AndrewWK said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
AndrewWK said:
Pöease epxplain to me something I never really understood. What are the ratings for? I mean The Last of Us is rated M and a 11 year old kid wouldn´t know to appreciate whats great about that game. GTA is rated M and a 11 doesn´t even know what the game is about he is probably going to drive and do some mayhem just like we did in GTA 3, Vice City or San Andreas. And if a parent thinks this is appropriate for his kid then thats totally fine.
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GTA3 wasnt that bad of a game but for its time it was very mature. GTA today would most likely push the envelope even further in violence, sexual language kids shouldn't hear, misogynist statements against women, nudity, drugs and more in cocktail to the point where kids beome desensititzed to it. Desensitization is why you no longer can scare a child any longer and the horror genre has gone down the shitter. You don't need to be the best director of a scary movie but today the genre has no chance any longer. The demands of violence, sex and drugs has grown to a rate where people need to see movies like Saw or even Hostel to even cringe. To make them even squirm they need visceral stiumli. What scared our parents fails to scare us. We can watch people die in real life because of it.
Most parents and old school pioneers of the war against videogames have made ridiculous arguments against videogames. I just so happened to have studied disensitization and just like rated R films and Videogames, they desensitize children to the point where the industry has to search for answers in how to shock people further. Children force themselves to grow up and again react less to stimuli before their time, therefore forcing the industry to go on defense.
In conclusion, our parents are more emotionally sensitive than we are.
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Yeah but don´t you thinks that the exposure to violence sexuality and inappropriate is so strong these and it is getting stronger by the day, that you cannot "protect" your own child from it anymore. Wheter we talk about games movie TV shows and even commercials. And instead trying to keep your child away from those you maybe try to explain to him the difference between fiction and reality. I mean that is what my parents did when I watched Superman the first time my father told no man can fly and I should not even try it, so I never did.
And yes you are right, kids are disensitizated twowards films and games because of all the exposure. But they still can be shocked when something i real life happens. It doesn´t even need to be a horrible accident it just hast do be real blood, because they know the difference between reality and fiction even if you don´t explain it.
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If you are a gamer, yes you can watch over a great portion of what your kids are looking at inside your house. You can lock the console to play only specific types of games and view content within the age group specified. The big three console makers have all involved themselves in console customization that no parent really uses. They have to legally protect themselves and yes, they have to send a message as well that its about time that when technology picks up, that there be current generation or next generation safeguards applied right out of the box. If you're not its ok to be ignorant if you have a busy life, but you can act like a responsible parent and try to stop your kids from at least some things even if you don't block them from all the filth in the world. When I was a kid and undermined my parents and went to a random kids house who had no real supervision and had 100% access to every type of game with their permission, porn and everything when my parents and friends parents found us in the kids room when picking them up after work they didn't even have words with the other parents "because it wasn't worth their time". Their only job was to preserve our youth while we had it that day. Superman is a movie a child can watch. LOL....theres no parent in the world that can explain away GTAV, because when their kids grow up they'll realize it was all bullshit. Superman is easy to explain away or any fantasy movie. COD cannot be explained away. Anything based on real life cannot be explained away, you actually have to have a full in depth conversation on war, massacre, sex, misogyny, stereotypes and more just with those two games alone. GTA is a dark satire to American life. Most eleven year olds don't know what satire means.
I see your point, but my point was about being desensitized from media at a young age not depth perception (ie: Where a child falls and scrapes his knee and learns to have more balance so he wont fall again or witnessing of war.) . Depth perception is what occurs via first hand experience. Desensitizing children affects the brain and takes their innocence no less and its in mass media is created through media stimulation or virtual stiumlation.
