Thread: {HRD} Member Request for Slythern

Originally Posted by Kagato

That's too easy and I'm not going to go there.

Your dad sounds like my dad: an idiot. So what you need to do is find several studies online (use Google Scholar because he'll pick at its validity if it wasn't from a 'credible' source) and demonstrate the fact that:

1) There isn't any correlation between video games and violence
2) People need to take responsibility for their own actions (that goes for both you and your father)
3) You actually took the effort to research this subject

If he's anything like my dad, #1 and 2 won't matter. If you show some effort, he'll probably cave in.

Hell, you could even ask him what basis he has to assert that video games and violence have any correlation. I'd stick the burden of proof on him.

And if all else fails just pose a hypothetical/one of the following:

If a person already has a predisposition for aggression, wouldn't taking that aggression out in a video game against pixels/virtual characters be much better than taking it out on someone in the real world?

Ask him if he thinks you should believe that people are filled with rainbows and unicorns instead of blood and guts.

Ask him if he thinks that you should advert your eyes from reality? Are you expected to believe that body parts/organs magically stay attached when someone aims and fires a gun at you?

More importantly: does he realize that zombies are no longer functioning, normal people to begin with? That if a frenzied person were to come at you, you wouldn't simply extend your hand to shake theirs as they gnaw on your brain. Make sure you drive home the point that you can discern the difference between a human and a zombie.




Ugg there are so many ways to hook a pin head like that. If you really need more ammo, let me know.

As I was reading this thread, I was just about to say that his Dad was an idiot, but you beat me to it.

But the thing is that since he is an idiot( no offense to your Dad, every body on this planet is one, even you and I} he probaly wont listen to reason, ESPECIALLY since he is a parent. So you have to try realy hard to get him to listen. So my advice is keep pesturing hm about it, and eventualy he will listen or just get sick of hearing you whine about and you'l get to play.

Whilst I sympathise with you.. I wonder if there is more to this than what you've written. As a mum to a preteen gamer (as I don't know your age then i'm just assuming you're young) myself I don't take a game off my kid.. If I don't think it's appropriate for him then he doesn't get to play it in the first place. Games like GTA for example are banned from the house.

It's already been mentioned.. but how long have you been spending on the xbox? What are you like when you're on xbox live? My son plays on xbox live and as soon as he gets bolshy with his teamates or extra loud because he's frustrated I pull the plug and make him do something else.

Is your dad using the violent game excuse to cover up his concern for how much time you're spending playing it? What are your grades like at school?

It's tough being a parent and trying to get the balance right.. some adults forget what it's like to be a kid and being prevented from doing something... but i'm afraid sneaking a fresh copy in the house is the wrong way to go about it. This is an adult game and you're going to have to behave somewhat in a more grown up matter if you want to get it back. Going down the path of sneakyness will only result in your dad pulling the parent card of 'i'm the boss you WILL do as I say' and I know you don't want that.

There's gotta be something else you can do instead of playing the xbox. If they take it, do something else. It's amazing that nowadays gaming is the #1 source of entertainment among kids, or so it seems. Get outside, bike, skateboard, play hoops, chill with your buddies, or simple hang out with your family. Get some exercise in that young body.

Originally Posted by Sacred Fire

There's a world out there?

No, I just looked, it's all zombies and special infected, I'll just switch on the xbox and go to work...

''It's already been mentioned.. but how long have you been spending on the xbox? What are you like when you're on xbox live? My son plays on xbox live and as soon as he gets bolshy with his teamates or extra loud because he's frustrated I pull the plug and make him do something else.'' ::

Well, to the first question, like I said before dusk and afterwards. To the second on, I don't make a sound at all if I loose, I just look up at the ceiling and close my eyes. xD''
And with my friend/friends, the only noise we make is laughing from shockment or a funny glitch. Sometimes we get so into it when we see a witch we whisper to each other to turn the lights off and everytime someone talks were like SHHHHHH. xD

''Is your dad using the violent game excuse to cover up his concern for how much time you're spending playing it? What are your grades like at school?''

Don't spend alot of time except on weekends, and my grades are average, and even when he took them away they stayed and even dropped down a little.