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I understand, but isn't it just easier to just get rid of the damned refused classification all together?
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I understand, but isn't it just easier to just get rid of the damned refused classification all together?
Well
I'm more pissed off at our government and society than pretty much anyone I know, yet where could I move? Every country seems to be fucked in their own special way
I believe the idea of an R18+ rating is that everything which is now considered "Refused Classification" just becomes "R18+"
One effect of not having an R18+ rating means that there is immense pressure on the classification board to be very liberal with the 15+ rating, as companies spend millions of dollars making these games. This actually increases the chance of young kids seeing inappropriate content!
The trouble is, we've never really had any privacy - it's just been harder to find stuff out. Whereas you used to need a private investigator, you now just use the internet. Nothing really changed, just finding stuff out has (and will continue to get) easier to discover about people.
I don't really care about this too much - if the only obstacle to Bad Things happening is this some flimsy old-school notion of "privacy", we need to do some thinking.
The only long term fix to this problem is, of course, to replace the communist (more like fascist nowadays) regime with a democratic government
Don't bet on it. I don't think Australia is intrinsically more inclined to being censored than other first-world, democratic countries - the majority of people are so scared of child porn trafficking that they will be OK with internet censorship as soon as their politicians find it politically convenient to bring it up.
Yes. The idiot "cinematographer" that destroyed the second two Bourne movies with his shaky-cam bullshit needs to be kept as far away from a video camera as is humanly (or inhumanly) possible. He (or she) absolutely ruined what would have otherwise been decent movies.
Oh god
But, as you say, war DOES have a unique property that it makes it easy to justify development.
Yes, it would be great if we DIDN'T need war to get that. Many things would be great if human nature weren't what it is.
Check out this great essay (under the "Money Is Not Wealth" section). About the best explanation I have seen.
Why get annoyed at human nature? That seems
Piracy is a fact of life. If you don't want your game to be pirated, make it solely multiplayer through servers you control - but even then, bright people will crack your server protocol's and create their own implementations of them.
Really - if you don't want to get pirated, don't create copyright works!
So you go for the game with no LAN play that you have to connect to proprietary Blizzard Servers?
I don't get why people single out THIS as a flaw like it won't be broken within a week of the game being released, and after that it's effectively as if it had ALWAYS had it!
Will she then have to live with horrific details of her attack being public knowledge?
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The trouble is - Valve have a history of putting out really really awesome games. They do this by meticulously honing every single detail to perfection. By forcing them to change the game, our censors have forced us to play a game that isn't as good as Valve tried to make it.
The sheer fucking ARROGANCE of the concept of a ratings board playing a game and then banning it is what I find the most disgusting. I don't want to play a 95% version of L4D2 because some people in my country decided that, while THEY weren't harmed from playing it, would DEFINITELY cause harm to others who can't help themselves.
It's not just bloodthirst - purely from a gameplay perspective, to have a good FPS you NEED a good visual response to a hit in order to be able to move to the next target. It's all part of that large bag of things that make a FPS "feel" right, along with things like acceleration speed and jump height. If you get the little details wrong, everything feels wrong.
Though, even if it WAS pure bloodthirst that made me want the game left as-is, why would that mean anyone in the country stop me from playing whatever the fuck I want? Leave me the fuck alone.
keep ramping up until you kind of level off at getting 50/50 right, which is where it decides you belong.
Once the machine has pegged you at the lower half, say, there is no way for you to break out of that, because it's never going to give you those harder questions.
It seems like you're contradicting yourself here - if you're getting more than 50/50 right, why won't it give you harder questions?
But they aren't tracking criminals, they are tracking their own car - if a criminal happens to steal it, well, that's really nothing to do with the police is it
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.