The world of lazy parenting has gotten a shot in the arm with the launch of the GameDr, a brand new invention that will revolutionize the way that children are half-heartedly disciplined by adults who can't be bothered to get up from watching The Price Is Right. The GameDR clamps around a console's plug and can automatically switch off a child's console by cutting the power after a predetermined amount of time.
The device claims to be "tamper proof" and will emit a beeping sound at T-10 and T-1 minutes, giving children time to save, or at least rush for a save point, only to fail and cry. The GameDR cannot be reasoned with, it cannot be argued with. It will not stop until a child's game session has been eliminated.
The Xbox 360 has parental controls that do this internally, but since most people who have squirted out a baby are too stupid to handle condoms, I don't think introducing these advanced concepts would do much good. Thankfully, the GameDR keeps it simple. Just the way Americans like it.
Once upon a time, poor parents had to get up off their arses and cut the power themselves. Now, thanks to yet another electronic surrogate mother, the Mommy and Daddy can kick back and continue to be irresponsible and lazy, while accepting no accountability for their own kids. At just $30, the GameDR can provide you the piece of mind that is just too difficult to acquire through traditional methods such as good parenting.
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3:20 PM on 05.20.2009
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This is terrible. Sure, warning beeps are one thing, but what if you're playing something that has fuck-all save points? Like, hours in between?
I'd be severely pissed off and not want to play if I had to lose my prog--oh dear God that's brilliant.
They're gonna make kids hate games and stop playing! D:
@BS3 Owner: I think this thing attaches itself to the power plug although the ps3/360 have a fairly common removable power cord
Fucking?
It always really pissed me off when my parents would turn off the console while I was playing. I wouldn't go up to them and smack a book out of their hands or sweep the shit off their desks when I wanted their attention.
ID tagged children playing ID tagged consoles using ID tagged outlets...
Being in touch with my kid FTW!
We have reached a new level of laziness.
There is a reason why you should NEVER switch off a PC/PS3/360 directly from it's power souce, and that reason is so the device in question has enough time to save and shut down PROPERLY. All the info gets saved and the device suts off in a safe working enviroment, rather than forcefully shutting down all at once, affect the hard drive and data stored.
I learned this the hard way when the power cord from my PS3 got pulled, by accident, from my PS3 and I rebooted it up only to find a wad of erased, corrupted music files, films and game saves. Same with my laptop. There is a reason why Sony says in thier manual to shut off the PS3 from the stanby button.
I foresee this device doing much more harm then, when the kid boots up his conolse only to find all of his hard earned saves gone, then the lazy ass parent will have hell on thier hands.
THEN, as per usual,the company who made this will get the blame and get sued, but in this case, justfiably.
The vicious circle continues.
For the betterment of all society, we do need a system whereby you have a license to be a parent.
Not to punish all of the prospectine good ones, because they will know what it takes to become a good parent, but to weed out all of the bad ones. I for one would love to see a system like that, sadly society is too broken for allowing something like that to be passed.
Mad props for saying something relevant, bro. ;)
Goddamn culture of ignorance is at it again...
It won't work...
Uh, the device doesn't immobilize your child; obviously some (actual) additional parenting needs to be involved for it to work.
Um... f**k you, buddy. I'm sure there are plenty of Europeans (includes the UK) who like simple things. The fact that you play overly complex (retarded) games like Cricket doesn't make you intellectually superior.
Haha, fuck you too (you don't have to censor it, we know what you mean). If you read my articles, you'd know I hate British people even more than I hate Americans. Nice try though, chum.
Oh, and cricket sucks. If you felt you hurt my feelings, ho ho ho.
Fuck the beeping.
My mum went the whole hog. Put my Gameboy and SNES in the loft.... I climbed up and got it back and put it back when she was at work. When she found out she threw the SNES out of the second floor window out onto a concrete bin shed. The top case was damaged, but it worked. When (admittedly alot later - a few years at least) I hadn't cleaned my room she finally killed it......by cutting the ribbon cable to the joypad ports. By then I was working so I went and bought another one. In fairness she should have just broke my hands..... that MIGHT have stopped me.
Sounds like the game-Terminator. I like whatever screws kids.
Oh, and cricket sucks. If you felt you hurt my feelings, ho ho ho."
I was unclear on the rules, played it on the safe side. It'll also take me some time to figure out what really bugs you (forgive me for not reading your articles religiously). Admittedly, this was a fairly 'cut and paste' dis. I will endeavor to make my insults more comprehensive in the future.
Cheers!
Because this was relevant to ONE country. If this was about a British product for British parents, I'd call out Brits.
It is really not hard to follow the logic here, people.
Cricket is awsome.