Valentine's Day and some other random things

[virago_queen]

Purchased some Black Butler manga (1-2, 4-5, since B+N was out of vol 3 - promptly ordered it and 6 from Amazon for half what I paid in the store...stupid expensive bookstore, I miss Borders) and The Queen's Thief by Megan Whalen Turner for Valentine's Day

Comments

[breyzyyin]

Liam Neeson is awesome! :) That's kind of neat in a way that you guys always watch unromantic movies on Valentine's Day! XD

[virago_queen]

Oh man, little kids are the worst when it comes to cursing and insults online. My husband played Call of Duty for a while, and there'd always be some kid who hadn't hit puberty yet, spewing the most racist, sexist, just plain vulgar language.

Hopefully there won't be too many on ME3, because Bioware actually has mature, deep storytelling, and those kinds of kids only seem to care about shooting people. Love how a good story has the double bonus of both being engaging and filtering out the lowest common denominator, lol.

And yeah, I'm always boggled at parents who are like "video games are destroying our children!!!" when it's their fault that they bought their kid an M-rated game. I think it has something to do with the older generation being stuck in the mindset that "games are for children" and thus they automatically assume that any game is going to be okay for their kid to play... When that's just flat-out untrue.

[sunflower_mynah]

Yeah, and I don't know about what it's like in the US, but M-rated games here are very clearly M-rated. My copy of DA2 had a HUGE M18 sticker plastered over the wrapping. HUGE.

[virago_queen]

It's like that in some states (and others are attempting to pass laws that require the enormous stickers). Where I'm from, though, there's just the normal small labels on the front and back...but it's not like they're tiny by any means, and the back label has a brief description of why the game has that rating.

I mean, how hard is it to flip to the back, see the big M for Mature, read "graphic violence," and put it back because it's clearly not meant for your nine year-old? Geez. =/

I probably wouldn't keep my kid from playing T-rated games, but there's one hell of a jump between that and M.

/grumps around