video game terminology

I want to kill my classmates she told me. You don’t mean that, I said. She shakes her head up and down. I would love it if they were slaughtered. I am surprised, she is an innocent looking six-year-old. You probably are just upset today with someone I suggested. I am upset with them all, she said. I want them butchered. Her vocabulary astounds me; she is not your usual first grader. Let’s just make friends with them, I suggest. Let’s slay them, she replies. I discover later that she plays violent video games nights and weekends. Such violence she has heard in these games. Games for much older people. I am not sure I am old enough to play these games, and I am seventy-one.