My boy's are into their 2nd day of playing Grand Theft Auto...

[trumad]

So far so good. I'm monitoring them for any new thug, Mafia or ex-vet crazy type behavior. (hint: those are the 3 main characters in the game)

I'll post in a week or so to let you know if any hookers, new cars with no keys, 9MM Glocks, blocks of cash and a meth lab have arrived at my home.

tru

[onehandle]

1. If they start hearing voices, ask if its Wayne LaPierre.

If so, burn the game.

[11 Bravo]

2. Same here. Two days in, and not even a hint of a desire to go on a killing rampage from my son.

[Katashi_itto]

49. I stabbed my vegan meatloaf repeatedly and with relish.

[sarisataka]

57. How did you ever manage to do that?

Freeze the relish?

[Katashi_itto]

58. I practice Kendo and Iaido..took years of practice and lots of jars of Relish.

I sit and contemplate pools of relish now.

[sarisataka]

59. Sho-bakusho

[Katashi_itto]

62. I know what Sho is "many". Bakusho...many...airing of Books?

Watashi no oroka-sa o yurushite

[sarisataka]

65. My Google translate said the phrase is

very funny

Apparently google translate knows less Japanese than I do- that is even funnier

[Katashi_itto]

102. hahah, oh not a problem.. it was a valiant attempt and thats what counts

[HappyMe]

3. Stay alert!!1

You never know!

[Boom Sound 416]

4. 800 million in sales worldwide yesterday.

And it's not your kids that are the potential for problem. It's those with parents that don't know the main characters of the game.

Full disclosure, I freelanced for rockstar for three years. It's not the game that is the problem. It's the lack of supervision with it.

[Cryptoad]

5. People should have to pass an examine before having kids........

[loli phabay]

6. they do, its a practical.

[Cryptoad]

8. empirical,,, of course nt

[loli phabay]

10. or missionary.

[snooper2]

9. People should have to pass an examine(?) before getting Internet Access.........

[Rex]

14. Are you ready for your examine?

Drop your drawers and face the wall please.

[snooper2]

15. I'm ready, now what?

[NuclearDem]

17. All done. The nurse will be in momentarily.

[Rex]

20. I must say, security around this hospital is somewhat lacking.

hehe

[Rex]

18. Just keep looking at the wall, the doctor will be in shortly.

[snooper2]

19. You know it's hard to type like this

[Rex]

24. We've been debating on where you have your wifi hotspot.

The proctologist says he is determined to find it!

[Broken_Hero]

83. That test sounds....

fascinating! Where do I sign up!

[Rex]

86. On the dotted line...free haircuts too!

How do you feel about sand?

[Broken_Hero]

87. The only place I like sand

is in hard to reach places.....

Too bad I got haircut last week, how about a shave?

[Rex]

89. Sure, but do to budget constraints we can only give one

shave or a haircut. Had a third option at one time - you can have a million dollars but we took it out since nobody was picking it.

[Broken_Hero]

93. only fools take a million dollars over

a quality, yet free shave.....

[Rex]

97. Eggzactly.

Nothing beats a free shave.

[virgogal]

28. What a mean-spirited post.

[Rex]

48. Yes and

'People should have to pass an examine before having kids........' is such a NICE thing to say, right...right?

[SomethingFishy]

69. Wow. Hard to believe that you are the "mean spirited" one here...

after reading the post you replied to...

Crazy world we live in.

[Rex]

13. What type of test is an examine?

Look at you...almost ended up with word salad.

[WilliamPitt]

30. I can typing.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

34. I love lamp.

[Dash87]

61. Brick killed a guy!

[TlalocW]

7. I've been playing this

A lot lately...

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/home.htm

Ima gonna go kill me some squirrels later! They keep eating my cherries!

TlalocW

[Sissyk]

11. lol!

"I'll post in a week or so to let you know if any hookers, new cars with no keys, 9MM Glocks, blocks of cash and a meth lab have arrived at my home."

Do they have their own credit cards?

[eShirl]

12. Are they taking breaks every now & then to prevent thrombosis?

http://www.pcgamesn.com/e-thrombosis-why-and-how-extended-gaming-can-be-dangerous


a copious supply of caffeinated beverages should help ensure frequent bathroom breaks (assuming they're not equipped with Depends)

[NuclearDem]

16. How is it?

GTA was never really my cup of tea, but if this one's good enough I might consider getting it (once the price reasonably drops).

[Logical]

21. How old? nt

[trumad]

31. 20 and 16

Although I admit---20 aint a kid anymore...but he's my kid.

[1-Old-Man]

22. No chance that they'd be better off spending 2 says reading books.

Two days of pumping fantasy garbage into their brains couldn't do any harm, could it.

[trumad]

35. No---I don't encourage them to read---

Matter of fact--- I don't think the two of them have ever read a book. I took them out of school when they were 5 to home school. After about a month of that I said---Fuck it... too fucking much work. They haven't gone back since.

What I find though is even with a 5th grade education, they are able to navigate Grand Theft Auto with amazing intuition.

Oh===gotta run... my 20 year old needs his shoes tied.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

38. *

[geomon666]

44. lol!

I needed that laugh. Thank you.

[GalaxyHunter]

55. haha!

def needed that!

[Dawgs]

96. :)

You're the best.

[Jamastiene]

131. This should be a DUzy!

[Orrex]

37. Perhaps you could furnish a reading list

[PowerToThePeople]

23. My boy is watching some PBS. I think "Superreaders" is on. n/t

[tblue]

26. Your boy is going places.

Kudos to you for raising a kid in a quality way. Seriously. I have one in college. He has played GSA at other kids' homes, I'm sure, but he was never fixated on it. Bought his own PS3 and sold it a couple years later because he just wasn't using it. He's a great kid. Warm, kind, giving. I'm sure yours is too. Way to go!

[trumad]

32. In a quality way?

because he watches PBS? Snarf.

[tblue]

120. Yeah. I know but

kid's programming in PBS is pretty good. Pls don't put down that parent.

[MicaelS]

25. You can send me the Glocks.

I'll pay the postage. You can even run a Background Check on me, and I promise I'll pass.

[loli phabay]

27. i will have the other stuff then.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

33. Be very careful.

Those games are insidious. Very subtle stuff. You'll be dealing with sociopaths in no time.

In case it's need:

[trumad]

36. I got some up above advising me that they should read books instead.

Stephen King got any new ones.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

39. Books, schmooks.

As if it's an either/or proposition (I saw the comment). Hilarious!

[trumad]

40. As if the person who posted that knows how many books my kids read.

Hey to brag about my boys...but they are wicked smart. They read more books that I'll ever read...

Those who bitch about GTA have no idea what the game is about. Multi-layered story with all kinds of shit going down.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

42. I'm here from the NSA, and I know everything your boys read.

[trumad]

45. Snarf.... could happen.

[alarimer]

122. Actually, he does.

A sequel to The Shining, I can't remember the title.

[zappaman]

41. Awesome game and elements of my home town!

I was riding on top of a locomotive, shooting at cars on the freeway, when I fell onto the tracks and got run over. Laughed my ass off.

[trumad]

43. My kid hit the 3rd character... he's a crazy ass Vet and a pilot.

He said the dude was hanging from a plane shooting at other planes.

They've had about every game that has come out in the last 10 years and I gotta say---this one is unreal.

[Lancero]

56. It's a older game...

But check out Just Cause 2.

[Johonny]

46. If playing grand theft auto led to a life of crime

Then why are so many people buying it? It is the fifth freaking edition. Wouldn't most people be stealing the game if playing the game actually led people to a life depicted in the game.

[Boom Sound 416]

52. A actually the 7th edition

First two were computer only

There was GTA San Andreas in there as well and Liberty City Stories


Their may have even been another one

[cemaphonic]

78. also, bowling would be way more popular

[Broken_Hero]

84. funny story....

In a non-nameable store, the year the Passion of the Christ came out on DVD it was the number 1 DVD stolen from said store.

[Chan790]

103. Far and away, the most stolen book is the Bible. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

47. I allowed my son to play all kinds of violent video games.

He was so influenced by the experience that he sought a college degree from GT and graduated as a computer software engineer. Unfortunately, he didn't have the artistic abilities to get into gaming, but he's gainfully employed, working for a software programming company.

[WinkyDink]

50. That's what Jose' Menendez said.

[Rex]

51. Let us know when they hijack a nuclear sub and head for Asia.

Since that is the common progression from playing violent video games.

[Historic NY]

53. Sheeet......they should call Darell Issa..

he knows a thing or two about grand theft auto.

[GalaxyHunter]

54. i'll be looking forward to the update!!

[opiate69]

63. Satanic????

[opiate69]

70. And I don't understand why people enjoy schlock as a form of entertainment....

Different strokes, for different folks, yadda yadda...

[Dash87]

67. .

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[opiate69]

68. lmao!

[opiate69]

73. Well.. leaving aside the idea that anecdotal evidence is apropos of nothing... my 16 year old son

has played through all of the GTAs since #3, as well as all of the recent Call of Duties... and he's currently a sophomore in High School, with great grades, a healthy social life, and oh yeah, he's a member of the Washington State Civil Air Patrol, working on getting all of his search & rescue training and certs... pretty damned satanic, I suppose, no?

[opiate69]

75. lmao! Well, skippy.. being an internet message board and all the limitations therein...

your words are kinda all I have to go on.

[opiate69]

80. Oh, I know... things are so horrible now compared to way back when....

[ForgoTheConsequence]

81. Haha yes!

If only we could go back to the good old days!

[opiate69]

85. That's all well and good.. but,

to make the assertion that society is in any measurable way going i the wrong direction, well that's just absurd...

[ForgoTheConsequence]

98. Bestiality has been going on forever.

It's nothing new. The Bible mentions it a few times.


It's not like that girl was playing Grand Theft Sheep, Wales Edition and it made he want to screw her pet.

[Rex]

107. Alas, Name Removed is no longer with us.

We hardly knew ye.

[opiate69]

108. And all my black outfits are in the laundry... pity..

[Rex]

109. LOL!

[Warren DeMontague]

123. Just ask Jack Chick, about what can happen with Dungeons and Dragons!!!!!!

[opiate69]

128. Ahh.. the good old days..

My best friend in high school went all jeezus nutty during the summer between my junior & senior years and he had a bunch of that kind of shit in his jam room after.. used to get baked and laugh my ass off reading through it.. on a side note, I'm so naming my next dog Elfstar

[Dash87]

64. Because gamers are all dirty satan worshippers.

Evil, all of them! Evil!

[nadinbrzezinski]

110. Well, I thought it was going to take a while

My personal altar to the evil one includes a few cultish, and a gear or two. Of course the well painted vamps need to be fed, I will be right back.

[Dawgs]

94. Where did you hear that? The Internet. And you believed it?

[opiate69]

100. lol! Bone-Joo-er

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

104. They're dead, Jim

Managed to fire off a thread about the whacko prof from Florida who thinks every mass gun event is a false flag and went out in a troll of glory.

[opiate69]

105. Yeah.. I saw that.. was wondering which former dumbfuck troll she(?) was...

Still, "stop focusing on my words" is epic.

[opiate69]

117. ....

http://m.

[SomethingFishy]

72. My 3 are tearing it up too...

And I had to wait in line for half an hour to pick up our copy.

Tell you what. Anyone who thinks kids don't learn anything playing this game has an only child. Because my kids have perfected the fine art of sharing thanks to a warning that if I hear a single argument about "who's turn it is" the damn thing is going right out the window...


Frankly I was a little surprised at how far they went in GTA5. I knew they wanted controversy but damn.. That said, Plants Vs Zombies 2 is getting just as much play in my house. Maybe it'll get my kids to work in the yard

[OhioChick]

76. Most med school students/surgeons game

Surgeons With Video Game Skill Appear To Perform Better In Simulated Surgery Skills Course

In a study involving 12 surgeons and 21 surgical residents, video game skill was correlated with laparoscopic surgery skill as assessed during a simulated surgery skills course, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., of Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, and colleagues asked 33 surgeons (21 residents and 12 attending physicians) about their video game--playing habits, then assessed their performance at the Rosser Top Gun Laparoscopic Skills and Suturing Program, a one-and-a-half day course that scores surgeons on time and errors during simulated surgery drills. During the study, conducted from May through August, 2002, the surgeons also played three video games for 25 minutes while the researchers assessed their gaming skills.

Of the surgeons who participated in the study, 15 reported never playing video games, nine reported playing zero to three hours per week, and nine reported playing more than three hours per week at the height of their video game playing. "Surgeons who had played video games in the past for more than three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors , were 27 percent faster and scored 42 percent better overall than surgeons who never played video games. Current video game players made 32 percent fewer errors, were 24 percent faster and scored 26 percent better overall than their non-player colleagues," the authors write. Those in the top one-third of video gaming skill made 47 percent fewer errors, performed 39 percent faster and scored 41 percent better on the overall Top Gun score than those in the bottom one-third.

"Training curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediated applications, such as laparoscopic surgery," the authors conclude. "Video games may be a practical teaching tool to help train surgeons."

More: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220012341.htm

[Skip Intro]

79. Yay! Murder-simulators for kids.

Saw that term a few days ago and it seems pretty accurate.

So does the term "garbage in, garbage out."

[Rex]

88. We called that TVEE back in the day of 5 channels.

The murder box.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

101. It's like Denis Leary said....

"People say, 'All your generation did is watch TV', yeah but we saw Lee Harvey Oswald get shot one Sunday morning and ever since then we've been afraid to turn off the television....'This show sucks....yeah, but someone might get shot during the commercial, now hold on'...."

[cemaphonic]

99. Its ESRB rating is M-17+

It's no more for kids than say, Taxi Driver or A Clockwork Orange.

[Skeeter Barnes]

115. The game is not for kids. It has the game industry equivalent of an R rating.

And the hysterical "murder simulator" cry was coined by the now disgraced and disbarred lawyer, Jack Thompson, the male version of Orly Taitz. Only he's even crazier.

[Humanist_Activist]

133. Its as much a murder simulator as Madden 17 is an NFL trainer. n/t

[B2G]

91. I can top that.

I've had my gun for 10 years now, and have yet to go on a murderous rampage.

[Dawgs]

92. Tonight I'll be in my third day. Have to say that I'm slightly disappointed with it.

[cui bono]

106. Why do you feel the need to ridicule something instead of have a discussion about it?

Personally, I have mixed feelings about GTA, but if you don't think something like this can influence young minds I think you're wrong.

I never saw anyone defending having kids watch Atlas Shrugged or say, documentaries or TV shows about things we think are crazy or bigoted or misogynistic. You see posts on here every day saying they'd never let their kids watch/read/listen to right wing propaganda. Why not? Presumably to not be exposed to, and possibly influenced by, idiocy.

Do you really think people, young minds in particular, aren't influenced by things they see/read?

I have played LFD/LFD2 online a lot and I have run into too many prepubescent boys on there. They have no business playing that game, but there they are. The parents that allow their kids to play games beyond their years are most likely also the ones that are uninvolved in teaching their kids values etc...

Do I think the games should be banned or something? No. Doesn't change my opinion that they can influence someone's perception of the world and its inhabitants.

[madinmaryland]

111. Forcing your kids to watch and learn the philosophies of Ayn Rand IS CHILD ABUSE. Plain and simple.

GTA is a much better for kids than Ayn Rand's bullshit fiction.

[cui bono]

112. Why though?

[trumad]

114. I ridicule idiots..

If you're not an idiot you have no worries.

[madinmaryland]

113. Grand Theft Auto Issa??

[Niceguy1]

119. my daughters

Have been killing zombies for a while now, and are still normal, well, mostly normal lol

Might try gta once the price goes down.

[lynne]

121. Absolutely no GTA in my house!

Because we're a Call of Duty family. At least, the guys are. The gals play much milder stuff - Guild Wars and WOW.

[trumad]

127. we love COD as well.

Of course my boys kick my ass.

[adirondacker]

124. This is one of the more entertaining threads I've read in a while.

Thanks Trumad (and the Rolling Stone Review), I had to go out and purchase it. I'm not the biggest GTA fan, but this one seems promising. I'm usually a Ratchet and Clank/ Tomb Raider infrequent player.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/10-ways-grand-theft-auto-5-will-blow-your-mind-20130916

[derby378]

125. In the meantime, I've just reached Level 30 on this game and am ready to call it a day

Wonderful game, lots of human depth and drama - and a little silliness at just the right moments.

[trumad]

126. awesome

[Sunlei]

129. wait untill they join a guild, get used live chat & smack talk you at the breakfast table :)

you'll never get that genie back in the bottle

[Vashta Nerada]

130. I've played every Grand Theft Auto game since GTA III

and I have never had any desire to shoot up a mall, punch a hooker, or steal cars.

Why does it seem like this conversation always happens when a new Grand Theft Auto game comes out?

[MichaelHarris]

132. Well

there was a period in the early 90's that I wanted to dress up as a gorilla and roll barrels at people.