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“What do you think the little guys are going to do? -I wanna play my dad’s videogame”
“What happened to Atari, Pinball and Pacman?”
Mientras traducia el post pasado para mi otro blog, alguien me mando este video; no tuve tiempo de verlo hasta hace unas horas. Ahora que lo hice, debo aceptar que estou bastante sorprendido. No enojado, no sacado de onda, solo sorprendido. Por alguna razon ya había olvidado a este sector de la sociedad cuya forma de pensar se atoró en algun momento entre 1980 y mediados de los 90…
Primero, unas lineas a la ‘Disclaimer’: Aunque mi forma de pensar sea, en muchas formas, liberal(ista), no soy ninguna clase the /hippie/ que busca en internet videos como estos para poder flamearlos completamente. Este video llego a mis manos aleatoriamente y simplemente tuve que postear mis comentarios al respecto.
Ok, he jugado Mass Effect, muchos de mis amigos tambien. Y si en algun momento queremos buscar alguna clase de pornografía hay millones de páginas y revistas que visitariamos antes de cruzar por la idea de jugar un RPG de 30 horas para volver nuestras fantasias realidad por 2 minutos, mientras jugamos.
Ya enserio, NO sólo los videojuegos pero la información en general fluye a velocidades inimaginables. Un abogado puede aprender diseño, un doctor leer las noticias de la economía en otro país y un chavo de 13 años no sólo es capaz de sacar pornografía de cualquier rincón, si no que también puede aprender por si mismo lenguajes de programación y programas para desarrollo 2D y 3D antes de graduarse. Lo he visto, lo he vivido, y sucede a mi alrededor constantemente. Y no creo que nadie que este leyendo este blog pueda decir lo contrario.
¿Quieres tener aparatos de control para padres, tener a tu hijo sentado enfrente del televisor mientras mira a Bob Esponja. Y luego sentarte a ver una novela y pensar “Que buen padre soy” porque “cuidas” a tu hijo(a)?
Para empezar, padres: Si quieren que su hijo crezca “sanamente, APAGA tu televisión, guarda tu calculadora, ve con tu hijo y preguntale que es lo que realmente le gusta; te sorprenderás. Si realmente estas conciente de la forma en la que le hablas a tu hijo de cosas “maduras” Tal vez te des cuenta que hay MUCHO mas que tan sólo amenazar “¡No te atrevas a jugar con eso!”. Si abres los ojos a la evolución de la sociedad actual, tal vez entiendas que antes de prohibirle cosas a tu hijo debes Comunicarte con él, y dejarlo evolucionar sin tener ciento cincuenta tabues corriendo por su mente joven.
I’m no one to critique one’s life style, but when a 34 years old woman who has been married with a man for 12 years and won’t sleep in the same bed with him because her father told her it was wrong and punished by God (RL case). You intuit there’s something wrong there.
Anyway, this is not about parents but about game censorship.
It’s amazing how people critique Mass Effect for a two minutes long scene when there are games like “The Sims” rated T, where guys and girls can get plenty of this scenes in a much more self-involved role.
“Kids have access to this things” Mhm, and to many others you won’t be able to imagine if you do not do your homework before complaining about it. I’ve seen it happen, 19-23 guys and girls growling at Second Life with fake arguments they herd from a conductist psychology teacher a year ago, saying people would only play with Second Life and this type of games because they want to pursue something they can’t have RL. And that everyone who plays with it WILL get banned from society and WILL enclosure himself in a digital world.
“Who’s playing VG? Adolescent boys, nor their dads?” and “This is where woman are seen as /objects/ of desire” This woman didn’t do her homework either, let’s see some quotes from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). Link and Link
“Thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game playing population (31%) than boys age 17 or younger (20%).”
“The Average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.”
“Thirty sic percent of American parents say they play computer and video games. Further, 80 percent of gamer parents say they play video games with their kids. Sixty-six percent feel that playing games has brought their families closer together.”
There we go.
“It’s not, it’s just not good.” Good argument. <<U
“Makes me wonder, what happened to Atari, Pinball and Packman?” May be this guys are right, and we should stop evolving, stop researching and stop getting better. This attitude is exactly what I DO protest about. Human raze is in constant evolution, in all each and every point of view, you can either sit down and watch us evolve while you miss the past, or you can join us in learning from our past and our present to create a better future.
“Being a parent is now a much harder work” When was it easy? If you have a child you Have to look after him/her and guide him/her in their OWN growth and life experience.
“Theres many ways to access it, even in your phone” Nice done homework, once again. I’d like to see you try and play Mass Effect, God of War or even a N64 game in your cellphone.
Click Here to Watch Mass Effect Trailer.
“May be we should ban “The Fifth Element” as pornographic because of the final scene.”
Note: If you’re going to comment over this post, please do it about the Debate itself, a new post referring more specifically to the game industry will be posted later.
