Submitted by Video Game Otaku - May 7, 2008 at 12:16 pm -0500148.114.126.130
There is a simple solution to this problem, one word PARENTING. I mean seriously... If I had thrown tantrums or didnt behave or played anything at the table I would have been:
1-whipped/spanked
2-grounded from everything except breathing/eatting/sleeping
3-had the device confiscated for a long long LONG time and would have had a better chance of regetting the thing for christmas.
(in any order and all of the above.)
Also...when has ONE of ANYTHING been a good idea so SHARE with 4 kids? of course there will be fighting over whos turn it is to play it (this would happen with a barbi or hot wheel). When I was growing up I had a game gear (yes the 20 pound giant box that had the audoucity to be called portable =P) with sonic. Did I play it non stop? hell no, cuz i wasnt allowed, I played it when I was done with homework or on a trip somewhere. And if it did get taken away and I went and stole it from my parents like those kids did...my parents would have ensured I never had the chance to again. What would have happened is I would have recieved 1-3 above, but as an added bonus they would have sat me down, set the game in front me (at a safe distance) and smashed it to bits. The problem today is that parents dont want to parent (alot of them, not all). Get a clue morons, its not the game that is evil, its your lack of parenting (to the ones who dont.)
Posted 07/09/08 at 12:40am Jack Wessels: @PHOENIXZERO: Do you really think that would stop him?
Posted 07/09/08 at 12:29am PHOENIXZERO: Wonder if Jack ever got the memo that attacking a judge, especially the one who presided over your own hearing will only make him look worse.
Posted 07/08/08 at 11:10pm Shadow Darkman Anti-Thesis of : Dennis you should post that story about JT insulting Judge Tunis. There might be more you could find that Kotaku missed.
Posted 07/08/08 at 08:32pm lordlundar: Jack should realize that when you call everyone crazy, then the only crazy one is the you.
Posted 07/08/08 at 06:06pm DarkTetsuya: @GP I just fear for the safety of your fax machine cause you didn't post it :P
Posted 07/08/08 at 06:02pm PHOENIXZERO: @Krono Yeah, that's probably where it came from. Don't remember if a source was mentioned. Other than it being called a "story" or "study".
Posted 07/08/08 at 06:02pm PHOENIXZERO: Because I was bored and channel surfing. =(
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:59pm GRIZZAM PRIME: PHEONIXZERO, Why the hell are you watching CNN's sodomy butt baby(HLN)?
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:53pm Krono: @PHOENIXZERO: Would that be the AP story about how schools should teach 11+ year old how to avoid abusive datings relationships?
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:34pm PHOENIXZERO: Oh joy, new subject and they bring out Cooper Lawrence who takes a mention about videogames. It's a segment called "Sex Normal for 11-Year-Olds" having to do more so with mental and physical abuse in "relationships" of 11-14 year olds and not sex. >_<
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:28pm PHOENIXZERO: Certainly a stupid segment with their "adolescent psychologist" and a game is different than a movie. Two callers, underwhelming. >_>
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:24pm PHOENIXZERO: CNN has wanted to be Fox Jr since Fox started spanking them in the ratings and Turner was removed from power.
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:11pm PHOENIXZERO: UGH, they have the CT AG on there... He sounds like Jack.
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:09pm PHOENIXZERO: >_> You can call in 1-800-TELL-HLN.
Posted 07/08/08 at 05:09pm PHOENIXZERO: CNN HLN is doing a segment on Beer Pong with their other "morality" blowhard Mike Galanos.
Posted 07/08/08 at 03:47pm Jabrwock: This just in! Jack insults someone. News@11
Posted 07/08/08 at 03:44pm mogbert: I think we can skip that story, we can't cover JT every time he insults someone, we would run out of server space...
Posted 07/08/08 at 03:43pm gamepolitics: nah, intentionally didn't post that... it's just a publicity grab... I only have so much JT tolerance, save 4 more relevant news
Posted 07/08/08 at 02:57pm Xlorep DarkHelm: Dennis doesn't post every little tidbit of information about Whacky-Jacky.
Posted 07/08/08 at 02:52pm DarkTetsuya: freak4all: I just posted that ... but yeah they did
1-whipped/spanked
2-grounded from everything except breathing/eatting/sleeping
3-had the device confiscated for a long long LONG time and would have had a better chance of regetting the thing for christmas.
(in any order and all of the above.)
Also...when has ONE of ANYTHING been a good idea so SHARE with 4 kids? of course there will be fighting over whos turn it is to play it (this would happen with a barbi or hot wheel). When I was growing up I had a game gear (yes the 20 pound giant box that had the audoucity to be called portable =P) with sonic. Did I play it non stop? hell no, cuz i wasnt allowed, I played it when I was done with homework or on a trip somewhere. And if it did get taken away and I went and stole it from my parents like those kids did...my parents would have ensured I never had the chance to again. What would have happened is I would have recieved 1-3 above, but as an added bonus they would have sat me down, set the game in front me (at a safe distance) and smashed it to bits. The problem today is that parents dont want to parent (alot of them, not all). Get a clue morons, its not the game that is evil, its your lack of parenting (to the ones who dont.)