Abundance is good when it comes to things like cash, or sex, or cash...or...well...sex. But abundance can have adverse effects when it involves idle or spare time. I have an abundance of spare time, and I think I have reached the end of the internet.
Whats left? My thoughts. Now that is fucking scary. You see there are many forms of "scary", but "fucking scary" is 10 on scale of 10. Take my warped mind and add time, and you get fucking scary. Ask Mick. She intends to start her own blog soon, so you can go ask her about it then. I'll provide the link when she has it set up.
Anyone who remembers my old blog, will know that I had purchased a XBOX 360 several months back. I played it for like a month. Puffed my chest at challenges from Thinkinfyou, and generally made a fool of myself by getting my ass kicked by 12 year old's playing a game completely inappropriate for a 12 year old to be playing.
Well, I unpacked the 360 over the weekend, and decided to give it another go. I bought a game...delay that...got scammed out of $40 for game galled Grand Theft Auto IV. The game was sold to me by my wife's 14 year old nephew, because he was scared his parents would find out that he had it. After playing it, I thought about turning him in. I have decided not to though, because at least the kid is being raised right if he was scared to be in possession of this foul piece of entertainment.
That said, you would think I have a problem with the game. You would be wrong. On the contrary, I am completely hooked on this game, and have already had one 13 hour marathon session with it. Not to mention several hours here and there since last Saturday.
Some people might think I'm crazy, but I would allow my nephew to have this game if he were my kid. I got by on 20+ years using reverse psychology on the job, and would have applied it with this game. I've read a lot of negative reviews about this game from parents because of it's content. But I found the content, at it's core, is nothing more than an indictment of this worlds social ills. Add excellent voice acting, and high production values, and you have a pretty powerful teaching tool. Not to mention one hell of an addictive game.
I'm not saying I would buy the game for my kid if I had a kid, and just let him run loose with it. I'm saying I would use it as a teaching tool by playing the game with my kid. You could teach a child some serious life lessons using this game as a tool, rather than waste your time bitching and complaining about the people who made it.
Now is that fucking scary, or what? You can find a Wiki fact sheet on the game here--->GTAIV.
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4 comments:
Reverse psychology? That could work but I guess it would really depend on how much the kid actually feels like listening as opposed to just playing the game.
Jules - The game itself is mindless violence. The story however, is just really well done. It exposes everything that is wrong with this country. From addiction, to violent crimes of passion. From cultural intolerance to poor health care.
It's that diverse. If you can teach a kid how wrong this shit is, than maybe they'll grow up to do something about it.
We don't own that because of the violence,but we did rent it a couple of times. It has a very addictive quality. BTW I'm still up for kicking your ass Rock Band style!!
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