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I know about certain titles getting banned outright (Halloween, Hotline Miami 2) while some are released in the country with a form of censorship (such as the casino being forbidden to interact in GTA V, the corpses disappear in Left 4 Dead, etc.). even though those games have been classified abroad as there are other bodies for classification: CERO (JP), ESRB (US) or PEGI (EU) to list a few examples from other countries.

They’re all separate from rating movies (while apparently in Australia, they use the same rating system for movies in games) hence why they tend to get either banned outright or censored. Even if you import a copy from abroad into Australia, isn’t the existing classification enough? (Like if it’s rated M17 in the US, its roughly equivalent to a R18+ or if it has CERO C (15+) from Japan, similar to either a M or MA15+ rating).

Couldn’t an Australian gamer just be like, if they possessed a “banned” title in AU but has an foreign copy of that game with an existing classification from its country of origin, isn’t that already enough? It has a rating but not by the Australian Classification Board (rather its foreign counterpart specifically for games). Just argue that a M17 (ESRB) rating is closest to either a MA15+ or R18+. Same with CERO D (17+) or CERO Z (18+).

I’ve played OoT MQ on both the N64 and 3DS, the only differences is that the map is mirrored from the original game & the puzzles are different, they become more cryptic and less obvious (hidden switches behind walls you can’t see, I remember hitting a wall triggering a switch opening a door when I was in the water temple). Have you played MQ on the previous remake (3DS) and original (N64)? If so, is it harder than the original game?

This is different from tech corpo mass surveillance since the government has the authority to imprison, silence or kill dissidents (while Palantir doesn’t have that power since they’re a company, not the federal government). Put it this way, Palantir can only spy on people harvesting their data but cannot arrest them since they are not cops nor the FBI, meanwhile the government (via FBI, NSA or CIA) has the leverage to detain people.

Instead of Palantir harvesting people’s data, it’s the FBI or NSA themselves doing that building a profile based on the people they’re “keeping tabs” on, what would it be like if mass surveillance is endorsed by the government rather than tech companies in a dystopia? That data gets shared with state authorities (police or sheriff) in which they one day visit your home just because of the content you posted online.