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Post by Meltd0wn on Sept 2, 2008 12:45:16 GMT
Former Nintendo vice president of marketing, Perrin Kaplan, has announced her return to video gaming by demanding that bad parents shouldnt reproduce. Speaking at a panel on sex and violence in games at the Penny Arcade Expo (her appearance at which alone indicates her continued interest in the industry) Kaplan said, "I have not left the gaming industry for good. I love it." Kaplan said at the panel, "Parents who use video games as a babysitter shouldn't have sex to begin with." Kaplan left Nintendo last June along with other senior management apparently dissatisfied with relocation from Seattle to San Francisco and New York. She has since set up her own company, Zebra Partners. Exactly what that company does is unclear, with its website carrying notification that it is "undergoing some changes". The one useful scrap of information it does carry is the legend, "Obsessed with Connecting Brands and Consumers". Given that and Kaplan's former role, some kind of marketing looks like a good bet for the nature of the company's activities. Kaplan will reportedly bring games under her new company's umbrella when her non-compete clause with Nintendo ends in December. (Source: Spong.com) ------------------------------------- Meltd0wn's CommentsKudos to Kaplan, After years of dealing with these 'bad parents' from working in retail It's refreshing to see more people agree with me. These same parents that have no time for their kids and use "TV, Video games, Movie, the Mall, etc" as their Free Babysitter service are not only negligent, but these are often the same people who dont pay any attention to What game, movie, etc that their kids are viewing, and then on the occasion they do and it's something they dont like they turn around and blame the Industry and the stores for allowing their kids to view such a thing. These are also the same idiots that allow hate groups to get a foothold in politics that try to censor everything. Grrrr I really hate these people. |
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Post by mrsvalden on Sept 2, 2008 15:22:07 GMT
Way too many people have children that never ever should.
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Post by drlsgtdena on Sept 2, 2008 18:06:04 GMT
wow i thought i commented here okay
to many parents use video game to keep kids silent it is a shame
in my house it is a reward if they don't do there chores they don't play if they make me mad they don't even get to watch me play LOL
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Post by Meltd0wn on Sept 2, 2008 21:17:22 GMT
wow i thought i commented here okay to many parents use video game to keep kids silent it is a shame in my house it is a reward if they don't do there chores they don't play if they make me mad they don't even get to watch me play LOL you commented on this news story over on Gaming Attic. heh heh so your not going crazy. lol I do gaming news on Nookbay, so I just go ahead and post gaming news on all the video game sites I visit, since I already have it all typed out and ready to go.  |
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Post by drlsgtdena on Sept 2, 2008 21:49:32 GMT
hehehehehe and I thought I lost my mind oh wait i think i did
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Post by Zea on Sept 4, 2008 20:58:12 GMT
*Dons flameproof armor*
Well, sometimes maybe it's not bad parenting....maybe it's "bad" kids. I was a "bad" kid. I did what I wanted to do, mostly on the sly. I and my 4 younger sisters would drive my mom nuts. She'd boot us all out of the house to play outside. I bet I spent 1/4 of my childhood in the woods behind our house. Outdoors was our 'babysitter'. I'm certain we would have been parked in front of a console with joysticks in hand had they been around. I don't think of my parents as neglectful for getting us out of their hair.
*Ducks & runs for cover*
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Post by mrsvalden on Sept 5, 2008 3:45:48 GMT
Wow, Zea. Your family sounds like my husband's, except there were 5 boys in their family. My husband always talks about how his mom didn't raise them, the neighborhood did. They were always outside and playing in the woods behind their house. He says the only reason his mom fed them was so the neighbors wouldn't see them hungry. But he doesn't like his mom, so he might be streatching it.
Some of the stuff he says they did...wow. I can't imagine. They'd be gone from morning until suppertime. Doing stupid daredevil stunts. I'm surprised they all survived to adulthood. They talk about pushing the baby of the family down the stairs on a Tonka dump truck. So many scary stories. My brother and I were saints compared to them. But our mom was always around. And we lived in the middle of nowhere...nowhere to go.
And when video games came around...that's where they were...parked in front of the games. And he still is!
I remember his younger brother telling the story of how my husband and their grandmother got into it (none of the boys like her.) She came down and wanted my husband and his brother to quit playing their game and do something for her. They didn't stop. She started complaining at them, and my husband said, "Why don't you tape record that, and I'll listen to it sometime when I care." Ouch!! Once a smart@## always a smart@##!
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Post by Zea on Sept 5, 2008 7:43:05 GMT
Lol...I hear ya! As I look back....those were "The Good Ol' Days"
I wouldn't change a thing.
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Post by Meltd0wn on Sept 5, 2008 15:48:38 GMT
I do agree that there are "bad kids" as well. and I am a "Latch Key Kid" myself, me and my brothers and sister spent most of our time outside playing. and both parents worked and were only home in the evenings.
I'm not really talking about the issue of "always playing games". I'm more angry about the parents who use the game (or mall, or movie theater) as their babysitter. and then turn around and complain about something their child did that was bad and try and blame these other sources as the reason their kids are bad.
And this isnt new to video games.
I'm not talking about kids being kids and doing stupid things. (IE pushing brother down the stairs in a tonka truck. Me and my brothers pushed my youngest brother down the stairs in a laundry basket. LOL) These are just stupid kid things. I'm talking about the parents who blame their kids serious criminal behavior on a video game, because they were not responsible enough to be a parent themselves.
Blaming a video game for for teaching someone to go around and kill people is as stupid excuse as back in the early days of Rock n Roll they said it was the music teaching kids to go around and kill people.
oh and "Comic Books", "Movies", "TV", "Dungeons & Dragons", etc. The list goes on of other devices that have supposedly taught the youth to go out and kill people. I think each generation gets a couple of scape goats that parents can use to blame instead of themselves.
Trust me I do not claim to be a "Great" parent. I dont even consider myself a very good parent. but I will say that I am a "Responsible" parent. My daughters probably get exposed to more video games, RPG's, Music and Movies than a typical child would normally be exposed to, but I also make sure they know the differences between wrong and right, and reality and make believe. My parents were far from being around a lot. but they still were able to instill in me and my brothers and sisters certain moral values. instead of just leaving everything up to us kids to figure out on our own. lol
I guess the bottom line for me is, For those parents who wont take the time to be parents. DON'T blame others when your offspring don't turn out how you expected them to. LOL
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Post by tophat on Sept 6, 2008 10:01:12 GMT
Wow... the kids you describe sound just like me. Parked in front of the TV. Stupid stunts (lighting peices of foam fingers on fire). But what can a kid do, now that the city only has dirty parking lots and big smoky buildings?
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Post by twizzylaine on Sept 16, 2008 17:30:38 GMT
hahaha, First of all I just want to say that I LOVE this site. You guys are awesome. But on to what I wanted to put into the conversation. My brothers were the crazy ones (well at least until I got old enough to be a little crazy too) But seriously, it's like the Columbine thing, I was young when that happened (6th grade) but I do remember everyone saying "Oh no, it must be Marilyn Manson's fault because of his music" or "They played those violent video games! That must be why they did what they did" but, I don't think so. I agree with what you guys are saying. I mean, I have played violent video games, and it hasn't made me want to go shoot someone. I have listened to Marilyn Manson and his songs don't make me angry or make me want to kill people. Those parents are just trying to find something.....ANYTHING to blame their kid's actions on. My parents blocked all the channels on the satellite that they thought were bad like South Park and a few others (atleast until I figured out the password...Bad kid, who me?) But to wrap this up, I don't think it is the video game companies fault, parents need to get involved with what their kids are doing. whether it be video games, movies, music, whatever. parents to carefully watch what their kids participate in. If they don't, then they have nothing to gripe about.
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