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#1 Alex Wolfers

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 03:42 AM

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The world is officially going to hell. Missouri was trying to tax "violent" games! Even T rated ones. So you would have to pay additional sales tax for the next smash bros. game in Missouri. Luckily the bill was defeated but you never know that this may come back. This is beyond communism.

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 03:58 AM

Anything for money, I suppose.

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 06:57 AM

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I think its pretty BS. That this is what this has come to. Are they taxing PG-13 and R-Rated movies too? Probably not. The fact of the matter is that someone/something needs to be blamed for all the school and other violence and well..behold...I give you the video game industry. What kills me is the only people being punished are going to be gamer's 16+ who have jobs and are old enough to buy them and pay for them themselves, While ****** parents go out and drop $60 bucks + the tax on Grand Theft Auto for their 8 year old. I think its time they hold parents responsible and not gamers. I'm sorry, but if there is a child or teen who is mentally unstable, and easily influenced by media, then its the parents job to keep them away from him. I'd like to know what was blamed for violence before TV and Video Games. Seriously.

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:21 AM

They actually need to make playing 18 rated games when your under 18 illegal. I'm sick of it.

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:30 AM

They actually need to make playing 18 rated games when your under 18 illegal. I'm sick of it.


That's just the problem and what I was getting at in my post above. While most places have gotten good at asking for ID and not selling to minors. Nothing is in effect to punish parents who don't give a damn and buy them for their kids.
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 09:40 AM

That's just the problem and what I was getting at in my post above. While most places have gotten good at asking for ID and not selling to minors. Nothing is in effect to punish parents who don't give a damn and buy them for their kids.

Exactly! On Xbox live, there should be an option to ban kids from the game if you can hear them through chat. It could work with accounts too. If a minors NN account is under 18, they shouldn't be allowed to play that game.

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Posted 21 January 2013 - 03:42 PM

Bloody HELL America this is getting WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY out of hand, this needs sorting NOW!!!

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Posted 26 January 2013 - 09:35 AM

Silly Missouri, taxes are for kids!

This makes no sense. Fortunately, if this ever comes about again, I live in Hoenn Illinois.
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Posted 26 January 2013 - 10:20 AM

They actually need to make playing 18 rated games when your under 18 illegal. I'm sick of it.


That's just the problem and what I was getting at in my post above. While most places have gotten good at asking for ID and not selling to minors. Nothing is in effect to punish parents who don't give a damn and buy them for their kids.



Oh good Lord that would absolutely kill CoDs sales numbers

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Posted 26 January 2013 - 11:17 AM

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Oh good Lord that would absolutely kill CoDs sales numbers


So your against that? I'm more than OK with lessening the influx of the same type of game over and over lol
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Posted 26 January 2013 - 03:18 PM

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Oh good Lord that would absolutely kill CoDs sales numbers

Meh.

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Posted 26 January 2013 - 03:33 PM

Nothing is in effect to punish parents who don't give a damn and buy them for their kids.


But thats because there is nothing wrong with people under 18 playing 18 rated games, just like there is nothing wrong with someone under 18 watching an 18 rated film (both to an extent of course). Like you said, if someone is mentally unstable enough to be this strongly influenced by media then these people should be kept away from it. It shouldnt be a case of punishing or stopping parents who want to buy their mentally stable child an 18 rated game/film just to try and stop any acts of violence that are apparently influenced by violent games or films.

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Posted 26 January 2013 - 03:43 PM

But thats because there is nothing wrong with people under 18 playing 18 rated games, just like there is nothing wrong with someone under 18 watching an 18 rated film (both to an extent of course). Like you said, if someone is mentally unstable enough to be this strongly influenced by media then these people should be kept away from it. It shouldnt be a case of punishing or stopping parents who want to buy their mentally stable child an 18 rated game/film just to try and stop any acts of violence that are apparently influenced by violent games or films.


As a parent I completely disagree with all that you just said. We live in a desensitized world because people have the same thought as you. When I worked at target back in the day, I used to get parents coming in to buy GTA for their kids and when I warned them about the contents, they just said they see worse on TV. I'm sorry, but that is a failure at parenting. People buying mature games for their kids, is a failure at parenting. I can understand buying a mature game for a 16 year old who is close to turning 17, or maybe even a 15 year old, who by that age knows the difference between whats real and whats not. Parents buying games containing excessive violence, language, sexual situations for kids though is just wrong. I find they are generally the parents of TV children aka children raised by TV's and not parents.
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Posted 26 January 2013 - 03:54 PM

But thats because there is nothing wrong with people under 18 playing 18 rated games, just like there is nothing wrong with someone under 18 watching an 18 rated film (both to an extent of course). Like you said, if someone is mentally unstable enough to be this strongly influenced by media then these people should be kept away from it. It shouldnt be a case of punishing or stopping parents who want to buy their mentally stable child an 18 rated game/film just to try and stop any acts of violence that are apparently influenced by violent games or films.

As a parent I completely disagree with all that you just said. We live in a desensitized world because people have the same thought as you. When I worked at target back in the day, I used to get parents coming in to buy GTA for their kids and when I warned them about the contents, they just said they see worse on TV. I'm sorry, but that is a failure at parenting. People buying mature games for their kids, is a failure at parenting. I can understand buying a mature game for a 16 year old who is close to turning 17, or maybe even a 15 year old, who by that age knows the difference between whats real and whats not. Parents buying games containing excessive violence, language, sexual situations for kids though is just wrong. I find they are generally the parents of TV children aka children raised by TV's and not parents.



Im pretty sure both of you are saying the same exact thing in different words


Hunter- "People should allow their kids to play M rated games to an extent"

Tricky- "I disagree; however people should allow their kids 15-17 to play M rated games"

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Posted 26 January 2013 - 07:38 PM

Im pretty sure both of you are saying the same exact thing in different words


Hunter- "People should allow their kids to play M rated games to an extent"

Tricky- "I disagree; however people should allow their kids 15-17 to play M rated games"

:P lol

I agree Mitch. It all depends on maturity level.

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