Just thought I would mention, that being older than 18 in australia doesn't mean nothing is restricted to you. As it stands, there is no R rating for video games in australia, anything falling into that category is banned. Manhunt is the only example I can think of off the top of my head. It was released M15+, then re-rated as R18+ and is therefore no longer able to be purchased. I'm sure noone cried about it as the game wasn't that great anyway.
I also remember some ladies in Duke Nukem 3D that were removed from the australian release.
I worked in a retail place (TV's, stereo's, computers etc), and they have an old semi-retired guy in there that does the computer repairs. One day he was trying to fix this kids machine, and had replaced the motherboard. Every time he tried to boot the machine it would do nothing. After he tried a few different things I suggested that something is shorting the board out, but he believed that he wouldn't have done something that silly and continued with other troubleshooting. A couple of hours later, still fiddling with this box, I convinced him to pull it apart and look for shorts. Standing over his shoulder watching, he lifts out the motherboard to find a medium sized pair of pliers between the board and the case.
Poor fella never lived that one down.
Another favourite of mine isn't really technical. I work tech support and every so often you get a user that can barely power the machine on, but is required to use the machine for their job. Replacing their machine for lease or to fix a fault, I ask them to check my list of software and data that they need. To this they reply "Why would I do that, your the computer guy, do your job!". One of them was quite rude, and fed up with it, I calmly said "ok then, no problem, I'll guess and get back to you". He called back pretty quick.
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You can also buy the games from New Zealand or the UK. But shhhh don't tell anyone
Just thought I would mention, that being older than 18 in australia doesn't mean nothing is restricted to you. As it stands, there is no R rating for video games in australia, anything falling into that category is banned. Manhunt is the only example I can think of off the top of my head. It was released M15+, then re-rated as R18+ and is therefore no longer able to be purchased. I'm sure noone cried about it as the game wasn't that great anyway.
I also remember some ladies in Duke Nukem 3D that were removed from the australian release.
I worked in a retail place (TV's, stereo's, computers etc), and they have an old semi-retired guy in there that does the computer repairs. One day he was trying to fix this kids machine, and had replaced the motherboard. Every time he tried to boot the machine it would do nothing. After he tried a few different things I suggested that something is shorting the board out, but he believed that he wouldn't have done something that silly and continued with other troubleshooting. A couple of hours later, still fiddling with this box, I convinced him to pull it apart and look for shorts. Standing over his shoulder watching, he lifts out the motherboard to find a medium sized pair of pliers between the board and the case. Poor fella never lived that one down. Another favourite of mine isn't really technical. I work tech support and every so often you get a user that can barely power the machine on, but is required to use the machine for their job. Replacing their machine for lease or to fix a fault, I ask them to check my list of software and data that they need. To this they reply "Why would I do that, your the computer guy, do your job!". One of them was quite rude, and fed up with it, I calmly said "ok then, no problem, I'll guess and get back to you". He called back pretty quick.