Government finally asking if gamers want an R rating

[Dkaris]

In regard to the banned title Alien Vs predator 2, its now been given an MA banned and not censored or any less gory than the rest of the world.

[5FDP]

This is great news for all of us adult gamers - if they actually take it seriously.

From memory, an R classification has been considered many times before however a senator in SA opposed it blocking the move. I think he may be retiring from politics which is perhaps the reason this is being revisited.

It really doesn't make sense to not have one considering most people are importing their games and the local distributors are missing out on making money. This would also help protect Australian jobs.

At the end of the day, it's up to the parents to filter what their kids watch and play, and it shouldn't be up to any government to make such decisions.

[1AZRAEL1]

At the end of the day, it's up to the parents to filter what their kids watch and play, and it shouldn't be up to any government to make such decisions.

Spot on. The parents need to take responsibility rather than the government.

[Dkaris]

im so worked up over this i posted it in the wrong therad >_>

[1AZRAEL1]

Michael Atkinson says "Gamers scarier than bikers"

Unfortunately, the gamers that do send him threatening letters, or stalking him, only harms our cause to get an R18 rating for games.

Still, the guys a tosser.

And I just read the above posts as well, the whole "small breasted woman porn" because they look too much like children is a complete bollocks.

[kup]

Michael Atkinson says "Gamers scarier than bikers"

Unfortunately, the gamers that do send him threatening letters, or stalking him, only harms our cause to get an R18 rating for games.

Still, the guys a tosser.

And I just read the above posts as well, the whole "small breasted woman porn" because they look too much like children is a complete bollocks.

Politicans Scarier Than Gamers

[Autocon]

saw this on good game

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[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Michael Atkinson says "Gamers scarier than bikers"

Unfortunately, the gamers that do send him threatening letters, or stalking him, only harms our cause to get an R18 rating for games.

Still, the guys a tosser.

And I just read the above posts as well, the whole "small breasted woman porn" because they look too much like children is a complete bollocks.

I fear this will go nowhere, even with the discussion paper. Needing a 100% consesnsus to change is probably not going to happen, mainly due to Atkinson's resolute refusal to accept the many logical arguments of the opposing side. Its disconcerting that he is even a politician with such a blinkered closed view of any subject.

One cant have a discussion to sort out an issue if the other side completely refuses to acknowledge ones view...

Found an anti- R18 site. Thanks to gamespot. They bust out the same rubbish as Atkinson. Dont these people realise that sexual content would eb refused anyway? Yet again they whip out Rapelay as an example. *sigh* Morons, complete morons. No idea at all....

[Dkaris]

The lack of parenting in todays kids is shocking. I'll give you an example.

I work in a target store in NSW at least a few times a week i have parents coming in looking to get items such as nintendo DSi's/Lites, ipod touches, expensive digital cameras etc. When i ask how old the child is that they are buying these items for, about 80% of them tell me the kid is under 8 years old. Out of all the items above mentioned, the only one id get for an 8 year old is a DS. this generation of parenting is pathetic. no offense to any members on here who are parents, but i think a lot of parents use technology and the new gadgets to raise their kids for them. Sorry parents. technological devices aren't surrogates.

[kup]

The problem with modern culture and family dynamics is that nowadays it is necesary to have two incomes in order to sustain the average household. Both parents need to work full time from 9am to 6-7pm and when they come back they are exhaused and don't have time to properly mind the kids. They become what is essentially weekend parents and since they also need the weekend to rest, they don't do that weekend parenting that well either.

In the past there was always a parent who maintained the household and raised the kids - That parent may work part time but is otherwise present when the kid was back from school. Yeah the role used to belong to women but without the PC bullcrap the problem with modern society is that modern full time working parents prefer to delegate the raising of their children to either Institutions (child care, etc) the Government or the corporate industry because they don't have time to do so themselves - This reliance has been allowed to gradually increase and increase by many parents to the modern phenomenon of family members living their own lives and often not even bothering to dine together, almost as if they are all strangers to one another.

Modern generations of children are not raised by their parents but institutions, several women at my workplace for example come back only after a couple of months of maternity leave and Babies are raised by employed strangers working under a company policy when they are not even a year old. Their parents essentially become little more than babysitters in the after hours or holidays where the Government or corporate institutions don't function.