No, I am standing up for the children. IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE!
This is bullshit, we must stop this before it gets worse!

RIOT! RIOT! RIOT!

....That and I still think it's fucking gay that the kids can't buy the games they want without bringing an adult.

lol are you under the age limit? Is not, why do you care?

Meh, I dunno.
Bored I guess?

People would still play games,by getting their parents to sneak games. Just like people sneak past the government and artists by downloading music illegally.

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People would still play games,by getting their parents to sneak games. Just like downloading music illegally.

But I don't get my parents to download music illegally!

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People would still play games,by getting their parents to sneak games. Just like people sneak past the government and artists by downloading music illegally.

lol, how the fuck are those two things similar.
also, ratings are a suggestion, if a parent buys an m rated game, its not something they'd have to sneak, they're legally allowed to give an m rated game to a preteen

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lol, how the fuck are those two things similar.
also, ratings are a suggestion, if a parent buys an m rated game, its not something they'd have to sneak, they're legally allowed to give an m rated game to a preteen

Yes but the thrill of thinking it's been sneaked to you is such a rush!

I understand your point there scared. Its why i steal cars: the adreniline rush is euphoric!

I feel the need to comment on this thread because video games have always been a large part of my life.
First of all i believe that the ratings on games are suggestions so the person buying the game as a gift for a young child who knows the child well can choose a game that is fine for the kid. When i was younger (not to say i'm not pretty young now) I had a wide selection of games. The games ranged anywhere from E to T (this was before the E-10+ bullshit) and my parents raised me without games for the first 8 to 10 years of my life. This instilled in me the fact that using video games aren't integral to survival. They waited and assessed how I reacted to not having video games (resulting in me being very violent until the 3rd grade. never without reason however). There will always be THAT kid who obsesses over video games or maybe can't give them up, but a good parent knows to wait (in my humble opinion of course) and slowly move the child through different games. The most violent game i had during childhood was probably the original Power Rangers tv show game for the gameboy. The game may have been violent but I wasn't drawn to it i was more drawn to rpg's like pokemon and final fantasy that told a story while still giving you something to strive for. At the same time we also won a Ps2 in a raffle for my little sisters school (this was back when if you had a ps2 you were top shit in elementary). I loved that system and it really what i really loved about it was the original Kingdom Hearts game. The game had violence but not against humans and it had a positive over all message. My parents took note of the way that the violence didn't effect me and i earned the luxury of access to more violent games. When i turned 12 for my birthday I obtained three very violent games, Hitman 1 and 2 and Grand Theft auto. Grand theft auto being the only game i could play because of the graphic nature of The two former. I beat grand theft auto, but something about this game was very different to me it told a darker story, this hadn't really been introduced to me (with the exception of family guy) so i didn't know what to do with this knowledge. This is where my point is made, due to the high violence tolerance and Dark humor i had developed I was suspended often for saying inappropriate threats and jokes to other students, however this also taught me to avoid drugs and hoodlums so while a trouble maker in school i stayed a pretty average member of society, even though young. My point is That while some kids can't take the violence in games, others can and know how to use the knowledge that this exists to avoid it. My story told you about how I personally viewed these incidents and how it taught me that other kids might not. It takes the parent to decide this, whether or not the kid was raised right the adult has to keep the child away from games that will damage their state of mind, and warp their view on society to one of an insane person. This is just me sharing my opinion on the matter as i said earlier the ERSB is so you know the content of the game is too much for your child.

I've been playing video games for my whole life, since DOS oldies. And I can safely say it's changed me, I'd be ignorant to say otherwise. Positively and negatively, I'd guess.
I wouldn't know how to speak english, for one. Negatives - I'm cursed with being a gaming addict, being antisocial and such. Hell, if given enough free time, I'll use it to play games. 10 hours? Eh, done worse. But there's a bright side to this addictions - I have no other addictions, such as smoking or alcohol addictions.
But the rating system doesn't address the most crucial part of games - addiction changes you, not the violence in them. Once the game is diverse enough, it becomes addictive, and once the game has a competitive component, it truly prolongs the time the game can be played as well as chances to be addicted.
So anyways, I see the rating system more as a safeguard for the game developers and publishers themselves, so it's easier to deal with disgruntled parents who think it's the games who corrupt their kids. They need something to blame, they don't want to just say, eh, he just happened to be a psycho, they don't want to admit it. Take for an example the Halo Killer, Daniel. We do not know anything about his attitude, personality, social life that he had prior to when anything serious happened, or so I presume from what I've read. Maybe the parents were oblivious to what happened in his life, or were hoping that, if his attitude was weird, it's just temporary, or just a phase he's going through.

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I understand your point there scared. Its why i steal cars: the adreniline rush is euphoric!

im gonna turn you in,,,psych!im not gonna.or AM i...also you said scared,not Sacred.

Video games have been a pretty big part of my life for a long time now. I honestly started off on the worse ones. Half Life 1 and later Half Life 2 were integral in my life, but I never actually played console games and/or any of that crap. The first online game I played was, as funny as this is, World of Warcraft. Yup. My dad played it at the time and he let me, my brother and my sister in on it, all sharing one computer. You know what it did to me?
It made me social.
Yeah, that's right. Social. World of Warcraft. Don't believe me? Let me explain.
I was going through a pretty rough time at school. I was bullied and I didn't really have any friends, I was constantly upset. But when I started playing WoW, I was interacting with people even after I got home. I was talking to people who weren't complete assholes and I became capable of talking to people. Besides that, the way other people interacted rubbed off on me. I learned to talk to people properly and to be a proper person.
It's been a while since I last played World of Warcraft. I stopped playing it after Fantasy Games became the games that only the people at the lowest part of the social ladder played, even if I pop back on it every so often. Though I can say I am pretty addicted to games, and I think my ability to concentrate has taken a minor blow, games have taught me a lot of things. Now, I play the more popular games such as Team Fortress 2 and StarCraft 2, enjoying myself quite a lot. I owe games my social life.
Even if it is kind of sad.