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The ESRB Gets An 'F'
GamePolitics reports on a failing grade given to the ESRB by the National Institute on Media and the Family. The report card did not look good for the ratings board, which almost immediately fired back at the organization. From that article: "The reality is that publishers understand that retailers largely choose not to stock AO-rated games, and so in the interests of producing marketable games, publishers will oftentimes revise and resubmit a game that was initially assigned an AO by raters in an effort to produce an M-rated game. When this happens, the process starts again from the beginning, and each new version of a game is reviewed independently. The call to issue more AO ratings has little to do with rating accuracy, and more to do with NIMF's real agenda, which is to destroy the commercial viability of games it deems objectionable. Unlike NIMF, ESRB's job is to be a neutral rater, not a censor."
NIMF: You suck!
ESRB: You suck more!
NIMF: Your mother wears army boots!
ESRB: Your sister swims after troop ships!
Does any adult really give a flying fig? Oh wait, the Slashdot demographic is... never mind.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Just install one of those kiddie mosquito noise generators http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/3 0/0021211&tid=126&tid=14> around the couters that sell AO only games.
cEnSuRaBle
Clippy tells me there is a "sentence agreement problem" whatever that means...
I have just created a World Wide orgnziation called World-wide Institute on Media and People (WIMP for short). We give ESRB an "A+" Why? Just Because! and the NIMF, they get an "F" and a "U" from the WIMP.
Fortunately my 9-year old son understands the ESRB rating system and can explain it to me when I'm buying him games.
especially defense of the weak when you are strong (saving people from genocide?)
I don't mind standing up for those who cannot, but somehow this has become perverted into "defending the stupid from themselves".
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Based on the breakdown of the board, maybe renaming it the National Institute on Media and My Family would be more accurate.
[UID-HeinzIntel]
Agreed.
I think NIMF was just the sort of organization the founders wanted to protect us from when they forged the 1st amendment in the fabled city of Philadelphia. If you encounter a NIMF in a dark alley or shadowy forest, hold the constitution aloft in front of you and shout "get ye behind me Satan!" or something of that nature. They have no defense against this weapon.