What are "far jokes"?

fart* jokes

Couldn't be assed to fix the typo.

Quote from: Super Prime on August 13, 2016, 03:50:12 PM

Quote from: ねこ on August 13, 2016, 03:03:37 PM

What are "far jokes"?

fart* jokes

Couldn't be assed to fix the typo.

I'm not asking about fart jokes, I'm asking about far jokes.

The opposite of near jokes

He/she may only play Total War games until they have left my abode.

Quote from: Ushan on August 13, 2016, 06:11:24 PM

He/she may only play Total War games until they have left my abode.

I hope you dont let them play total war warhammer it would be cruel

Only if they're bad.

I wouldn't want to hold double-standards. I started playing Halo when I was like 9 and Jet Force Gemini before that, and I'm fine.  I'd have to know my child really well first, and I'd definitely explain all of it.  9's too young, though, and the Internet makes all of it worse.

I'd imagine that's better than having your kid looking at it like a forbidden fruit and normalizing the content themselves through their friends or YouTube.

Speaking of anecdotes: I have reason to believe, via personal experience, that restricting your children from playing certain games will lead them to continue playing more tasteful games well into their adulthood (ie. they'll be less of a degenerate).

My dad, though he was okay with playing Vice City in front of me as a child, wasn't very comfortable with letting me play the game myself, because I was only around 10 years old at the time. Just watching him play, however, allowed me to contemplate all the things he was doing and evaluate them morally. I'd ask him questions like, "What are you doing?" And he'd answer, bluntly and honestly.

"Why are you driving an ice cream truck?"
"I'm selling ice cream to children. They're laced with drugs."

I remember when he introduced me to the sniper rifle. I asked him what the sniper rifle did, and he demonstrated by sniping a civilian from a building. His head exploded in a geyser of blood. After awhile, the implication of my dad shooting innocent people started to become apparent, so I asked him, "Why are you killing all these people?"

"Because I'm the bad guy," he said. "I mean, I'm not a bad guy, but you play as a bad guy in this game."

At that point, it clicked. Either way, I decided that the game wasn't for me, because I didn't have any interest in being a bad guy, and shooting innocent people didn't really seem like something I wanted to do. I'd rather be a good guy doing good things, and I was scared that if I played GTA, I might become a "bad guy" myself. That didn't sound like fun to me.

And to this day, it still doesn't. I've still never touched a GTA game in my life, and I'm three years above the recommended age. Most M-rated games are (or contain) tasteless garbage, and if my dad hadn't shown me that at an early age, I'd probably be just like most of the degens here, playing dumbass games like Grand Theft Auto or Saint's Row.

do you think your dad is a bad guy

either way theres many a piece of media where the protagonist isnt "good" but you still want them to succeed, maybe its a heist movie or a seige

do you think your dad is a bad guy

No, I just meant that that was the moment when I learned that you don't always necessarily have to be the "good" guy in video games.

if i did that my smartass shitfuck kid would bring up the fact that i played halo ce with my dad when i was three and call me a hypocrite

man fuck kids, i ain't no hypocrite

Tbh I'd restrict the games when they're kids because when I was young shit like the Cave of Bad Dreams in Rayman 2 and Brinstar Depths from SSBM spooked the absolute fuck out of me but I see no reason to restrict it after 14. All the scapegoat games and movies for violence and shit are MA15+ anyway.

I'd play games above the age rating myself (or watch YT gameplay) and decide for myself. Something like Halo is barely worth the 16+ rating (Well, maybe the flood. Maybe.). Decide based on what I think they'd be suitable for.

Well, anything past 12 is fair game. They can buy their own shit.

at 14-15 I'll have ideally taught him/her that games are pure fiction and that on the screen, you are playing a role, so they will realize that the violence in game shouldn't be replicated. tjerefore I won't restrict violence or M rated games. but I WILL restrict my child from pretentious hipster bullshit games, and shitty walking sims with bad stories like Life is Strange or any telltale shit that is vomited up by that point.