How Ignorant Indian Parents are when it comes to Video Games

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Roxtin said:
I am really sad to see views of all you guys over here :(

What is the problem if a kid around 13-14 is playing violent game? It is not that the parents have to make their kids stay away from game but they should just make there kids know what is the difference between real and virtual thing. What is good and what is band and let them decide by themselves.

I think everyone here has played violent game and yes you might have played them even when you were kids. Quake, Wolf etc all can be classified as violent games.

And if someone thinks playing violent games would spoil their kids or will turn them into a monster/killer then I have a question "How many here have killed someone in real life after playing CS or Quake Or UT or L4D etc?"

I am really sad :(
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Heh so true. Read somewhere that the Tom-n-Jerry was rated the most violent cartoon series. :P

C'mon get real. There're far worse crimes happening around and pitty things like these demand policing? :no:

@OP: Self pwnage? :ohyeah:
 
Kumar said:
Agree 100% with you.

Down with the moral policing. Playing violent games doesn't necessarily turn kids into psychopaths and serial killers....unless you are jack thompson :bleh:
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definitely yes, afterall who has become porn star after watching such a movie. Let them start young. GTA4 and some dvds at 10th B'day
 
neoronin said:
This incident happened about a week back when I was in Landmark, Jayanagar, Bangalore. I was casually browsing the Console Games rack when a teenager [Should be around 13 or 14] was picking up GTA4 along with Dead Space. Now I'm no prude by any chance. But I was genuinely surprised by what happened next. The kid took the games to his mom and said that these are the two he wants to buy. The mom just had a look and said OK and pocketed them.

I should have remained quiet. But I turned towards the women and asked her whether she approves of her son violently cutting monsters and shooting cops and pimping in real life [I know, somewhat melodramatic] She was shocked and said no. Then I asked her why does she approve of her son doing the same in games. She asked me to explain what I was talking about.

I showed her the ratings on the game labels and explained her the content. She gave her son a dirty look [her son gave me a dirty look :)]. But her response was shocking.

She simply said, anyway these days kids will learn about these sooner or later, so I guess there is no harm in him playing these games.

I was kicking myself in my a** for trying to play good samaritan and left with a sheepish look on my face.
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I need a mom like that...or better still I need any mom...I miss my mom...dammm...now I'm hurt......

But my mom never really bought me the things..which I needed...all she said was.."there is a place and time for everything..if you deserve it..you will get it..." and that's how I got my carromboard when I was in 2nd standard..damm I had to study hard for that piece...She never approved of me watching BAYWATCH :ohyeah: I had to con her saying its a COP show..and once she watched with me..and that was the end of BAYWATCH for me:ashamed:
 
Hmm interesting thread :D

@ Neoronin

I think you did the right thing.

Games aren't going to turn kids into psychopaths or killers, they aren't that influencing i guess, but I'm pretty damn sure that playing games like GTA at too young an age brings down the sensitivity levels among kids. They accept violence more easily and are less sympathetic to victims of violence. And I don't think that's too good a thing, is it .....
 
Kumar said:
Agree 100% with you.

Down with the moral policing. Playing violent games doesn't necessarily turn kids into psychopaths and serial killers....unless you are jack thompson :bleh:
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Violence in games just leaves 'em desensitized and there are more violent images kids are exposed to in our movies. But what I'm really against is kids learning how effectively to develop a pimping business in virtual world.

If you really want this to be termed as moral policing rather than better parenting, I would hope that you would approve your own spawn playing these sort of games.
 
neoronin said:
But what I'm really against is kids learning how effectively to develop a pimping business in virtual world.
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GTA is not just Pimpin business play Kingpin ;)

neoronin said:
If you really want this to be termed as moral policing rather than better parenting, I would hope that you would approve your own spawn playing these sort of games.
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I proudly will :hap2:
 
WingZero said:
13-14 yrs??....kidding me...he must have been all thru this kinda things long back...
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obviously YES .
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there is voilence in almost all games . so we can't concern voilence in game as thing to oppose .

BUT here thing is ,it's GTA ................where u go dating , go to STRIP CLUB , visit Prost*******............ for that it should be avoided .

also , i am quite sure that KID knows all abt. this(adult things,Pr0n stuff ) & also knowed how game is ..........& one cannot avoid him to lay off that game .

@neoronin

his mom would have said YES for the game .........coz u might have just explained about voilence in game , in that that case NO WONDER she would have allowed .......coz it's often we see voilence see in movies ,etc . & it's not that KID will take it from game .

n u might have not explained abt. p0rn stuff which game has, to his mom ......i am quite sure u haven't told abt. p0rn stuff .
in that case it would have been straight NO from her . a mom, however she be won't want her KID to do erotic stuff .
(also there is BIG problem in explaining pR0n stuff to a unknown person......how it feels ? it's totally uncomfartable .
advice a lady for avoiding game in that bring pr0n stuuf to notice ....omg it's difficult task (atleast for me))
 
heh all parents know their kids watch porn or read porn ,because they would have done the same , like you do know , you think your kid wont do it , if you stop them from doing so? come on ...relax people
 
t1ruda said:
Mark my words...I will be the first to buy Roxtin Jr. some nice to play with....:ohyeah: :ohyeah: :ohyeah:
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And I'll give t1ruda Jr "Art of Growing Weed: Go Green" :ohyeah:
 
neoronin said:
I was kicking myself in my a** for trying to play good samaritan and left with a sheepish look on my face.
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Well-if you look at it another scenario, its different. *IF* the kid becomes violent (its because of the kid and his upbringing that needs to be question- not the game mind you since they have done their part by putting up the rating) and his mom knows one of the possibility of this happening. She will also realize that ratings are already given on the game. So she is at fault- assuming she is less ignorant :P. Arrogance diminishes wisdom- so does ignorance. You did what you had to do. But that should let you discourage you being a good samaritan.
 
wait till his mom catches him doing all that stuff!

@neoronin
would you keep your child locked in a room until he/she is 18, with no computer, television etc. just because there is a lot of violence being shown on TV? Would you stop him from reading newspapers where classifieds display semi-nude masseuse? where people ask questions like 'I had sex with a sex worker, I didn't use protection, what to do??'
Kids lose their virginity at 16 these days, you just can't shield them from each and everything.
what you did was nice but don't go overboard with all this stuff, sometimes it may backfire, people don't like being policed.
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$#@$#@nk said:
wait till his mom catches him doing all that stuff!

@neoronin
would you keep your child locked in a room until he/she is 18, with no computer, television etc. just because there is a lot of violence being shown on TV? Would you stop him from reading newspapers where classifieds display semi-nude masseuse? where people ask questions like 'I had sex with a sex worker, I didn't use protection, what to do??'
Kids lose their virginity at 16 these days, you just can't shield them from each and everything.
what you did was nice but don't go overboard with all this stuff, sometimes it may backfire, people don't like being policed.
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First of all that wasn't policing. That was a polite suggestion given to the mom. And second thing, I agree with what you say, but if you notice the thread's title, my question is would you so blatantly endorse your kids behaviour. Im pretty sure that all of us have gone through this at that age. But I'm pretty sure that most of us didn't have any parental endorsement on the stuff that we did behind our parent's back.
 
What you dont understand is that the mother thought of you as another version of sri ram sena and those crap..

Think over it, No one blames you , but the mother is not wrong..

Many of us here have played these games, and TE meets and pics are evidence enough that we are not pimps or murderers..:lol:
 
Not all Indian Parents are Ignorant when it comes to Video Games.
My friend's cousin was gifted an M Rated Video Game on his birthday. However, his parents gave away the CD to my friend saying that this game is not for kids. It was an FPS game with loads of gore (arms, legs, heads amputated on shooting) and prostitutes etc... :S
Eventually, my friend gave the CD to me since he is not that into gaming. So, the gifters were happy, parents were happy, I was happy and the kid didn't become a psychopath, so he was happy (although I may have become one :bleh: )
 
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