Childhood Innocence

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Nanissimov

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Now, i know you guys are not here to hear (Homophones) me ***** about my life, thats what blogger is for. This is a bit long but bare with me, you might be intregued

Today i had a revelation. I went down to my public library to see if they had the new Game Informer. While i was sifting through the magazine rack i spotted Highlights magazine. Now i have not read that magazine in years, so i sat down and i started reading it, i flipped open a page and i saw a very kind cute squirrel picture, and i shed a tear. I sat there thinking and looking at the picture trying to refrain from crying. I quickly closed the magazine and left before i made a fool of myself, and on my way home i began to think what happened to me, i shunned all cute and cuddly in an effort to grow up but now that i am (I'm 16) i don't feel as if it's worth it. I was depressed all day after that, i went home after the library and turned on my Xbox 360 and started playing Fallout 3, and well i think video games changed me, from a young age (7 or 8) I was playing violent games like Diablo, Hitman, etc, now I'm not saying video games are bad things, i love my Xbox and i was playing it an hour ago, but i think video games did change me. I think they grew me up faster (Does that sound right, Grew me up faster? I couldn't think of another way to say it).

What's your opinion on this, do you think video games deprive children of there innocence or make them grow up faster?

Oh and i understand the irony of a guy with a Oscar the Grouch pic writing something like this, its like is sponge bob wrote a book about his smack addiction and suicidal attempts.
 

zfactor

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It would be worded better if you said "Matured my mind faster." Games exposed you to things you otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to, at least for a few more years. I don't think the steal our childhood innocence alone, they (combined with society) accelerate its retreat. So games are a contributing factor. They are not the only cause.
 

RatRace123

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I don't think videogames make kids lose their innocence, hell I have a Wii and I got the new Kirby, Mario and Sonic games for Christmas.

I think, I might be wrong, that it's maintaining a certain image that causes kids (especially boys) to lose their child like innocence. You need to grow up and play games drenched in blood and tits to avoid being called a "fag" by all those "hardcore" guys.
 

Nanissimov

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zfactor said:
It would be worded better if you said "Matured my mind faster." Games exposed you to things you otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to, at least for a few more years. I don't think the steal our childhood innocence alone, they (combined with society) accelerate its retreat. So games are a contributing factor. They are not the only cause.
Thanks for wording it better. Now let me say before i continue Mario & Sonic Games are all good and well but if i presented a twelve year old boy with Call Of Duty Black Ops or Mario Galaxy 2 which one do you think he would choose?
 

SomeLameStuff

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Well... maybe. I wouldn't know really, my mom told me everything I wanted to know without sugar coating.

Never got the "babies from Storks" talk, just straight up "I humped your dad".
 

badgersprite

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I doubt it. I've been playing games since I was a kid, and I was a pretty innocent little tyke. Games present a highly idealized, thoroughly fictional view of their worlds. Even the darker games usually aren't grim by the standards of film and television. Maybe war shooters are a different story, but I find it hard to believe that a game where you shoot lasers at space monsters does anything other than encourage fantasy.
 

SaetonChapelle

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Video games never made me lose my innocence. I don't think it does to others ether.

Playing a video game is just that, playing. Now if you handed me a giant ass sword at age 7 like I was in my games and told me to go stab the local farmer and pillage his house for whatever items he had, and I myself plunged said sword into the abdomen of that man then yeah. Innocence gone. However I myself am not doing that. I know I am playing a game, I know it's not real, and when I'm done I can turn off the game and go back to my dolls and fort.

This is not to say games don't expose us to different situations we might not have normally been placed in. War, famine, death, rape, murder. I don't think it really matures the mind as it does showing us things that we would normally only see in television and the news.

Also we have entertainment such as movies and the cable network to melt the minds of children. I believe video games are only a small portion.