A lot of parents just make assumptions as to "what video games are" and then become horrified when they're proven wrong.
If this is indeed the case, and given the number of stories I see from comic book store workers about assumptions WRT to comic books being kid-safe, it probably is, I'm boggled.
Y'know, I'm in my 30s. I'm in the first generation of parents raised in a world where video games have been around as long as we can remember. Granted, technology has improved a good deal, but were these people raised in isolation tanks? Even when I was a teen, there were video games that were not appropriate for children. I didn't have anything more sophisticated than a C64 and the original Nintendo at my fingers, and I was aware of this.
My desire to bitchslap some sense into the adult population does not bode well for my future in the PTA.
French pedi, GC. It's what all the cool kids are doing. And by cool, I obviouisly mean me.
There are few experiences more unpleasant than playing a female avatar in an open internet game, where you don't know the other players.
I have enjoyed gaming off and on (we are off right now because I didn't install my video card and the urge to game hasn't overwhelmed my urge not to bleed) for about a decade and I generally loathe playing on open internet games. If I don't know a couple of other players, I just prefer not to play there.
Sorry about the heat, tommyrot. It is once again tolerable here. Actually it is lovely and only supposed to get uncomfortably warm later on. I just checked on the patio and it is 72. Yesterday when I left for work just before eight o'clock, it was 82 already. Thank ye gods for sparing us. And for the thunder storm last night as it was pretty.
Plei, there you go again with your common sense and parental responsibility craxy talk.
shakes head.
Plei, there you go again with your common sense and parental responsibility craxy talk.
It's just... GAH! Is it that all the sheltered and naive people met and married other sheltered and naive people, and are now breeding? Is that it? Are there really that many of them? I don't get it. Maybe because the sheltered and naive people I knew tended to be less sheltered and naive then their parents assumed they were. Maybe because I'm in a major metro area, and it's harder to avoid this shit. ::cries::
I don't GET it. I don't. I don't. I don't.
Timelies all!
Quiet day here. My folks are downstairs reading the paper. Soon we will go to the pool.(Which will be the first time this year we've done that)
French pedi, GC. It's what all the cool kids are doing. And by cool, I obviouisly mean me.
Woot! Cass and I are as one! Pedi-twins power!
My desire to bitchslap some sense into the adult population does not bode well for my future in the PTA.
Oh, I think it does, just maybe not for the other PTA folks.
I was just going to say, my mom was a PTA woman, and she could've used you for back-up against the craxies.
Bah. I have so much to do around the house this weekend but the heat is making me woozy.
I am seriously considering shelling out $500 for an air conditioner.
