Man. Reading threads like these make me appreciate how cool my parents actually are. They imposed no restrinctions on violent or sexual images for me. In fact, they encouraged it.
I grew up (we're talking 8 years old here) reading Viz and watching slasher movies and I grew up to become a pacifist and a vegetarian.
But what is your point oh great and glorious mfsa, you may be asking yourself.
My point is your parents suck and you should stage their suicide at your earliest convenience.
mfsa
Same here and I second that. It happend to me only twice that my parents didn't allow me to do something with, or in, a video game. And in one of those situations my mom kind of freaked out.
1. Once when I was a little kid and I was about to buy a video game, my aunt told my dad that violent video games would make me violent. My dad didn't want to argue with her, so he didn't allow me to buy that particular video game that I wanted to get. Funny thing is that about a year later he bought a violent video game for me. Now about 10 years later, I still haven't killed anybody so I guess my aunt was wrong.
2. Once when my mom walked by, she saw me play GTA Vice City. I had turned on a cheat which would make all the civilians try to kill everyone, including me. There were a few female civies trying to kill me so I was forced to blow their heads of with my machinegun. And right at that moment, my mom walked by and saw me do that. She thought I was having trouble with females, which is why I wanted to kill them all and she thought I was having phychological problems or something. I quickly explained how I was only defending myself by showing her how my character was getting beat the crap out of by some prostitutes.
The funny thing is that a few months later when I was speaking to my mom, this conversation poped up again. I then pursuaded her to play Vice City so she could see for herself how the game is like. At first she was walking around casual, trying not to break the law. Then she asked how to get a car. I told her she had to steal one. She thought that was kind of bad but she finally hijacked a car and started cruising the streets. I think it was inevitable that at some point she would accidentaly drive over a pedestrian, killing the poor guy or girl in the process. And that's what she did, she drove over a guy and killed him. She made a big deal out of it and said she was feeling bad for the guy she just ran over. She wanted to stop playing but I pursuaded her to play for a little longer. Now, here it comes... Shortly after that first kill, she was driving on the sidewalk, trying to run over as many pedestrians as possible, with a big smile on her face!
From that moment on, she didn't really care anymore what I was doing in my video games. I'm not sure what tricked her into doing such a sadistic thing (sarcasm). I guess it was a good way to relieve stress.
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