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Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
Poor parenting?
Good Lord, man. ESRB ratings are meant as guidelines, just as movie ratings are. Parents can take a kid into an R rated movie if they feel their kid can deal with it (and many do). Same goes for M rated games.
The rating system is important, but as a tool for parents, who can and should be the ultimate arbiter of their kids' consumption of such content. Lil' Poison isn't going around to these things by himself, his parents oblivious, you know. He didn't buy Halo by himself, his parents judged he could play it. I'm certainly not going to tell them how to parent their child.
You clearly don't understand how the ratings systems is supposed to be used.
Posted by: Chapstick
My feelings on MLG aside (they have their uses, despite their egos), I am saddened at the implied condoning of "Lil Poison" and his gameplay.
This is a nine-year-old.
He, and anyone else under the age of 17, has no business playing an M-rated game - much less being a member of a "professional" organization.
Most tournaments - casual or otherwise - require players to be over the age of 18 to play, nevermind the minimum age required to purchase this game.
I don't get it.
MLG, whatver. Underage gamers? This should in no way be condoned, and should in no way be encouraged. By posting images and accounts of playing this game with a -blam!- fourth-grader, Bungie has done both.
I wonder if "Lil Poison" played Gears of War (with all its profanity and gore)...
So shame be upon you, Bungie, for exalting the poor parenting so prevalent today, and for your implication that it's okay for children to play M-rated games. By this same implication, I suppose Bungie also supports under-aged drinking, under-aged viewing of X-rated material, under-aged smoking, etc.
Sure, you say, that's preposterous, but why is it that the Halo series is rated "M" in the first place? Could Bungie not have removed and/or altered content to achieve an "E", or even a "T" rating?
Absolutely.
But they didn't.
This suggests that they wanted an "M" rating, or that they at the least didn't want to edit their game to reduce its rating.
So, they clearly don't believe in the rating system, and clearly condone under-age gaming with respect to their, and evidently other, "M" rated games.
Thanks.
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Stan