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  1. Re:The ESRB exists for a few reasons by poena.dare · · Score: 1 · on The ESRB Doesn't Take Games Seriously?

    Spot on. This is why I became so pissed when the Penny Arcade guys started making promotional materials for the ESRB. I even made a comic strip about it.

    http://www.mlcsmith.com/blog/penny_arcade_hypocrit es.gif

  2. Re:Great plan by poena.dare · · Score: 1 · on ESRB Our Last Defense Against Game Censorship?
    Sir or Madam, you are correct!

    My I add my rant? Thank you.

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    Gabe, of Penny Arcade, mentioned recently that Penny Arcade is designing an ad campaign for the Entertainment Software Rating Board. He explains:

    Regardless of what they think about the ESRB I've never met anyone who doesn't agree that a rating system is important. No one wants little kids playing games designed for adults. The ESRB isn't perfect but it's all we've got and we as gamers can either bitch about it or try and help.
    OK, I'll bite. Gabe has obviously never met me.

    1) A rating system for games is no substitute for parental oversight. I haven't noticed public libraries dividing up literature to protect children. If anything the categorization of fiction by age group for children is to steer children to literature that best matches the child's capacity to enjoy it. This is not what the ESRB is trying to do.

    2) A rating system for games by an obviously backwards and regressive organization, essentially supported by large, wealthy corporations is especially a bad idea.

    I understand Penny Arcade wants to help. I think they are being a bit too helpful. (See my Penny Arcade parody strip on the subject.)

    Every single day parents have to make value judgements about the appropriateness of various things in their child's life: school, friends, television, books, clothes, ad infinitum. Every single day parents do just fine. The only reason why organizations like the ESRB exist is because of the continuously renewed lie that people are cavemen:

    I'm just a simple caveman-parent. This world of "console games" and "computer software" frightens and confuses me! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts.
    People aren't cavemen. The ESRB wants to exercise their power by perpetuating the belief that they are.
  3. I especially like the double-meaning in this quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Adult Entertainment Antes Up In DRM War

    I personally like this industry, not for the content, but because I always get to play with the newest technological toys

    I can relate myself:

    ME: Would you like paper or plastic, ma'am?
    CUSTOMER: Paper chaffes my skin, so gimme the plastic plz.
    ME: Enjoy the Harry Potter NIMBUS 2000 Broom, and thankyou for shopping at Toys'R'Us

    Oh!
    My!
    God!

  4. Hatt Baby! by Creosote · · Score: 1 · on Top 10 Web Fads

    I second that. For those who don't remember this classic Sung-in-Arabic-that-Sounds-Kind-of-Like-Swedish (if-you're-drunk-enough) song and subsquent music video, the original Flash animation and explanation are archived here.

  5. Re: Hand preference...heh by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference


    > Let the masturbation jokes begin!!!

    OK, here's a start.

  6. Re:Aww, the poor kittens! by Vicsun · · Score: 1 · on Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack, Senate Told

    In case anyone doesn't get the joke, the parent is referring to this creation of the internet ;-)

  7. Re:With toys like the Nimbus 2000... by hadesan · · Score: 2, Informative · on Amazon Seeks Divorce, $750M from Toys R Us

    Links to the old reviews captured at mlcsmith and another set of old reviews and finally a trial test at the toy factory

  8. Re:Sighs... by ratsnapple+tea · · Score: 1 · on Linux for iPod Matures

    "- Uli's moose"

    Hope you've seen this little gem. Ahh, that brings back the memories...