We know intense sessions of
Halo 3 tend to bring out the worst in the players susceptible to bouts of anger, racism, homophobia and mental ineptitude, but a
TCPalm news story still manages to surprise with its tale of a boy launching a melee attack on his own mother. According to the report, the parental units made the grievous error of informing their son that he had to say goodbye and goodnight to
Halo 3 for the evening. When the youth failed to comply, the parents removed the "aircard" (we had to
look that up) from the console, resulting in a disconnection from the internet and apparently, civilized behavior.
The report states that the youth responded by searching the house for the device, punching his mother and then locking himself up in his room. After the unimpressed parents rang the police and pointed deputies to the door, "the juvenile allegedly responded with profanity," presumably some variant of "GTFO noob deputards lol." In-between unlocking the door and finally slapping on the handcuffs, the youth managed to append one officer of the law to his dubious list of punched authority figures.
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Favorite shirt I spotted in NYC: "Beat the shit out of your kids -- God says it's OK."
In reality though the whips were more a psychological punishment than physical, of course I acted like they hurt so they would hit harder but the anticipation of it happening was terrifying as a kid heh. Especially when they did the "three strike" thing and kept reminding me that when I got to "three" I'd get 3 licks when we got home haha, now that was intimidating enough to straighten me out. Don't even actually have to hit your kids but you need to make em respect you. I think the hitting part is a good basic idea, as long as you don't do any real physical harm.
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Anyone who is not skilled enough to crack a skill level of 25 should consider themselves extremely lucky because after that it's all angry 17 year olds who berate their team even if members are actually doing better than them. "Mute all" button: on.
1-10 = Immature squeeky voiced punks
11-19 = Mixed bag
20-29 = Angry teens with big mouths and little teamwork
30-39 = Generally serious and mature players
40+ = Guys who don't like to lose, but who are usually civil
The point I am trying to make is that I think its easier to rank up on team double team if you are the mvp, which is easier to do since there are only 4 people.
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BABALITY!
Babies don't just pop out of the womb as parent-punchers (sadly). He must have had some serious (lack) of discipline growing up.
It's ridiculous that parents think the police should be the authority in the home. That kid's got problems and so do his parents.
Kids listen to the rap music.
What do you like to play?
Pokemon! Pokemon!
luckily, it sounds like you've grown out of that
Right... because clearly history has shown that the only ones that have succumbed to bouts of excess were simply 'dumb enough to mix with the wrong crowds.' Sometimes when I come to Joystiq I feel like I've fallen into a 50's sitcom. Because if you think that every troubled teen is the result of bad parentage or a lack of self control (which obviously comes natural to hormonal adolescents, of course) then you've succesfully retreated so far up your own rectum that you've begun to take desperate solace in your own concocted myths.
But recent history has shown that spoiled brats that have no self control are products of bad parenting. Some children are beyond help, but the majority of snot nosed little goombas that think they're ADD and yell at their parents and attack them, are usually brought up the wrong way.
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well now that that's out of the way ...
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A lil bit o' spankin would have helped it.
Or selling his xbox on ebay, whichever suit's you best..
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I have 2 step sons, they get routinely grounded from TV , videogames and going outside when they start slacking with their school work or decide to be assholes. They get play rights back eventually but trust me they would never try to test themselves against my wife even though their bigger than her.
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Anyway, goes to show you that a lot of parents ignore ratings.
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Without that, Halo could be rated T, but then again I'm pretty sure Bungie and MS WANTED an M rating as statisically they sell better.