The ESRB Gets An 'F' 641
GamePolitics reports on a failing grade given to the ESRB by the National Institute on Media and the Family. The report card did not look good for the ratings board, which almost immediately fired back at the organization. From that article: "The reality is that publishers understand that retailers largely choose not to stock AO-rated games, and so in the interests of producing marketable games, publishers will oftentimes revise and resubmit a game that was initially assigned an AO by raters in an effort to produce an M-rated game. When this happens, the process starts again from the beginning, and each new version of a game is reviewed independently. The call to issue more AO ratings has little to do with rating accuracy, and more to do with NIMF's real agenda, which is to destroy the commercial viability of games it deems objectionable. Unlike NIMF, ESRB's job is to be a neutral rater, not a censor."
Sheesh! (Score:4, Funny)
ESRB: You suck more!
NIMF: Your mother wears army boots!
ESRB: Your sister swims after troop ships!
Does any adult really give a flying fig? Oh wait, the Slashdot demographic is... never mind.
Easy way to address the problem now... (Score:4, Funny)
ESRB's job is not to be a censor? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:There are many Christians like us. (Score:5, Funny)
Clippy tells me there is a "sentence agreement problem" whatever that means...
ESRB gets an "A+" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ESRB's job is not to be a censor? (Score:4, Funny)
PRODUCing a wOrD Using CharacTers Belonging to their name is bY no means PROof that it is relateD to their Usual ConducT.
Besides, plEaSuRaBle also works.
Re:Why a generic rating (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I "hate" Christians... (Score:3, Funny)
I don't mind standing up for those who cannot, but somehow this has become perverted into "defending the stupid from themselves".
A better name perhaps? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:National Institute on Media and the Family (Score:3, Funny)
I think NIMF was just the sort of organization the founders wanted to protect us from when they forged the 1st amendment in the fabled city of Philadelphia. If you encounter a NIMF in a dark alley or shadowy forest, hold the constitution aloft in front of you and shout "get ye behind me Satan!" or something of that nature. They have no defense against this weapon.