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Well...I'm actively using internet and playing online games since I was 12. I don't recall getting raped. ;)
LOL this thread is so silly. I was in a silly mood already and this thread made me laugh. Thanks for the laugh carnival73!!
Did someone call me ?
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Rohan15: Wait wait wait....so all this time I've been playing with kids?! SCORE!

/sarcasm
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Elmofongo: Ahem HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN CALL OF DUTY!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOqgCNu9qjo
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Smells like a middle-aged female comedian trolling Call of Duty. XD
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I think I broke my lung from laughing so hard - but that is a great example as to why absolutely no one is playing Blacklight Tango Down online and has made the game utterly useless.

Shit, man...I got mail that to my fiancee XD
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Crassmaster: And here I thought his post a few months back about how first person shooters are just a way for girls an guys to hook up in the lobby was fucking stupid.

Up your dose, carnival.
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The rose tints came off since then and I learned the truth. =(
Have a look here for an exhaustive summary of the topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDGWICVQ3w
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carnival73: I really don't believe kids should have too much unsupervised freedom before age sixteen.

Some naive casual PC using adults are at jeopardy as well.

Forcing gamers into interaction with others is herding them into a barrel to get taken advantage of.

Either none of today's generation know how to program or else leaving A.I. out of the equation opens doors to more lucrative ventures.
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Thunderstone: Since when did I suggest giving kids complete freedom, my post was advocating educating kids about dealing with people. Your OP seemed to be advocating locking kids away from the mean nasty strangers. Kids need to learn how to deal with people, and the only way to learn how to deal with people is to well deal with them. This is where proper parenting comes in, teach your kids about using good judgment.

I think it is just as unhealthy to teach kids to trust no one as it is to encourage pure trust. Yes, there are bad people out there but not everyone is a pedophile. To teach them that everyone is a potential pedo is to raise your kid with a sense of paranoia and dread.

What brought this thread on? Did something happen?
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Another dead online only game. *grrrr*

And there's also an issue of trusting your kid when your back is turned. God only knows what a kid can download to your PC in under thirty seconds.
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IronStar: Well...I'm actively using internet and playing online games since I was 12. I don't recall getting raped. ;)
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You're in Serbia. =L
Post edited November 18, 2012 by carnival73
Actually I think I agree we should look after our kids to keep em away from these 2 ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjB4SMeL8gM
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carnival73: 'snip
Another dead online only game. *grrrr*

And there's also an issue of trusting your kid when your back is turned. God only knows what a kid can download to your PC in under thirty seconds.
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IronStar: Well...I'm actively using internet and playing online games since I was 12. I don't recall getting raped. ;)
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carnival73: .

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You're in Serbia. =L
then maybe you should inspire your kid to trust you instead of wrapping him/her in bubble, if you wrap your kid too tightly of course he is going to chafe under the restrictions.
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Elmofongo: Actually I think I agree we should look after our kids to keep em away from these 2 ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjB4SMeL8gM
Original is better >_>

Also, relevant.
Post edited November 18, 2012 by Rohan15
OP is serious...

I tried to look for a Demetri Martin skit involving strangers, but I couldn't find it.
Let's see...

I agree that many games turn out to be crap because they're played (if they're played at all) by morons. And I do agree that parents should take a more active interest in what their children are doing online, whether gaming or Face-tweeting.

But your presentation is, unintentionally, I think, kind of odd.

Sounds like your major gripe is that you can't find any good games to play online or people to play with. And somehow that led you to "Just imagine if your kids get subjected to these morons!" And that led to "Online games will turn your kid into a sex-addled, drug-addicted morons!" To me, it just comes off as a very nebulous line of reasoning.

You can find "good vs bad" in any aspect of life or raising a child, but it seems like you don't have a very high opinion on the behavior/potential behavior of kids in general. That comes down to parenting, mostly, but as someone said, "Trust No One!" is as useless as "I'm ok, you're ok, everybody's ok!"

Why do I suddenly feel like listening to Pink Floyd's "The Wall"?

edit: Oh man, "show a pedophile a picture of a child and he'll attack it" - what a hoot
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I would like to contribute to the High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
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Theta_Sigma: I would like to contribute to the High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
Okay, what the flying fuck was that?!
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Theta_Sigma: I would like to contribute to the High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
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Rohan15: Okay, what the flying fuck was that?!
Oh just good ole High Octane Nightmare Fuel. ^_^
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Rohan15: Okay, what the flying fuck was that?!
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Theta_Sigma: Oh just good ole High Octane Nightmare Fuel. ^_^
I just died a little.