NYT Article on CS

[CSN NewsBot]

The New York times has posted an article about CS to its website. The site requires free registration. The article is mostly about LAN centers, where CS is the main attraction, and how they usually don't restrict ages. Here's a bit from the article:

Operators and owners of the game rooms counter that the responsibility of policing young players lies not with them but with the parents. And some operators -- like their customers -- say they either do not understand the rating system or do not take it seriously.



M rating "is like when the game Monopoly says it's for ages 7 and up -- it's just a suggestion." said a co-owner of Cyber Sniper, the arcade in San Francisco's Richmond district where Damien came to play. Like Monopoly, the games "are just toys," said the co-owner, who gave only his first name, Ricky, but declined to give a reason for not fully identifying himself.

Read the rest here. Ricky is really a class act. Thanks to Wei for the report.

[-AngelDust-]

omg finding a vest on the floor is like picking up a colt or an ak.

[xep]

These "related stories" get more wacky with every news post. Chat rooms has everything to do with the NYT, obviously.

[SuBtle FOnduE]

-AngelDust- wrote..

omg finding a vest on the floor is like picking up a colt or an ak.

lol its funny .. the kid probably didnt know you could buy them either

"A VEST A VEST!"

same reaction if he were playing a mickey mouse game

[SinaC]

Edited by [user="2964"] @ [time="1031276784"]

Um... a vest? I don't get it. I wasn't aware you could pick up vests from the ground. ... ... Yea.

He is playing Half-Life: Counter-Strike, a vivid, blood-infused, animated battle game in which the idea is not long-term survival but simply to kill more times than you are killed.

GJ confusing CS with Quake.

"I think it's cool because you can handle guns and explosives," said Mike Hunter, a 9-year-old with a toothy grin and a sparkling earring.

Because 9 year old with an earring's parents would never let them play violent games.

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Edited by [user="18286"] @ [time="1031276941"]

SinaC wrote..

Um... a vest? I don't get it. I wasn't aware you could pick up vests from the ground. ... ... Yea.

He was probably playing iceworld or something equally retarded.



Edit: SinaC, that article in your avatar is about the funniest thing I have ever read in my existence.

[Spike Spiegel]

I love how bias the New York Times is!

[Shadow-Dragon]

lol. OH NO A 9 YEAR OLD WHO LIKES M RATED GAMES. The world is coming to an end!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH *jumps out window*

[xep]

ShAd0W-|)rAg0N wrote..

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH *jumps out window*

Bye.

[SolarSpyX]

dam new york times and their biased news and corporation-funded reports....stupid big companies own the dam media, dont get friggen fair stories, never read anything true,m only something to get u to buy money....



dammit im mad



and that article blows...and if the kids got an earring at nine, its the parents problem he plays cs

[OlSpazzy]

Edited by [user="27090"] @ [time="1031278324"]

Playing CS at 7yrs of age is not a problem. BAD PARENTING IS! Any well-raised 7-year-old should know the difference between shooting fake bullets in a game and shooting real bullets at real people.



If I were a LAN center owner (or a "PC Room" as the NYT calls them), I'd absolutely allow young children to pay me money for use of my licensed games and equipment. It's profit that matters to a businessman, not ethics. Let parents worry about that.



Also, anyone know where I can get a hook-up for some of that good vest shit? I need a new drug and that kid seemed pretty excited to pick up some "vest".

[Jsunu]

You cant completely ignore that video games have in some little way lead some kids to volence. Even if its not the cause of the problem it is still is a part of it. Every action has many causes.. not just one.



Flame on.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

SinaC wrote...

Because 9 year old with an earring's parents would never let them play violent games.

Well put.



I wouldn't say that video games lead kids to violence, though they certainly do give kids a more realistic "cool!" view of violence.



Kids have always grown up pretending to shoot, whether with their fingers at their friends running around in their back yard, with squirt guns, suction-cup dart guns, or these days on their PC. Yet despite all the pretending, all the imagining of killing... most kids grow up to be healthy adults who deplore the idea of actually killing another human being.



Ah well, I think reading this kind of stuff is good. Makes you realize that if reporting can be that bad and inaccurate about one subject that we (unlike many) happen to know about... how much more should we question other reporting about different subjects that we really don't have first-hand experience with? Do you really think that CS reporting is the only thing they skew the reporting of? Just a thought...

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deja vu...



didnt we get an article that said the same goddammed thing last week?



And people flamed it the exact same way...

[Sublyme]