Ah, I remember being equally annoyed when I was under 18. Damn all those places that required people to be 18+.
What game did they try to card you for? Was it Battletoads?
I don't understand your last post... What does Catwoman have to do with PC games being stupid?
I don't understand your last post... What does Catwoman have to do with PC games being stupid?
They probably think they will buy a bunch of bad PC games that no one will buy in the same way that Blockbuster keeps buying bad videogames that no one will rent.
Oh ok, what bad PC games are they buying though?
Spore.
its is without a doubt a bad PC game
HERE'S TO LESS RETAILERS FOLLOWING THE LAW!
seriously what the hell are you arguing about
Shhhh don't blame the government... they have eyes everywhe
There is no, there should never be a law. It should be a voluntary thing.
The ESRB guidelines provide resources for retailers of all sizes to make informed responsible choice. For instance, at walmart, for m rated games and r rated movies, the registers ask for an id check. As does most major retailers.
Though I do find it odd that they sold you a week before and now refuse to. As for the stache, that not much of an indicator. I would try and speak with the manager and bring in your old reciete from the week previous, and and bitch and whine, to get some store credit.
I don't look like a twelve year old, trust me on this
QuoteI don't look like a twelve year old, trust me on this
Maybe you looked soo NOT twelve years old that they thought you were twelve years old.
Hmm this is serious... Gamestop has scared you for life.
Wish I'd had Sea Dogs 2
I don't understand your last post... What does Catwoman have to do with PC games being stupid?
They probably think they will buy a bunch of bad PC games that no one will buy in the same way that Blockbuster keeps buying bad videogames that no one will rent.
The Two Towers was sort of fun... So was setting up chain reactions of bombs in Battle for Middle Earth, even if that was about the only thing.
Get us their number, so we can call them and ask if they have Battletoads in stock.
Get us their number, so we can call them and ask if they have Battletoads in stock.
HERE'S TO LESS RETAILERS FOLLOWING THE LAW!
seriously what the hell are you arguing about
Oh man, that was the awesomest game ever. I never managed to get past that robot boss with extendible limbs until I rom-ed it and save-cheated.Get us their number, so we can call them and ask if they have Battletoads in stock.
Call me crazy but I actually liked Battletoads and Double Dragon better.
Afaik, ESRB is a -guideline-. You can buy an M game for your teenager kid. The said teenager kid can buy a M rated game himself as well.
Unless there's a law that allows them to deny you service based on your age, you can sue them.
Again, still perfectly legal. Age discrimination is silly. If you're 20-60, you should be assumed to be normal. Anything out of that deserves some sort of inspection.
It's illegal in brazil.Afaik, ESRB is a -guideline-. You can buy an M game for your teenager kid. The said teenager kid can buy a M rated game himself as well.
Unless there's a law that allows them to deny you service based on your age, you can sue them.
There is. Basically, if you walk into a shop and the shopkeep wont sell you something, it's his right. He doesn't have to provide a reason.
Afaik, ESRB is a -guideline-. You can buy an M game for your teenager kid. The said teenager kid can buy a M rated game himself as well.
Unless there's a law that allows them to deny you service based on your age, you can sue them.
AFAIK, the R rating is enforced by law. In addition, I think M rated games get covered by obsenity laws, but I am not sure on that one. I do know that any store can refuse service, it just has to be across the board. Discrimination for age is reasonable in the eyes of the law. Just look at those 16 year olds being prosecuted as adults for trasmitting naked pictures of themselves.Afaik, ESRB is a -guideline-. You can buy an M game for your teenager kid. The said teenager kid can buy a M rated game himself as well.
Unless there's a law that allows them to deny you service based on your age, you can sue them.
That would be interesting test case for industry voluntary guide lines.
It would have ramification on all media industry. If you won, then it would let let 17< into nc-17 (rare, but that would be the ramification).
It would possibly even affect pornography age resctrition laws.
On a personal thing, please don't sue the ersb. Their a small non profit group doing there best to stop state regulation from all media. We don't need FCC for video games, music, or movies. Hell, we don't need it for tv and radio. (They should stick to the their actually much needed job, of regulating the em bandwidth.)
AFAIK, the R rating is enforced by law. In addition, I think M rated games get covered by obsenity laws,
AFAIK, the R rating is enforced by law. In addition, I think M rated games get covered by obsenity laws, but I am not sure on that one. I do know that any store can refuse service, it just has to be across the board. Discrimination for age is reasonable in the eyes of the law. Just look at those 16 year olds being prosecuted as adults for trasmitting naked pictures of themselves.Afaik, ESRB is a -guideline-. You can buy an M game for your teenager kid. The said teenager kid can buy a M rated game himself as well.
Unless there's a law that allows them to deny you service based on your age, you can sue them.
That would be interesting test case for industry voluntary guide lines.
It would have ramification on all media industry. If you won, then it would let let 17< into nc-17 (rare, but that would be the ramification).
It would possibly even affect pornography age resctrition laws.
On a personal thing, please don't sue the ersb. Their a small non profit group doing there best to stop state regulation from all media. We don't need FCC for video games, music, or movies. Hell, we don't need it for tv and radio. (They should stick to the their actually much needed job, of regulating the em bandwidth.)
For the porn, your NEVER going to get that law changed, even though its silly.
I must agree with the not suing the ESRB. They are pretty much the last thing left before gaming becomes as bad as movies with ratings.
Someday, I wish to be shown why being successful is bad.
THE MAN is EA Games.
Mostly due to excessive DRM, and poor quality.
I started my Gamestop boycott long ago. It was around the time they stole a few of the games I tried to sell. I was busy, so I didn't notice that half of the stuff I brought in didn't get scanned but was placed in the "sold" pile anyway.
It's not success that's bad but the corruption that seems to follow it inevitably. As soon as people get a taste of success they usually are so afraid to not continue achieving that amount of success that they'll sacrifice anything in order to get it. Bethesda seems like a prime example of this. Morrowind was really popular on consoles, so they sacrificed all of their artistic integrity for the next game to make it even more popular on consoles.Its not the fear, they had a taste of the pie. Now they want the whole thing.
Believe it or not, that bothers some people. It's when being successful isn't a result of your art but the sole purpose of it that it becomes a bad thing.
It's not success that's bad but the corruption that seems to follow it inevitably. As soon as people get a taste of success they usually are so afraid to not continue achieving that amount of success that they'll sacrifice anything in order to get it. Bethesda seems like a prime example of this. Morrowind was really popular on consoles, so they sacrificed all of their artistic integrity for the next game to make it even more popular on consoles.Its not the fear, they had a taste of the pie. Now they want the whole thing.
Believe it or not, that bothers some people. It's when being successful isn't a result of your art but the sole purpose of it that it becomes a bad thing.
It's not success that's bad but the corruption that seems to follow it inevitably. As soon as people get a taste of success they usually are so afraid to not continue achieving that amount of success that they'll sacrifice anything in order to get it. Bethesda seems like a prime example of this. Morrowind was really popular on consoles, so they sacrificed all of their artistic integrity for the next game to make it even more popular on consoles.
Believe it or not, that bothers some people. It's when being successful isn't a result of your art but the sole purpose of it that it becomes a bad thing.
It's not success that's bad but the corruption that seems to follow it inevitably. As soon as people get a taste of success they usually are so afraid to not continue achieving that amount of success that they'll sacrifice anything in order to get it. Bethesda seems like a prime example of this. Morrowind was really popular on consoles, so they sacrificed all of their artistic integrity for the next game to make it even more popular on consoles.
Believe it or not, that bothers some people. It's when being successful isn't a result of your art but the sole purpose of it that it becomes a bad thing.
What are oblivion's artistic demerits?
It major change was some portions of its combat engine. Which felt smoother then what morriwinds had.
It more open to modification then morriwind.
It got overall better reviews then morriwind.
It open ended game play was greatly extended.
Some well missed features from first two games made a come back.
You won't see EA games being reviewed by the angry video game nerd, or the nostalgia critic.
Someday, I wish to be shown why being successful is bad.
It is probably the goal of IQ tests that the bell curve is to show.
It isn't the true intelligence it is where they want the percents of the populations to fall within those percents.
The IQ test is normalized every so often so that the median falls right on 100, yes. It's most useful as a relative comparator.
Someday, I wish to be shown why being successful is bad.
I guess that's why:
(http://imjustaguy.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/iq_bell_curve.gif)
100 I.Q. means you're "normal" and are the majority. Everything else is just awesome.Or drooling.
Idiots are awesome, they do the funniest stuff "normal" people would never do. Like staple their hand(s) to a desk.
"Read the Constitution.
Amendment 1: freedom of speech"
So I'm not to sure how well, if and when those laws challenge they will hold up
100 I.Q. means you're "normal" and are the majority. Everything else is just awesome.
I don't like to label myself so I'm not going to say.Fun.
Why did I post this then? I don't know.
http://www.bash.org/?758032 relevant.
http://www.bash.org/?758032 relevant.
Ah, I remember being equally annoyed when I was under 18. Damn all those places that required people to be 18+.
I'm 22 and have a mustache, and I haven't shaved in a few days. They refused to sell me a game that's rated for 13 year olds.
IQ 134
Though how accurate this is I have doubts. (Or rather I doubt this is accurate)
An IQ score is completely irrelevant. Even the guy who invented them said putting a numeric score on them was a bad idea and pointless.Obviously that guy had a pretty low IQ, dident he?
The most hillarious part is most of these fake IQ tests have very strict maximums that are sometimes very arbitrary.
Easy way to diagnose idiots:
Tell them half the people in the world have lower than average intelligence. If they respond surprised, they're stupid. If they say "Yeah. People are stupid", they're stupid.
But if they say "Yeah... That's what average means..." then they are smart.
But if they say "Yeah... That's what average means..." then they are smart.
You forgot that they're approximations.
On a side note: As one person said "A Person is smart, people are dumb"
there is no such thing as a person with average intelligence since it is impossible to measure it accurately
Since when was average a range? An average is an exact point. The range is an estimate.
What about Dilbert's "40% of all sick days are on mondays and fridays" one?