Feb 10, 2008, 11:12:22PM, Kids and video games

I'm glad I grew up in a time before parents got careless 8D

Feb 10, 2008, 1:45:22PM, Zip Code Radius Search

Wow, you are attempting to collect all the postal codes of the world? o_O; Yes, that may take a while.

I appreciate the work being done, but wouldn't it be more efficient to do directory search based on state, and if there is no state (person lives outside of the US), just go by country? *babbles* 8D Anyway. Looking forward to future features! ^_^b

Feb 10, 2008, 1:40:19PM, Kids and video games

I think game ratings are silly, but I understand why they are needed. They are there to help unknowing parents out when their hyper kids drag them to the store. You can't expect parents to be up to date about game titles for the various systems, so of course a rating system is needed to prevent them from letting their kid pick out a highly inappropriate game. Obviously mistakes happen and I've seen parents walk out of a game store having just bought GTA or other such games for kids looking no older than 5. That's just plain wrong.

Sure we can sit here now and be all "oh, I would let my kid play any game they wanted to".. but that's probably because you're old enough now to not be influenced by games in the same way you were when you were younger. You may not remember it, but kids absorb things a different way than teenagers and grown ups do. I'm sure we've all played games we weren't supposed to play at some point. Did it hurt us? Probably not, but letting kids freely play whatever they find is really not sensible at all.

I also don't think kids should be playing online games (the huge mmorpgs and stuff), unless a parent also played it with the kid. My uncle does that with his kids, and it works out. They all bond more, and the kids behave and aren't exposed to things they shouldn't be exposed to.

... I don't know why I started writing all this. But... now it's too long to simply get deleted, so hit post I will. Sorry in advance for HUGE BLOCK OF TEXT.

Feb 10, 2008, 1:31:14PM, I've always wanted to know

[ I know people who actually don't like Halo, but never state it publicly so they aren't ridiculed.

I will say that publicly, I DISLIKE HALO

Oh, let me jump in on this. I DO TOO!

Feb 10, 2008, 1:25:14PM, Getting bored with my Wii

I honestly don't understand how people can get bored with their Wiis. Have they forgotten about the wonderful Virtual Console?

Feb 9, 2008, 7:06:08AM, The movie star game

Dakota Fanning - Alec Baldwin, Cat in the Hat

Feb 7, 2008, 9:02:02AM, Word Association

caramel popcorn

Feb 7, 2008, 4:55:17AM, Word Association

The Netherlands

Feb 7, 2008, 4:54:00AM, Organizing games on your profile...

I guess that would work too, but how many would really bother to click that link?

Feb 7, 2008, 4:52:08AM, Would you like Me to host THIS .....Contest?.....

Yes.

Feb 6, 2008, 12:38:34AM, The person above me

The person above me is viking by day and mouse by night.

Feb 6, 2008, 12:36:40AM, Word Association

Britain

Feb 6, 2008, 12:35:24AM, Organizing games on your profile...

I'd love to see the games sorted by system as well. Though I don't feel it needs the headings. Just a break line or something when games for a new system is set to display.

Feb 4, 2008, 12:50:35PM, Kids ought to start out with the NES and work their way up.

I grew up without a PlayStation too. I found it too "grown up" when it first came it, I really disliked the odd 3-d graphics, so I simply didn't want one. I only bought my PlayStation2 last year, actually 8D

Feb 4, 2008, 6:27:25AM, Kids ought to start out with the NES and work their way up.

Ocarina of Time is overrated.

Feb 1, 2008, 5:41:34PM, Rock Band Confirmed for Wii

Wow o_o That's very interesting. I'd rather have it for my Wii, to be honest.. so this is good news 8Db

Feb 1, 2008, 5:32:58PM, Word Association

teenagers

Feb 1, 2008, 5:30:31PM, Make adding games to your profile easier.

... since the games are already on my profile, it means I've already searched for them to add them into my collection, no?

There should be some easier way of managing your games collection. It is only logical that you'll currently be playing some game or other in your collection, right? So, if not changing the links leading from the box-art pictures on the profile to that game's page (where you can add it to wishlist or currently playing and all that), then at least add in "add to currently playing" buttons on the "/mygames" page?

Feb 1, 2008, 5:11:06PM, Make adding games to your profile easier.

A suggestion of similar thought;

Make it possible to go to the game's page when clicking on a game title on a profile. Having the games on people's profiles lead to a page of who's playing that game/have it in their collection is rather counter-intuitive.
It's one of the reasons I don't use the "Currently Playing" field in my profile. Too much work to keep it updated, if I manually have to search for the titles all the time..

Feb 1, 2008, 6:47:16AM, Word Association

grammar

(or rather, lack of)