Mom Calls For Ban On Underworld

[WeedWorm]

If a kid/anyone is going to get into hard drugs heroin, the person is an idiot and I couldnt care less about them. Same for people who do stupid shit like thinking that can fly while on drugs and jump out a window. One less idiot for the world to deal with.

Also, if a person does something because they saw it in a game, they were going to end up doing it eventually. People who influenced by meaningless fictional or hypothetical situations are idiots.

 

[XJ-0461]

Perhaps occasionally checking in on what your children are doing, isn't such a bad idea after all...

You'd think that would make for good parenting. You would be right.

 

[Snowalker]

not meaning to be insensitive, but her daughter was a junkie who went into a coma when Snake was still considered advanced for a phone game. I don't see impressionable kids turning to drugs when playing what is essentially a colourful Excel spreadsheet. If anything they'd turn to dealing drugs not taking the things. Don't get high off your own supply as they say :-D

edit: the mum also seems to be trapped in the past (understandable grief coping mechanism I guess). Her daughter is 25 now not 17. Id hardly call her a 'young person' whether in a coma or not.

Dude.. this made me realize something... a snake moving around eating everything must equal a person walking around taking every drug they can get their hands on.. it all makes sense now!

[/sarcasm]

 

[samsonguy920]

sounds like an awesome game...

oh right yeh, drugs...this will convice people to do drugs as much as GTA convinced people to comit Grand Theft Auto and run over old ladies,so everyone will be high soon...

I forget, how many points are lil old ladies again?

 

[Treblaine]

I have to disagree with the mother as this game is not about consuming drugs, but getting others to consume them and profit off their addiction and if anything this game is cautionary. I'd understand if a mother came up and said "Mah boy got sent to jail for 15 years for dealing cocaine" but those mothers know who is REALLY at fault and it is not the game.

And seriously, Drug Dealers make their money off Crack and Smack not weed. Who the hell robbed a liquor store to feed their weed habit? Most regular weed users are too fucked in the head to even remember who their regular dealer is.

Yet, I can't explain why but even though playing a bank-robbers, assassins, mass murderers and gang-bangers in various other crime themed games... it just feels wrong being a drug dealer. It just seems unsporting, getting people hooked, taking way all their free will.
I dunno. Drugs are bad m'kay. Now I'm gonna go in a killing spree in GTA4, Cya!

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

I've never, ever been the type to blame games for anything like this...
But I don't think the game is good idea, and I don't think it helps.

I'm a little biased because I just really, really hate weed and drugs in general. EXCEPT BOOZE!

But seriously, I don't think this helps, but nor is it entirely [or at all] to blame.
I'm probably not making any sense...

Seriously, like, why? Why make an iPhone game where you sell drugs.
It's not a joke and it's just fucking stupid. Where's my prostitution game, huh?

 

[Treblaine]

Everyone's kind of hit the nail on the head and hammered it through 17 yards' worth of wood on the whole 'she was a neglectful parent, stop blaming video games, etc.' view (which I agree with, sorry if it sounds like I'm ragging on you guys :c <3 ), but is it okay if I point out that I still think the game is really stupid? I mean...Drug dealing as a game? Bad parents or not, it still presents the IMAGE that game-players only care about murdering people for cars and drugs like they do in the virtual world. Even if the mother's argument is flawed, the gaming company could've at least avoided this by, uh, NOT MAKING A GAME ABOUT DRUG DEALING.

It's not even that fun, it kills off all the musicians and TV stars eventually, and it's, well, stupid. :/
The only 'drugs' I ever want to deal with continually are Mario's Super Mushrooms, and even then I hate people who label the Mario games as 'virtual drug-pushers'...
/selfrighteousmoment

Dear god, that font colour. What made you think that was a good idea?

But on topic, if you say a Game can't be told from the perspective of a drug dealer why does the same not apply to a film, book or play told from the perspective of a drug dealer?

I'm not saying it is "good", neither is going on a shooting spree in Liberty City. I am as surprised as you are that I am defending a game about dealing drugs, but if you have watched the TV show The Wire (OMG, The Wire... SOO GOOOD!) it asks the audience to empathise with the gangsters who deal drugs, empathise as much as for the cops who are on their case. By doing that you are able to get a much better understanding of the situation yet doesn't make drugs seem any less bad.

We should not fear the truth. Playing a game like this (if it is accurate) should help us as a society understand about the availability aspect of drugs and how we as a society deal with them. Playing a game like this helps us get into the mind of drug dealers and (kinda) see the world the way they see it.

So next time you hear some politician go on about some new anti-drug scheme, you'll have somewhat the mindset to know if it is anywhere along the right track. It's like those cheesy crime dramas where they are tracking down a serial killer where the investigator has to "get inside the mind of the killer" to predict their next movement. If this was done right it could be a great learning tool for young people (who are apparently likely to start using drugs) to realise that drug dealers just want to use you like pawns in a sick game.

 

[Dusty Donuts]

It's denial; She won't blame herself and the next best thing that is also a good way to get people on her side is the video games *choir singing*.
On the other hand, her daughter really deserved it. Experimenting with heroin? Why are people that stupid?

 

[A Raging Emo]

Because, you know, it's the Video Game's fault that people start to take drugs.

 

[TheCameraman]

Meh, old thread and all that aside, I don't think this will have too much of an impact.
On the other side, some people playing it might get the urge to check out what all the fuzz about the stuff they're playing about is.

Still a bit of a tasteless game in my opinion, just like pretty much any phone game.

 

[Socius]

... Selling drug games to small children? yeah, great idea.
hell why don't we make a game that makes rape sound fun as well?
or somthing that makes bush look smart!
Jeez

 

[LeonLethality]

... Selling drug games to small children? yeah, great idea.
hell why don't we make a game that makes rape sound fun as well?
or somthing that makes bush look smart!
Jeez

its a shame this is from december 2008
why do people keep digging up old news and simply commenting on it as if it is new!

 

[inglioti]

parents raise kids. it is not anyone else's responsibility.

 

[Socius]

... Selling drug games to small children? yeah, great idea.
hell why don't we make a game that makes rape sound fun as well?
or somthing that makes bush look smart!
Jeez

its a shame this is from december 2008
why do people keep digging up old news and simply commenting on it as if it is new!

I didn't notice, sorry

 

[KaiRai]

I'm sure these games carry a 18 rating or similar depending on the country, 17 year old kids and younger shouldn't be playing them.

Parents responsibility to check the age rating of a game before letting their kids play them.

Edit:
Also if it's a iPhone, what the hell is a kid doing with one? They're damned expensive.

That's what I was thinking.
If you're spoilt enough to have an I-phone, then your parents clearly want you to be happy, and if buying drugs makes you happy, who are they to stop you? Damned spoilt kids! ¬_¬

OT: I'm pretty sure kids managed to get into drugs before the I-phone was invented. This woman should shut the hell up unless her kid was playing "Fuck your life up flash ver2.5"

 

[GrinningManiac]

TBH that is a very stupid game to put up for an Iphone.

But yeah, you cannot really blame games for her daughter's addiction. Her daughter didn't deal the damn stuff, she just put it upside her noggin'