There needs to be a press release or something by the ESRB and gaming companies to let people know that there's a ratings system. I mean, this same stuff was going on 10 years ago when the ratings system started. I remember an old Beavis and Butthead game with a (non-ESRB) 13+ rating.
I'm sorry but parents that don't pay attention to things like this are stupid. You need to at least know that your kids are playing a M rated game. Instead, parents like this see little Timmy killing and stealing cars in the game then flip out and start writing to their senator. Then, of course, the senator sees the letter, thinks "hmm, being vidja games must mean lots of support from parents!" and boom, we're back where we're started.
Maybe things will start to work out in a few years. Give it some time, people seem to be getting dumber. How long did it take before people figured out G(E), PG (E10), PG-13(T), R(M), and X/NC-17(AO)? It wasn't 10 years after it was started, I'm sure.
That's exactly right. And consider this: Rampage for the N64 recieved a Teen rating because of "Comic Mischief." Which was, of course, the tearing down of buildings. Will those kinds of games be grouped with, say, GTA? Why not? You're tearing down buildings full of people then eating them.
The idea that adult-oriented or even pornographic material could exist in a video game format is simply unfathomable to them.
You have a point. They remember games as they were introduced, as most people do with many things. To many adult, games will always be like Asteroids and Pong: innocent. But media attention like this has hopefully opened the eyes to adults of young children to the fact that video games are becoming more like movies.
You've got a good point. But I would like to point out, noting also how rare the swap seems to be, that there was a Legend of Zelda game where Zelda rescued Link called Wand of Gamelon. Simply put, it blew.
Maybe I've been programming too long, but I'm sure there are many many other programmers out there that will agree with what I'm about to say.
Sometimes and IDE isn't always best, which, of course, you're forced to use with VB. As far as I know and care, anyway. But with GTK/Tkinter and wxWindows with Python, Perl, PHP, C/C++, etc. it has gotten a lot quicker for me than dragging and dropping controls around to just code the GUI itself.
I can bang out a simple GUI in Python and Tkinter as fast as your everyday VB user can design a GUI by dragging and dropping. I mean, it's gotten that simple. A few lines of code and you've got a nice little text editor. And it's a bit more customizable because there's no snapping to a grid and the like.
Even in C/C++, you can use wxWindows and whip up GUIs before you can says "Visual C++." And if you've used wxPython, you can probably use wxWindows.
Then again I could just be a codehead. That's the word of the day. Codehead. And big-time sorry if this double posted. A PEBKAC relapse.
Well, guess it's time to start saving up for an exit visa so I can move to the highly-efficient country that everyone knows that Google's going to form. Sooner or later, we'll be living in Googlestan.
Yeah, it's almost as if they're betraying themselves. But I do see every issue as having at least one good article. The most recent one - as of this comment - has a great article about BitTorrent. Hacking stuff is all well and good, but I love the occaisional "road less traveled" style technology editorial from someone not famed in the journalism community. Someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
I suppose it'd be similar to regular while loops using next or continue, but more of a spacial sense as it's "Do this() after that()." As opposed to setting a variable and acting based on its value, like this:
Anyway. Nintendo does have a very solid user base, me included, but people are starting to slip, me included again. I've all but dropped buying games for my GameCube until the new Zelda game is released.
Nintendo's problem was discussed in an earlier article. Personally, I think Nintendo's being naive.
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There needs to be a press release or something by the ESRB and gaming companies to let people know that there's a ratings system. I mean, this same stuff was going on 10 years ago when the ratings system started. I remember an old Beavis and Butthead game with a (non-ESRB) 13+ rating.
I'm sorry but parents that don't pay attention to things like this are stupid. You need to at least know that your kids are playing a M rated game. Instead, parents like this see little Timmy killing and stealing cars in the game then flip out and start writing to their senator. Then, of course, the senator sees the letter, thinks "hmm, being vidja games must mean lots of support from parents!" and boom, we're back where we're started.
Maybe things will start to work out in a few years. Give it some time, people seem to be getting dumber. How long did it take before people figured out G(E), PG (E10), PG-13(T), R(M), and X/NC-17(AO)? It wasn't 10 years after it was started, I'm sure.
That's exactly right. And consider this: Rampage for the N64 recieved a Teen rating because of "Comic Mischief." Which was, of course, the tearing down of buildings. Will those kinds of games be grouped with, say, GTA? Why not? You're tearing down buildings full of people then eating them.
You Apple fanboy.
Bush controls this aspect of the FEMA website? Now that's something I didn't know...
Weren't there speculations of this years ago? Or were they just that: speculations.
The idea that adult-oriented or even pornographic material could exist in a video game format is simply unfathomable to them. You have a point. They remember games as they were introduced, as most people do with many things. To many adult, games will always be like Asteroids and Pong: innocent. But media attention like this has hopefully opened the eyes to adults of young children to the fact that video games are becoming more like movies.
Would anyone be surprised if this was the real response? Considering the games Rockstar makes, at least.
You've got a good point. But I would like to point out, noting also how rare the swap seems to be, that there was a Legend of Zelda game where Zelda rescued Link called Wand of Gamelon. Simply put, it blew.
Kind of like overclocking an NES.
Didn't they do a final call for papers a few months ago?
Oh yeah. I guess it's because I ignore this day most of the time.
This is WAY off topic, but what the hell is up with this crazy flood of posts today? Something just doesn't seem right...
Maybe I've been programming too long, but I'm sure there are many many other programmers out there that will agree with what I'm about to say.
Sometimes and IDE isn't always best, which, of course, you're forced to use with VB. As far as I know and care, anyway. But with GTK/Tkinter and wxWindows with Python, Perl, PHP, C/C++, etc. it has gotten a lot quicker for me than dragging and dropping controls around to just code the GUI itself.
I can bang out a simple GUI in Python and Tkinter as fast as your everyday VB user can design a GUI by dragging and dropping. I mean, it's gotten that simple. A few lines of code and you've got a nice little text editor. And it's a bit more customizable because there's no snapping to a grid and the like.
Even in C/C++, you can use wxWindows and whip up GUIs before you can says "Visual C++." And if you've used wxPython, you can probably use wxWindows.
Then again I could just be a codehead. That's the word of the day. Codehead. And big-time sorry if this double posted. A PEBKAC relapse.
Well, guess it's time to start saving up for an exit visa so I can move to the highly-efficient country that everyone knows that Google's going to form. Sooner or later, we'll be living in Googlestan.
...Metal Gear!
Yeah, it's almost as if they're betraying themselves. But I do see every issue as having at least one good article. The most recent one - as of this comment - has a great article about BitTorrent. Hacking stuff is all well and good, but I love the occaisional "road less traveled" style technology editorial from someone not famed in the journalism community. Someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
I just thought it was funny that the linked product page, under features, says "Toss them into the air and they'll 'sing!'"
Want an example of outsourcing gone bad? Call Dell's tech support and say your RAM has gone bad.
This is our history. Yet, nothing in there about poor Slashdot.
I suppose it'd be similar to regular while loops using next or continue, but more of a spacial sense as it's "Do this() after that()." As opposed to setting a variable and acting based on its value, like this:
this();
$didthis = 1;
if ($didthis) { that(); }
Anyway. Nintendo does have a very solid user base, me included, but people are starting to slip, me included again. I've all but dropped buying games for my GameCube until the new Zelda game is released.
Nintendo's problem was discussed in an earlier article. Personally, I think Nintendo's being naive.
I love people like you. I really do. I'd give you a +a kajillion if Slashdot's moderation system supported long ints.
Super Dodge Ball did that, too. But everywhere.