More Crap Against Games

I'm getting really sick of all these "new measures" being taken to "protect" children from the adult content in modern games.

Apparently the latest genius idea is to stop children playing games in their rooms. Apparently this means parents can keep an eye on what their kids are doing. Because according to the article, kids have easy access to adult games anyway.

Now hold on just a bloody minute here.

First things first, let's find the basis of this justification - kids have easy access to adult-rated games (I've mentioned this before, I swear).
Retailers: STOP SELLING ADULT GAMES TO CHILDREN.
Parents: STOP BUYING ADULT GAMES FOR CHILDREN.

That way, children don't get adult games and therefor supervision is not necessary! It's not fucking rocket science.

Right, now the article-specific burn.

Who gets the TV?

Most parents want to use their TV to watch TV shows that the kids couldn't care less about.
Most kids want to use the TV to play games and their parents probably have absolutely no interest in.

So who wins? You surely can't buy a kid a games machine and then never let them use it, can you? That must amount to cruelty in this day and age.

The Xbox has parental controls to limit access already. I'm pretty sure the other consoles do too. So you can limit what your kids can do. If they don't have access to any mature games, you (as a parent) have nothing to worry about.

And finally...

The article implies that children have TVs in their rooms already. So if we're to use the same example, are we also assuming that those TVs are monitored by an adult 24/7? Because I'm pretty sure it's nearly impossible to police a TV set in the same way, and there's far worse "adult" content on TV after 9pm than you'll see in the average 15/18-rated video game.

People are so bloody retarded it makes me sick.