Luddites for Jesus Award
My 16 year old son Raymond:
He was playing a video game for 2 weeks straight trying to beat it and finish. It was all he had been doing, and was right on with it every chance he got.
then I heard him in there throwing a fit! I walked in there to find him hitting the disk with a screwdriver, a hammer, and trying to tear it apart! I asked him what in the world are you doing???! He said, "momma--this game is not worth throwing in the trash whole. it asked me to pray to a god. it wanted me to bow and worship a god..... Im going to go outside and burn this thing!" strangely, I was proud of him for this.
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Someone on the thread asks what game it was and gzusrulzme replies:Im not sure, but i will ask my son when he gets back.
This was back in April, and there's been no follow up, so perhaps gzusrulzme is full of sh*t and is just trying to score Jebus points.
Y'know, I can't think of what game that could be. I'm willing to bet that gzusrulzme is Lying for Jeezus.
What I want to know, is what the heck game was that?
He said, "momma--this game is not worth throwing in the trash whole. it asked me to pray to a god. it wanted me to bow and worship a god..... Im going to go outside and burn this thing!" strangely, I was proud of him for this. going to beat this thing, dog gone it. He. Would. Win!!
And then, on level 17, he just couldn't get past the spider.
So, in a furious fit of frustration, he whipped out a screwdriver and a hammer and viciously attacked the stupid, dumb, video game that had just stolen 2 weeks of his life and wouldn't let him win.
That's when you came in and caught him in the act.
If he'd told you he was attacking the game because he had run out of patience and was taking vengeance on the disk -- a disk that good money had been paid for -- you'd rightly scold him and take his video game privileges away, at least until he cooled off. So, instead, he made up some story about the game telling him to bow down and worship Beelzebub. And you bought it, hook line and sinker.
Shadow of the Collusus has a "prayer" thing for save points and such. Though, that comes up so early in the game I doubt the kid would be hacking at the disk two weeks later unless he really, really sucks.
Never in my entire life of gaming have I ever heard of such bullshit. Sure, lots of games where maybe the character prays, but NEVER a game that makes the player pray. This entire story is completely made up.
Putting aside the whole "God wants me to burn this heathen video game!" issue, I can't think of too many games that would take one 2 weeks straight to beat. The NIS strategy RPGs qualify (Disgaea, La Pucelle, etc) if you're bound and determined to do all the optional stuff, but out of those the only one that has the player characters praying to a god is La Pucelle Tactics, and in that game your chars are praying to the Maiden of Light all the damn time. There's no way it would have taken him 2 weeks to see the first scene of that, unless he just got completely bonkers with leveling up in the dark world in chapter 1, which is admittedly possible. More likely though, the kid or the mom (or both?) are just bullshitting.
My money's on God of War. You know... if the name didn't clue him in from the start. Isn't there a bit near the end where... ?
It's possible it was Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call (or Nocturne as it's called outside Europe). There is a point in the game in which you can choose to side with Lucifer. Prior to that Metatron implores you to turn away from evil, and you can choose to answer him with yes or no. Plus, the game takes 50 hours to beat (even if you ignore the optional stuff and are on a repeat file so you can blast through the earlier sections, you still can't beat it in under 35 hours).
I visited the Wiki and I was immediately met with a picture of Zeus, Thor, and Anubis. The fact that it took a sixteen year old boy TWO WEEKS to realize that he was playing in a setting controlled by other gods and might have to worship one makes me seriously question his intelligence. His mother's too.
Well, heat would still damage the CD/DVD, or he could nuke it in the microwave, but I have to agree that this story sounds like bullcrap.
Burn the disc after it's been paid for. That'll show the stinkin game company who's boss!
Now someone who would have otherwise bought it used, has bought it new. Haha, you lose.
This...makes me think. Is this kid really that brainwashed that a mention of another God drives him into a "Killburndestroy" frenzy...or does he just know his parents well enough, that he had difficulty in a game, had a hissy fit, destroyed it and got caught doing so, then played the "Holy Crusade" card, and got off scot free? Of course, there's the distinct possibility this could be flat out lies for the RR piety pissing contest. "Why, my son is SO pious, that when some heathen game asked him to bow to it's pagan gods, why he promptly popped that game out of the disc drive, and smashed it to bits...why, I was a little shocked at first, but bless the child, he was doing the lord's work." Cut to Raymond listening to Marilyn Manson, wearing a pentacle pendant.
Strangely ? Meaning you didn't know why?
Also, I personally wouldn't be very surprised if, 5-6 years down the line, this indoctrinated little whelp decided to treat a Gay/Muslim/Atheist person in a similar way and "gzusrulzme" again felt strangely proud.
So your son is addicted to video games, throws ridiculous temper tantrums, and is intolerant of other religions. Wow, you must be so proud!
Well, there's a part in Call of Cthulhu where your character has to recite a prayer to Dagon, but it's only so a door is unlocked and you can continue on. Although given the year this was posted, unless the kid's into emulators, that's not a likely possibility.
"I dont know anything about it much other than it required him build a temple and pray to a god to get favors to make mythical creatures like hercules and medusa, etc. Then they would pray to the gods for rain for the crops to grow."
This is Age of Mythology. Without a doubt. It's Age of Empires with a Greek/Egyptian/Norse mythology twist. Favor is one of the resources (obtained by building temples and assigning worshipers to them) that lets Greeks build Gorgons, Hercules, etc. One of the miracles you can use is rain that speeds food production.
And it's pretty obvious from the get-go that it revolves around other gods(the tutorial has the characters praising Poseidon, you have to pick a god every time you advance.)
This story is bullshit.
Edit: It's also an RTS, so there's no way in hell it's asking the player to do anything other than move units around.
Hammer and screwdriver are overkill for a dvd or cd. Just write on it with a solvent based marker and leave it a few weeks.
Join me in a prayer:
Maybe if he had refused , the True God would have appeared and handed him the key to level 26 ?
Are you sure HE’S the one having a fit?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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