Ughhhh!!! Parents!!!!

[Guest ScirosDarkblade]

Bah, it's Counter-Strike. That game is cheese, lol. At least you could've picked something else to be grounded for, like Starcraft. ;)

Anyway, James is right. Charles is right. Though look on the bright side. If you're sent to boarding school, once you're there order a laptop that can run CS and have your way with it. Hehe. Ummm, don't listen to Sciros.

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"Ughhh!! Parents!!" is right. This kind of stuff happens. They don't understand. You can tell them it's just a game, they won't understand. There's nothing you can really do about it.

Of course that kind of stuff doesn't actually influence you to become a bad person...you'd have to be pretty screwed up in the head in the first place for that kind of thing to have any actual influence....or pretty ignorant/naive. Your parents fall into the category of ignorant. That's not insulting them, it's just saying that they don't know any better. The problem is that teaching them is almost futile.
But they aren't entirely wrong here either. I think you'd have to be kidding yourself if you believe that playing "detailed" and "strategic" games such as this have absolutely NO impact on the players. People who play, they learn about guns, they learn little details about them. They don't learn how to shoot them or properly aim or anything, but going from no knowledge about guns to knowing that a Desert Eagle is one bad-*** gun is a pretty big leap in knowledge. Stuff like this DOES create an interest in guns and other firearms. Is that wrong? No, not necessarily, but then again, when parents see the base at which this knowledge is collected (Counter-Strike), they don't really have much else to go on and assume. They worry about you, they assume the worst...they can't help it...they just don't know any better.

The only thing you can really do is KEEP telling them that it's a game and try to explain it to them more and more. It'll wear down on them...kind of like throwing buckets of water at a wooden door. They'll eventually understand more, but it'll be a tough ride for you.

Perhaps it's best if you just gave CS up for a while and moved onto bigger better things anyways. I guarantee your parents wouldn't have as much a problem with that sort of thing if it was you and like 2 or 3 other friends sitting in your living room playing the same or similar thing.
When you sit on the net and play games like CS, it tends to imply a kind of unsocial behavior, and an obsessive attitude. It's certainly something that amplifies worry, as opposed to looking like just a fun past-time, which it really is.

Anyways, like Sciros said, CS is cheese anyways. Go play something better. :P

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[size=1]I do agree with all of you. But when I tell my parents that it is only a game and that this game isnt influencing me all they say is "I dont want to talk about it." I think that they are comparing this situation to a situation like Helter Skelter. IM NOT CHARLES MANSON FOR CHRISTS SAKE!!!

But my parents dont want to see that. All they think is, the game is bringing me down in my overall "health" and "life" so I will just have to wait to play it again, or wait to find out that I will never play it again.[/size]

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[QUOTE=Serraph-Angel][size=1]I do agree with all of you. But when I tell my parents that it is only a game and that this game isnt influencing me all they say is "I dont want to talk about it." I think that they are comparing this situation to a situation like Helter Skelter. IM NOT CHARLES MANSON FOR CHRISTS SAKE!!!

But my parents dont want to see that. All they think is, the game is bringing me down in my overall "health" and "life" so I will just have to wait to play it again, or wait to find out that I will never play it again.[/size][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=Indigo]Alright I think I'm going to post here once last time, not sure why but I am.

I started thinking and so I decided just to kinda see where the story was coming from, and as weird as it is I checked out other posts by you and such. Now granted coming into this not knowing anything about you I just assumed you were just another whining teenager who had been gotten disciplined, and thought it was wrong.

Although now, after just taking time, I see its different so you know what, I think I'll have to take your side.

I think it truly is an over-reaction, what they did. I mean honestly you don't seem to be some physcotic murderer, you don't try and pry for attention, you just seem to be a normal teenager. Hell I play Halo, does that mean I'm going to go kill someone, no.

So I must say, with my fourth(?) post, that I agree with you.

Man I think things through way too much, I should just stick with what I think :p.

But good luck with that, try and find a different game to play in the meantime ;)[/color]

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[QUOTE=Lalaith Ril][COLOR=Indigo]Alright I think I'm going to post here once last time, not sure why but I am.

I started thinking and so I decided just to kinda see where the story was coming from, and as weird as it is I checked out other posts by you and such. Now granted coming into this not knowing anything about you I just assumed you were just another whining teenager who had been gotten disciplined, and thought it was wrong.

Although now, after just taking time, I see its different so you know what, I think I'll have to take your side.

I think it truly is an over-reaction, what they did. I mean honestly you don't seem to be some physcotic murderer, you don't try and pry for attention, you just seem to be a normal teenager. Hell I play Halo, does that mean I'm going to go kill someone, no.

So I must say, with my fourth(?) post, that I agree with you.

Man I think things through way too much, I should just stick with what I think :p.

But good luck with that, try and find a different game to play in the meantime ;)[/color][/QUOTE]
[size=1]Thank you, and I am just a normal teenager, if you lived in my house, you wouldnt see anything wrong with me. But according to my parents Im not. So once again, thank you all for the advice and I should be able to get through this...[/size]