Dad takes CoD loving kids to war torn Israel and gets criticized by other parents

[pherai]

i’m swedish and i have never seen a belt such as the one pedoviejo posted.

sooo errrhm ya just saying! :))

for whatever reason it reminded me of my sami bracelet :wonder:

and for the record, a friend of mine is half swede, half mexican :tup:

[angelpalm]

I bet his kid is still a camping little f@66ot

[foger]

Saying he is trivializing war is like saying Museum of Tolerance trivializes the Holocaust. Rather than showing pieces of war to his kids, he decided to immerse them in an entire society affected by violence.

I think it’s too early to say. Depends how this ends up being perceived. Right now its just being used as conservative sensationalist fearmongering, but for interest’s sake, what if the attention is drawn away from the actual issue of war in the middle east?
I’d say most people who’ve heard the story make it into a story about gaming or parenting already, rather than awareness. They take the point about how out of touch we are and how bad it is over there, stuff it in their pocket and go back to talking about how it affects them personally.

To add to that:
I had a similar discussion with a couple of soldiers at Eurogamer last year, when they were laughing about how unrealistic CoD Ghosts was, compared with the real thing. It’s nothing like it and it shouldn’t be. It never even crossed my mind that people would draw a serious comparison between a game and reality. Not a gamer at least.
Maybe it’s just me but gaming is a form of escapism. An odd kind, since unlike TV or music, it actually requires l interaction from the user with other users, but its purpose is still to give you an ‘unreal’ experience. Are people playing CoD and thinking ‘shit, I’d make a great soldier, it’s clearly loads of fun, when’s the next flight to Iraq?’

I think his kids have gotten an eye opening experience out of it, and will forever know how fortunate they are for it and the fact that it was just an ‘experience’, but gaming shouldn’t even come into it.

honestly people have this romantic idea of armed conflict in general

people think war is like cod and battlefield - urban settings with lots of hipfire and badassery and etc

war seems to be more like arma - spend a half an hour in a helicopter, walk for another half an hour, get killed by a dude hiding in a bush from 500 meters before you get to take a shot

[EXKayo]

I mean you could argue that he has possibly put his children in harms way but that can happen stepping out of your front door, I feel he made a bold choice and great one educating his children and giving them the ability to make a choice and they made a good choice. Big up’s to the father.

[Shadow_Ace]

they should do this for fighting games to, have some some kids mom or dad visit a locale in another country and fight with a random stranger with a background in mixed martial arts as the kid stands in the background with a two frame look of horror of their face

[NonSexualRice]

So… The father is exploiting victims of harsh circumstances to teach his kids a lesson on playing video games?

Extremely stupid

[angelpalm]

Yeah, I don’t think you know what exploitation means bro.

[blueleon]

…Or why not just play the damn videogame with your kids? It’ll save you time, money, and the lives of you and your children.

The father doesn’t seem to have a grasp of what videogames are about. The kids aren’t trying to get involved with actual war, and they can’t possibly take part in one.
CoD is a game, nothing more.

[NonSexualRice]

Yeah, I don’t think you know what exploitation means bro.

Exploitation: the act of making use and benefiting from ones resources.

I don’t think YOU understand the meaning of the word. He’s literally exploiting the actual sadness and trauma of war torn victims to passively persuade his sons not to a ya video game cause of his predisposed feelings on the subject

[Zane_Hitsurugi]

^Ratings have little effect on parents these days. I know a Dad who let’s his son play whatever he wants and the kid has nightmares about Caesar from Planet of the Apes. My parents did care when I was growing up and I appreciate that now because I got to play things I otherwise would have skipped out on because it didn’t look cool enough (aka bloody enough).

I’m sorry but why the fuck you having nightmares about a damn monkey? That’s some funny shit.

[FOBio]

Yeah, I don’t think you know what exploitation means bro.

Exploitation: the act of making use and benefiting from ones resources.

I don’t think YOU understand the meaning of the word. He’s literally exploiting the actual sadness and trauma of war torn victims to passively persuade his sons not to a ya video game cause of his predisposed feelings on the subject

He’s exploiting actual war no more than the company that base their games off WWII, terrorist attacks, etc. to make a profit. People actually were actually injured or died in these acts. He’s showing his kids the victims rather than the glorified point of view the games portray. Sorry, no trumpets blowing, bonus multi-kill points, or medals earned once a building blows up.

[MotM]

Yeah, I don’t think you know what exploitation means bro.

Exploitation: the act of making use and benefiting from ones resources.

I don’t think YOU understand the meaning of the word. He’s literally exploiting the actual sadness and trauma of war torn victims to passively persuade his sons not to a ya video game cause of his predisposed feelings on the subject

Right, his resources are his income and a nearby airport.

The dead and wounded are still there regardless of anything.

[Negative-Zer0]

Yeah, I don’t think you know what exploitation means bro.

Exploitation: the act of making use and benefiting from ones resources.

I don’t think YOU understand the meaning of the word. He’s literally exploiting the actual sadness and trauma of war torn victims to passively persuade his sons not to a ya video game cause of his predisposed feelings on the subject

…

Like deadass, how can you read that definition and call it exploitation? what are you even mad about?