Critical Miss: The Board
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I concur! He was using penis jokes again :OIrridium said:
My innocence is being shattered as we speak.
Secondly I loved the SlowBro up on the white board behind him
I got a good laugh out of this one. Helps I have played Bulletstorm. I know I showed it to my dad, and the uncomfortable adjusting in his seat made it clear the language was making him more uncomfortable than the violence.
P.S. - I Love the Rocky Horror Reference. That was golden.
P.S. - I Love the Rocky Horror Reference. That was golden.
It is my sad duty to inform you that this comic had shown people directly referencing swearing, and as such, after reading this, my generic and completely real son has devoted his life to the destruction of everything good in the universe.
Please fix.
Please fix.
Everything is made better with Unicorns!Kross said:Hilarious, the art's looking very stylish as well!
P.S. Unicorn cup with a twisty straw!
Anyway, this sadly seems frighteningly accurate to me. The mentality of the ESRB, at least. Though it's still nowhere near as bad as Australia. If the ESRB are all six-year-olds, then the Australian ratings people are probably still in the womb...
My problems with the ESRB are thatomicron1 said:
A: They're completely self regulated and answerable to no one and yet still holds a massive degree of power over what is seen as "acceptable" content via deals with huge chain stores that won't stock a game unless it has an ESRB rating.
B: I find the list-like nature of ESRB ratings to be both misleading and easily manipulated by savvy developers. This results in developers being able to do what they want providing they avoid a few bullet points (no blood, no decapitations etc). While I don't expect every parent to play each and every game their child plays they should be watching, if not playing, some of the game to check for context and to discuss the issues raised by the game afterwards. Film ratings boards have a similar, easily manipulated system. For a good example, look how with some clever editing The Dark Knight managed to sail through with a PG12 rating despite a scene where the Joker jams a pencil into someone's eye socket.
C: I find "the F-word" and or F**K (look how friendly those asterisks are!) and variants thereof kind of ridiculous. But that's just a pet peeve.
Edit: Oh and to answer your point in the end of the first paragraph. About how the ratings have no bearing on people our age. I wish that were true. Being bumped into a higher age bracket has a notable effect on sales and many publishers will make drastic changes to their titles to avoid being bumped into the 15+ or dreaded AO ratings. That`s certainly not the ESRB`s fault (in fact that`s ALL about sleazy devs and publishers) but it illustrates how their policies are indirectly controlling the content in games. Throw in the fact there`s a different ratings group with a different set of standards in each and every major market and suddenly developers are on very shaky ground.
I love the design and pose of the lady sipping out of the Unicorn cup. It's soooooo cute!
To be fair, using "the F-word" is considered vulgar. I prefer to reserve the use of the actual word for times when it is appropriate, such as great emotional stress or intense anger. Otherwise, the word loses all meaning. It's really already happening, if you just listen to casual conversation, and every third of fourth word is "fuck" said without cause, purposeless. Like Steven Fry, I don't agree that all people who use that word are not as intelligent, but I do believe that who use it all the time will destroy it's expressiveness. Maybe I'm just an old fogy fighting the natural evolution of language, but I don't like it.Grey Carter said:
Hehehe...Yeah, Bulletstorm does have a bit of a dick joke stick. Which doesn't stop it from being outright hilarious mind. And it could really use more cleavage.