re: Please help me settle an argument about GTAV with my teenager

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It's not going to turn him into a killer, gang banger, or socially mal adjusted weirdo

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This is the straw man that keeps getting brought up. Does anyone here actually believe this? I can decide my son doesn't get to play the latest GTA game and at the same time know that him playing it won't turn him into psychopath.

It's very possible that the story in GTAV deals in darker nastier shite than he has ever seen in his life. In fact there are probably a shitload of 80-year olds that have never seen something that twisted. And you're in control of it. 15 year old kids are fricking dumb and listless and impulsive and hormonal and angsty and impressionable. This is a story that you don't want to leave any lasting impression whatsoever if you're trying to develop a functional person. He's not gonna become a killer or a criminal but you might kill off his last shred of childhood innocence. He hears nasty shite at school, but not a narrative realistic story that's so twisted and deep and dark, because the kids at school aren't that creative.

Again, I would put the maturity level of the story at NC-17. Like a Todd Solondz movie. That shite is fricked up.