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Video Game Censorship and Sock Puppets
Submitted by doughnut on October 15, 2008 - 12:41pm.
Funniest thing I've read in a newspaper article in a long time...
Since there are only two people left in the country who think Australia doesn't need an R18+ rating for games – those being South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson and the sock puppet on his hand – I won't preach to the choir and labour that point.
That quote comes from this opinion piece written by Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame.
I'm a big believer in a proper rating system for video games in Australia. Yes, that means an R18+ rating. No I'm not a axe murdering, blood loving, crazy person (or am I?). Why shouldn't an adult in Australia be able to play the video game as it was intended.
The average age of the gamer in Australia is now 28. Twenty-freaking-eight. Our rating system needs to reflect that. Not some crazy "games are bad, mmmkay" thinking by Michael Atkinson where if a game can't by played by a child then no adult can play it either.
As a side point, I'm also a big believer in parents not being complete fucking asshats about games. If you buy your precious snowflake Timmy GTA4 for his 13th birthday, you have absolutely no rights to complain about the violence or themes in the game as it was clearly marked MA15+ on the cover. Take some damn responsibility for your own choices for once and stop trying to ruin everyone else's fun.
Yay! I got my password
Submitted by Snowrabbit on October 15, 2008 - 2:53pm.Yay! I got my password correct on the first try when I logged in. That's sometimes a big accomplishment for me since I have like 80 passwords to remember. Good times. And yea, I'm tired of parents who want other people (Ergo, more laws) to bring their children up. As if they can't be bothered with it. "Ohhh, Jimmy-Jim wants some GTA4 thing; how can I say no?" :: some time later... :: "WHAT?? BEWBS?! RUSS-KIES?! OMG This game needs to be banned! Who would make such a thing? I want to eradicate this from the planet because I can't be bothered with learning about the games my kids want /before/ I buy them."
People are stupid.
This planet would be so much
Submitted by doughnut on October 15, 2008 - 2:55pm.This planet would be so much easier to live on if we got rid of all the people.
Dude. For real. Today I was
Submitted by Snowrabbit on October 15, 2008 - 2:58pm.Dude. For real. Today I was cruisin' around with Turtle and I had visions of driving all crazy if there were no other people on Earth. There was this road they blocked off next to a bridge that I'd totally make a rad jump off of if there were just no people to get in the way.
It'd be like I Am Legend...
Submitted by doughnut on October 15, 2008 - 3:01pm.It'd be like I Am Legend... Only without the major suckage or the inevitable prequel that'll make sense - but I digress.
Maybe we'll have to settle for getting rid of all the utter morons. I'm sure we can get robots to make our McDonalds breakfasts.
Ohh, Gawd, no, don't remind
Submitted by Snowrabbit on October 15, 2008 - 3:05pm.Ohh, Gawd, no, don't remind me about the prequel they're making for that... Breaks my heart. Sure, they'll make a prequel to a Will Smith movie that pisses on the original literature it was based on, but we can't get a Serenity sequel made painstakingly by people who love the source material. Give to me Serenity sequel. GIVE!
Hmm.. Food would be a major concern after the world ends. I guess we'd be living out of cans for a while until we figured out the whole McDonalds robot thing. In the mean time, there are jumps and ramps to drive off.
I guess we could print out
Submitted by doughnut on October 15, 2008 - 3:11pm.I guess we could print out all the farming literature from the internets before the electricity goes away.
I think the major concern will be hygiene. We can't just leave all the dead bodies of humanity just laying where they fell. Surely that'd bring a disease that would wipe the rest of us out.
Wow... This got really off topic. Nice work. :)
People will decay rather
Submitted by Snowrabbit on October 15, 2008 - 3:19pm.People will decay rather quickly. Animals and random nature events will take care of that. We'll just have to clear out an area and wait for the zombies. Ohhhh, those inevitable zombies. So while you and turtle work on that whole farming/McDonalds robot stuff, I'll be outfitting a giant school bus into a warrior tank with anti-zombie weapons, metal shields and extra large gas tanks for cross-country pillaging. Also, I'll be collecting a bunch of leather threads and rock music to go along with said cross-country pillaging.
Huh. I think I just described the third Resident Evil movie. This really is hella off topic. But fascinating. I'll also put a ramp out the back of the bus from which we can launch weapons-equipped dune-buggies in case the zombies have also developed bus-tank technology. We will live like kings!! And of course, the dune-buggies could handle making jumps and ramps off roads and bridges that are out. Who says we can't have fun while the world decays?
Like hell I'm gonna be stuck
Submitted by doughnut on October 15, 2008 - 3:39pm.Like hell I'm gonna be stuck on the farm trying to figure out how to grown corn. I want in on the zombie crushing bus business!
Don't you attempt to tell me what to do, or I'll take control of the majority of the left over fuels. Me and my army of dangerous outlaws and killers. And if you cross me... I'll send you to fight in a dome of thunder-esque type architecture!
Hell yea, you do! Everyone
Submitted by Snowrabbit on October 15, 2008 - 3:51pm.Hell yea, you do! Everyone wants in on raiding a gun shop to exercise our bus-tank gun rights!! Which, by the way, is afforded to all survivors under the Kick Zombie Ass provision of the new world constitution. You could call it a declaration of /dependence/ on kicking ass. I plan on outfitting our bus-tank with at least 20 gun turrets. Mad Max won't see this crap comin. No way in hell.
the same parents that bought
Submitted by burto on October 16, 2008 - 7:53pm.the same parents that bought timmy 13 his GTA4 would probably still not like the same game if timmy was 21.... parents are just muppets... 13 is often mature enough for 15 games... thinking of playing GTA3 with my broither 2-3 years ago... He's plenty mature... sadly some sick little fucks arent...
Its no use the consoles having some parental locking system, as the kids usually own it.... and know how it works etc...
I guess they could release the same game in a disney version and a 28 year old gamer version...