Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas 370
dotarray writes "One Colorado family received more than they'd bargained for this Christmas when they gave five-year-old Braydon Giles a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS that apparently still contained 'graphic images' from a previous owner. From the article: 'Refurbishing is an art, as well as a craft. The whole point is to make a gadget feel pristine, even when it used to be owned by a cult leader, a scout leader or an exhibitionist.
Sadly, someone in a Colorado GameStop stopped refurbishing before the job was complete.
So much so that 5-year-old Braydon Giles opened his Xmas gift — a Nintendo 3DS — and discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things. As Channel 9 News tells it, Braydon showed the 3DS to his brother Bryton. He wanted his help to remove these weird pictures. '"
Greatest present ever (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Greatest present ever (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, children can be traumatized [youtube.com].
Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Insightful)
discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things
Sex act by itself is a part of nature.
Without sex acts, many higher form animals have no way to procreate.
When sex itself is deemed something that's not "pristine" something is very wrong - way beyond wrong .....
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Insightful)
Well i dunno i've been on the internet a long time and i can tell you most of the stuff i've seen wouldn't result in procreation...especially the stuff involving animals, faeces or huge dildos.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Killing is a part of nature. Without it, animals would starve. Therefore, when people have a problem with murder, something is very wrong...
Worst. Argument. Ever.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Funny)
Killing is a part of nature. Without it, animals would starve. Therefore, when people have a problem with murder, something is very wrong...
Worst. Argument. Ever.
While your argument there is bad, I'm not sure I would call it the worst one ever.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually it's a valid point...I mean if movies depicting gore and senseless killing are merely rated R, but movies depicting sex with genitals and penetration are X-Rated, what does that tell you about our priorities?
Sex is more traumatizing that decapitation and evisceration, apparently. Think "Saw" vs pretty much any porno, even the lighter stuff.
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Personally I would have rather watched a deception on replay than have seen the horror that is goatse, lemonparty, meatspin, and 2 girls 1 cup and related videos..
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...decapitation....stupid autocorrect on phone >.
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yes, it's the autocorrect that's stupid.
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Why compare a fairly basic murder with 'extreme' porn (is that even still porn?)? If we're going for extremes, then I guess a person slowly being flayed for hours, then roasted over an open fire while their children are decapitated in front of them would be the equivalent to 2 girls 1 cup. And I'd pick the 2 girls if I had a choice, thank you very much.
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Why compare a fairly basic murder with 'extreme' porn (is that even still porn?)?
Because only imbalanced comparisons would help his argument, doh!
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Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, titties are not for little kids...
Seriously, though. I don't really get it. An act that is supposed to bring joy and fun is considered worse than an act that supposedly brings grief and pain? Is it me, or is something wrong with this?
Or, in the immortal words of Mr. Jack Nicholson, "Kiss a pair of titties and the movie's X-Rated. Chop 'em off and it's PG13"
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"Well, Butters really seems to be enjoying his new Nintendo 3DS game!"
"My precious!"
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An act that is supposed to bring joy and fun is considered worse than an act that supposedly brings grief and pain?
Spread sexual imagery everywhere and you risk devaluing the act of lovemaking. I'm not being a wowser here, it is already being shown that many kids now think pubic hair is "gross" and boys want their first sexual experience to be like in porn movies.
I'm not against porn. But porn is what it is - it's actors playing up to fantasies of the paying customer. It's never been an accurate representation of what loving sex in a normal relationship is all about. Yes, you can do all those things with your partner, b
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As for self defense well to each his own, if you are happy to let some whackjob hack up your family while you sit and do nothing then that is fine. Euthanasia and assisted suicide, well we put animals to sleep why not people, and assisted suicide, if the victim is the one wanting to die and the only one physically hurt what's the harm? This isn't the dark ages anymore.
While you're at it why don't you lu
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Killing own species isn't very common within animals that reproduce via sex.
Ethologists say otherwise [wikipedia.org]
"In animals, infanticide involves the killing of young offspring by a mature animal of its own species, and is studied in zoology, specifically in the field of ethology. Ovicide is the analogous destruction of eggs. Although human infanticide has been widely studied, the practice has been observed in many other species throughout the animal kingdom. These include microscopic rotifers, insects, fish, amphibians, birds and mammals.[1] Infanticide can be practiced by both males and fe
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Wrong. Some animals (basic "animals" - nematodes or something) can reproduce asexually in the absence of sexual reproduction.
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Having said that, if you rewind the clock a century and you're Turkish, then kidnapping the young children, brainwashing them into believing the enemy until they're fighting age, and then sending them, unbeknownst to them, back into their homeland in order to kill their own kin is a viable alternative. (a) you don't have to do all that messy and life-risking child-birthing phase; and (b) who gives a fuck if they die in battle, they were Greek anyway.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Insightful)
I swear, there's a bunch of goddamn prudes in this country (yet violence is ok for some reason). Sex is the most natural thing ever and nothing to be ashamed of.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:4, Funny)
Unless it's with Rosanne Barr or Rosie O'Donnell.
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Sex act by itself is a part of nature.
Sex, I grant you. But pictures of plasticky looking individuals going through the motions of something that they clearly don't give a shit about? That is clearly not good - sex should be something to look forward to when you are old enough, not something that screams mindless boredom.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Funny)
...and here you are, years later, posting on slashdot.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:4, Insightful)
When sex itself is deemed something that's not "pristine" something is very wrong - way beyond wrong .....
And that IMO is the cause of the trauma. Modern parenting including feeding children piles of idealistic crap (too much TV I would say), at best useless for the real life.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure that what happens in porn can even be considered sex any more.
Imagine if extraterrestrials had gotten that 3DS full of porn and that's the only thing they knew about humans. They'd think we reproduce by having the man ejaculate up the woman's nose.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:4, Funny)
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No it does not, guarding the privacy of sex does not reinforce monogamy which is certainly a natural practice but not the natural practice that humans evolved. Monogamy is an artificial practice in humans, reinforced by religious dogma, originating when hereditary inheritance of property necessitated early human civilization to come up with the only fool proof way of ensuring paternity of children could be known.
Mans natural state is to beat lesser men into submission and then take as many mates as he can.
Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? (Score:5, Interesting)
Just as natural is the act of guarding the privacy of sex. It reinforces the advantages of the natural practice of monogamy in nature in general.
You have never been to the park in spring and seen ducks fuck? Or looked out a city window to see pigeons fuck? They certainly don't hide it.
And if you're of European descent, neither did your ancestors. The sleeping partition of typical houses was for everyone, both children and adults, and the adults fucked with the children present. It was no more interesting to the kids than watching the farm animals go at it.
If anything, fucking in front of others strengthens monogamous relationships, because you make your claim on the partner where others of your gender can see it. And that's at least partially why couples kiss in public too.
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Natural practice of monogamy?
Dude, you should write for stand-ups, others would have to ponder long and hard to come up with a punchline like that.
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My daughter STILL remembers the PC... (Score:3)
My daughter, who has a hearing defect, was prescribed a listening program that only worked on - Windows 95.
This was in the early days of Windows XP, so finding a Windows 95 machine (or a set of disks) was somewhat hard.
I did manage to find one at a local electronics consignment store which claimed to have gone through and sanitized the system from the previous owner.
My seven year old daughter looked at the "Videos" folder and found somebody's collection of something that we could only described as "Jamacian
Re:My daughter STILL remembers the PC... (Score:5, Insightful)
And the fact you didn't check the computer over before giving it to you daughter wasn't a problem?
Re:My daughter STILL remembers the PC... (Score:5, Insightful)
And the fact you didn't check the computer over before giving it to you daughter wasn't a problem?
This is the part I don't get. What ever happened to parenting? Trusting gamestop or similar is like trusting Microsoft, why would you?
Re:My daughter STILL remembers the PC... (Score:5, Informative)
Because the computer replaced TV as the babysitter, and, dammit, I want my computer to be as good as TV, where SOMEONE ELSE takes care that my kids don't get to see stuff.
Shit, really, what's next? Me having to spend time with the brats?
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Under Communism we won't have this problem (Score:4, Funny)
Because nobody will be named Braydon. Under Communism, people will all have awesome names that can only be expressed with Korean characters.
That explains my present... (Score:5, Funny)
All I got was a bunch of simplistic children's games on my 3DS.
Re:That explains my present... (Score:5, Funny)
You're not holding it right.
"Quality Control" (Score:5, Funny)
Best part of the article:
GameStop is currently researching this situation. We have a rigorous quality control process in place
As a former GameStop employee, I can personally attest to the fact that their "rigorous quality control process" consists of "Now don't get too stoned in the back room when you're on the clock."
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Based on his coherent post, I'd say he wasn't getting stoned enough to put up with such a dead end job for long.
Really? (Score:2)
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We've already had our yearly "Oxford dictionary has new word!" story for the year.
What we really need is news about a new version of Firefox, somebody doing something with a Raspberry Pi. And I can't live without reading stories about Samsung or Apple.
Make love not war (Score:5, Insightful)
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He, being a sheltered US child, has not seen porn. Therefore the trauma.
What trauma?
Re:Make love not war (Score:5, Insightful)
He, being a sheltered US child, has not seen porn. Therefore the trauma.
What trauma?
The trauma where the parents run around yelling THE SKY IS FALLING!
Re:Make love not war (Score:5, Insightful)
Given that most European countries have laws against selling pornography to minors (albeit that exactly what is banned and what is not depends on the specific country and culture, ranging from more strict to more lax than the laws in the U.S.), perhaps you should consult with people closer to home?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Europe [wikipedia.org]
Re:Make love not war (Score:5, Interesting)
I think you miss the point of the question, or at least a very important point here. Nudity != pornography, at least in Europe. It is not at all rare to see nudity in commercials or programs in much of European TV, for example, even on, say, Viva, the German analogue to MTV. Which is of course watched by kids.
Now this in itself may be off topic to the original post here, as it does sound that what the child found on the 3DS could be considered pornography most anywhere. I still think it is a very interesting set of questions: Where does the line between art, or documentary photography, and porn lie? How does this vary by country, or regionally? At what age is nudity ok for people to view? And what age pornography? What affect does viewing such "too early" have?
Now, I'm ultra-liberal. I don't believe pornography should be regulated for adults, and I believe that education is the best defense, not regulation beyond reason (again, entirely subjective).
So, apologies for being off-topic, but I think parent should think twice before dismissing the question of differing cultural and national attitudes toward nudity.
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Porn is a piece of media created with the intent of provoking sexual arousal.
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Where does the line between art, or documentary photography, and porn lie?
That's easy. It lies somewhere between the genitals and anus, and is called the taint.
Are you sure it isn't called The Coffee Table? [youtube.com]
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This is not insightful at all...
European countries are, for the most part, exemplar in the way they legalized porn. Give an honest look into the list and consider the roaches:
One is Azerbaijan. I say no. Not just no; Hell, no. Europe traditionally stops at the Caucus mountain. Look it up on a map: It has long border with oh-so-notoriously-porn-friendly Iran... The place doesn't even sound European. No game.
There are then a couple of Central and Eastern European countries with stricter laws, namely Bulgaria,
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I think the difference here is the definition of "pornography". Over here, the average tabloid sports a naked chick on page 3 (or was it 5? Maybe someone who reads that kinda paper can provide the details), which can be bought by any child of any age.
Talking snakes and rib women (Score:5, Funny)
Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
Because the universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master.
He can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
He has defined a category of behaviours which are biologically imperative but which we should not do, lest he judge us unworthy in his eyes and stick us in his personal torture chamber for all eternity.
Showing naked people to children encourages them to have sex in ways which are not permitted, which will get them sent to the eternal torture chamber.
Does this answer your question?
Re:Talking snakes and rib women (Score:5, Insightful)
He has defined a category of behaviours which are biologically imperative but which we should not do, lest he judge us unworthy in his eyes and stick us in his personal torture chamber for all eternity.
You forgot "but he loves us!"
And he needs money.
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Nice to know you have the "biological imperative" to kill steal and go with someone other's wife... but I am digressing.
The problem is that killing is frowned upon by the same religion, so I don't see how showing a gun can be tolerated more than showing a penis.
"The gun is good the penis is bad" is another religion [imdb.com].
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I'm actually going to answer this stupid old argument: Because Gun Violence is not something that "tempting" or a kid could jump into thinking nothing bad would likely happen. Sex however is something any kid can do, and the chances of it destroying their lives is relatively low from their limit perspective. The chance that the kid will decide to have risky sex at a young age is well above 50% and the impact of viewing porn on that would be rather significant.
The chance that a kid is going to kill someone i
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Lets see who ends up in prison first.
Neither of them?
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and the affect violent videogames or images have on this is almost negligible.
Oh, of course, but porn will make them have sex. And we know this is all true because you said so.
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Or are you Austrian [independent.co.uk]?
Re:Make love not war (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, Americans do have some serious issues with nudity in non-sexual context but from TFA there's every indication that this was porn or at least erotic images and we don't let kids have that in Europe either. I wouldn't care at all if my kid got a half second nipple flash during the Superbowl, for all I care we could go to a nude beach but I would get pretty pissed if I bought a 3DS for my kid and it had porn on it. As for violence, there's degrees to everything - I don't remember exactly how old I was when we first started pointing plastic guns and saying "bang bang you're dead" but I wasn't that old yet it wasn't exactly like seeing Saving Private Ryan. I wouldn't worry one bit if my kid was laughing his ass off at the Road Runner tricking Wile E. Coyote to fall down a cliff, there will come a time and place where it's natural to talk about the difference between play violence and reality.
I'm guessing a good time would be around the first time I find - or hear a wish for some semi-realistic FPS game, if you're old enough to pretend running around shooting people/monsters you're old enough for that talk too. About real people that don't respawn, that don't have magic medikits to fix them, that experience genuine fear and terror at gunpoint, that end up crippled or scarred for life or die bleeding out in the gutter, about widows and orphans, friends and family left behind. But there's a time and place for that talk, just like when your five year old want to play house with a mommy and a daddy it's still not time for the "okay, but remember to use a condom" talk. What next, are you going to point out the electric car track I had wasn't realistic because the car would be totaled and the driver dead if it crashed like that? Reality will get gritty enough in time.
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Do you like sucking dick?
If you don't like sucking dick you sir are a hypocrite."
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Do you not understand that most of the American Fundamentalist Christian "movement" is Baptists (Southern and otherwise), who are possibly the only group who hates Catholic Priests more than 12-years old boys?
Don't forget the Boy Scout scandals, which appear to dwarf the Catholic Priest scandals in scope.
In short, don't put morally repressed adults in charge of children.
Re:Make love not war (Score:4, Insightful)
The Fundies support it, even if not openly, when they hide or relocate a priest that diddles boys.
Thats one of the most retarded thoughts I've seen in ages.
You think that hiding something you aren't proud of is the same as consenting? Wow, just wow. 'Fundies' don't 'support it' you idiot, otherwise they would be all about letting people know they do it. You typically hide things you don't want others knowing you do because you don't think its acceptable to be doing it. Your logic is about as ass backwards as it gets.
If you think it's unacceptable, then why hide it and HELP the perpetrator? A criminal should be dragged to court and receive trial. Hiding his crime(s) so it doesn't make your community look bad is dishonest and hypocrite at best. If one claims morals to be important, one should follow them and set an example.
In my opinion everyone involved in such hush ups should be arrested as an accessory. They are basically saying "Well this guy raped you, but it would be bad PR to call the police. He's probably sorry, so we'll just give him a new job in a place, where no one knows about his special interests. - Oh and don't tell anybody or we'll make your life even more miserably."
If you hide evidence of a serious crime you are at the very least obstructing justice and have voided all authority to speak on morals.
Re:Make love not war (Score:5, Insightful)
Poking silliness should never stop, otherwise the silly might decide they got it right...
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I don't know of any countries where pornography is permitted, or even suggested as "should be ok but still illegal" for a 5 year old.
That might be because people fall for the "save the children" rhetoric time and time again.
Hint: Porn isn't pictures of naked people. It's pictured showing erotic behaviour. Pornography doesn't even require pictures of "privates" or breasts to be porn. Heck, if you include people outside of popular opinion, porn doesn't even require pictures of people!
Porn can be anything.
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Porn can be anything.
The censors are going to have a field day with this one.
Re:Human sentimentality. (Score:5, Interesting)
Kids are violent from the moment they are born.
They're also sexual from the moment they are born. Not to the same extent as when hitting puberty, but certainly not asexual cherubs.
Some repress and deny that they themselves were sexual creatures even as children, quite possibly out of guilt, thinking it was themselves there was something wrong with.
But pictures of grown-ups? Largely uninteresting to a five year old boy, I should think. To him, it would be a lemon party - something to say "yuck" at and delete.
Which apparently he tried to do, and it was his father who blew a fuse, not the kid. Sure, the kid is probably traumatized now, by his father's behavior.
And unless he changes his name, likely to be ridiculed in a few years in school, when classmates enter his name in a search engine. All thanks to dad, who wanted his fifteen minutes of fame, but apparently didn't give a flying fuck about causing his kids problems.
Why is the human body so evil? (Score:2)
Seriously, if the dad thinks his kid is never gonna set tits, pussy, and/or cock, he's deluded.
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Your nick shows you're clearly mature
How relevant to the issue at hand! Here, allow me to arbitrarily decide that you're not mature based on your name on Slashdot...
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...wow, really? Their bodies are already going nuts on hormones and yet you still don't think it's time to teach your kids about sex?
You are the problem.
Translation (Score:5, Insightful)
This kid would have totally forgotten it if not for his dad's reaction. I weep for the culture which has to deal with this guy's kids 15 years from now.
Re:Translation (Score:4, Interesting)
I assure you, having seen my first porn at around age 6 or so, courtesy of another kid down the street whose Dad didn't hide his collection very well, that you don't actually forget that you saw it even if your parents have no idea you saw it. I can't remember for the life of me anything about it, but I knew it was porn.
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No, you don't forget it. But, honestly, did it "warp and twist" you? Did it "traumatize" you?
I tell you what it was for me. It was a source of a lot of giggling together with my friend looking at the porn stash of his (then 19 year old) brother, it was a naughty and kinda-sorta forbidden experience, it was exciting, but not for its sexual content but more 'cause we both knew that we weren't supposed to sneak into his brother's room and go through his "naughty" magazines, it was more a thrill of the forbidden than anything sexual at all. Thinking back, the "thrill level" was pretty much on par with sneaking into my grandpa's tool shed and touching (not even using, just being there and "handling") his "adult" tools that we were not allowed to touch (for good reason, acetylene welding torches sure ain't for kids!).
It was the thrill of the forbidden. But seriously, not the sexual content.
Forget video games ... (Score:3)
GameStop... (Score:3, Funny)
The Dad is an idiot (Score:4, Interesting)
While I would be pissed if this happened to me as well, lets look at a quote from the full article:
"You can't un-see this. He's five years old. Maybe when he's 18 or 20 maybe he won't know anything about it but he's not going to forget about it tomorrow,"
I'll bet a months pay that unless someone reminds him, he won't remember it in a week. He might not forget it tomorrow, but in a week he'll be long past it. By the time next christmas comes around he won't remember a thing that happened this christmas unless you bring it up to him and point it out, if you ask him what he got for christmas last year he'd probably have to put serious effort into thinking about it. His mind has far more important things to worry about ... like being a fucking 5 year old and playing video games themselves or playing with his friends/toys.
On that same note however, when he's 18 or 20, he probably WILL remember it and picture it in his quest to satisfy himself when he can't get a date or some else to do it. Of course, at that point he'll be looking at any sexually arousing thing on the planet and wanting to bone its brains out so its really stupid to care.
This guy is just trying to blow it out of proportion to extort some money from GameStop. Fucking leech.
Classic (Score:2)
I bought a refurbished Wii from GameStop, still had the previous owner's saved games, Netflix account (which works by the way), credits on the Nintendo store. They made no effort to clean the system whatsoever.
Gamestop Fail (Score:2, Interesting)
I process returns at a retail store, this situation happened at the location I work at. It was with a digital camera instead of a 3ds, but otherwise the same. The parent complained, and a new policy was set of sending all returned electronics with internal memory back to the manufacturer for a reset. You can't expect someone working at minimum wage to know how to operate every electronic device the store sells, and how to do the factory reset (if it even has such a function). Many of the units are uncharged
Proof (Score:3)
Just another proof of what people with brains have been saying for years: The whole "think of the chiiiildren" agenda is stupid. Kids don't get traumatized by porn, they simply don't care about it. Older kids are where it gets interesting. Young kids? Disney is a ton more important to them than weird pictures of naked adults doing weird stuff.
Like in TFA, it's the adults freaking out, not the kids. Maybe we should change the meme to "think of the paaarents".
Aww hey.. (Score:4, Interesting)
I saw porn as a kid initially because some blew into my Grandparents' back garden from a neighbour who'd had his stash ripped up.. Probably some domestic there, but I can remember wondering why the women were wearing pretend beards in strange places. I thought it was funny and an oddity.. Couldn't have been more than 6 at the time..
Then a few years later (still sub 10), one of my friends uncovered his dad's stash.. There was the thrill of doing something I knew I wasn't meant to be doing, but nothing out of the ordinary. No ill effects, apart from the fallout from having my folks hit the roof when they found out about it..
A few years later, I watched a horror movie (that would be considered tame by today's standards) and I didn't sleep properly for weeks, and I remember being so nervous and anxious for ages.. Hey, I got over that too.. But from my perspective and recall, being exposed to horror and violence is far more damaging to a young psyche than porn.. But being young, you get over it.
Now for real problems, you just have to step over into a third world country where death is common and visible, people you know are abducted and killed. Disease is rife and a killer. And yet some of them are far more well adjusted than a lot of the people I've seen raised in 'safe' environments...
Re:Why did the moron parents have to publicize thi (Score:5, Funny)
What did you expect from the folks who named their kids Bryton and Braydon?
Re:Parents also to blame (Score:5, Insightful)
I also question the uproar over a kid seeing sex, but no such uproar about children seeing violence and death.
Sure, the store should have wiped it, but why is this so much worse than, say, a violent movie parents will let kids watch? Unless it was rape or CP, I don't see why it should be singled out as heinous. Kids used to sleep in the same room as relatives having sex, and apparently that didn't explode their little minds.
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Considering they were giving an Nintendo product, not a Sony product, theres a good chance they considered the likelyhood of the kid seeing intense violence anyway. Nintendo has traditionally had a pretty strong stance towards keeping things kid friendly.
I fully admit I haven't played a Nintendo game since I sold my Wii, but even then it was still pretty clear they target kid friendly.
You don't really have any indication to assume the parents are letting the kid watch Saw based on the information given so
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You don't really have any indication to assume the parents are letting the kid watch Saw based on the information given so why don't you climb off your high horse and stop making retarded assumptions, mmm'kay?
I know it's a lot to ask, but RTFA? GIving their kids access to violence was apparently no problem; only seeing sex was.
Re:Parents also to blame (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem is the parents' own disposition towards sex, and their reluctance to having to talk with their kids about it.
Scene A: Little Timmy sees a movie where a guy decapitates a woman. ... daddy? What's that man doing to the woman?
Timmy: Da
Dad: He's killing her, Timmy. Look away so you don't get nightmares, but try to relax, that's just a movie, that's not real.
Scene B: Little Timmy sees a movie where a guy fucks a woman. ... daddy? What's that man doing to the woman? (Note: The same question, asked with the same amount of innocence).
Timmy: Da
Dad: He... he.... OH MY GOD! GO TO YOUR ROOM!
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Just in case there is anyone wondering WHAT traumatized the kid in above story about Scene B more than Scene A could have: Not the scene itself, but his dad's reaction. In Scene A, he saw something horrible he didn't understand and his dad was there, by his side, comforting him and trying to rationalize it for him so he doesn't get upset. In Scene B, dad yells at him and Timmy thinks he did something bad, despite not knowing WHAT exactly he did wrong.
What really traumatizes kids about porn is their parents'
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Kids used to sleep in the same room as relatives having sex, and apparently that didn't explode their little minds.
I don't know, people seemed really messed up in medieval Europe....maybe that was part of the reason. :)
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That was mostly the rich people who lived in big houses with plenty of rooms for privacy. The people the GP described were the guy the rich then killed for fun and profit.
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Titties are not for little kids!
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How many parents that have bought a 3DS even realize that it can take and/or store pictures? If that number is anywhere above 10%, I'd be shocked.
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Given that it's a feature prominently labeled on the box? I'd sure hope it's higher than 10%. Parents that seriously don't know what they're buying their children are among the worst.
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Typically when giving someone a gift, you don't try it out first before giving it to them; you allow the recipient the opportunity to experience whatever initial setup may be required (even if you have to help them with it). This 3DS was used, but there's a reasonable expectation that it was sold in a "like new" condition; the hardware may be worn, but I would expect the software to behave exactly like turning on a brand new unit for the first time.
I don't blame the parents here (although they did choose s
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Been there, done that. PSPs have been sold more than once in that condition.
More than once? I would have thought that the pictures would be wiped when the first new owner finds them?
Also, isn't it misleading advertising? If you haven't refurbished it, it's used, not refurbished. The two terms are not interchangeable.
Anyhow, we don't know what happened (or didn't) in this case. We only have this guy's claim to go by, and like TFA, I need a little more convincing, before I believe all of unlikely actions leading to this:
1: The previous owner did not delete the porn.
2: The store
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How do you sell a PSP in that condition? Or do you mean that a PSP has been sold along with a memory stick containing the images?
Storage for images etc on the PSP is all via removable memory sticks. The type of memory stick used (the pro duo if I recall, though I traded in my PSP when I bought a Vita, so can't check for sure) isn't even a PSP-only device... I've used them with PCs as well.