A Log on the Net

Well, this one takes the cake and the coveted “WTF award for idiots.” Here is the article link: http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=10177&filter= or http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/07/27/game.lawsuit.ap/index.html.

Go read that first. Now that you have read that you will understand my first comment, least I hope you do. Who the hell would buy an M rated game and think it is ok for children, this is a rhetorical question, and the answer should be NOBODY. But yet people seem to be doing it all the time.

This law suit, least from what I understand, is completely unfounded, not to mention insane. To understand why you must look at the ESRB’s rating system, a very good system I might add, especially at the difference between the M rating and the AO rating, most notably in the age difference. The M rating is rated for 17 years and older, where as the AO rating is 18 years and up. Not much difference, so why are people making such a big deal about this, you might ask?? Because, from what I can surmise, people are too stupid to make decisions on their own. Now this might seem harsh, but think about it, the grandmother buys an M rated extremely violent game for her 14 year old grandson, the rating changes to AO, she sues because she was incapable of realizing the M rating as for 17+ ONLY.

Also the government is stepping in to investigate the whole Rockstar GTA-SA snafu, why you might ask?????? Because people complained and basically stated: “We the people are too stupid to read, so could you step in and decide what we should buy for us so this won’t happen again, please.” I know that that’s a little over the top, but it gets the point across. I am a firm believer that the government should not get involved in stuff like this, my tax dollars could go to much, much better things, not to stupid things like this.

I’m not saying Rockstar is not completely without fault, they should have removed the unfinished stuff, or least disclosed it to the ESRB. But the main party that is at fault is people not reading the label, the ratings are clear and concise, the M rating label even says “Not Suitable for those under 17.” Now if that’s not clear enough, then I ask: “WTF is this country coming to?” I’m done for now, l8r.
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Well, first off, Rachel had her b-day on the 24th, yippe, that was fun, we spent the whole day together then we went swimming, lots-o-fun, hehehehe. But on another note, I went to a job interview at BestBuy. It must have went well, because they have called me in for another interview. 3 days after i filled out the application online they called me for the first interview, then 1 day after the first interview they called me in for another interview, the guy had said they wouldnt call for around 3-5 days, if they called at all. I must have made a good impression. Thats kinda cool. I would like to work for Geek Squad, but you never know. Anyways thats all I have for now. bye.
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Lets see here... I have been quite busy lately. I’m currently working on a new website for a friend, as with my main site it will be based on the PostNuke CMS. I hope it will turn out good, it should. I want to take it into a differnt direction than my site, design wise, I’m going head on into their NEW templating engine, so far I like it, seems fast and effecient, the next version should be even better, but it wont be here until PN .80, oh well. Sometime i will make the move to PN .750 on my own site, but not yet, I need to be 100% sure the upgrade wont, excuse the pun, Nuke everything, lol. Although I dont think that will happen, you just never know, plus my JDAC theme, you know the one that makes mysite look the way it does, isnt ready for PN .750 just yet anyways. Bye.
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Ok, so here is some updates... Rachel and me have been together for over a year now (mm 1 year & 1 month), thats cool, hope to have many many more years. I turned 21, not too exciting, but it is worthy of a post. But one important thing i got for turning 21 is a new LAPTOP. Sweet, my old one broke around first semester last year, that really sucked a lot of @$$. This laptop is quite nice, could be better (but not much). Anyways, hopefully I will update more often. Bye.
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