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Time for a long needed update to this blog.

First of all, everyone playing The Game, you just lost.

Secondly, and more on topic, I finally found a copy of The Godfather and whilst I'm not disappointed in the purchase, I am disappointed in how absolutely fucking useless the rating on it is.

You see, it's rated R18+ for medium level violence and only medium level violence. Not high level violence, not strong violence like The Wrong Man (aka Lucky Number Slevin for those in America) which is rated MA15+ for strong violence and strong sex scenes, which I presume are only strong because nobody really wants to see Lucy Liu having sex anymore. Medium level violence is enough to make a movie R18+.

Yet somehow The Incredibles is rated PG for medium level violence mature themes and low level course language.

Inconsistent much?

The same theme carries over for all R18+ movies I own: Fight Club is R rated for adult themes Clockwork Orange is R rated for medium level violence, Pulp Fiction has high level coarse language motherfucker, medium level violence and drug use and Orgazmo has sexual references.

I think it goes without saying that if anyone has seen any of those movies, the only one that comes even close to accurately describing why it has an R rating is Pulp Fiction, because you can have sexual references, medium level violence and adult themes in a PG rated movie.

The whole system is broken and useless yet for some reason they've decided that this R rating that they so happily apply to movies without reason cannot be applied to games. Despite the fact that all the MA15+ rated games I own have strong violence.

The OFLC and Attorneys General need to pull the stick out of their asses and apply reason to their ratings so that I can shove baseball bats up people's asses in videogames.