Necros

From 10th to 12th grade, I organized and ran as head moderator FIVE tournaments. The first two had 5 games, one of which was Halo 1. The third had Halo 2 (and four other games), and the last two had Halo 2 and six other games.

During the first two tournaments, there were no concerns about M-rated games. Before the third tournament, the school got nervous due to one administrator seeing some reactionary report on TV, and submitted an investigation to the guy who approved events.

The solution that I came up with?

Parental consent forms for those 16 years and younger, and IDs for proof of age (or consent forms) for those 17 years or older.

We simply promised to check attendees' ages and showed them a few forms, in which we detailed the rating systems and what content ratings the ESRB had given Halo 2 (and Mortal Kombat). Simple.

The attendees were fine with the solution, and if people forgot, we were lax enough to just let them in. We barely checked their age anyways. The school was happy, and we were happy. Over five tournaments, we made first $300, then $400, then $500, then $700, then $750 in fundraising money.

I ask this school: why would parental consent forms not have worked? From the sound of it, police were just trying to intimidate the school.

Well, I can't understand most of the hiragana, but I do know that the full name is "Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology."

Also, I've heard elsewhere that it's supposed to include characters from previous Tales games, though I guess that might be obvious from watching that trailer.

Nice to see that such an "intelligent" exchange is going on with Nova here...moving on...

I'm personally more interested in actually owning my games then just borrowing them as long as I pay a fee. In the future, though, I'd like to see something like this available on Wii and X360's classic game services, since I'm sure there are a lot of classic Nintendo and new indie games that would benefit from such a "rental" service.

Did anyone else get almost a .hack feel from the episode? For instance, when the Blizzard admins were talking about the guy who couldn't be killed "because he didn't have a life," they kept talking about reaching previously unknown levels, going around killing characters (though obviously no comas), killing admins, and existing outside of the rules. That just screams .hack to me.

Not that I'm criticizing it; in fact, I loved the episode. (Though I could have done without the "bathroom" scene.) Just wondering if anyone else got the same vibe that I did.

I can't wait for next week's episode!