Me too. Im 23 and always select the earliest year available and a random day and month. Fuck you, age validatorsludicer said:
Poll: Please verify your age...
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Hooray, I love fun options in polls, I always have to pick them. You poor souls with your negligent parents......
I'm 21, so I don't need to. Not that I watch porn anyway - I find it quite boring.
In fact, I can only remember lying about my age once, to get Soul Calibur 2. I was 15, and in Britain they'd just changed from the ELSPA ratings system to PEGI - and the 15+ rating had been changed to 16+. Bastards. Anyway, I got the game. Maybe it's that whole "premature greying" thing.
I never actually lied about my age when buying alcohol in pubs when I was underage, they just never ID'd me. Yaay.
In fact, I can only remember lying about my age once, to get Soul Calibur 2. I was 15, and in Britain they'd just changed from the ELSPA ratings system to PEGI - and the 15+ rating had been changed to 16+. Bastards. Anyway, I got the game. Maybe it's that whole "premature greying" thing.
I never actually lied about my age when buying alcohol in pubs when I was underage, they just never ID'd me. Yaay.
I like the polls here on The Escapist.
They've always got some nutty fuckin' choice in them that makes me chuckle a little and often expresses how I feel.
Like option 5.
They've always got some nutty fuckin' choice in them that makes me chuckle a little and often expresses how I feel.
Like option 5.
Meh... I am 24... and I lie. Why? It's boring inputting my correct birth date every buggering time, so I just choose something along the lines of 1/1/1988 and be done with it. And no, I have seen nothing too bad. Just some trailers for "Mature" video games. (You know, mature as in Mortal Kombat mature.)
Well i've lied about those things since i was 13/14, don't need to lie anymore though, but yeah i used to. I mean if you don't lie you can't get to all the best stuff!
Yeah. I lie every time. At sixteen, I consider myself mature enough to handle most things on the internet--and I'm perfectly capable of choosing for myself what I want and don't want to see. (I'm not into porn.) I shouldn't have to verify my age to check if Blizzard has a release date for D3 yet. By the time it comes out, I'll be old enough to legally purchase it anyway...
Besides, age gates are useless. If anyone really wants to see whatever content is blocked, they just lie anyway. It's such a simple mechanism--if you insert a number high enough or a birth date old enough, it lets you in. I know for a fact that the Diablo 3, Borderlands, and Dawn of War II websites think I am 19, 109, and 79 respectively. It's a waste of time, and in all honesty, developers only do it because they're required to by some moral guardian or another.
I believe Andy Chalk wrote an article about this about a year ago, and I think it was good reading. Any readers of this thread should check it out.
Besides, age gates are useless. If anyone really wants to see whatever content is blocked, they just lie anyway. It's such a simple mechanism--if you insert a number high enough or a birth date old enough, it lets you in. I know for a fact that the Diablo 3, Borderlands, and Dawn of War II websites think I am 19, 109, and 79 respectively. It's a waste of time, and in all honesty, developers only do it because they're required to by some moral guardian or another.
I believe Andy Chalk wrote an article about this about a year ago, and I think it was good reading. Any readers of this thread should check it out.
Yes I do lie for websites that I'm under age for, (Not porn) but for game websites, such as the God of War website. I usually put down 1989 or less as my birth year.
I used to lie before i was 18 all the time. For instance when i got a ps3 i must have been about 16 or 17, and i think you needed to be 18 to purchase stuff from the playstation store. So when it asked for my DOB i gave them a fake date, some time in October 1988. However when me and my brother got a new PS3 (his stupid idea, we did'nt even need a new one) i could'nt remember my old password, and nor could i remember the date of birth i was given! Had to make a new account in the end...
To anyone under 18 and who lies their age like i used to, always note down what your fake DOB is, you may have to remember some time in the future!
To anyone under 18 and who lies their age like i used to, always note down what your fake DOB is, you may have to remember some time in the future!
