Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:08 pm
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Just some new parental freak who "raises the alarm" on something "dangerous" because it's on teh dreaded "Internet".
And now expects to get "paid for raising the alarm".
Just goes to show human stupidity needs culling. Apologies for the sarcasm but I just saw the video and I can tell you that was one weak editing job by Today Tonight. Studying the way the media works, I hate these people now. Cut out the truth and leave the lies behind so that it makes the woman that made the claim in the first place some kind of "parental martyr" against Neopets.
And what the heck is up with McD's anyway?
If they pull their sponsorship, so what? I can name -plenty- of other sponsors around here (Wendy's, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Coles Myers, Woolworths etc) who would probably like to jump on board and blow the proverbial raspberry in McD's faces.
Gambling...pfft. You wanna kill that problem lady? Go burn down the Star City Casinos.
Neopets is educational - You can train your pets to battle, feed them, work in the Job Agency, be a collector/gallery owner, and chat (if you're old enough and didn't lie on the form when you signed up) to other Neopets users around the world.
This is called "responsibility" - obviously something this parent doesn't have in letting her child online in the first place. Chance games on Neopets show you that gambling is wrong - the odds are so great that you never freakin' WIN anyway (in my case, and I've been around on there a good long time). There are other games to play, not just those, cor blimey. If the kid's under 13, he shouldn't be ON Neopets WITHOUT parental supervisation anyway!
Kinda one-sided when you look at it that way - here is a parent who is too dumb to realise she is at fault with this entire mess, not Neopets. 9 years old and letting her kid online?
Stupidity reigns.
Just some new parental freak who "raises the alarm" on something "dangerous" because it's on teh dreaded "Internet".
And now expects to get "paid for raising the alarm".
Just goes to show human stupidity needs culling. Apologies for the sarcasm but I just saw the video and I can tell you that was one weak editing job by Today Tonight. Studying the way the media works, I hate these people now. Cut out the truth and leave the lies behind so that it makes the woman that made the claim in the first place some kind of "parental martyr" against Neopets.
And what the heck is up with McD's anyway?
If they pull their sponsorship, so what? I can name -plenty- of other sponsors around here (Wendy's, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Coles Myers, Woolworths etc) who would probably like to jump on board and blow the proverbial raspberry in McD's faces.
Gambling...pfft. You wanna kill that problem lady? Go burn down the Star City Casinos.
Neopets is educational - You can train your pets to battle, feed them, work in the Job Agency, be a collector/gallery owner, and chat (if you're old enough and didn't lie on the form when you signed up) to other Neopets users around the world.
This is called "responsibility" - obviously something this parent doesn't have in letting her child online in the first place. Chance games on Neopets show you that gambling is wrong - the odds are so great that you never freakin' WIN anyway (in my case, and I've been around on there a good long time). There are other games to play, not just those, cor blimey. If the kid's under 13, he shouldn't be ON Neopets WITHOUT parental supervisation anyway!
Kinda one-sided when you look at it that way - here is a parent who is too dumb to realise she is at fault with this entire mess, not Neopets. 9 years old and letting her kid online?
Stupidity reigns.
Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:26 pm
One thing that does seem strange:
I don't have children so I know this is easy for me to say, but I think if my son had been spending months playing on a particular website I wouldn't have waited for the local news or an "anti-pokie" group to tell me about the content of the site -- as I'd have checked it out myself some time ago to make sure it was something I approved of.
I realize one can't watch one's children every second of every day or you'd both go nuts, but how long does it take to poke around a website you've noticed your child spending a lot of time on? The "Luck/Chance" games category with the money, dice, etc. in the graphic link is right there on the main games page. If the woman in the news report had spent all of 10 minutes looking around when she noticed her son spending time on it (or before letting him sign up!) she'd have known all about the gambling games on the site ages ago.
I don't have children so I know this is easy for me to say, but I think if my son had been spending months playing on a particular website I wouldn't have waited for the local news or an "anti-pokie" group to tell me about the content of the site -- as I'd have checked it out myself some time ago to make sure it was something I approved of.
I realize one can't watch one's children every second of every day or you'd both go nuts, but how long does it take to poke around a website you've noticed your child spending a lot of time on? The "Luck/Chance" games category with the money, dice, etc. in the graphic link is right there on the main games page. If the woman in the news report had spent all of 10 minutes looking around when she noticed her son spending time on it (or before letting him sign up!) she'd have known all about the gambling games on the site ages ago.
Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:11 pm
crio3mo wrote:Here's exactly what she said "If you want to have another pet, your only allowed to have four, if you wanna have another one, you have to get rid of one of your others, and so you know, you'll send him to the orphanage, and they make you feel reallly guilty for it too."
This confuses me because they seem to be framing this as a bad thing. Server restrictions aside it's not a good thing to allow people to have infinite pets. The four pet system teaches responsibility. In reall life you can't have an infinite number of pets. And if you're going to get rid of a pet -- even a fake one -- you should feel at least slightly bad about it.
I also agree that monitoring childerns online activities is largely a parental responsibility. Espeicialy for the age range they're indicatng. I'm all for giving teenages and even pre-teans all the freedom and privacy that that individal is responsible enough to handle but a 5 year old? I wouldn't let a five year old on the interent unsupervised, even on neopets.
Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:11 am
Speaking of which, I see they also use the term "pokie" a lot...and that baffles me. Any aussies care to fill this yank in?Does pokie mean Pokemon or something? I'm just wondering what they mean by that. I'm so McConfused.
A pokie machine is a slot machie (ie/ Schorcy slots etc) its slang for a poker machine.