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Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas
dotarray writes "One Colorado family received more than they'd bargained for this Christmas when they gave five-year-old Braydon Giles a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS that apparently still contained 'graphic images' from a previous owner. From the article: 'Refurbishing is an art, as well as a craft. The whole point is to make a gadget feel pristine, even when it used to be owned by a cult leader, a scout leader or an exhibitionist.
Sadly, someone in a Colorado GameStop stopped refurbishing before the job was complete.
So much so that 5-year-old Braydon Giles opened his Xmas gift — a Nintendo 3DS — and discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things. As Channel 9 News tells it, Braydon showed the 3DS to his brother Bryton. He wanted his help to remove these weird pictures. '"
I would totally risk sexual traumatization at the age of 5 if it meant a free 3DS. I swear I'm going through like Miyamoto withdraw or something ever since I accidentally my Wii's firmware before Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out.
Because nobody will be named Braydon. Under Communism, people will all have awesome names that can only be expressed with Korean characters.
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All I got was a bunch of simplistic children's games on my 3DS.
Best part of the article:
GameStop is currently researching this situation. We have a rigorous quality control process in place
As a former GameStop employee, I can personally attest to the fact that their "rigorous quality control process" consists of "Now don't get too stoned in the back room when you're on the clock."
Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
What did you expect from the folks who named their kids Bryton and Braydon?
Rookie dad totally forgets that five year old life is highly focused on things interesting to a five year old and not at all focused on boring things like long speeches and naked people. Five year old is understandably interested at father figure whose freakout knob is set to 11. Later, five year old sees dad preening for the camera and thinks it looks like a good time, joins in.
This kid would have totally forgotten it if not for his dad's reaction. I weep for the culture which has to deal with this guy's kids 15 years from now.
I also question the uproar over a kid seeing sex, but no such uproar about children seeing violence and death.
Sure, the store should have wiped it, but why is this so much worse than, say, a violent movie parents will let kids watch? Unless it was rape or CP, I don't see why it should be singled out as heinous. Kids used to sleep in the same room as relatives having sex, and apparently that didn't explode their little minds.
discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things
Sex act by itself is a part of nature.
Without sex acts, many higher form animals have no way to procreate.
When sex itself is deemed something that's not "pristine" something is very wrong - way beyond wrong .....
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Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
Because the universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master.
He can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
He has defined a category of behaviours which are biologically imperative but which we should not do, lest he judge us unworthy in his eyes and stick us in his personal torture chamber for all eternity.
Showing naked people to children encourages them to have sex in ways which are not permitted, which will get them sent to the eternal torture chamber.
Does this answer your question?
Kids are violent from the moment they are born.
They're also sexual from the moment they are born. Not to the same extent as when hitting puberty, but certainly not asexual cherubs.
Some repress and deny that they themselves were sexual creatures even as children, quite possibly out of guilt, thinking it was themselves there was something wrong with.
But pictures of grown-ups? Largely uninteresting to a five year old boy, I should think. To him, it would be a lemon party - something to say "yuck" at and delete.
Which apparently he tried to do, and it was his father who blew a fuse, not the kid. Sure, the kid is probably traumatized now, by his father's behavior.
And unless he changes his name, likely to be ridiculed in a few years in school, when classmates enter his name in a search engine. All thanks to dad, who wanted his fifteen minutes of fame, but apparently didn't give a flying fuck about causing his kids problems.
And the fact you didn't check the computer over before giving it to you daughter wasn't a problem?
And the fact you didn't check the computer over before giving it to you daughter wasn't a problem?
This is the part I don't get. What ever happened to parenting? Trusting gamestop or similar is like trusting Microsoft, why would you?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Because the computer replaced TV as the babysitter, and, dammit, I want my computer to be as good as TV, where SOMEONE ELSE takes care that my kids don't get to see stuff.
Shit, really, what's next? Me having to spend time with the brats?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The problem is the parents' own disposition towards sex, and their reluctance to having to talk with their kids about it.
Scene A: Little Timmy sees a movie where a guy decapitates a woman. ... daddy? What's that man doing to the woman?
Timmy: Da
Dad: He's killing her, Timmy. Look away so you don't get nightmares, but try to relax, that's just a movie, that's not real.
Scene B: Little Timmy sees a movie where a guy fucks a woman. ... daddy? What's that man doing to the woman? (Note: The same question, asked with the same amount of innocence).
Timmy: Da
Dad: He... he.... OH MY GOD! GO TO YOUR ROOM!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.