Comments on: [Featurama] You Can’t Fix Bad Parenting

By: [TSFT] Episode #34: Parental Controller - Twinfinite: Video game news, reviews, and opinion articles

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:29:42 +0000

[...] topic; parents and gaming. After an altercation Chris witnessed, he felt compelled to write this article. With that as our basis, we talked about ESRB as a whole, and the general consensus from our [...]

By: [TSFT PreGame] Episode #34: Familiar Faces and Places - Twinfinite: Video game news, reviews, and opinion articles

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:27:50 +0000

[...] taking a look at Christopher Hadlock’s article on bad parenting, I thought it would make an excellent discussion point. So here we are now folks, week 30 of the [...]

By: How To Raise An Awesome Kid - [Link] Is 7 the best age for Mortal Kombat? - How To Raise An Awesome Kid

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:05:26 +0000

[...] Chris Hadlock over at Twinfinite recounts a recent experience he had at Gamestop where a mother of two tries to buy Mortal Kombat for her kids, and the clerk tries to talk her down. “Well, they play Call of Duty all the time with their friends,” she said as if the man had not spoken a word this entire time. “So this should be fine.” [...]

By: TSFT Podcast Pregame Episode #30

TSFT Podcast Pregame Episode #30 — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:46:35 +0000

[...] taking a look at Christopher Hadlock’s article on bad parenting, I thought it would make an excellent discussion point. So here we are now folks, week 30 of the [...]

By: Comets_Revolver

Comets_Revolver — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:37:33 +0000

I was always allowed to get what I wanted (read afforded), so long as I could:

a) Prove that I could differentiate between fantasy and reality and know that what happens in a game doesn’t reflect reality (although, with CoD + Battlefield’s campaigns combined with the political instability in the world, that could soon be a reality) and

b) Convince my parents to play it, or at least give it a go.

Through that, I’ve never been affected by video games in the way that the media babbles on about, and it’s given me the knowledge on how to introduce my son/daughter to games (if they choose to) and how to mediate it so my children don’t end up as the part that the media babble about.

And it raised my speech skill by several levels.