Holy sh*t, those are good points. Case in point, you don't see almost a billion catholics freak out over a cartoon making fun of the pope (I'm not even catholic)...
I think thats what annoys me about people.. they go ahead and make a dumb rule like that.. and then will turn around and shit on everyone elses "sacred" crap..
anyways.. to add a small tidbit to this pile lol..
one time while on WoW.. I told my friend to stop treating our guildies like crap.. and then he told me it was a free country..
I get that a lot now when I try to keep someone from doing something stupid. You try to reason with 'em, but no. They have to go "oh, it's a free country" as an excuse to go do say or something foolish.
Then I'm guessing he was the reason for the censorship in the Australian version of L4D2.
Like a game where you rape religious, minority, immigrant, amuptee, autistic, blind, deaf, vegan, poor, ginger, kids while their white middle class adoptive parents are forced to watch?
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Australia sure loves to kick it's gamers where it hurts kangaroo-style. It's stupid that they want to keep M rated games out of their country. Australia really isn't a clean place as they think it is so they should just stop it and look less lame.
I think that every microsoft developed system other than the MSX is dumb. The original Xbox controller was shit, they charge you for a service that's free through Sony and Nintendo and they're systems' general hardware failure rate is 10 times the acceptable range within the first year and a half!
Other stupid things about gaming-
Giving any game by LJN the Nintendo Seal of Quality
The Virtual Boy
The 32X
Konami subcontracting to Apaloosa to make Contra games for the PS1
The Nintendo/Sony/Phillips debacle that actually resulted in 4 horrible games that tainted two nearly perfect series and created Nintendo's biggest competitor.
The original price tag on the Neo Geo and the PSP
The Atari Jaguar
Universal v. Nintendo
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This was probably the biggest ****up in gaming history. Nothing comes close to the magnitude of lost revenue or quantity of billions of dollars. Nothing.
When do parents take the blame? You can't blame it on the kids or the games: the parents are mostly at fault for buying and allowing their grossly underage children playing those games.
Also, my brother got in BIIIIIG trouble for drawing guns as his favorite thing, when he was in second grade. Big BIG trouble. I lol'd so hard. I wanted to punch the teacher and the Principal for thinking it was even a big deal. It's that type of mentality that needs to STFU and die.
1....was that supposed to be a joke??
2. who said anything about M rated games? its the fact that australia doesnt have an R-rating for videogames that pisses us off, as anything that is considered to be worse than an MA rated simply gets banned or censored
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