User blog:CrazyBrick/Gaming freedom help.

Okay, so I recently started playing Combat Arms, a free-to-play MMOFPS. Problem is, my parents aren't exactly chill with it. They site two reasons: 1. The fact that my cousin lives in his parent's basement playing video games because (a) he wastes all his time on them and (b) he can't hold down a job. This is legit, but I'm no game junkie- I'm only an amateur, and nowhere near addiction. 2. That it would "make my reputation look bad." I call BS here. Why? Because in my experience, about half the online community plays video games, and I'm pretty much the only one I know that does't have a game console (which is fine, cause I'm the F2P guy.). So, it would actually help me gain some friends, and help me understand some parts of what the friends I already have say. I want to upload a commentary of a CA game in which I got an Ultra Kill with mines(and went 40-30), but their "reputation" stance means that I can't even TELL anybody that I play Combat Arms (okay, hyperbole, maybe, but you get the point.) So please, help me build a case against this odd stance so i can let them see the light, and help them realize that playing FPS games is, well, pretty much normal, and won't make me an overly violent person or crush me as a junkie, or be spat upon by former friends.

I know you guys could help me with this, especially since, after all, this is the Wiki.

(Yeah, yeah, post it on the forum. Sorry, can't. The Combat Arms site (all of it) is blocked at our router during the weekdays so I don't goof off while I' supposed to be doing school.)