You overestimate the reach of the ESRB's change. To further your analogy: it was found that a pornographic image was hidden under a layer of White-Out inside of a children's book. Said book would no longer be suitable for children as thye can simply use outside tools (i.e. their nail) to uncover the content that was hidden and niot acessed during ordinary use (i.e. reading the book) and that book would then on be sold at adult bookstores.
After any surge of interest for a new product comes a period where disinterested users not entirely satisfied go back to the old product.
I mean, it's not like they can return their browser to Mozilla and ask for a different model or their cash back..
We start focusing on the issue described in this article ; as a society it is entirely hypocritical for us to decry game ratings when we do not enforce them ourselves.
The rating isn't some kind of magic shield that prevents your child from playing the game, parents - YOU have to use your discretionnary power(i.e. MONEY) to influence your child's gaming habits (i.e NOT BUY THE "M" GAMES).
There's 6 billions of us. Surely it IS possible to evaluate just how much stuff we NEED to live - food, clothing, lodging. The stuff we WANT, however? Infinite, because as soon as we get more we begin to want other things.
You should know Google has no obligation whatsoever to even give you the OPPORTUNITY to ask it questions, much les answer them. Any company you ask qeustions to is giving you the PRIVILEGE of answering them.
CNET (and ONLY CNET) lost that privilege with Google by outright attacking them, and no amount of rhetorical bitching about freedom of speech and the important of the press is going to change the facts that 1)they deserve it and 2)Google has not done anything evil here.
Is now gone. This is a childish and smarmy move I did not expect from any organization claiming to have integrity. The Internet is not a middle school playground, ZDnet. You won't look "cool" by doing this except to people that were already on your side.
You ARE aware 5 million, distributed amongst the shareholders, would result in a fraction of a cent per share?
10.68 billion shares spreading 5 million....I doubt the shareholders would lose much sleep over it. This is essentially free money for MS that they decided to give for some PR.
Basically I agree with you but disagree that possible dividends should even be invoked.
The Megaman series in particular lends itself very well to speed runs. Just dash like a mad man and avoid the enemies while collecting power-ups.
I remember beating Megaman X3 in roughly an hour with all items collected that way.
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You overestimate the reach of the ESRB's change. To further your analogy: it was found that a pornographic image was hidden under a layer of White-Out inside of a children's book. Said book would no longer be suitable for children as thye can simply use outside tools (i.e. their nail) to uncover the content that was hidden and niot acessed during ordinary use (i.e. reading the book) and that book would then on be sold at adult bookstores.
I was curious as to how you could forget to check the very first comment. It's okay.
After any surge of interest for a new product comes a period where disinterested users not entirely satisfied go back to the old product.
I mean, it's not like they can return their browser to Mozilla and ask for a different model or their cash back..
I made that very joke half an hour ago and almost got modded down to hell as an overrated Troll.
What do you hope to achieve here?
I was also curious as to how the moderators could not only take this oddly round 15% figure at face value but also NOT see the underlying humor.
We're just a couple of misunderstood jokers
This really saddens me. But it's okay because I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance
Don't all AO games contain pornography? Isn't that pretty much the very thing that DEFINES the AO rating?
I'm pretty sure they could charge the store with corruption of a minor or some other crap.
I know the ESRB's official definition mentions extreme violence, but has any game been rated AO for it's violence?
Just a lil' FYI.
It just doesn't apply to "M" games, only "AO".
We start focusing on the issue described in this article ; as a society it is entirely hypocritical for us to decry game ratings when we do not enforce them ourselves.
The rating isn't some kind of magic shield that prevents your child from playing the game, parents - YOU have to use your discretionnary power(i.e. MONEY) to influence your child's gaming habits (i.e NOT BUY THE "M" GAMES).
from ExtremeTech. It's fairly comprehensive. Read it here : http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1847008 ,00.asp
Notice the perfect 10 score.
Now you've gone ahead and made my dupe post a dupe. The irony is excruciating.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08/ 2013251&tid=211&tid=156
Probably pointed out already, but at least I'm helpful and give the reference link.
My Fair Lady lied to us!
There's 6 billions of us. Surely it IS possible to evaluate just how much stuff we NEED to live - food, clothing, lodging. The stuff we WANT, however? Infinite, because as soon as we get more we begin to want other things.
If I was a woman I would not let a damn penguin anywhere near my panties.
Ridiculous. The mod bias in this topic is bewildering. (uh oh, I mentionned the "m" word. This will quickly become -3 troll)
Japanese musicians under contract by Sony are defying their contracts
IANAL, but the summary certainly seems to imply so.
Leaves everyone blind. Not my quote, but it fits perfectly here.
You should know Google has no obligation whatsoever to even give you the OPPORTUNITY to ask it questions, much les answer them. Any company you ask qeustions to is giving you the PRIVILEGE of answering them.
CNET (and ONLY CNET) lost that privilege with Google by outright attacking them, and no amount of rhetorical bitching about freedom of speech and the important of the press is going to change the facts that 1)they deserve it and 2)Google has not done anything evil here.
Is now gone. This is a childish and smarmy move I did not expect from any organization claiming to have integrity. The Internet is not a middle school playground, ZDnet. You won't look "cool" by doing this except to people that were already on your side.
Let's see. Incest (sup Adam and Eve's kids), drug use, stonings, genocides.
AO.
You ARE aware 5 million, distributed amongst the shareholders, would result in a fraction of a cent per share?
10.68 billion shares spreading 5 million....I doubt the shareholders would lose much sleep over it. This is essentially free money for MS that they decided to give for some PR.
Basically I agree with you but disagree that possible dividends should even be invoked.
The Megaman series in particular lends itself very well to speed runs. Just dash like a mad man and avoid the enemies while collecting power-ups. I remember beating Megaman X3 in roughly an hour with all items collected that way.
It was actually meant as a joke (hence the "Do go on" comment)..I honestly don't know how it got modded as Insightful.