Dear God-Emperor, the stupidity!

[Sionnach Glic]

Just....what?

It seems like these people don't understand the concept of fiction.

[Tsukiyumi]

Just....what?

It seems like these people don't understand the concept of fiction.

Duuuuude.......

Being superhuman then must be a good and desirable thing.

Raise your hand if you would like to be thirty times stronger, and like, not have blown ACLs.

Everyone wants to blow up churches and mosques and hunt down every last civilian, with urban tactics and go block by block until you're sure every last one of them is dead.

Sounds like fun.

What about any of this is even tolerable to allow in your house?

Because they're mandatory in every household, of course.

Do we really want kids growing up completely desensitized to scenarios like this? Should they see it as nothing to get upset about?

Yep. What's wrong with fighting evil, again?

Would any child feel like this was fun if they thought of themselves and their family huddling and hiding from the Space Marines going block by block looking to track them down and kill them? Is it still fun yet?

Is your family made up of evil Xenos? No? Well, then what's the problem?

In what way do Angels have anything in common with superhuman genetically modified killing machines?

Yes, because in the Bible, they're just the most average, pleasant folks ever.

THIS IS HOW THEY GET YOU. THIS IS HOW THEY GET TO YOUR KIDS WITHOUT YOU EVER KNOWING IT.

THEY? Dear god, NO!!!

If your child has never heard of the genetic manipulation of human beings to fundamentally change them from a natural, true being into an item of inventory that serves the Imperial Master of Humanity, then the two thumbs up way of framing the idea here will leave the strong impression that it's 100% great. Your child should look forward to any chance to be genetically altered by others.

Yes, they should. We should all try to be better, through genetic enhancement or not.

Civil War is good. Heresy is fun. That old Emperor of Mankind is back again, and certainly, ONE person, some GUY, SHOULD rule over the earth. That's just so natural.

Well, yeah. Not right away, of course. Once each of us rules over our respective parts of the globe, we should have a winner-take-all deathmatch to decide the absolute ruler of Earth. Or a drinking contest. Whatever.

The future sounds so pleasant.

Children SHOULD think of a desolate, corrupted, hopeless future as natural.

Yes, because the present is all rainbows, sunshine and bunny rabbits.

And people think I'm paranoid. This guy needs a few hundred drinks.

[Tyyr]

Ah yes, because as we all know eleven year olds have the kind of disposable income necessary to get into WH40K.

Oh, and the Angel's of Death thing. Of course that's wrong, not like God would ever have a designated angel of... death... oh wait, he did.

[Mikey]

Does anyone mind if I give my summation of that entire "article?"

No? Good. Here goes:

"We'd like to rail insanely against this collection of fiction and toys, because that's far easier than actually interacting with our children and being parents."

[Mark]

Reminds me of the twit at my Christian High School who told me I was going to hell for being a Trekkie.

[Sionnach Glic]

Gotta love the hilarity people like that can churn out while being totaly serious.

[Mikey]

When I ran my record stores, I used to get parents who were ticked off because we sold their kids M-rated games. Game ratings carry no authority - they are just guidelines for parents. Every time I got static, I told the parent that I apologize, and we should never have sold the game to the kid against the parent's wished. Then I would ask them, "Which associate did you tell to not sell your child this game?"

The silence was invariably deafening. Then I would tell them to enjoy their new game, and thanks for stopping by.

[Sionnach Glic]

Over here games ratings are legal limits on how old you have to be before buying them. If you want to buy the latest GTA game, better bring some ID.

[Aaron]

Link

Not sure where this belongs.

Anybody remember that BS in the 80's about D&D corrupting the youth? It's largely moved on to video games but this is a blast from the past!

[Nickswitz]

I can see his point, I see it as total BS, but I can understand why he could come to believe this, especially if he was raised in the 80s when they said everything corrupted young innocent children.

[Aaron]

It's funny cause there's a warning on the box about it being for being 12 and even if the folks buy it for them, the kids going to need help assembling, playing and painting.

[Tsukiyumi]

There's already a thread about this, complete with my added commentary.

[Aaron]

Pfft! Beat you by two hours dude. Merge! Merge! Merge!

Edit: Fuck you AM/PM!

[Aaron]

Over here games ratings are legal limits on how old you have to be before buying them. If you want to buy the latest GTA game, better bring some ID.

Yeah, same here.

[Tsukiyumi]

Pfft! Beat you by two hours dude. Merge! Merge! Merge!

Edit: f**k you AM/PM!

Merging in 3... 2... 1...

Boom.