I've been reading this thread and cool things have came on mind...
I'm a teenager, 16 years old, and I've basically grown up in the computer. Why? Dad never took us (I have a sister too) out, his excuse was "We have no money" yet he was a lazy... bum and didn't even bothered to find a job. I have been raised "the good ways" as some say, I don't hit girls (I hit ON them though
), I didn't watched any terror movie in my childhood and was 90% of the time in front of a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse. I remember when I was like, 14, I was in a PSX game store looking around a CD to buy, and then a little kid (he couldn't be more than 10, he was smaller, too) was next to me looking too, and then he calls his mom and goes like "Mommy mommy, I want this one!
" pointing at
Resident Evil, and the mom goes like "Okay" and buys him that game (Good thing people here speak Spanish, it would have been more disturbing for him if it was in Spanish and not in English). Hell, I can try play that game now and I'm sure my stomach will turn upside down (But Half Life/Q3A/Doom3 doesn't do that to me, curious huh? XD)... I mean, what the hell? the CD cover clearly had a big ESRB logo at the lower-right corner of the cover that said "M" and in small letters "Mature". Psh, like if they both cared.
My sister's friends are kinda like that too, y'know in TV (at least here) they put novels from like 12pm to 3pm for then putting some cartoons and then back to novels from 7-8pm to 12am, then pr0n/terror movies 'til 5:30am, and I was surprised to know that my sister's friends asked her why she didn't watched TV novels, she (being raised as good as my parents could raise us (and still are, at least my sis)) answered with "That's for adults, I don't watch that" yet her friends consider her "weird" and "kiddy" because of that, looking at her like if she's some kind of alien or something like that because she doesn't do what others consider "normal" (which I don't).
All I can say is, that if you're the parent, it's your responsibility to educate, raise and control what your child must and must not see/do, don't expect others to do it for you, I learned what was... er... y'know, at the age of 12, my parents never told me that, and school did it when I was 14 -_-.
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And... yeah, society sucks now, I hate to see other people of my age (more than 15) and they already smoke and drink, I mean, wtf?? we were talking once with this one pretty girl (who we call "the rapper" just 'cause she looks like one xD) and she was like "Um, I tasted a cigarrette when I was like, 12, and started smoking at 13" we all just nodded and kept talking, but back in my head... hell, I mean, this is depriment. I like Rap/HipHop though, s'cool, what it isn't cool is the lyrics/theme they use nowadays (try to listen to DZK - The DZK (from
http://www.soundclick.com and you'll see that's the only song (I think) that doesn't uses the whole lot of trash some hip-hop-pers throw in their "songs" and it has at least some nice lyrics, and it has nothing about killing, getting high, etc, basically an ego-like song, but it's a good one, compared to the type of songs we hear nowadays...) not to mention the Reggaeton, that music, okay, it's highly dance-able, but the lyrics are trash, they deprive women so badly that I don't listen to it because it's offending, just... ew.
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Wanna read something funny about an angered mom and the Furcadia game? (it's good, but read the logfile, it was the mom's fault anyways (and someone there explained why, and he's right)) ->
http://sen.nova-cl.net/pub/rofl.txt
