Salintheus

I understand classification and I think its done rather well in this country.  But, the OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) won’t give a game a rating of higher than MA 15+.  This, in my opinion, is fucking stupid.  People watch R rated films don’t they, whats the difference to playing an R rated game apart from that it seems a bit more personal and that it may be a bit harder to regulate.

The reason why I am bitching about this is that they have banned their second game this year.  It was also one I was looking forward to, “Soldier Of Fortune: Payback”.
This game is an achievement in graphics, animation and programming.

Why?
Because of the physics system allowing limbs to act as limbs and so on and not just one body.
Its hard to explain exactly what I mean but I’m sure this movie will help explain.

Fucking cool right?
Think about all the extra programming, animation and other such things that are done to make this work.

The ‘Saw’ films are much much worse than this yet pretty much anyone can go and see them.

Here is a quote from an OFLC spokesperson about why it was banned.
“playing impact… was a high impact which exceeded the MA15+ classification”. Some specific examples included “close range shooting with substantial blood spray, blood splatters onto the ground and walls, [the ability to] target various limbs of the opponent which can result in dismemberment, and large amounts of blood sprayed which comes from the stump but victims sometime stay alive”.

It doesn’t sound too bad does it.

Anyway, my main point is that why isn’t there an R18+ classification for games.

Last night I decided that I would finally have a proper go of using Adobe’s Lightroom (especially as this just happened)
The results are…interesting to say the least. I was much more impressed with the way the Lightroom is laid out than the final product of which I produced.
For those who haven’t used it, the undo and redo commands and their associated values are displayed in the middle of the screen when doing CMD-Z or CMD-Shift-Z.
Well, from about 20 photos that were taken (in terrible light) 3 ended up semi-ok.
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There is another picture that I took during the day of my car’s logo that didn’t turn out to bad.

LX

This is actually being written with a client called ‘Qumana’. The outcome will be discussed in a Blog Wars installment.

8 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes until Mac OSX 10.5 is released.