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    How young were you when you started gaming?

    I was 3 according to my parents. They picked up an Amstrad CPC464 in '89 and my brother and I would sit on it for hours trying to behead each other on "Barbarians" or getting more and more confused as to what the fuck was going on in "Total Recall". We had an Atari 5200 and a ColecoVision as...
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    Censorship

    O Oooooh, noooo, that wasn't my point at all. I was simply saying that without levels of censorship that game would actually still be available to many countries and many age levels. I wasn't saying it should stay, I'm saying it's one example of how censorship should work. Of course if you...
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    Censorship

    Censorship is important to any level of media, not just video games, because there are some truly messed up things that would otherwise be readily available to everyone. I know it's a thrashed example, but look at Rapelay. However, I can think of two examples of how censorship doesn't work in...
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    Teacher suspended for blog post about students

    It's definitely treading a wafer-thin line. It all depends on whether or not those she's speaking about can be identified through what she's said. Yes there is a level of professionalism that needs to be respected, which is the same of any job no matter how piss-weak and measly, but if she...
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    Poll: How would you deal with this situation?

    Bring on the Blackjack :D
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    why do we stil have different regions?

    Not to mention that each regional version of a game may have differing allowed content, i.e. L4D2, most of the GTA's etc etc, thanks to various levels of censorship. But like everyone else before me, I'd have to say primarily for the cashish. If we here in Oz were to be able to easily buy and...