The Double Standard
The difference between violence and crime in a video game and the same thing in a TV show is in a TV show you only witness it as you root for the anti-hero. In a video game, as you role-play as these criminals and commit those acts, the world of the game reacts with hostility. Of course, such a game shouldn’t be played by a minor but there’s ratings for a reason. But this is true for most video games. Take a Bethesda game for example. If you do wrong in those worlds, the game’s characters will be less likely to treat you with respect, if they choose to speak to you at all, IF they aren’t trying to arrest or kill you to get you off the streets for the safety of the other game characters.
See what I mean? If anything these games reinforce a sense of right from wrong by showing you that the world will not allow you to just go around being THE DANGER haha but again, no game with an M rating should ever be played by a child to being with.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-grand-theft-auto-v-turned-my-son-into-monster/
That is my only response to this
Hahahahahah Cracked freaking rules
I once heard someone say something along the lines of “The average gamers are in their 20s and 30s with adult interests, so that’s who developers market their games for. You wouldn’t buy pornography for your child and then complain that it’s inappropriate. Check the ratings, know what you’re getting before you try to blame someone else for your own ignorance.”
Exactly! The ratings are there to help parents do their jobs, not do their jobs for them
I’m pretty sure the entire thing was a joke, having read that article and found absolutely nothing in it to be factual.
Oh jesus it is hahah
So many people in the comments read the first sentence and just went off on the guy despite this article containing sentences like “don’t patronize me. You know I don’t know directions” and “I jumped up onto a chair to make myself bigger and more threatening to the spider while unleashing a manly shriek and leaking saline from my eyes, a known spider deterrent.”
Your response, sir, is excellent. John Cheese’s work is 100% factual and useful, and not at all satirical.
Exactly. I mean, it’s not like Cracked is a comedy website or something that aims to try and point out the absurdity of media panic.
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