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Warning: If your kid asks for this video game for Christmas-beware.
Me ^ | 12/01/2009 | Autumnraine

Posted on 12/01/2009 9:45:11 AM PST by autumnraine

There is a new video game out called "Dragon Age-origins". It is a knight/warrior elf type game (think Dungeons and Dragons) in the genre of Lord of the Rings.

There is more than one sex scene in this game and it's fairly graphic. The kicker is that there are at least three gay (men on men) sex scenes and I'm not sure how many female/female sex scenes, but I know there are a few.

Just wanted to warn you guys becuase I myself like role playing games but was really shocked at this with the nearly naked kissing guys and stuff. I wouldn't have thought much about the kids playing this or seeing me play it and would have been madder had I spent money on it.

Link posted to the release of this game.


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KEYWORDS: christmaspresent; dragonageorigins; homosexualagenda; videogames
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Heck, eldest son Michael and I have always played Doom, Quake, Halo, Call of Duty..

He’s in Army OCS in Germany.

(shrugs)


41 posted on 12/01/2009 12:13:23 PM PST by humblegunner (™)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
No. I've never read that. I'll have to check it out. I am an absolute believer in Dave Grossman's work in this and other areas.

The conditioning effects are real - I know how they work and I know that they work, I just was unable to keep it from negatively affecting my son.

The personal irony for me is that I worked for several years in using tactical simulators to "train" (condition) high-end security and military "operators", so when I see so many kids "playing" at games that are 100 times more realistic and effectively conditioning than our simulators, I shudder at what they are in for.

Some will be just fine, some will be affected in ways they won't even realize are related to what they are doing, and some will get so screwed up that they are a danger to themselves and society.

Is it the games themselves? Maybe - maybe not. But why introduce a potentially harmful (and uncontrollable) variable into the equation if you can avoid it? Why risk it?

42 posted on 12/01/2009 12:13:47 PM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: humblegunner

Good genes I guess. ;)


43 posted on 12/01/2009 12:15:23 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

I don’t think there’s a one size fits all answer where consequences are concerned. I’m old enough to have come late in life to computers, and that’s fine by me.


44 posted on 12/01/2009 12:17:53 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: autumnraine
I'm not sure how many female/female sex scenes, but I know there are a few.

Did the article writer get a kickback from the game's publishers, or did he merely twitch like a puppet on a string to their Machiavellian marketing plan?

45 posted on 12/01/2009 12:30:18 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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To: autumnraine

Hubby just finished this game, and it was awesome. You can choose your path, so you would have to chose the men. It’s rated for 17+, so parents shouldn’t be buying it for their children anyway, unless they are going to be supervising.


46 posted on 12/01/2009 12:49:40 PM PST by USMCWife6869
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Dragon Age-origins... at least three gay (men on men) sex scenes and I'm not sure how many female/female sex scenes, but I know there are a few.
Thanks autumnraine.
48 posted on 12/02/2009 10:04:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

You are most welcome!


49 posted on 12/02/2009 1:56:28 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Morgana
ya gotta be kiddin me. now if you got to put the damn damn on the FDRQ, well...
50 posted on 12/02/2009 2:41:58 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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