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funelephant wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Animeboy975 wrote:

Agreed. It isn't just movies, it's tv shows and games. mainly video games. The other day, i was at Gamestop to pre-order Mario for the 3ds. I saw a kid who looked like he was in preschool or in the early years of elementary and he was buying BLACK OPS.

My heart cried a little.

It's the majority now. Game ratings just don't matter anymore.

And I also agree that video games are the worst. Because of their interactiveness, it really does affect children a lot.

I think that the ratings do really matter.

I've played an E-10 game when I was 8, that's about the worst for me 

And it was Just Dance.

I played The Sims 3 which is rated 13 when I was (and still am) 12 years old.

How terrible. 

SciTecCf wrote:

funelephant wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

It's the majority now. Game ratings just don't matter anymore.

And I also agree that video games are the worst. Because of their interactiveness, it really does affect children a lot.

I think that the ratings do really matter.

I've played an E-10 game when I was 8, that's about the worst for me 

And it was Just Dance.

I played The Sims 3 which is rated 13 when I was (and still am) 12 years old.

How terrible. 

Such a rebel.

Mokat wrote:

SciTecCf wrote:

funelephant wrote:

I think that the ratings do really matter.

I've played an E-10 game when I was 8, that's about the worst for me 

And it was Just Dance.

I played The Sims 3 which is rated 13 when I was (and still am) 12 years old.

How terrible. 

Call the cops, everyone. 

Everyone tl;dr'd my tower of text I bet
Ah well
Heeere's Johnny

Last edited by Wickimen (2012-07-25 14:40:58)

VanillaCreme wrote:

But i'm serious, if you don't pay attention to ratings now then you won't pay attention to them when they are important. I'm no kill joy either.

soupoftomato wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Animeboy975 wrote:

Agreed. It isn't just movies, it's tv shows and games. mainly video games. The other day, i was at Gamestop to pre-order Mario for the 3ds. I saw a kid who looked like he was in preschool or in the early years of elementary and he was buying BLACK OPS.

My heart cried a little.

It's the majority now. Game ratings just don't matter anymore.

And I also agree that video games are the worst. Because of their interactiveness, it really does affect children a lot.

I've seen arguments to show that the interactivity allows anger to be used on pixels, and avoid it causing an issue in real life.

I am personally unaffected but if someone is, I think it's a deeper psychological issue than the fact that they played a video game. They probably already had problems and the videogame triggered them to do something wrong.

good point. when I am angry I falcon punch jigglypuff (the worst SSBB character).

funelephant wrote:

Mokat wrote:

SciTecCf wrote:

I played The Sims 3 which is rated 13 when I was (and still am) 12 years old.

How terrible. 

Call the cops, everyone. 

Adam used the excuse (when I was still 9) "This is for ages 10 and up." to get me out of his room.

Wickimen wrote:

Meet Johnny. Johnny is twelve. Johnny goes to middle school and is in seventh grade. Johnny is totally rad. He knows he’s rad because he watches cool movies and plays cool games. Johnny got to watch R-rated movies in the third grade. He is aware this makes him very mature for his age, and therefore he can do anything! Have you seen the latest movies? Well, Johnny has. He’s seen all of them. Violence is no longer all that exciting. That blood and guts look really fake. Those screams are just actors. Johnny fears nothing!
    Johnny knows a lot about drugs and stuff because he sees them in the movies. Johnny jokes about them with his friends a lot. That’s because he’s so cool. Would Johnny do drugs? No, of course not! Drugs are bad for you. But Johnny is a rebel, so he can talk about them. He’s played lots of video games, and enjoys stabbing and shooting virtually. It isn’t like he’s actually hurting people, but it’s still so awesome. And he has so much experience with the real world by facing a cold reality in these amazing games. This causes Johnny to gain popularity for his maturity and awesomeness. Man, Johnny is such a cool dude.

Basically my opinion written like that very sarcastically and badly because I just felt like it

Johnny is 75% of the kids at my high school. 

When I said that ratings don't matter anymore, I meant that it doesn't matter anymore to the general public. I think you misunderstood me 

Violent video games also work for the government and is a form of propaganda as it desensitises people to violence and makes more people support wars and things as well as feel that violence is a way to solve a problem.

VanillaCreme wrote:

luiysia wrote:

jukyter wrote:

That's not what she's (?) saying. She's saying kids at her school become arrogant and desensitised when they play these games. If you have the maturity level (which I don't believe anyone under the age of at least 15 can have), that's cool, play it.

Also, I think it kind of desensitizes them to real-life violence. Like, it's fine to know about violence and drugs and so on, but it's not really cool to joke about it and treat it like it's like a game and joke about it and stuff. So I guess it does affect the way kids act, but not really in a "monkey see, monkey do" sort of way.

Personally if you play a game with a "Mature" rating and you are of age and you play it You are not Mature. I mean, if you play games like those all the time you are psycho. That material is kinda sick.  0-0

Have you ever actually played a mature game?

There's a lot of good content in them even if it simulates human death at times. There's expert storytelling in a lot of the, the skills required which are the main draw, and lots of other stuff.

Plenty of people of age play Maturely rated games because they can handle the material in them appropriately while enjoying a game for what it is.

People don't WANT to see others get blasted to smithereens. It's part of a deeper experience.

VanillaCreme wrote:

luiysia wrote:

jukyter wrote:

That's not what she's (?) saying. She's saying kids at her school become arrogant and desensitised when they play these games. If you have the maturity level (which I don't believe anyone under the age of at least 15 can have), that's cool, play it.

Also, I think it kind of desensitizes them to real-life violence. Like, it's fine to know about violence and drugs and so on, but it's not really cool to joke about it and treat it like it's like a game and joke about it and stuff. So I guess it does affect the way kids act, but not really in a "monkey see, monkey do" sort of way.

Personally if you play a game with a "Mature" rating and you are of age and you play it You are not Mature. I mean, if you play games like those all the time you are psycho. That material is kinda sick.  0-0

That depends on why it's mature - some are only Mature because of language and violence, whereas {^}%%|&) |€{^@: The *]^%\ing 4 should definitely not be played by people below the rating, and if you always play those kinds of things then you should really get another hobby.

I think parents should be involved in it too - some people see something like Black Ops and they're like, "oh, a spy game, that sounds fine". And then your 7 year old grows up to be one of those arrogant "lol violence is cool, xbox live, etc" type kids and everyone is sad.

Normal children don't kill other people unless they are crazy.

So normal children won't kill anybody because of games or films.

Crazy children which feel need to kill will do it no matter if they play games watch movies or not, they can just kill differently if they played a game because they liked the way someone killed someone else in the game.

There are many people who don't play games or don't like films that kill:
Just see how many murdurers there were before computers or tv were introduced.
Mafias, gangs, thieves, bored guys, depressed guys, all of them can kill if they are crazy and not playing a game won't stop them.

Many people kill for different reasons I just don't know why media is the most blamed.

Nobody talks about a guy that killed someone on the street
But everybody talks about a guy that killed someone after playing game or watching a film.

Last edited by marcin388 (2012-07-27 07:49:24)