Poll: Please verify your age...
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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!
lol i've been legal longer than most people on the internet, i'm pretty sure of that.
except basement dwellers and video-game reviewers, but those people will die kiddie.
except basement dwellers and video-game reviewers, but those people will die kiddie.
Although i am over 18 i constantly never bother typing in my true age since its just such a hassle. So i usually end up being born 1st Jan 1950.
I've been saying that I was born in the year 1925 on those things for years, no one ever really seems to notice that an 84-year-old probably is not interested in grand theft auto.
The only sites who do that are pr0n sites, which I don't go on, so I'm okay.
4oD and BBC iPlayer have an age limit of 16, so I'm okay with that too.
And some websites just don't give a shit anymore.
4oD and BBC iPlayer have an age limit of 16, so I'm okay with that too.
And some websites just don't give a shit anymore.
I lied all the time when it came to game websites and stuff, mostly for viewing trailers. Even though I'm 21 now, I still lie all the time technically just because I don't see the point in adjusting the month and day on the video, just select the year, scroll up, and select 1980 or whatever. Not like anyone cares.
