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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Very true, same applies to the ESRB in the US. The ESA literally only formed the organisation to self-censor rather than leave it to the Gov’t following outrage over Mortal Kombat — if I’m remembering correctly?

    Here in Australia, the ACB is a government body — but just about as useless, if not even more so! For the longest time, we had to have our games additionally censored because they were viewed as for children and therefore couldn’t depict excessive violence, any sexual themes or drug use. Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto 3 & Vice City were notable examples.

    What am I getting at, even I don’t know. I guess to say that both implementations can be shit…? 🤷🏻‍♂️


  • Rocko’s Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, etc.

    That was a rabbit hole to fall down, unlocking so many childhood memories! For some reason, I thought those were all by Klasky Csupo, turns out I totally misremembered… 😅

    May as well throw CatDog onto that list too, I sing the theme song to my daughter to make her laugh…

    I kinda feel sorry for later generations, there really is no way that modern kids animation holds a candle to what we millennials got to experience.


  • Didn’t know about the NES game, thanks for the heads-up! It looks like it was only released in Japan and based on the original Kyatto Ninden Teyandee version, and not the deranged English dub.

    Even calling the original series notionally relevant is probably a stretch, it wasn’t even renewed for a second season! 🤣 But I guess we have its general failure to thank for setting in the Rube Goldberg series of events which led to the absurd English dub?





  • While the win is good, the fact that it’s still a PEGI 12 game while FIFA is a PEGI 3 shows what an absolute joke the whole process is.

    Australia had to deal with similar levels of bullshit for way too long before our ratings board finally capitulated to common sense and introduced an R18 rating (for games like The Last of Us, not even XXX content!).

    We have an endemic gambling problem too, so I don’t foresee much common sense coming out of that mob anytime soon - either.