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New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board
An anonymous reader writes "Australia refused to give Rebellion's new Aliens Vs. Predator game a rating, effectively banning it in the country. Rebellion says it won't be submitting an edited version for another round of classifications, however. (As Valve did with Left 4 Dead 2.) They said, 'We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices.'"
I'm glad developers are taking a stand and refusing to sugar coat their games.
When Australians decide to start acting like adults they can do something about their government. Meanwhile the rest of the world's people will continue to make make choices for themselves.
As an American who moved to Australia a few years ago and married into citizenship, I actually support Australia's strong stance against violent video games and a violent society. The contrast is especially strong when you return to the states for a month or two.
What people generally don't seem to get is that violence is promoted by the mass media to make a quick buck. People here who want to get this game will, just as they will anything else out there -- but there's a difference between getting that in the underground and mass marketing it to society in a race to the bottom for a quarterly profit.
While AvP might not be the most violent video game out there, at least we have a line drawn in the sand. People even in their 20's and 30's grew up playing "games" of execution (Mortal Kombat) and mass murder simulators (Doom), alienating us from society.
But since then, we've had children, and we don't want our children to grow up with the wrongs we grew up with, especially since they get worse as time goes on.
What Australia is doing is really no different of a public safety measure than requiring seat belts in cars and enforcing people wearing it. Call that "Nanny State" all you want, and dream of days without it, but it saved and still saves lives.
It's not a popular opinion, so rate me down, do what you want, but I'm speaking how I and most other Australians I know feel.
Not in Australia. They willingly surrendered most of their firearms quite some time ago as I understand it.
Wrong. Even though there was stiff resistance by shooters groups initially, most people here supported laws to try and get handguns and full auto rifles and shotguns off the streets.
Contrary to the US, most every other civilised country in the world recognises that the average citizen does NOT have some God given right to own a rocket launcher!
Thus the tiny muder rate involving guns as opposed to the US where it runs into the tens (hundreds) of thousands per year.
Thus the US has the reputation (rightly or wrongly) of a brain dead drone populace being fed guns by the hundreds of millions to fatten the big corporates bottom lines while they gun each other down in the streets at the slightest provocation.
Unfortunately the American gun culture is now being exported (along with rap and like shit) and we're starting to pay the price with a rise in handgun crime.
The average American is a sheep being led to the slaughter so some Ruger guy can afford another corporate jet, and the best part is, they have you loving it!
And before you ask..... I've owned and used firearms since I was about 8, still do. The difference is here you don't mention them in polite society.
But yet, in Reason magazine's second amendment issue last year, they argued that owning a rocket launcher would be perfectly legal and proper.
No, they were criminals with knives and sticks. Now they're criminals with guns.
Did he accept your offer to fellate him?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Except for all the blood on their hands.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Khalid what's-his-name, the supposed "9/11 mastermind" is actually so dangerous, they say, that he can't even be allowed to be tried in a court of law.
I don't think it matters how dangerous he is. Enemy combatants whose only connection to our country is the desire to destroy it are not entitled to access to our civilian justice system. It's patently absurd in my mind to treat these people as common criminals. They are war criminals and deserve to be treated accordingly.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.