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On September 26 2005 13:12 Servolisk wrote:
Nice post tec27
This may be hypocritical for me to say, but get a bad feeling hearing about a kid weened on video games from birth. It is an important time for development...so I'm told. It's supposed to be a roll of the dice how a kid turns out, but good parents like encourage good turnouts by cheating the dice as much as possible, with selective schools, playing classical music or other things I have no idea of. But raising him on games (a Microsoft game!)...this is like cheating the dice the other way around. I'm trying to picture the awful result of some kid raised in battle.net type culture :o But maybe it is better than parents who raise their kids with teletubbies and pokemon. I guess he'll have the edge on those poor kids.
Who here played games at a comparably young age? I think when I was 5 I played Space Quest 1 and such adventure games. Better game than Halo. But that was the tiniest fraction of the time, the rest I definitely wouldn't trade for video gaming, let alone Halo. Maybe I have an uncommonly low opinion of the game, but leaving a kid on Halo sounds like abuse. Give him Starcraft for gods sake!
Nice post tec27
This may be hypocritical for me to say, but get a bad feeling hearing about a kid weened on video games from birth. It is an important time for development...so I'm told. It's supposed to be a roll of the dice how a kid turns out, but good parents like encourage good turnouts by cheating the dice as much as possible, with selective schools, playing classical music or other things I have no idea of. But raising him on games (a Microsoft game!)...this is like cheating the dice the other way around. I'm trying to picture the awful result of some kid raised in battle.net type culture :o But maybe it is better than parents who raise their kids with teletubbies and pokemon. I guess he'll have the edge on those poor kids.
Who here played games at a comparably young age? I think when I was 5 I played Space Quest 1 and such adventure games. Better game than Halo. But that was the tiniest fraction of the time, the rest I definitely wouldn't trade for video gaming, let alone Halo. Maybe I have an uncommonly low opinion of the game, but leaving a kid on Halo sounds like abuse. Give him Starcraft for gods sake!
I played quite a bit when I was 4-5 my old 486 ;p (A LOT back then = 2-3 hours, I mean I considered that A LOT of time spent playing ;p).
But never played anything online until SC I think (the odd game here and there I guess).
