[KingORoff]

Christ not this Tripe again. *rubs temples and sighs*

Yet again this controversy has been brought about by mostly ignorant people who see video games as scary and a bane to society because blood and guts are shed. To this I say: play the bloody games before you make stupid mistakes and sound like fools.

"Oh no our kids are playing 18plus games!" - The. F***ing. Rating. Is. On. The. Box. In big letters. Can't miss it. How the hell the majority of the adult population cannot understand any age-rating system is beyond me. Is the big BBFC 18 rating, printed in a big red circle in big red lettering hard to miss? No. Is the PEGI system hard to miss? No. It's on the front of the f***ing box - you f***ing idiots.

If you're too damn lazy to check the age ratings on the games your children play I suggest to all parents that they start bloody caring about it. Act like a parent and cease this Laissez faire attitude. They are YOUR children. YOU guide them. Because no-one else will - least of all the government or the games publishers - blaming them and whining whenever little Jimmy starts eying up that meat cleaver.

Now whilst I admit that games are not completely admonished from influencing how people act - but most people, even young children - can tell what is Fiction and what is not. It would be nice if these nannys would give the general populace some credit and consider most of us are intelligent enough not to go beserk. Then again, there's always idoits that prove the nannys right - but it would be nice if such cases were stated as the minority.

Let me bring in a case in point.

I have a 7 year old cousin. Now a couple of years ago (so he was about 5) I watched him play Saints Row. Not something I would let a child of that age play and I certainly didn't approve him playing it, especially when he played it saying "ooo I'm going to run you over, and then you over". Disconcerting to say the least. But here's the clincher.

When he isn't playing said game. He acts like a 5 year old. Excitable, energetic - exhastive. He didn't swear, nor did he decide to batter me or my sister with punches - and was more interested in my airfix submarine and his paper scluptures than asking for hoes.

Q.E.D.