Genuine and sensible parental concern or MORAL PANIC!?

I have to admit (as a life-long gamer, and now someone that works in the industry) I absolutely cannot fathom this phenomenon.

I’ve heard of DanTDM, who despite being a bit excitable, is at least kid-friendly. The stories you hear of some of the vile, things some of them come out with is pretty gross.

My kids played shoot em up and GT Auto type games from an early age.

They get out soon.

Just kidding. Just about balance give them some real misery and some moments. 9 is a bit old to expect them to want to see Peppa Pig at Paultons every weekend…

Local lad the Stampy bloke (skate). Worth £9m.

You know you are getting old when you don’t have a clue about current cultural references. I think I will go and listen to a Yes album.

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They should be out robbing/getting fingered behind shops. The kids of today. I despair.

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I didnt know whether to vote up or down on that as who was doing the robbin or the fingering?

Bloody heel this thread is my life with my son at the moment.

I got him Fortnite, I’m OK with it, he talks to kids in other countries and plays with his schoolfriends. The game also teaches them strategy, think of it as a Minecraft but with guns type thing.

As for the YouTubers they all annoy the fuck out of me DanTDM, iballistictwat, Stampy Short Dick, something orange. They’ve all got annoying voices and they all yell.

They get paid a feck of a lot for doing what they do though so it must be good for them.

I have to restrict my son on the PC otherwise he would be on it all day long, 2 hours a day is enough for Fortnite thank you.

@bathsaint as you’re on an XBox one have you signed up for Microsoft family so you can control their times and see what they’re doing. A bit big brotherish I know but you’ve got to be a little careful.

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Surely things aren’t that bad? :lou_lol:

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Have your kids ever broken a window? I bet you have!

Double glazing has added to the lack of it along with bow and arrows, BSA 22s, catapults and various balls.

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Where i grew up (late 70’s / early 80’s) there was fuck all to do so inevitably we were drawn into acts of anti social behaviour for shits and giggles. From trying to set fire to the school sign to putting flour in the petrol tanks of the PTA members during an evening meeting to nicking garden implements for presents for parents, I think it’s safe to say we were a right little bunch of cunts. I would despair if my nippers ever got up to that sort of behaviour. However out of our little bunch of bastards one became a Uni lecturer, one is a senior Copper and one conducts research after he completed his PHD. Maybe it’s just a rite of passage? Heaven knows.

But we never used the shops to finger lasses, that was always done “up the garages”. Urban class, that.

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No such going ons in Winchester, I can assure you of that :lou_wink_2:

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To be fair, I’m happy with most of what they do on line - as long as I don’t have to listen to those annoying fucks on youtube who, as you rightly say, yell in those annoying voices.

I’m minded to give in on Fortnite and let him fill his boots. At age 9, what was I doing? Playing ‘War’ outside, running around with toy guns, playing with toy soldiers, etc. The consequences were no more real than they are on the Xbox and, as you rightly say, I have Big Brother control over the thing and I pay the bills.

At the moment, our cardinal rule is that devices don’t go upstairs so, for now, no computers, phones, tellies, Xboxes, ipads, etc disappear upstairs.

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Now that is a good idea, I have no issues with TVs upstairs but I do think we need to remove tablets and phones (now try to convince my wife of this).

I did say ‘for now’. I know I’ll have to cave in on this one at some point but am holding out as long as possible.

The main downside is that we get subjected to that fucker Squid (in my opinion, the worst of the lot) yelling in his Manc accent.

For those of you who don’t know what I’m moaning about, I defy you to watch this (with volume turned up) for more than 5 seconds without wanting to rip your ears off. It also features Fortnite, the game in question.

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Stanmore, mate!

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You don’t mention Stanmore and I won’t mention Winnall. Deal?

Actually, I grew up in Harestock - full of the kids of Greenjacket squaddies…

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Oi, nothing wrong with army brats…

I wouldn’t even suggest that there was anything wrong with them.

(I wouldn’t dare in case they decided to beat me up).

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Exactly, there’s more than one of us on here you know…

I had a similar feral childhood. However there were risks to this kind of behaviour. Swift justice was meted out by anyone in the village who caught you and reaffirmed by your parents when you got in. The local copper knew who you were and was quite frankly, fucking terrifying.

So whilst we did get up to all sorts of misdemeanors, you pretty quickly worked out right from wrong and that actions have consequences.

I also think that by having to amuse ourselves gave us a degree of self sufficiency at an earlier age, rather than the constant entertainment that parents seem to be obliged to spoon feed to kids every school holiday

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