Concern over video game

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Mr. Musk can send me one million dollars if that’s the case. After all, it’s not real money.

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I’m not greedy 🙂
 
My parents heard something similar during the Great Depression. A relative came by and said: “Here kids, eat.” He was carrying a bushel basket full of money which, based on the local currency, could buy one loaf of bread.
 
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If it’s wrong for kids it’s wrong for adults. Sin does not stop becoming sin once we reach a certain age
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"It’s always wrong for nine year olds to have sex. Therefore, it’s always wrong for thirty nine year olds to have sex. " See where that logic breaks down?
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Yeah, I’ve seem a few unwanted (meaning I go to a website looking for this and there’s an ad for that) images from video games and they are clearly sexually perverted.
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Oh, sure. I’m not saying all games are good. You can definitely find examples of good and bad in just about every medium.
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And I find these games to be a waste of time in general.
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I mean, I’m not surprised. I don’t mean this as an insult (seriously, not trying to rehash an old argument) but I know your stance on media is basically that everything that came around after 1959 or so is pure garbage. It doesn’t surprise that you wouldn’t see a lot that interests you.

Yeah, I do think adding a voiced PC was a bad call. And I generally prefer the New Vegas western aesthetic. But Fallout 4 is still great, imo.
 
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You’re not being insulting. I’d say the trip to the sewers began just prior to 1968. And the topic is “video games” not when can people have sex. The bad outweighs the good is most media and it’s getting worse. As part of my job, I scan certain websites almost daily to see the pit being dug deeper and deeper, with no end in sight. A few in the media have realized there are kids out there.

The fact is, the movie industry has a ratings board. “If you include this scene, it goes from a PG-13 to an R. You want to do that?” Video games are also rated but who knows what “Mature” actually means? Parents should educate themselves.
 
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And the topic is “video games” not when can people have sex
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No, I know, but you seemed to be implying that if it’s wrong for a child to do something, it’s also wrong for an adult to do that thing. I don’t think that’s true, because we recognize that the “rightness” or “wrongness” of certain things can depend heavily on the age of the person doing it…see sex, drinking, smoking, etc. I mean, we morally condemn countries that use child soldiers. But when adults fight for their country, we throw them a parade. Clearly, whether something is morally appropriate can depend on someone’s age when they do it. Same holds true, in my mind, for media with adult themes.
 
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“Adults Only” was a sign on dirty bookstores in the 1970s. We’re not talking about Anna Karenina here.

Adult Themes, unless it’s a documentary, usually means dirty, as in sexually dirty.

Fictional media does not compare with actually being out in the field and putting your life on the line.
 
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edwest211 said:
Adult Themes, unless it’s a documentary, usually means dirty, as in sexually dirty.
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Or just suggestive. Or involving violence. Or just subtle themes that are present in adult life and would resonate with an older audience but go straight over a kid’s head. It doesn’t have to just mean “bare boobs”.
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Fictional media does not compare with actually being out in the field and putting your life on the line.
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I’m not saying they’re the same thing. I’m saying that they both illustrate the principle that something can appropriate for one age and inappropriate for another.
 
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When I was a kid, me and my friends played “army.” Our helmets were plastic, our guns were plastic and our grenades were plastic. When the son of a close family friend had to go to war for real, I understood that. It meant he could actually die.
 
edwest211 said:
When I was a kid, me and my friends played “army.” Our helmets were plastic, our guns were plastic and our grenades were plastic. When the son of a close family friend had to go to war for real, I understood that. It meant he could actually die.
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But presumably, when he came home (as he hopefully did) he was respected and congratulated for his service. Most people would agree that he had done the morally upright, courageous thing.

But if you and your friends had been sent off to war as kids, the vast majority of people would have called it morally abhorrent and an outrage.

What’s the difference? You were children and he was an adult. Your respective ages were the biggest determining factor in what was acceptable for you to do.
 
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There is no such thing as a sin today is suddenly not a sin once you pass a certain age. The topic is video games. So, as a parent, people want their kids to be morally clean kids and morally clean adults. That’s the goal of being Catholic: doing right and avoiding evil and the appearance of evil.

Sure, scholarship is fine but very little in popular media resonates with me or it actually offends me, and I’m not the only one. There are movies I can still watch and take in as is - no editing required. Movies I saw when I was a kid resonate with me. They gave/give me a good feeling when I watch them. Video games, like all media, need standards. Rated “Mature” is just an excuse for gratuitous sex and/or violence. “I’m an adult and that makes it OK” is a message I reject.
 
edwest211 said:
There is no such thing as a sin today is suddenly not a sin once you pass a certain age.
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We can agree to disagree, but yeah, there is. Whether an action is wrong can depend heavily on the context in which they do it, one factor being the person’s age. Something (like sex, or drinking alcohol, or whatever) can be clearly wrong for a 12 year old, but can be okay for a 32 year old. If you don’t think that rationale applies to video games, that’s fine. But I don’t think you can say categorically that age never matters in evaluating whether something is okay or not.
 
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You appear to be seeing only the context you wish to see. When I turned 21, I bought a copy of Playboy. It was “OK.” Biggest mistake of my life. Thinking legal meant OK. Magazines bought after that are now sitting in a landfill somewhere. Thank God.

Back to the topic: video games are rated and parents need to be informed.
 
In the PlayStation era the rating system was really inaccurate but ok.
 
Well, far cry games are almost always vulgar, extreme violent. Wait for official cover to be released so you can see what PEGI ratings it has. I bet it will have strong sexual content or at least nudity, drugs, alcohol, strong violence, strong language. Well it your decision about it.
I wouldnt give to your son a game with strong sexual content or nudity.
 
Do you mean witcher 3? Well, you can omit every sexual scene by choosing correct dialouge option. You wont see any nudity if you dont enter public house(brothel). Some quest involve nude npc’s but I bet there is a mod that censores that or add clothes to certain characters(like in arabic version). Still it is very well written story but it contains pagan rites which I dont like. But gwent is entertaining card minigame.
 
Heavy Rain & Alan Wake are tough to play due to the length of time to complete trophies/achievements.

My best friend completed both 100% & claimed Alan Wake is far more annoying to complete due to dumb coffee thermos collection requirement.
 
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