http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gamesVideo games get an R rating in Australia. R-R-Rocktastic!60Grapefruits!http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080311211528Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:15:28 GMTIn an unrelated note, does anyone want to go to this?http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080308191521Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:15:21 GMTDude, there was like, 2 paragraphs in that one! Just because they incorporate stream-of-consciousness stylisation and are overly lengthy, doesn't mean they're not there :P It just looks like a lot of text because it's squished into a narrow speech bubble ;)http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080306202007Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:20:07 GMTI just came in here to say that I think supernanny is hot. I'd also like to mention that we have these neato-burrito things called 'paragraphs' now. Otherwise, fine ranting. I really only visit boredomistan to see if WiseGuy has left a comment.http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080306001339Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:13:39 GMTWere I a game developer/film maker or writer I would go out of my way to make sure that my creation gets censored. Nothing drives sales like having the usual suspects complain about it.http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080305185309Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:53:09 GMTFunnily enough i already had a blogsome account just so i could occasionally make comments on Dan's blog, a blog and site the existence of which is one of the things that deters me from posting my own crap - anything you may wish to say Dan's probably already said more eloquently, humorously, technically correctly and with just the right amount of sarcasm. I even saw Jaymis post there once, so you know it's full o' funk! Also had a blogger account for a similar reason. Anyway, I'm busier now than i've been in a while, but i might be able to throw something up there some time, just for you. I'm sure you'll only be disappointed though. It'd probably only be fair for you to leave large dumps of verbose reply on something i've written, i guess.http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080305050753Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:07:53 GMTIt's always a treat to have your wall of text filling my RSS window. This day was a long time coming. Guy I've started you your own blog: http://guysownblog.blogspot.com Username: wiseguy@mailinator.com Password: you know where to find me You deserve more than my pretty white speechbubbles.http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080303183603Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:36:03 GMT"...every second heading ends in multiple exclamation marks." "Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." --Terry Pratchett, "Eric" and something similar in "Reaper Man" "Rest assured that Rudd's giving it the axe, common sense prevails." Umm... WTF? Common sense? You do know the New And Improved plan is to instigate "mandatory ISP-based filtering to deliver a filtered feed to all homes, schools and public internet points," right? (Warning: Actually clicking that link and reading their insane policies is more frightening than most stuff they want to censor... i mean "protect" us from) Finland has legally mandatory ISP filtering, and their super-secret black-list of kiddie porn sites reportedly included a musical instrument store, a doll store, a site of Windows tips in Thai and recently the text-only site of a Finnish free-speech advocate who criticizes the censorship law! It's painfully obvious why black-listing doesn't work; DA INTERWEB IS BIG YO. And constantly, exponentially growing. A manual appraisal of the moral decency (according to whatever random criteria) of every site currently up and every few thousand new sites that spawn every day is impossible, so the bright idea is to create some kind of scanning software that will do it automatically. Obviously that won't work either, because a lot of non-deviant sites will be unfairly lumped in with the real smut due to the inescapable limitations of said software. This is all besides the point that this is the same tired old censorship argument society has had since day dot. Non-majority religions, salacious prose, indecent bathers that don't cover the ankles, mini-skirts, music, movies, games... What's socially acceptable is completely arbitrary and dynamic. Older people find change hard to take. Older people are the voting majority. Politicians simply leverage people's insecurity and hypocrisy concerning their moral stance. No-one wants censorship, but no-one (who matters) will step up and be the one to SAY they don't want it, for fear the finger of self-righteous moral indignation be pointed at them as well. It's simply about keeping up appearances in a kind of ridiculous holier-than-thou, emperors-new-clothes peer-pressure arrangement. Every priest, every politician, EVERYONE has "impure thoughts" but it's usually only the younger people on the cusp of social change that are secure enough to both admit to AND defend their kicks, and how's that usually done? Why, through artistic and social-commentary-making mediums like music, film, literature, video games... you know, the stuff the prudes are trying to censor. The catholic guilt crowd will always try to foist said guilt onto everyone else, like a disease. People secure enough to be immune to it seem to be in short supply, but hey, there's one bright side: If everything was completely allowable and there was no censorship or social moral compass whatever, a lot of lovely taboos would probably lose their appeal. People dig dirty, perverse and "socially unacceptable" things precisely because they're deemed so. Eating a cookie you're not allowed to have is a hundred times more satisfying than eating one you've been freely given. If naughty is normal, there is no naughty. And that would suck for super-nanny, coz that busty dominant bitch would be out of a job. Incidentally, that same result would occur if parents stopped blaming everyone else for their lack of parenting skills, stopped relying on people like slack-ass govt. programmers to do their parenting for them and actually talked about shit with their kids. Also, guilt is a highly overrated parenting tool. It doesn't matter if we're talking about little Timmy's new found fascination for German Goo Girls or those violent Alien Vs Predator movies/games, as long as he's aware of the differences between what he sees on the screen and what reality is, that there are things called STDs and that Aliens will always have the evolutionary upper hand, you won't have a problem. Says the blasé man who has no children :)http://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080229014533Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:45:33 GMTi agree with silpheed on this onehttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080227201541Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:15:41 GMTI like boobieshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_gameshttp://www.boredomistan.com/2008/february/r_rated_games/#c20080227172640Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:26:40 GMT