Interesting. Me and my family are currently doing nightly Bible readings, religious literature, and we're going through the Book of Judges and let me just say that that's not exactly kid friendly material.

Personally, it's all about the content and the values they are showing. I love Kamen Rider because it promotes empathy and kindness as a valuable trait in heroes. With secular movies, I'm fine with most Disney movies (I'm not so sure about Good Dinosaur because of that weird mushroom eating scene) but secular films like Twilight or Cuties (barf!) which show some, um, questionable values I'm much more suspicious of.

What I'm trying to say here is that just because something is secular doesn't mean it's 'bad'. Also, just watching religious programming is fine but I've seen a lot of televangelists that contradict what the Bible says or twist it to their advantage, which I feel is a good reason (not the only reason) why there's so much suspicion towards churches.

Also, if any of you are parents or guardians, I advise not imposing too strict of rules on your kids or they'll try to break out when they're older and just run to the other side. Gently reprimand, not harshly scold.

I really hope this post doesn't break the rules of Tokunation regarding religious discussion.

It's probably because the MK movie was PG-13 and the cartoon was made to cash in on the movie. Despite MK being M/R rated, you did have kids that play the games. I still remember when MK was still at its prime in the mid 90s and I remember many kids would go to the arcades to play Mortal Kombat.

I also knew someone from 3rd-5th grade that had super strict parents and people would make fun of him for still watching PBS Kids shows. I try to be his best friend, but it was so hard. He was not even allow to play Mario, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc because they had ghost and magic. I don't approve of bullying whatsoever, but he was lame. It was even worse when he tried to police us during lunch break when my friends and I would talk about stuff we like.

He would be like "Final Fantasy 7 is T rated. You guys can't play that!!" and we would normally ignore him. I still told people at my school not to make fun of him, and we should ignore him instead. Thankfully, we did ignore him, and he would move on to his own thing.

You know what's funny? Fast & Furious is R rated in my country simply because of the booty shots. Doesn't stop the teens from watching.

Fast and Furious has got to be the closest thing to an R rated film in a PG-13 rating. Although your country puts an R rating due to booty shots? Not for smoking, drinking, sexual innuendos, violent content or depiction of endangerment to nearby passerbys and law breaking?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not so sure if I'd show Fast and Furious to a 13 year old (a 15 year old maybe) but the reason for the R rating surprises me.

EDIT: Okay so here in Australia they classify it as 'M' which means not suitable for under 15.

Yo guys, figured I'd ask this here, instead of just making a new thread that'd possibly go nowhere.

So, I was reading some older topics on the boards when I came across this one wherein apparently there used to be a Secret Santa held.

And really, given what 2020 has put us all through, I personally think some holiday cheer is something we could all use. I'd definitely be down to contribute to it, but would anyone else be interested? If so, I have no problem creating a new thread to organize it in.

Sounds great! Except that I don't know where any of you live and I'm kind of broke.

I'd definitely be up for participating in a Secret Santa (Secret Sentai?), but I'm wondering how that would work logistically with so many members of the board on different continents. Would there need to be a US one, a Europe one, an Asia one? Otherwise, yeah, +1 from me.

I suppose a big factor would be how many people would be willing to pay international shipping in those cases. The thread I linked sectioned people off into those who were and those who weren't. I'd be willing to pay it, but I'm kinda crazy like that and I don't expect anyone else to be, lol.

F&F is a series that has stuff aim towards to kids such as toys just like Jurassic Park and the MCU. There's even an F&F cartoon on Netflix from what I was told. The first Fast & Furious movie came out when I was 10 and I remember it was popular with other kids that I knew in the 5th grade.

I'm doing alright today, not quite as productive as I wanted to be, but turns out I have less work then I thought, so it all works out.