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Parents Not Informed About Gaming?

Posted by simoniker on from the game-of-life-skewed dept.

Thanks to GamerDad for their opinion piece advancing the claim that parents don't pay enough attention to the videogames their children play. The article argues: "While the mainstream press has reported on the push for games to become adult entertainment, and games makers have tried to create so-called 'mature' games to fill this apparent void, the reality is that many of these M-rated games are being played by children under the age of seventeen." It goes on to put forward the theory: "Parents simply are not informed about gaming... [and] probably believe that even games like Grand Theft Auto III are video games, and therefore they are for kids."

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  1. well by Tirel · · Score: -1, Troll

    How many adults do you see playing GTA? (though this might be the wrong crowd to ask). Not many huh? This might be because..

    *shock* GAMES ARE FOR KIDS *shock*

    1. Re:well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      yeah keep telling yourself that, you socially inept pimped face loser

    2. Re:well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      please practice your critical thinking skills; by now it should be quite apparent that I am not interested in arguing this point with you. The article came up and I quickly wrote some flamebait to get a response from people.

      maybe it's time to stop playing the newest unreal release and open a fucking book, eh?

    3. Re:well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      whatever, I know c, c++, perl, java, ruby, phython, lisp, scheme, ocaml, prolog, K, objective C, C#, *basic, bash, tcl and pascal. And I probably forgot to mention a few since once you learn one or two languages it's fucking trivial to learn more. Did I mention I also know directx(7+), opengl 1.2, allegro, clanlib and libsdl inside out? Did I mention that I know networking and security on basically all unices from atheos to xenix? and learning all that I still had the time to major in biotechnology in a foreign college, and learn a shitload of other useful things, such as: latin, english, german, russian, kong fu, wilderness survival skills, etc, and during all that time i read 2 books per week.

      and troll slashdot.

      fucking amazin'!