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The R rating for games thing in Australia is super super dumb because all it actually means is that some stuff that would have been MA gets bumped up, the ACB still bans whatever the gently caress. My favourite part though is GTA V. IV was pre-R, and so got MA with the expected laundry list of reasons. As you'd probably also expect, V got an R. But because the laundry list of reasons was supposedly fine at MA, all the label says is objectionable about the game at all is drug use. AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 04:18 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Any idea why Australia seemingly gets its collective panties in a bunch over depictions of drug use in Mature games? Same reason the US gets all hot and bothered about sex, that is to say:  quote:While we're at it, why are video games so bloody expensive there relative to the rest of the world? 
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Feb 18, 2016 04:50
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Oh man I just remembered Ubisoft's Just Dance series. It's been too long since I've given it a go to give you many specifics but they often bleep explicit versions of songs instead of using radio edits, and censor way more than any radio or the ERSB would require them to, most notably "cherry" in I Kissed a Girl. 
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Feb 18, 2016 05:49
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Come to think of it we can probably blame 4kids for the sub vs dub debate. 4KIDS! 
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Feb 18, 2016 06:16
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Sleeveless posted:ITT nobody actually knows what "censorship" means. And oh no, people are posting cute videos in the cute pictures thread!  Overreaching, nonsensical localisation changes are certainly close enough, I'd say.
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Feb 18, 2016 07:07
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Panfilo posted:Is there a reason the MPAA has to be so opaque in the way that it determines ratings? It is strange how much power (and ultimately money) they have control over in the film industry. Because they can, and because it causes the second sentence.
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Feb 19, 2016 12:57
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Presumably it would be another charge to slap on a child molester and anyone trying to strike it down would look really bad on account of "trying to reduce that pedophile's sentence!  ". Jurisprudence! 
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Feb 20, 2016 14:15
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Well that's what I mean by "trying to strike it down".  It's all conjecture anyway, I doubt the law's been called on successfully since it was declared unconstitutional, or at least I hope it hasn't.
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Feb 20, 2016 14:22
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What? There's not way that actually appeased a previously angry ratings board, that character is still transparently, literally Hitler. Wow.
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Feb 20, 2016 15:21
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 Literally My current avatar is a gift I'm fond of, so I'll let someone else take my insomnia-driven inspiration. I probably won't find this so funny in the morning
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Feb 20, 2016 16:08
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That doesn't surprise me in the least. Oh well. Content: You know how ESRB makes games have that "online content not rated" disclaimer because you can't reasonably rate what random dickheads say over voice chat? Yeah that's way too logical for the ACB, "online interactivity" is a rating category they look at and bump games up for.
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Feb 20, 2016 16:30
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Isn't face sitting and other kinky porn literally illegal in Britain now? Those are some weird laws. A cups, regardless of the age of the woman, count as CP in Australia. 
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Feb 21, 2016 02:20
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I mean I'm not 100% sure, I heard it by word of mouth and even with private browsing I don't want that search term coming from my IP. 
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Feb 21, 2016 02:33
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One I just remembered is the radio edit for Major Lazer's Lean On. Blow a kiss, It's really blatantly out of place too.
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Feb 22, 2016 09:41
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In all seriousness, what the hell is the point of ratings, especially ones centred around the age at which you theoretically become an adult who is mature enough to make their own choices, if you're going to arbitrarily remove things or ban media for being inappropriate anyway? Lookin' at you especially with that last point, ACB. And if you're censoring things because they're inappropriate for kids, maybe the media in question wasn't originally intended for consumption by kids?
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Feb 23, 2016 08:02
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IIRC Noseprear end still can't be, and in newer games it doesn't allow a swear or misspelling of in any language, and instead a trade ban you straight out aren't allowed to use the name. Good job teaching kids new and exciting foreign swears!
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Feb 24, 2016 22:51
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Veotax posted:I don't believe the character was underage, but they changed a scene that they said could be seen as gay conversion. Essentially a lesbian character gets drugged to see all men as women and ends up falling in love with the (male) protagonist, even after the drugs wear off. The character's ~quirky anime trait~ was being a chick who jokingly flirted with chicks, but wasn't actually romantically interested in them (  is she's the daughter of a womaniser and does it better than her father). The main character gives her a potion that makes her see him as a woman to help her open up or whatever, and the love comes from realising she doesn't need it. All that said, it is weird, and stupid, and the change was for the better even if only to prevent controversy and arguments.
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Feb 25, 2016 01:38
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FWIW by all accounts the translation made the gay characters worse.
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Feb 29, 2016 02:53
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A character in Final Fight.
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Feb 29, 2016 16:27
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A thing happened in the SHSC Ticket thread that reminded me of a beef I havelarchesdanrew posted:A blocked website came in. odiv posted:Better make sure no college students can get information about Alcoholics Anonymous! Web filters. gently caress them. They are always incredibly, productivity-hamperingly overzealous (though often also ineffectual where it might possibly count), and for what? So a teenage school student who's going to procrastinate anyway can't play flash games except for the site they inevitably missed? So an employee who'll be found out and fired/sternly Talked To either way can't watch porn? On a note more amusing than bitter, one free WiFi network I sometimes use blocks these forums (though not the front page) under "weapons", presumably just because the favicon is a grenade.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:There's an entire subboard about guns. If the filter can distinguish between forums.somethingawful.com and somethingawful.com, it should be able to between forums.somethingawful.com and forums.something.com/forumid=whatever. Besides, it didn't pick up TCC or Games (not that the latter would have it blocked but it listed every category it was under).
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