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View Poll Results: Should kids be allowed to play violent video games?
Yes 6 50.00%
Yes, but not SUPER violent ones 3 25.00%
Yes, but only with parent supervision 3 25.00%
Yes, but they've got to be older than 12 at least 0 0%
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Old 10-04-2018, 07:52 PM   #21
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I wasn't really disgusted, but just really surprised and a bit shocked. I was like "oh, so that's what's sex like".
In my defense, I was 7. Plus, I kinda just don't recommend that grainy footage of a 70s-era three-way (with all the accompanying body hair) be any child's first exposure to sex. It's an awful lot to try and process all at once.

Like I said, it took me a few minutes before fascination took over, and now I'm a better person for it.

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Yeah... that would never turn out well for me.
Early on in life, I was dubbed by many to be, quote, "a character." It stuck.

I've been called worse.
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Old 10-04-2018, 08:03 PM   #22
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Given the wrestling it certainly makes sense.
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Old 10-04-2018, 11:54 PM   #23
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Tbh the first few times I watched porn or violence on tv when I was a kid didn't scar me either.
As far as porn goes I only had late night Cinemax and those kinda channels. They were nice but finally getting to actual porn was quite exciting
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Old 10-05-2018, 11:48 AM   #24
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Kids these days are spoiled with the internet. The good old days was trying to check out some adult program through the scrambled reception on a channel your parents didn't subscribe to. One of the sad losses with the invention of digital cable. lol
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Old 10-05-2018, 11:51 AM   #25
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Speaking from experience, or...?

Sometimes... I start to think you're not as innocent as you pretend...
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Old 10-05-2018, 12:40 PM   #26
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lol Plead the 5th.
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Old 10-05-2018, 01:10 PM   #27
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When I was a kid there were two porn channels in my cable package: Playboy TV and SexyHot. You had to subscribe to them though, so during most of the day the images were blurry and kept moving... know what I mean? Ofc if you tried hard enough you could see the action clearly for like 5 seconds. Usually those two channels had a free trial version around 10-11pm where you could see the thing properly for free for about 30 minutes.

And to think people complain about Japanese porn censoring genitalia. That's peanuts compared to what I've described above.
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Old 10-05-2018, 01:30 PM   #28
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What is violent game?
Most games are based on the violence (i.e. you play as character killing / defeating other characters) to one degree or the other, so if you stretch definition enough, it can cover about 99% of all games in existence.

But if this question limited to the stuff like Mortal Kombat than I think it's case by case scenario. Due to some **** in my life, virtual violence has never impressed me, but on someone else it might have a negative effect.
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Old 10-06-2018, 05:08 AM   #29
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Parents' choice. Government should stay the fvck out of it.
There are still needs for age limits, or at least recommendations. The real problem is when politicians try to ban or censor videogames aimed at adults.
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Old 10-08-2018, 05:52 PM   #30
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I grew up playing violent video games and all it got me was...a lifelong career in video games...

I voted yes
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Old 10-09-2018, 10:20 AM   #31
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When I was a kid there were two porn channels in my cable package: Playboy TV and SexyHot. You had to subscribe to them though, so during most of the day the images were blurry and kept moving... know what I mean? Ofc if you tried hard enough you could see the action clearly for like 5 seconds.
Some hotels used to have that.
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Old 03-06-2021, 08:55 PM   #32
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"(D)Illinois rep. wants to ban ‘all violent video games’ to curb violence"

https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/23/22...nt-video-games

Does anyone else find it odd that in just the last few years, suddenly it's the democrats that are all about censorship? In the past it would be the opposite. The right would be about censoring stuff, and "decency," and it was the left that was all about no censorship and free speech. Now it's all flipped around.
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Old 03-06-2021, 09:13 PM   #33
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Back in the 90s it was a lot of Democrats, too. Don't forget it was Tipper Gore's whining that ended up with the Parental Advisory sticker getting slapped on CDs.

It's rarely ALL or even predominantly one side or the other. But yeah, we are definitely in the age where it's almost always Democrats saying "You can't read/watch/listen to/play that."

Y'know, because being "liberal" and all about "freedom of choice" means, you get to do what you like... and you also get to tell everyone else that they get to do what YOU like, but ONLY that. When you're a Liberal, "freedom of choice" means that you are "free" to "choose" what's best for everyone.

It comes around every generation. Yeah, in the 80s with the "Satanic Panic" it was the Republicans and stuff but it's never been their exclusive province.
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Old 03-07-2021, 07:32 PM   #34
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I played plenty of them up until a couple of years ago, never bothered me, or felt that it affected me.
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Old 03-08-2021, 12:09 AM   #35
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IDK hard to say. Depends on how well kids can tell reality from fantasy. But then again the Mortal Kombat I grew up playing is downright cartoony to the super-realistic Fatalities they got nowadays. It's the main reason I'd never want a Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat crossover. On one side, I would not want to see Chun Li nd Ryu get their entrails ripped out and in realistic fashion as they pray for mercy seconds before they take a sword to the eye, and then on the other side, the MK fans will bitch and complain if they skip out the Fatalities, so you can't win on both sides.

But yeah, like many people here, I think my parents' fear from us watching horror movies or whatever was us having nightmares and all that, but not that we were gonna grow up to be killers.
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It's the main reason I'd never want a Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat crossover.
The Capcom side would never want it to happen. But c'mon, "Street Kombat." Think about it.
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Old 03-08-2021, 07:12 AM   #37
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Isn't it kind of a "Up to the parents kind of thing"? This isn't exactly the same thing as a kid breaking the necks of stray cats, they're just applying pressure to a piece of plastic in this case. Wheter or not it's appropriate for kids to see spinal cords get ripped out of the body in a video game might be valid question, but the fact that isn't real means I don't think it really can be a pressing concern.
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Old 03-08-2021, 07:17 AM   #38
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Violent videogames these days are different than it was in the 90's though. Back then violence was comical and over the top like Mortal Kombat. Or old 90's FPS like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on N64.

These days games are so realistic that GTA, Call of Duty, etc. really do have realistic graphic imagery than I imagine if you're under 10 it'd have a different impression on you see this for the first time.
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Old 03-08-2021, 08:40 AM   #39
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I grew up with violent video games, you could behead dinosaurs in Turok 2 and I was 10 years old and mortal kombat violence was the coolest, I would shoot people in the groin and other areas in Perfect Dark and watch the characters react and I was impressed by the technology.

But I'd have to agree with CyberCubed, some games have gotten so realistic it's no longer cartoony violence but can look a bit too much like actual gore videos you find online. Mortal Kombat can still be cartoony and say God Of War won't have a problem since it's already cartoony but sometimes I do think it is becoming a bit too much that I wouldn't let my 10 year old play since it's just too violent. I wouldn't wait until they're 18 of course but perhaps until 14 or 15 or so and not 8 like I was when I played Mortal Kombat 3 for the first time.
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Old 03-10-2021, 02:18 AM   #40
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It's kind of hard to decide tho.
My first thought would be "Yes" but not because freedom or something, but just because if the kid KNOWS that something is held out of his sight, he/she will try to see it even more.
I remember that my parents were kind of fine with normal violent games (like punching, shooting and such things) but they were not ok with gore.
I mean, I never really enjoyed gore-filled games just because most of the times they weren't fun in the first place.

Like, never liked Mortal Kombat because is just a common BeatEmUp with alot of blood. Nothing else.
However, I really enjoyed games like The Binding of Isaac, which had gore, but it wasn't the main concept of the game, not it's design core.

I would just let them play whatever the hell they want, as long as they will pay the consequences if they found it scary or things like that.
I don't think violent games makes a kid violent.
That's one of the stupidest things society can't get rid of about videogames.

If I know my kid is very sensible about gorey things, I'll try to avoid making him play games with excessive gore. If my kid never showed anything wrong against them, why blocking him from playing them?

By the way, I ain't a parent, and I wish I'll never be, but that's how I think about it.
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