By your logic, wouldn’t pokemon be the same as Michael Vick’s dog fighting? I’m not trying to discredit what you said but I think you’re misunderstanding my argument here.

Because it is. But you’d have to be a parent to understand.

Attacking someone without stating your position is not a discussion, it is just hate. I have no problem listening to your opinion, but you have yet to make an argument. Attacking me doesn’t say anything about me, it just tells me you’re a hothead.

No marketing firm, just a father with an opinion. I’d like to give you a reply but I’m not even sure how to start since your questions are disorganized. Are you seriously interested in knowing my opinion or are you just trying to discredit it? Because I’ll gladly share what I mean if you’re interested.

I used to think the same thing in the 90's when I kicked my friends butt at SF2 Turbo on SNES but there’s way more to it than that. But there’s way more to it than just joysticks and button mashing. Check out this video (once featured here on Kotaku) about eye tracking and what pro players actually do with their eyes…

Why wouldn’t it be? Also, why do you ask?

Anything we tell other people is what we ourselves believe about ourselves. It’s called projection. You either believe you aren’t special OR you had really bad parents that made you believe you weren’t special so now you want the world to know “this is how the world works”.

You revealed that your argument has nothing to do with the content of anything I said or this article at all. You are upset that you missed out on games as a child and that your parents were (unreasonably) controlling. I’m sorry your parents treated you that way. Parents of all educational levels do what they believe…

No. I time traveled to show you how the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas “hot coffee” mod caused an outrage and many parents became concerned about the content of the video games. To dismiss the group that ESRB represents would be like dismissing Christians that represent the Bible (even if they say they don’t).

Ignoring the purpose of ESRB’s existence was the first fallacy.

I am a feeler. What I lack in my brain I have in my heart. No person is 100% in both places. I’m sorry you’ve been hurt so much that you can’t value other people like I do.

Then you want to abolish the ESRB, the movie rating board, and the parental warning on audio CDs? Why not also discontinue Net Nanny and other parental control settings? You seem to feel very strongly about parents butting their nose out of children’s business, so why not announce your desire to put an end to…

I value authors, teachers, people who contribute to society as well. I don’t know why we can’t honor all amazing people. Susan Cain, Sir Ken Robinson, Brene Brown, Dr. Martin Luther King, Nick Hanauer, Tim Urban, J.K. Rowling, Tolkein, DAIGO, you name it! But not everyone gets their names recognized because not…

No, the policies that created the ESRB did that.

Aspies is what fellow autistic people call themselves and prefer to be referred to as. You’re taking my words out of context, but you have done that this whole time so I expect nothing less from you at this point.

“So a 13+ year old needs a parent to explain why Tracker’s back is facing the camera?” — Yes. To make sure the 13+ year old isn’t getting the wrong message from it.

I never said I was superior, I just said you’re hurting.

An ESRB wouldn’t exist if there weren’t hundreds of concerned parents about the content their CHILDREN were viewing:

It’s not up to you do validated it. Thinking and feeling has been studied for over a century. Have you ever heard of Meyer Briggs and Carl Jung? They study personality types and thinking and feeling are both measures that can be seen in all people. And they did not say that one is better than the other; they are just…

No. I don’t.