Muppet Propoganda

Cannuck

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The mass marketed crap that I was referring to, is just that, brain rotting crap, IMHO.




The Social Value of Video Games | Evolutionary IT
 

karrie

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Bear, did I see Cars 2? No. My kids are too old for it. We don't pay to go to movie theatres so something has to be really good, well acclaimed, for them to remember to watch it once the advertising push fizzles out. Weeds out a lot of crap, although that wasn't the point, we're just cheap.

As for Fox's assertion.

I'm sorry, but it's reaching. Do some movies have a message behind them? Hell yes! There has to be a message for adults and children to both spring for the crazy ticket prices. So they throw in a controversy that is real and current for both segments of the audience. Pretty plain and simple sales ploy. The kids see a bad guy, the parents feel smart for understanding the subtext, everyone goes home happy.

What's current? The public backlash againts environmental damage, and corporate culture. So Disney actually makes the brilliant sales decision to take a dig at themselves in order to sell movies. Is it a grand message bent on bending the minds of today's youth? No. It's a calculated measure of popular opinion designed to sell tickets.
 

DaSleeper

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All the games that are popular, pushed and directed at kids, as far as I'm concerned are crap. There isn't a single gaming console in my house for that very reason. They're my kids after all. And all the proof I need as to whether or not it was the right decision, is where my kids are today. Compared to the bulk of the rodents that run around our area.

I didn't like the crap I heard kids talking about, such as Grand Theft Auto, before I started working with kids. I really don't like it now that I work with kids and hear the crap that comes out them, and watch the behavior they mimic.

If you want to talk simulators, then we're talking useful training tools.

The mass marketed crap that I was referring to, is just that, brain rotting crap, IMHO.

Could playing video games be considered a war crime?



Is Playing Videogames a War Crime?
 

CDNBear

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As for Fox's assertion.
Fox's Op/Ed is spin targeting their demographic.

I'm sorry, but it's reaching. Do some movies have a message behind them? Hell yes! There has to be a message for adults and children to both spring for the crazy ticket prices. So they throw in a controversy that is real and current for both segments of the audience. Pretty plain and simple sales ploy. The kids see a bad guy, the parents feel smart for understanding the subtext, everyone goes home happy.

What's current? The public backlash againts environmental damage, and corporate culture. So Disney actually makes the brilliant sales decision to take a dig at themselves in order to sell movies. Is it a grand message bent on bending the minds of today's youth? No. It's a calculated measure of popular opinion designed to sell tickets.
I think you're putting the cart before the horse. People wouldn't know the popular opinion message, until they see the movie.

But anyways, that subtext message that is real cool when the adults get it, is still being seen by kids. For whatever reason that message is there, it's still a message. It's subtext without context. Like making kids watch "An Inconvenient Truth" without the balance of an opposing view.

You and I may notice this, and as educated people, we may stop and offer our children some context. I'm not all that hopeful; that all parents are that savvy.

That's an extreme. Not that I'm surprised, the IRC is quite apt at re-interpreting International Law, to suit their ideology.

Out of the three articles posted here, and the few I've read over the last coupled days. I've found that the pro's of video game play, can be achieved through many far more healthier means/activities. Without the negative effects attributed to video game play.

Bad for the brain, but a war crime, it is not.
 

wizard

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... conservative america has been accusing the producers of children's programming of sending underlying messages to young people in their material forever ...

... in the '80s some religious groups were up in arms regarding saturday morning cartoons! probably still are, although i note that the cartoons aren't on saturday mornings like they were when i was a kid ...