News Room Contributor  Posts: 1863 Joined: 19 Aug 2006     | |
Press Junketeer Posts: 469 Joined: 15 Dec 2007     | now its just matter that the goverment and stupid parents hear her |
Copy Clerk Posts: 98 Joined: 13 Apr 2008   | ooh, I agree. I Agree. A lot. Seriously, if you're not responsible enough to monitor what your kids are playing, than you have no right to be a parent |
Paperboy  Posts: 41 Joined: 24 Jul 2008     | This is the first time I've heard the word Nintendo and smiled in a year. I agree 100%. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1381 Joined: 29 Jul 2008  | Watch the movie idiocracy. Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Dystopian future where everyone is stupid for that reason. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 982 Joined: 21 Feb 2008   | Well its true. |
Muckraker  Posts: 255 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 | It's an easy solution. Release a lot of sterile stupid-people into the population to stunt it's growth. They do the same thing with mosquitoes. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1362 Joined: 6 Feb 2008    | Perrin Kaplan: "Parents who use videogames as a babysitter shouldn't have sex to begin with." Nice to see games journalists are just as good at sensationalising as their mainstream counterparts. This sites news articles are becoming more like reading a tabloid by the week. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4200 Joined: 20 Dec 2007    |
Beat me to it, but because I can't stress this enough, I shall now just pop out and blatantly say GO WATCH IDIOCRASY IT IS AWESOME! (if not highly disturbing). |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1316 Joined: 26 Mar 2008  |
So true; that film is an eerie glimpse into the future. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2736 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   |
So sad, but so true. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2402 Joined: 29 Nov 2007   |
Ah, but we clicked on it, didn't we? |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 12821 Joined: 30 Jan 2008  |
Well, how would you put it? If a parent I incapable of properly raising a child, then they shouldn't begin the act of coitus in the first place. Unless the child was an accident. So, the alternate headline is "If your parents let you play violent videogames, they don't really love you". |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3443 Joined: 8 May 2008  |
"Parents who use videogames as a babysitter shouldn't have sex to begin with." Says Ex-Nintendo Exec |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 443 Joined: 22 Jan 2008 |
I love this woman. |
Muckraker  Posts: 327 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    | I've always liked Perrin Kaplan, even when she was the messenger of bad news. This just reaffirms my faith in her and my hope that she'll come back to the games industry sooner. You're awesome at what you do! Come back to us! And yes, I agree with this sentiment in totality - poor parenting and upbringing in general (I still believe a bad school and peers can break someone otherwise raised fine) is a terrible thing. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 193 Joined: 24 Oct 2007 | Shigeru Miyamoto was at that panel? It didn't say that in the book or on the website. I would have gone if I knew he was going to be there. Of course I'm surprised they didn't make a much bigger deal out of his presence. Was he really there? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1204 Joined: 2 Mar 2008  | ...Why couldn't she have been the one on stage at this years cruddy E3? She would have at least made the blow of Nintendo sucking this year that much easier to take. Anyway, back on topic. I do whole heartadly (SP?) agree. I only wish there was a way from stopping these assholes from having kids in the first place. |
BANNED  Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008   | Stupid people should definitely keep having sex and making babies. How else do you think the economy will survive? User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Paperboy Posts: 16 Joined: 27 Feb 2008 |
haha glad im not the only one to have thought that. I am purposely going to have to look at the Daily Mail now for whatever 'middle-England' sensationalist headline they choose to run with, probably something like "Gamers shouldn't have sex' or "Nintendo calls working mothers bad parents". |
Paperboy  Posts: 44 Joined: 19 Aug 2008 | A whole board of people who never played an age-restricted game before they should've? Impressive. Praise your perfect progenitors! The chain of horror, immorality and crime that has been my life to date had up until now mystified me... I never considered that my stupid, irresponsible parents didn't love me. If only the internet had existed then! They could've stood on the shoulders of the moral giants of the message boards, and I might have stood a chance of a decent life. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1065 Joined: 27 Aug 2008  | This is something that needs painting on buses, trains and buildings. Instead of the usual crap that's stuck everywhere. Hats off to her for speaking the truth. EDIT: a couple of people have mentioned Idiocracy, there's also the South Park episode in the first season that has the parent's using the TV as a baby sitter and complaining about it. Good call. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 102 Joined: 6 Dec 2007 |
They're not arguing whether or not the parents shouldn't let kids play games not rated for them, they're arguing whether or not the parents shouldn't let kids play games not suitable for them, big difference. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 778 Joined: 27 Aug 2008  | Now I kinda want to have sex with her, as she's making me like Nintendo again. Is that wrong? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 761 Joined: 20 Sep 2007 | "Beat me to it, but because I can't stress this enough, I shall now just pop out and blatantly say GO WATCH >>>IDIOCRASY<<< IT IS AWESOME!" XD "They're not arguing whether or not the parents shouldn't let kids play games not rated for them, they're arguing whether or not the parents shouldn't let kids play games not suitable for them" I'd say the rating is there as a pointer as to that : P Her point seems rather to be that parents shouldn't let games be the sole source of ideas and role-models for children because they are rarely good ones. Irresponsible parents whom have let their children be raised by television and games just to relieve their own stress shouldn't have had children in the first place. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1563 Joined: 5 Dec 2007  | Thats a GOTY worthy idea! |
News Room Contributor  Posts: 7548 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   |
You call this surviving? I direct you to the case of Stupid People vs. Northern Rock.
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 939 Joined: 27 Jul 2008 | "Parents who use videogames as a babysitter shouldn't have sex to begin with." Truer words have never been spoken. |
Paperboy Posts: 44 Joined: 19 Aug 2008 | C'mon guys, don't wreck the future here. The way you've got it all figured out, the next generation of kids'll all have some kind of education or something, and then who will buy all the games? The videogame industry NEEDS stupid people like me to be the majority. How could it be expected to sustain its growth unless it was so? Just think, if my parents had raised me properly there's no way I'd spend half my time playing games and the other half writing about them. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3664 Joined: 21 Jan 2008   | Too bad no one's gonna listen... gah, the stupid parents wouldn't even have internet access. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 63 Joined: 5 Nov 2007 |
I think the argument is that let your 10 year old play GTA all they want so long as you also raise them to be smart, well-adjusted, reasonable people that can tell right from wrong. Video games are fine unless they impede normal (or proper) child growth. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 79 Joined: 5 Aug 2008 | I'm speechless.... An American executive with actually a good point. Though she won't have any impact. A horde of angry American moms is an unbeatable force. Especially if you tell them it's their own fault... Nevertheless, I love her. |
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Ex-Nintendo Exec: Stupid People Shouldn't Have Sex
Former Nintendo marketing executive Perrin Kaplan has called out irresponsible parenting and hinted at her return to the industry.
After leaving Nintendo and videogames at the end of 2007, former vice president Perrin Kaplan founded Zebra Partners, a marketing firm with interests in gaming that will launch when her non-compete agreement with Nintendo ends this December.
Speaking at the Penny Arcade Expo, Kaplan announced that she would return to industry as soon as possible.
"I have not left the gaming industry for good. I love it," she proclaimed.
While serving as a panelist at a table about sex and violence in gaming with What They Play's John Davison, Grand Theft Childhood co-author Cheryl Olson and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, Kaplan commented about the lack of proper parenting over kids who game.
Kaplan stated, "Parents who use videogames as a babysitter shouldn't have sex to begin with."
Source: Spong via GamePolitics
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