The Dragon's Keep

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I totally need to post stuff more often. Yesterday was my birthday, and it was such an awesome day. My bro came over around noon with sugar in the form of a raspberry-topped white cake and butter pecan ice cream. Then we went over to his place and hung out, watching his roommates play Halo 2 until 3, when a bunch of people arrived for the main event: lazer tag. And we're not talking that lame "Laser Challenge" thing with the vests and crap; this set is from Tiger Electronics and it was WAY fun. Each of the guns has a little sensor on the top so it's harder to cheat and there's even different types of guns. My favorite though was the huge rocket launcher rifle. This thing has a huge range, plus you can shoot this nerf football like thing that discharges an infrared laser pulse in all directions and acts like a real grenade, where the closer you are to it, the more hit points you take. There were 11 of us out there and it was seriously pretty close to like a real-life Halo multiplayer. Oh it was so much fun. We had hot chocolate with peppermint crushed into it, watched the new Willy Wonka movie, and had Taco Time for dinner before going back over to my apartment, where my roomies had made ANOTHER cake. It was way cool though...my friend Trent frosted it to look just like an NES controller, and when I find my stupid USB camera cable I'll post a pic. My parents also called me just before we went back to my place and sang happy birthday to me. It was a great day; everyone was so thoughtful and i feel so loved! ^_^ <3

Here is a link to the lazer tag homepage, in case you're interested in checking it out. It should show you all the features and stuff.

posted by Erin Duncan @ 9:31 PM 0 comments

video games and parenting

A quote from the latest news entry posted by Tim over at the ctrl+alt+del webcomic:

"I'll start by saying that I don't think M rated games should be sold to minors. That's my personal take on it. I don't think an eight year old kid should be able to walk into a store and purchase Postal. If I had an eight year old son, I probably wouldn't buy him Postal. However, if I had a fifteen year old son, and I knew him as a person and felt he had a firm grasp on the lines between reality and fiction, right and wrong, I'd probably go ahead and buy him Postal.

And that is where the heart of this issue lies for me. I think that video games should be regulated, but I don't want them regulated by the government. I have two main reasons for this.

One, letting the government step in takes the responsibility off of the shoulders of the parents, and you know what? F*** that. Parents need to be responsible for their children, and I'm sick of the government legislating morality for these lazy people. If you're not ready to sacrifice the better part of your daily life for a good fifteen years, don't have kids."

Amen, Tim.

posted by Erin Duncan @ 3:17 PM 0 comments