0000

Please. Video games were invented by a Zionist (Ralph Baer) at a Pentagon-affiliated defense contractor, Sanders Associates (now part of Lockheed Martin). They brainwash the sheeple and desensitize them to violence, then they tell the sheeple that they will protect them from video game violence as long as they lay down their liberties. Video games are nothing but a Zionist New World Order conspiracy to enslave the global population in global tyranny.

By: Im fourteen, and im smarter then you expect.

Im fourteen, and im smarter then you expect. — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:44:56 +0000

athana, Humans wer emade for voilent acts. There is no such thing asa human who wouldn’t kill for something he or she desprettly wanted. There is no such thing as a personw ho would not fight for the lust and love of someone or something. ther eis no such thing as a world without murder.

By: Im fourteen, and im smarter then you expect.

Im fourteen, and im smarter then you expect. — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:42:05 +0000

Children (As myself) Will learn tog row into life at some point sooner or later an will notice the wordl isint a fuzzy padded room with no guns language or voilince, Noooooo no that fuzzy room will soon melt into the cold concrete of life and alow life to peer its self into the new found mind waiting. When this happens the new mind will finely release, if he/she screws up in the wrong place at the wrong time, there going to be killed. Maybe randomly shot in a drive by or killed in a train crash, but sooner or later your children will tell you to step off and let them live there own life, nudety, voilince, sex, drugs, alchohol, gore, twisted freaks on normality its self, Is waht makes life livable, showing it in a game to a thirteen year old wont do much accept show him a thin thread of the fabric we call life. Weither it be by the war of man agianst his brother, or the ravaging of father time, You will die and no force will be able to stop it. I am not telling you how to parent you children and im not telling you to Not check the ratings or buy grand theft auto games for a three year old, but with public schools and long roads, at the age of ten your child NEEDS to know these things happen or he/she may be laying down soaked in crimson from there own body one day. Do you want your child to come up to a thug and go “Excuss me you really should’nt use that language in public, my mtoher said so.” I sure as hell wouldn’t do that. that would be like sending a five yea rold boy to Never land ranch in a bright pink box titled “MJ’s new monkey.”
Dont restrain your kids from life and they wont restrain you from worrying about them. after all thats a parents job and if your kids home all the time being a perfect child until hes 50, there snothing to worry about (accept extreme mental damage)

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:57:40 +0000

Thank You

By: Don’t Ban Video Games — Start Using the Age Ratings « News Coctail

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:57:53 +0000

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By: athana

athana — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:24:27 +0000

You all should be ashamed of yourselves.

Where'd you get your appetite for violence? You weren't born with it, cause I know lotsa dudes who don't go ga-ga over violence. Mostly they're the ones with guts.

Many societies don't have violent games -- the ones that don't beat up women, rape babies, and kill homeless dudes just for sport. Takes manly-men to do those things.

As a matter of fact, in my experience, the dudes drooling over violence are the ones who feel they aren't manly-men. They're terrified that if they ever had to show courage in the real world, they might not cut it.

So dudes, the more you fight for your violent games, the more the rest of us know who you really are (jelly on the inside). It's kind of embarrassing. For you, I mean.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:07:52 +0000

If people are going to blame the video game industry, then you’d think that they would blame other industries that depict violent behavior right? Well obviously, that isn’t true. Think about the film industry. They have been pumping out loads of violent movies, especially in recent years. But do you hear people blameing them for the problem? NO. It seems obvious to me that they are blameing the videogame industry because it is (reletively speaking) new.
So what does the film industry have that the videogame doesn’t? Ratings that are essentially pushed into the faces of the public. As it is right now, for every movie ad I see, whether I see it in print, on TV or on the internet, I always see the rating. With videogames, I don’t see that as prominently.
I believe that the videogame industry has to push the ratings like the film industry. That way, it will be damn near impossible to not see them. I mean there are many people that would get their children any videogame they wanted, but would not let them see any movie they wanted.
This is by no means a perfect solution, I don’t think that anything really is. But, I believe that this would be a step in the right direction.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:11:17 +0000

As an older game player (49) I dont have to worry about the suitability of game content. However, I do have concerns for children. For example, My all time favorite stealth game is ‘Manhunt’ I like that it has no supernatural monsters to fight and that it is you against everyone else. I love the dialog even though it is not what you would want to hear in real life. I have been playing this game for years. I have not, as yet, had the desire to sneak around looking for a skull to cave in or a head to hack off. It has not turned me into a crazed killer.
Unfortunately, I am not the only one in our family who has a copy of this game. Both my nephews, one aged 8 and the other 11 both have copies. And how did they get them. Simple, their mother bought them and gave them to them. They also watch any dvd they want to. There are no restrictions on them at all. And when I have confronted her I am told that everyone lets their kids watch and play what they want. And she is right. there is a class where kids are not restricted at all. And who is responsible? The parents of course. And they should be fined for doing so.
as you have plainly pointed out, games have labels. Even if parents are not buying the games it doesnt take much effort to pick up the case and read it. Of course, that is asking alot of these parents. Much easier, when their kids have been arrested for a violent crime to blame the game companies.
It is a pity that the game companies cant take the parents to court and sue them for bringing them into disrepute.
Parents, have some balls and take responsibility. Or shut up. One of the two.