94 replies to this topic

[Huginmunin]

I started playing Battletech the year it came out. I was 11 years old. I don't think I'm a sociopath? I'll ask the skeletons buried in my backyard.

[Snazzy Dragon]

You ask when age stopped being important, but I ask if any kids have peed in your cereal lately? :/

[oldradagast]

Alilua, on 19 April 2017 - 05:59 PM, said:

The real issue is trying to explain to your children why a small caliber AC 2 has so much more range than a massive AC 20 given their velocities in game, sometimes you just have to remind them this is fantasy.

"Think of the children! Think of how they won't understand math or physics after playing Mechwarrior Online! Won't somebody think of their futures! They'll all end up as failures in life because of this!"

[Zergling]

Remember folks: anyone can reach Tier 1 if they boat LRMs for enough battles.

[Kaeb Odellas]

I played a lot of violent video games as a kid and now I'm a complete piece of ****. So I guess that's one point in OP's favor?

[- World Eater -]

OP, are you someone that blames mass shootings on video games, heavy metal, etc. instead of **** parenting?

[SuomiWarder]

Teacher and parent here. Although maybe some people might think I did the parent thing wrong because my son joined the army. Daughter is pre-med in college. They pretty much saw the same things, had the same toys and game available, etc.

Anyway, I will pretend the OP was serious (which I am not sure they were, it might have actually been a disguised "I don't like little kids on my comms" post or a troll).

MWO only ever shows you yourself, at the start of a mission. War game or not, it shows big robots blasting away at each other. Nothing really there to mar a young mind for life or give them nightmares. Like the bad Easter bunny costume my family once encountered or when a werewolf movie gave one of my kids nightmares.

So yes, I agree there are some visual images I would (and did) keep away from my kids as youths. MWO does not fall into that category in my opinion.

[Buster Machine 0]

This post has to be bait, I find it hard to believe that anyone would be that ignorant when it comes to video games as a form of entertainment...

[mouser42]

Been playing wargames from the tender age of seven started on stuff like Chain-mail and Avalon Hill and so on. This had the positive efect of improving my reading and math skills. This has not turned me into a warmonger ok may be there are few places I would like to invade but they have some really great food and thier women are so hot

Edited by mouser42, 19 April 2017 - 07:10 PM.

[Novakaine]

Rolf I raised both my children one my knee playing the original doom and duke nukem.
Both are college graduates and doing just fine.
A bit to liberal leaning for my tastes but that's their choice.

[FupDup]

Trust me bruh, a lot of kids have been exposed to far, far crazier things than mechs shooting at each other...

[Novakaine]

mouser42, on 19 April 2017 - 07:06 PM, said:

Been playing wargames from the tender age of seven started on stuff like Chain-mail and Avalon Hill and so on. This had the positive efect of improving my reading and math skills. This has not turned me into a warmonger ok may be there are few places I would like to invade but they have some really great food and thier women are so hot

Ditto, Amazingly the game Squad Leader changed my viewpoint of the whole world.
Discovering that in my early twenties taught critical thinking and who slew of other skills.
For a young black male at the time it changed me.
Weird huh?

[Humpday]

Sheww, OP you must be ancient to have that kind of thought process in 2017

[Bud Crue]

OP has never seen a PG movie, hell maybe never seen a Disney movie in the last 20 years.

[Mister Blastman]

Humpday, on 19 April 2017 - 07:31 PM, said:

Sheww, OP you must be ancient to have that kind of thought process in 2017

Actually I bet he's younger, rather than older. I bet he's twenty-something to maybe early thirty-something at best, or so it would seem based on the nonsense that's perpetrated in college these days...

When I was a kid we didn't care about crap like this. We had manly movies like Platoon, or Full Metal Jacket, and Repo Man and Die Hard, along with Escape from New York and Rambo and Terminator. Men were men and we were awesome, and stood proud and fought for the world to be a better place, no matter how many bodies we had to stack, fields we had to hike or curtains of lead we had to endure.

Edited by Mister Blastman, 19 April 2017 - 07:37 PM.

[Mystere]

El Bandito, on 19 April 2017 - 05:41 PM, said:

I'm more irritated by the fact that YouTube allows everyone to watch some pretty violent **** (fictional or not), while not allowing porn. That **** is whacked, yo.

Violence is good! Sex is evil! Didn't they teach you that at home, school, church, mosque, and temple?

Troffleops, on 19 April 2017 - 05:34 PM, said:

This, this right here, is an EXCELLENT troll.

The OP's name gave it away!

[RAM]

oldradagast, on 19 April 2017 - 05:23 PM, said:

I didn't turn out a murderous pyschopath,

Dino Might, on 19 April 2017 - 05:55 PM, said:

I didn't become a psycopath.

No one ever considers themselves to be a psychopath, let alone a murderous one


RAM
ELH

[Beaching Betty]

Oh my God.... *Shaking my head aggressively as if Im head-banging sideways*

[Mystere]

Spheroid, on 19 April 2017 - 05:56 PM, said:

I am okay with banning the prebubescent. The vocal pitch kills the fanasty that I am actually playing with/against Natasha Kerensky in her Black Widow.

As a whale my fantasies carry more weight than those of unemployed youth all of you, who are nothing but mere NPCs.

FTFY.

Edited by Mystere, 19 April 2017 - 07:39 PM.

[The Lost Boy]

To the OP , What planet are you from?