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  • It's good that we have people like this in our legal system looking out for society

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #39335  by Zeus
 Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:20 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://ps2.ign.com/articles/536/536062p1.html">here</a>

It's good that we have people like this in our legal system looking out for society</div>
 #39355  by SineSwiper
 Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:28 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Two things:

1. The argument that the industry is marketing these games to kids because they appear in Spider-Man, is just as absurd that tobacco companies are trying to market Joe Camel to kids, just because it's a cartoon. Unless you're talking about baby toys, the medium is age-inspecific. Adults watch cartoons and adults read comic books, and whether you realize it or not, it's many more than you think. The Disneyification of America contributes a lot to the myths.

2. The one question I wanted ask was not asked, and the interviewer is a fucking moron for not asking it: Do you think parents should be responsible for reviewing what games their kids play? <b>That is the single most important question in the whole fucking argument!</b> While it is true that parents cannot watch their kids 24/7, they can at least watch them enough to know what games they are playing, know what games are too mature for them, and punish them if they go against their rules.

Case in point: My mother did not want my (then) 13-year-old sister to watch Spice World (the movie) because the ending featured one of the Spice Girls getting pregnant, giving birth to a girl, and then ending the movie with them showing off the baby and saying "Girl Power!", as if pregnancy is okay for their target audience of 14-year-old girls. My sister bitched about it, but didn't watch it. This was a PG movie (not even PG-13), so it's not like the law or theaters would stop her from seeing it. But, because of good parenting, an establishment of trust because parent and child, and providing a reason for not seeing the movie (as well as actually researching something like the ending), she wasn't going to disobey her.</div>

 #39369  by Zeus
 Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:30 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>His flawed reasoning and his passion towards those reasonings destroys any sensibility he might have</div>

 #39374  by SineSwiper
 Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:45 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>The interviewer's lack of intelligence (for not asking the one question) destroys any point of the interview, so it's a moot point.</div>