Sorry mate not much debate.
Just not a gamer. I rarely enjoy computer games much, never been very good at them and anyway preferred to play on the PC for the 2 or 3 I ever got in to. I don't want it in the house because it's clutter I don't need and I'm trying to de-clutter ATM
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 4 Dec 2011, 19:30, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Yeah', but the kid ovbously likes them and you can see how someone (if not yourself) can get enjoyment out of them. They don't take up that much room, just sitting near the telly.
They have a lot of advantages, they can help someone want to read, hand-eye co-ordination, puzzel solving, logic-thinking.... and that's not even covering entertainment value. I'm one of the fastest and most acreate typers I know*, and I can put that squarely down to video games, although I admit that'll be PC games rather than ones using a gamepad.

Also, wouldn't it score brownie points with the kid? You know, something you can do with him on a rainy day, help him want to be at yours (I'm far far FAR from saying that'll be the only reason, but every bonus counts in the war against him wanting to be around his mates rather than 'rents (at that kindda age, all my mates with devorced parents still loved both their 'rents, but would rather be with mates any day of the week).

One way to look at it is like a DVD player that only plays kid's films; you wouldn't get much out of it but the kid will.

* i know I have a lot of spelling mistakes, but I always press the keys that I want too, that's not a typo, it's just a poor spelling.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 19:43, Reply)

Sure he does, I have no problem with this.
The space it'll take up is where I like to keep DVDs and I need to put the games somewhere too, not a lot of space but I already have more shit than space.

For the rest. I'm not anti I'm just not interested personally, see also:football.

He already wants to be a mine and we have plenty of stuff to do, we have more trouble w=fitting in every thing we want to do, yes, it'll be one more thing for him to do but there's no shortage.


Also he gets lots of gaming in at his mums, I tend to see my role are providing opportunities for more olod fashioned boys stuff, like bike riding, swimming am=nd reading book. he gets a good balance this way and seems to enjoy both eually.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 4 Dec 2011, 19:50, Reply)

Cool, that totally makes sense, sounds like he's got a fun family =)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 19:54, Reply)

Oh yeah.
and all the better for not being in one house.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 4 Dec 2011, 20:12, Reply)