{"id":432,"date":"2006-06-02T20:54:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T01:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=432"},"modified":"2008-09-18T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:20:11","slug":"esrb-fud-and-xxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"ESRB, FUD, and XXX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Barnson, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/oblivion-flower-picking-simulator.html\">talking about the difficulty in rating open-ended videogames<\/a>,  has this to say:<\/p>\n<div class=quote>But I think this points out the ultimate futility of games ratings systems for being anything other than a VERY rough guideline for parents. But force of law in the recent epidemic of FUD-fueled legislation? Silly and stupid.<\/p>\n<p>After all, how WOULD the ESRB rate, say, the Star Trek holodeck?\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Geeze.  I bet Riker has a few password-protected holodeck programs that would make Larry Flynt blush.<\/p>\n<p>He also has some great observations on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elderscrolls.com\/\">Oblivion<\/a>.  Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Barnson, in talking about the difficulty in rating open-ended videogames, has this to say: But I think this points out the ultimate futility of games ratings systems for being anything other than a VERY rough guideline for parents. But force of law in the recent epidemic of FUD-fueled legislation? Silly and stupid. After all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}