Goop, Ooze, Gack, Slime And Everything Else That Stuck In Your Mom's Carpet

[TheyCallMeDave]

I had an interesting revalation while watching old Bugs Bunny skits on Cartoon Network this morning. Then an advertisment came on for a game.

I can't remember the name of the game, but it was a game similar to sims. This game was based on taking everything you can see (even if it meant fighting for it), and having nothing to stop you. The enitre point of the game is to get everything you can get, no matter who it belongs to, without any boundries whatsoever. Now, obviously this game teaches bad real world skills and corrput morals. No matter, plenty of worse games out there, with even worse concepts and teachings. Games will be games, I've played worse myself.

There are a few underlying problems that come with this game. A few facts you need to know are that it appeared on Cartoon Network as an advertisment. This game is made only for the PS3. Again, fine. However, the biggest thing linking all oof these facts together in a whirlwind of disgusting capitalism is the fact that in order to buy it or play, "You must ask your parents permission before!".

Now there are a few prominant problems with this scenario. First, how young are the kids playing this game that they have to ask permission before buying, let alone playing it? Another, if it's made soely for the PS3, this is the game manufacturers assumption that these kids, too young to buy or play the game without mommie's permission, are owners of a PS3, easily one of the most expensive game platforms on the shelves at the moment. Not only that, they feel that enough of these young, adolescent children own this outrageously overpriced system to buy adversiting, or market the game in general(not to mention even create it).

So when looking at all of these facts, who's to blame? The game company, making a game that is completely designed on taking everyhitng you can see, with no authoritative source in their virtual lives to answer to? The television networks, for takign in the cash to allow thi game to be viewed by millions of kids across the nation? What about the parents? Buying their children who might not even be in middle school this game willingly, let alone a game platform costing way more than it should because "THEY WANTED ITTTTTT!". The kids? Their the ones who want this piece of shit anyways, their the culprits, right? No.

This young generation is to blame. Keep in mind when I refer to the young generation, I don't mean just the people. It's the whole damned lifestyle! Granted, I'm only 19, but I know for a fact the kids I was as young as in 1998 don't have an eighth of the morals I do (That's a gutsy statement, and I'm sticking with it). This is what people want. This is what the kids what, this is what the companies are willing to do for their cash. This whole system seems a little fucked up to me.

Again, you could pose the arguement that the companies were just as bad to us when we were that age, but at least we were playing with hotwheels, glowworms, my little ponies, (insert name oof slimy goop you loved most here) and the occasional mudbath(sorry about the back yard, Mom).

My problem I have isn't with anyone I listed above. My problem is that I should have to have a problem with any of this, at all. Maybe it's just me getting older, becoming a young man and seeing how times are changing, just like the older ones thougth about me at this age. Somehow I feel as if this change, is a little different. No, I know this change is more than a little different, and not only I see it. The elderly, the certified moral 40 year olds, and even the 25 year olds who gloat how their pop culture was more enjoyable than mine. Fuck the 80's.

The underlying point I'm trying to make here is... WHERE IS ALL THE %^%%$*&^%$#@#$%^&^%$##$%^&&^%$#@ING GOOP, SLIME, OOZE, GACK AND ANYTHIGN ELSE I CAN STICK INTO THE CARPET FOR LIFE?! I STILL WANT TO PLAY WITH IT!

[The Persian Hillbilly]

[b]Sounds like you need to clean out your hookah or change your shisha! [/b]

[TheyCallMeDave]

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[b]Sounds like you need to clean out your hookah or change your shisha! [/b]
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Haha it wasn't meant for me to sound like a dick, it was just a compilation of my frustration, nostalgia and thoughts I've had on this beautiful Kentucky morning.

[Chreees]

My parents were okay with me playing GTA III and GTA: Vice City when I was like 12. I turned out okay.

I think really the problem is the parents. Majority of parents are like, "Oh, it's okay, they know it's just a game." The people who make and market these games know parents will allow their kids to play them. Or atleast not know their kids are playing them and the kids just get one of their older friends or older brother to buy the games for them (my older bro bought all my GTA games). Or they can even just buy them online now, with no way for the online site to check if it's a kid or parent buying the game (know how many kids make bank and have debit cards these days?). The market knows the parents either are ignorant, don't care, or just don't properly watch what their kids are subjected to. Then again, with how TV is these days, it's almost impossible to keep your kids from watching things you'd rather them not see. It's just there, and there's not much you can do about it besides not have cable or satellite in your home and don't allow them to stayover with their friends who have it. Really, how far do we go? And the politicians just use the kids as an excuse to ban and make everything illegal... "Kids are smoking flavored cigarettes! We must ban them!" "Kids are getting tobacco online. We must ban it!" (Which really just killed online tobacco stores, and put more money into the pockets of the big cig companies, and this also made it where people are forced to pay more taxes in their state, because they're forced to buy their cigs from the local store)

Anyway, the market knows the kids want it and that the parents (enough of them anyway) won't do anything about it... So let there be MA rated games for kids!

[agunn1231]

i dunno. i was never allowed to play any super violent games or anything like that. nor did i really want to. i had too much fun imagining things. still do i guess.

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My parents were okay with me playing GTA III and GTA: Vice City when I was like 12. I turned out okay.
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On the topic of video games:
A ratings board, comprised of people that are out of touch with who is playing games and what they want in their games, has created a ridiculous fear campaign among parents and do-gooders who feel that the children of the world are succumbing (yet again, sigh) to some great and terrible evil. Certain gamers don't kill people because they played Modern Warfare 2, they do it because they are part of the estimated 1% of the population that has psychopathic tendencies. They wouldn't go out and kill someone because they saw it in a game and thought it was a good idea, they would do it because they want to do it. The ratings board forces people to think of a game as "mature", when in reality, most of the games rated mature are actually so ridiculously over the top with the violence that, if anything, those games should be available to the general public so that people can see how terrible and gruesome death can be. If they go out and kill someone after they play that game, it was something they were going to do anyways. It's not like everyone over the age of 7 is completely oblivious to what death is. So, what about all the really little kids, the ones that might be severely affected by these games? Games like that are boring to them, they are just too complex. If they have the understanding and knowledge to play a complex game, then they have the capability to understand a complex thing, like death. It's up to the parent to explain that to them and make them understand that that is just a game, and in real life, violence is horrible. Here is another qualm I have with the ESRB and their bs ratings: they are there not to protect children, but to make life easier for a generation of lazy parents. Why do people blame video games for kids shooting up schools and not absent parents and shitty peers? Which do you think is more likely to cause social anxiety issues and disregard for human life? Crime rates have been steadily dropping since the era of the Sega Genesis, yet even with those crime rates falling, people were quick to rush and say Mortal Kombat was causing kids to thirst for blood, when in reality, it was more likely an outlet for them to say "oh, that's violence...looks painful, but it's just a game!". I'm not saying that all games are fine for anyone to play, but ratings boards go so overboard with this stuff that it has become ridiculous. I kind of get into a rant mode when it comes to this stuff because I just have so much to say about it, so I apologize for that! If the topic of ratings boards interests you, I urge you to check out the movie [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/"]This Film Is Not Yet Rated[/url].

On the topic of gack and silly putty:
Let me know when you find some, I need to put some on my ceiling fan so when someone turns it on it flies all over the place.