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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."
You're right. I cared enough to read the summary and decide that I don't care one fucking bit about how computer gamnes get rated and who happens to like or dislike who in the rating process.
Were you able to figure that out from my first posting or did you need this one to clarify it for you?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Atheists in my experience are often hypocritical. Who in their right mind can say "Oh my God" or "Jesus Christ!"? Even by using their names in vain, you are admitting that they are above and beyond ordinary. Otherwise, we all would say "Oh, purple pen!"