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Well, as long as she doesn't start to rob people or tries to resurrect an army of draugr's I'm fine with her playing games. Just don't sword me please. I'll kindly get out of the way. | |
Already saw this, it's the cutest gaming-related thing I've ever seen. And I like how the father's comments indicate a better knowledge of how to be an adequate parent than any of the deranged yammering that the more misguided of our moral guardians like to indulge in. A bad parent asks how the world can change to best accomodate their child. A good parent knows how to introduce a child to the world. | |
she has an axe, the guards have the swords, she might have just been complaining about the harsh justice.. but ok :P | |
XD Oh my god, this is the cutest thing I have ever seen! He should make her do a Let's Play of Skyrim with commentary, just so we can hear the cuteness more! :P | |
She should have kept using shout. | |
PFFFFFT! | |
This reminds me of that poignant scene in Kill Bill Vol.2 where they're talking about the death of the goldfish. And it is adorable! | |
aww... her face is so adowable at the end. and if i don't see a shirt with her face and the caption | |
Police: "You need to leave" | |
Dawwwwww. That's gotta be the cutest thing I've seen in a while. I wouldn't be surprised if "People don't want to be sword" became a meme either. It just seems like meme-material. | |
If I have a child, I want it to be like this. | |
"People don't want to be sword" has become my new favorite phrase for explaining when things go wrong. | |
Aww how cute! Almost makes me want to push out a couple of my own brats just to see them play Skyrim.....almost.... | |
Aww, how cute. The unarmed man asked her to go away and she shouted No a few times then killed him with an axe. A valuable lesson in conflict resolution has been learned... right? Sorry, but I'm gonna be the guy that says this is totally inappropriate for a child. I don't see how this is different from the ever popular "I saw a dumb parent in Best Buy picking up Black Ops for her 10 year old..." I hope this is a one off, and not how her 'gamer family' juggle looking after a 3 year old and playing Skyrim, or any other game, at the same time. | |
When, I saw her face change from joy, at being able to move again, to the realization that he character was getting "sworded," That was pure gold. I find this funnier than charlie bit my finger | |
I just decided I'm going to attend an Occupy protests with a sign that says "FOOOS!" | |
That's almost as awesome as the epic kid speech. | |
Very cute, I'm not sure the game is appropriate for a child of her age though it was worth it for the video for such a short play-time. A little bit hypocritical of me since I've let my sister watch parts of Fallout and GTA IV but they were only non-combat bits and not parts where there is likely to be swearing or inappropriate references etc. | |
Edutainment at its finest. "People don't want to be sword" sounds like a pretty good lesson to me. | |
Screw that other kid. She is dragonborn. | |
She sworded him............WITH AN AXE!! | |
I have to say, I am actually proud of that parent, he seems decent. I don't normally like watching videos with kids in it (there's probably a bad joke in there) but this was admittedly cute :3 I think I might make 'People don't want to be sword' my battlecry. | |
Well, as long as she learned from the experience (and it seems that she did), then I'm all for this. "people don't want to be sword" indeed. No they do not. If you sword them, you make them mad. And you know what they say! In subzero skyrim....Guards sword YOU! | |
As adorable as this is, I don't think she should be playing Skyrim at all. "Sword him" - I don't know if that was adorable or creepy, but I loved it. | |
awwww people don't want to be sworded indeed :] | |
If anything I think this is teaching her a valuable lesson about consequences, I mean, she was able to figure out that people don't like to be sworded, most games reward you for swording people, this one actually taught her not to sword. Besides, children are exposed to much much worse everyday. Just not in as large numbers as they used to be. | |
Eventhought he explain it fully about the situation and the moral/ lesson she had learn. I bet there are some people out there who still take it the wrong way (the people who claim violence games is bad)! | |
Interactive education, bitches. I'm sure this'll stick with her longer than any parent telling their kids what's moral. | |
That might just be the cutest thing I've seen in months. | |
I have a bad feeling that people don't want to be sword will become a meme. | |
I completely agree, this is a much better than a lot of 'adult' content that children are exposed to, and if she does learn the lesson from it, then she will come out of it better for it. To Sixcess, would you prefer this child was exposed to TV and magazines which promote the sexualisation of children and women, teaching her that the only way to get through the world was through beauty and perceived attractiveness. Or even, if you take the exact same situation, would you prefer to have her learn the same lesson in the playground? Someone gets in her way, prevents her from getting to her favourite toy or from moving through a corridor, and decides to to resolve it in the same way by using violence to remove the obstacle, only to encounter the real repercussions for using violence against another person. Would that be the preferred alternative to exposing a small child to the 'safe', 'controlled', parent supervised but M-rated Skyrim? Personally, I would rather expose my child to Skyrim, under supervision, and learn the same kinds of lessons about life, than the more unpleasant lessons that I learned to the same end. | |
I kind of agree, however, they better not teach her that if you steal something or kill someone while noone sees you and you're being sneaky, you can get away with it XD. | |
Yup. After all the video is not about glorifying some sort of rampage on her part- she is clearly learning about the nature of morality in the justice system, in a safe environment, long before most of her peers. That can only be a positive experience, especially with intelligent and even-minded parents to help her come to grips with these new realization. And that, obnoxious moral guardians of the world, is how parenting is supposed to work. Also, d'aww you can almost see the little wheels in her head turning as she tries to figure out what's going on. | |
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Adorable 3 Year-Old Experiences Harsh Justice in Skyrim
Watch as this toddler comes to terms with crime and punishment in the world of Skyrim.
The minds of 3 year-old humans are complex and fast-paced places. To wit: this video of one such child, seen here wrestling with the moral quandries and lessons presented to her by M-rated The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Watch as the young child's path is blocked by an unimpressed NPC. The child opts for the ol' ear-piercing shout tactic so popular among her age group as a means to deal with this problem. When it fails, she resorts to "swording" the interlocutor until he no longer presents an obstacle.
"Aha!" she beams. Her path is clear. But what's this? Town Guards? I probably shouldn't have straight-up murdered that NPC in a world that exists without institutionalized judicial checks and balances, her frown seems to say. Maybe I shouldn't have murdered him at all. "People don't want to be sword," she says out loud, putting her complex ruminations on the nature of crime and punishment into impressively straightforward terms.
Of course, she could just be horrified at the quick and violent end her character sees as a result of her action. Much of the reaction to this video - cute as the girl and her play are - has centered around what a 3 year-old child was doing wielding an axe in Skyrim in the first place.
After Kotaku ran a story on the video, the girl's apparent father, Carl Douglas, wrote in to explain why his daughter was axe-murdering NPCs. "While I do understand that games and violence out of context can be harmful to a child, we are a family of gamers, and the exposure to some imagery is inevitable (though unfortunate)," he wrote. "We do our best to explain things to her and talk about what happens...when the adorably traumatic realization set in that the guards were responding to her "swording" by giving her "boo boos," we did ask her what happened. She just sweetly responded "peoples don't like swords, and we don't want swords on the peoples" and she didn't want to play anymore."
"She [knows] the Skyrim controls because she likes to run around in the wilderness looking for streams to jump into," he added.
As far as whether or not the child should be playing Skyrim goes, her father seems to have a decent grasp on detailing the differences between reality and fantasy. The jury's still out on whether she's absorbing the basics of the situation in the video, or is just upset by the gore on the screen. Regardless, though, a lesson of some stripe has been learned: Don't "sword" someone out of your way and expect a "boo-boo"-free response from the local authorities.
Source: Kotaku
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