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Barrie Teen runs away, parents blame Video Games (pg. 7)
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | | Originally posted by kaniz |
kuddos to awesome parents like that :) |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Yes, they were. Did you read what I wrote? Battle.NET (Diablo) and Ultima Online both came out in 1997, over 10 years ago. EverQuest was only 1999. Hell, Neverwinter Nights was technically a MMORPG (through AOL which millions of people still used back then) and was released in 1991! And these were just the popular titles, there were dozens of these games on the market.
Seriously, you don't know what you're talking about. Just let it go.
Damn Web 2.0 crowd thinking the Internet was invented with Wikipedia and Flickr... |
In 1997 I was almost a legal adult, and internet access was far less commonplace than it is now.
This kid is 14 or 15 and being brought up in an entirely different era of communications and connectivity. Technology that existed for a young teenager in 1997 compared to what exists today is not even remotely the same. The sophistication and the breadth of video games now is nowhere near what it was then. The kid wasn't busted for being addicted to Duck Hunt ffs. |
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| LittlePoonzgirl |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Yes, they were. Did you read what I wrote? Battle.NET (Diablo) and Ultima Online both came out in 1997, over 10 years ago. EverQuest was only 1999. Hell, Neverwinter Nights was technically a MMORPG (through AOL which millions of people still used back then) and was released in 1991! And these were just the popular titles, there were dozens of these games on the market.
Seriously, you don't know what you're talking about. Just let it go.
Damn Web 2.0 crowd thinking the Internet was invented with Wikipedia and Flickr... |
MUDs?
First time I used the internet I searched for "time travel" and got zero hits. |
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| Sentinal |
| When I was twelve I was really into SNES. I played so much I think it is safe to say I was hooked. My marks were so you know what my Military Sergeant of step father did (literaly)? He unplugged the TV and cut the power cord. He was tough, but my marks sure went up right quick......and he didnt have to lay a hand on me. He sure could yell though. |
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| kaniz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
In 1997 I was almost a legal adult, and internet access was far less commonplace than it is now.
This kid is 14 or 15 and being brought up in an entirely different era of communications and connectivity. Technology that existed for a young teenager in 1997 compared to what exists today is not even remotely the same. The sophistication and the breadth of video games now is nowhere near what it was then. The kid wasn't busted for being addicted to Duck Hunt ffs. |
Really, if he had been addicted to knitting, and spent every minute knitting to the exclusion of school, work, friends, family and was lured away by a knitting-nanny offering him $10,000 to knit sweaters for her army of kittens - the parents need to know what their kids are doing, take an active interest in their life and what they are doing and curb behavior like this before it becomes a problem.
Parents in *EVERY* generation are faced with 'new problems' as technology advances, and what did those parents do? they adapt.
Really - Ham Radio, Telephones, TV, Video Games, etc - all posed problems for parents.
Kid spends too much time doing X activity for the parents liking, parents need to step in and enforce rules to stop kid from doing X activity too much. Throwing your hands up in the air and saying "but technology is different now!" is just an easy way out. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
-You don't allow your kids to watch porn at age 15.
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Is your opinion on that pure bc its deemed illegal in our society? Or do you have other reserve/concerns abt that kind of situation?
Saw a very interesting article recently on the matter when was flipping through the mags at the dentist office... Some excellent, excellent points. |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by kaniz
Really, if he had been addicted to knitting, and spent every minute knitting to the exclusion of school, work, friends, family and was lured away by a knitting-nanny offering him $10,000 to knit sweaters for her army of kittens - the parents need to know what their kids are doing, take an active interest in their life and what they are doing and curb behavior like this before it becomes a problem.
Parents in *EVERY* generation are faced with 'new problems' as technology advances, and what did those parents do? they adapt.
Really - Ham Radio, Telephones, TV, Video Games, etc - all posed problems for parents.
Kid spends too much time doing X activity for the parents liking, parents need to step in and enforce rules to stop kid from doing X activity too much. Throwing your hands up in the air and saying "but technology is different now!" is just an easy way out. |
ok fine...and they did take away his xbox, did they not?
Do you really know enough about the situation to be able to say they did or not not wait too long to do so? |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Just last Friday when I was hanging around after school.
What?
...And video games were plenty accessible when I was a kid. Half of my friends had Game Boys (or later on, Game Gear, colour!) and I remember going over to friends' houses to play Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry because I couldn't get 'em at home. This was even before high school - by high school we already had the first few Quake, Diablo, and Descent games, and I think Unreal Tournament came in the last year or two. There were tons of games and several were internet-enabled.
Sure, the games weren't quite as elaborate and we didn't have MMORPGs, but it doesn't take that much to get people addicted; I knew people addicted to video games back in those days too. |
OMG I just had a flashback to my life in high school (and end of public school days too). WOW.
For me it all started with WarCraft II over the modem. You agree to host a game and your buddy dials into your house and connects to you. Bam! Now you're playing together (and BUILDING WALLS TOO NOW!!! OMG!!! lol)... till the weeeeeeeeeee hours in the morning... id be up till 4-5am sometimes, I swear to god. :D
| quote: | Originally posted by LittlePoonzgirl
MUDs?
First time I used the internet I searched for "time travel" and got zero hits. |
OMG! WHO ARE YOU MICHE!!! "time travel" You KILL me. Loves it. lol |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
This kid is 14 or 15 and being brought up in an entirely different era of communications and connectivity. Technology that existed for a young teenager in 1997 compared to what exists today is not even remotely the same. The sophistication and the breadth of video games now is nowhere near what it was then. The kid wasn't busted for being addicted to Duck Hunt ffs. |
WTF. Duck Hunt was 1987, not 1997. I'm starting to think that you were a very technology-deprived "legal adult" in those years. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but nevertheless, you still have no idea what you're talking about.
| quote: | Originally posted by LittlePoonzgirl
MUDs? |
Hahaha NO WAY, you were on MUDs!? I never would have believed you were that level of geek. ;) |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
Is your opinion on that pure bc its deemed illegal in our society? Or do you have other reserve/concerns abt that kind of situation?
Saw a very interesting article recently on the matter when was flipping through the mags at the dentist office... Some excellent, excellent points. |
Show me one legit article that encourages it. |
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| kaniz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
ok fine...and they did take away his xbox, did they not?
Do you really know enough about the situation to be able to say they did or not not wait too long to do so? |
My main point is though: Blaming video games is the wrong thing to blame. It could have been anything he was 'addicted' to that they took away, and it may of caused him to runaway.
Re-reading the article, it sounds like they were trying to enforce some rules - as this wasn't the first time they tried to restrict his gaming. That said, trying to spin this as a "video games made my kid run away, lets blame video games!" is something that I still disagree with.
Seriously, I'm sure a kid or two threatened to run away (and probably did for an afternoon) when their mom took their Pogs or Tamagatchi's away when they were in grade 4. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
Show me one legit article that encourages it. |
Not "encourages."
Merely stated that it was not unhealthy or unnatural. |
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