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gekko · 05-07-2002, 07:59 PM

Ehh... who cares really? Wait, forgot a lot of you would be affected.

Honestly, I think parents should be able to control what games their kids buy, but to an extent. I mean, look at CDs. They all got that damn label on them, but there is no real law saying you can't buy this thing.

Point #2: By the time a kid is 17, he has probably saw more rated-R movies than a lot of adults (teens tend to do the movie thing, ya know?), and has played a ton of mature video games. So the law really does nothing. I could see not selling it to someone like under 13. But if someone is old enough to drive themself to the store to buy the game, let them. It's kinda like high school, it's basically like they pamper you through school, through your teen years, and when you become on an adult, then throw you into the real world and expect you to adapt. You can't hide the kids from any sort of violence and sex, then when he turns 17, or 18 give it to him all at once. Let the kids grow up. They should be more worried about kids and pornography, considering pretty much every sex offender is a porn addict, and these teens they are trying to keep away from bad movies and games and sitting on their computer whacking it to hardcore porn on a daily basis. These people are trying to protect kids from playing games with blood, when the kids have probably seen more sexual acts than their parents, and that likely includes stuff that society prefers to hide (Bondage, pissing/****ting, beastality, shemales, domination, fisting, etc.). I think our government has better things to do with their time than worry about video games.

Either way, there will be work-arounds. How many of you realize you can walk into Best Buy and legally (and yes, you wil get away with it), but a Playboy or Girls Gone Wild DVD? A lot of that stuff is NR, aka Not Rated. There is no legal age to buy those movies. It's not X, so it's not 18. It's not like Showgirls, which is NC-17. It's NR, meaning anyone can buy it, but it hasn't gone through the rating board.

Games can really go the same way.

05-07-2002, 07:59 PM	#9
gekko Knight gekko is offline Now Playing: Posts: 3,890	Ehh... who cares really? Wait, forgot a lot of you would be affected. Honestly, I think parents should be able to control what games their kids buy, but to an extent. I mean, look at CDs. They all got that damn label on them, but there is no real law saying you can't buy this thing. Point #2: By the time a kid is 17, he has probably saw more rated-R movies than a lot of adults (teens tend to do the movie thing, ya know?), and has played a ton of mature video games. So the law really does nothing. I could see not selling it to someone like under 13. But if someone is old enough to drive themself to the store to buy the game, let them. It's kinda like high school, it's basically like they pamper you through school, through your teen years, and when you become on an adult, then throw you into the real world and expect you to adapt. You can't hide the kids from any sort of violence and sex, then when he turns 17, or 18 give it to him all at once. Let the kids grow up. They should be more worried about kids and pornography, considering pretty much every sex offender is a porn addict, and these teens they are trying to keep away from bad movies and games and sitting on their computer whacking it to hardcore porn on a daily basis. These people are trying to protect kids from playing games with blood, when the kids have probably seen more sexual acts than their parents, and that likely includes stuff that society prefers to hide (Bondage, pissing/****ting, beastality, shemales, domination, fisting, etc.). I think our government has better things to do with their time than worry about video games. Either way, there will be work-arounds. How many of you realize you can walk into Best Buy and legally (and yes, you wil get away with it), but a Playboy or Girls Gone Wild DVD? A lot of that stuff is NR, aka Not Rated. There is no legal age to buy those movies. It's not X, so it's not 18. It's not like Showgirls, which is NC-17. It's NR, meaning anyone can buy it, but it hasn't gone through the rating board. Games can really go the same way.