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What happened next shocked me completely. Till chap says to hovering lady person "I'll need you to be at the till for the transaction, as both of these games are rated 15". Woman looks down at little 8 year old, back at till bloke and shuffles forward.
Transaction goes through. 8 year old successfully purchases 2 15 rated games and goes off to play them, mother in tow.
In ten year's time, after this kid has hacked twelve people to death with a machete before killing himself by boring parker pens into his eyes, they will blame the video games.
Not the crappy parents. Not the guy in Game who knew he was selling games to someone too young to own them, but didn't care as long as he covered his own a**e. Genius.
> Is there any actual evidence that a game that's rated as a age
> above the child using it can actually -damage- the child?
There is evidence, whether you consider it strong or plausible is another story entirely. So I guess the answer is no.
Is there any actual evidence that a game that's rated as a age above the child using it can actually -damage- the child?
I've always seen it as a very individual thing.. but still - is there any proof it's dangerous?
It's easy to say 'they're there for a reason' but what's the reason?
And yes I'm serious
all that and i got refused service for alcohol because my drivers license doesn`t have a picture on it (pre-photocard ;) ), i ask you, where`s the justice? :D
Its like cartoons. "OH NOES! KIDS ARE COPYING CARTOONS. LOOK HOW HE JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW THINKING HE WAS A SUPERHERO!!!!"
They've survived it. So can the games industry. Hoepfully.
More of a concern now is gaming addiction and when parents neglect looking after children just so they could play games (the korean couple who went off for an hour to play WOW actually spent several hours which by that time their kid died of suffocation and neglect).
And as long as people are providing underage kids with this sort of material, it allows the idiot brigade to paper over the cracks of our society when one of these loons goes postal by pointing at violent video games, instead of rightly questioning the adequacy of parenting and the effectiveness of the industry's regulation.
A violent game or movie isn't on its own going to screw someone's head up, but at the same time, I wouldn't sit my 8 year old kids down to watch the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A)mentally disturbed
b)Strange
c)Deadbeats
So she believes that shes in the majority beliving the stuff is safe.
Whether her son will be part of the minority when she was believed she was part of the majority is a different question altogether...
I say shop 'im!