Fine I'll go again. The ESRB is an abomination and..and..oh hell someone say something new.
Wow that was in the wrong place my refresh is awful
Wow that was in the wrong place my refresh is awful
Poll: Don?t restrict my gaming purchases! Sub question why is sex conidered worse than violence?
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About the Mass Effect controversy, it was so ridiculous, even Jack Thompson said so. I'm serious.
Calvin and Hobbes and a thing for bias in statistical data. I'm a simple man...fluffylandmine post=9.68355.626318 said:
I would argue that since the ESRB is a review board constructed from a corporate entity, and since corporations are, at their most basic level, a way for multiple people to unite their financial power into one unified person, the ESRB is, in a capitalist society, as justified in hawking it's ideas as you or I am in this forum here. It's just that they have considerably more sway in the area of videogame regulation due to the fact that they are by and large endorsed (through it's establishment by the ESA) by the people who produce, manufacture, and sell the games.bubbaroark0451 post=9.68355.626304 said:
None of the objectivists have addressed this:
Why should you be entitled to buy M-rated games? The store would gladly sell them to you to turn a profit, and to everyone else, but that angers parents and causes them to take their business elsewhere. So, it is in the store's best interest to regulate who can buy what so that adults - who plop down thousands for TVs, stereo equipment, etc. - will be more willing to shop there for their family.
And that is one of the main reasons. Not 'morals', but because keeping the big spenders happy is the rational thing to do. And besides, if you're a 'man', you won't be held back by the edicts of society! You'll do what you want, because you are a free, rational individual!
...which is why you thus obey the laws that society has set forth for everyone's benefit.
Why should you be entitled to buy M-rated games? The store would gladly sell them to you to turn a profit, and to everyone else, but that angers parents and causes them to take their business elsewhere. So, it is in the store's best interest to regulate who can buy what so that adults - who plop down thousands for TVs, stereo equipment, etc. - will be more willing to shop there for their family.
And that is one of the main reasons. Not 'morals', but because keeping the big spenders happy is the rational thing to do. And besides, if you're a 'man', you won't be held back by the edicts of society! You'll do what you want, because you are a free, rational individual!
...which is why you thus obey the laws that society has set forth for everyone's benefit.
True, at one point the ESRB was indeed in the pockets of it's creators, however it has since betrayed it's master in a fashion not unentirley similar to Frankenstein's monster. It is now under heavy unseen regulation (lobbyists suck) and is detrimental to our cause. And by our I mean myself in tandem with the underground ESA, you know what the ESRB should have beenHobbesMkii post=9.68355.626339 said:
Indeed I do. The Monkey cage may smell but Gray Flannel suits are uncommon.Not a Spy post=9.68355.626353 said:
Yanno my pet peeve? Is when developers strip all trace of blood from a game in order to scrape out a "T" rating with it. How the heck am I supposed to know if I'm killing something if its not bleeding copiously out of at least three orifices? Better than the ESRB, games should have built-in "content levels". At the kiddie levels you smite your enemies with bight-colored nerf weaponry and they bleed streams of flowers and puppy dogs. At the adult levels you get a thermonuclear chainsaw, all enemies contain about 50 gallons of blood and the hud is replaced by one of those internet desktop strip tease things.
How's that? I demonstrated that it's completely rational for stores to bar minors from buying M-rated video games because of the way society works. And you can't legally do much about that, in spite of concepts about personal 'rights'.bubbaroark0451 post=9.68355.626349 said: