Australia - keeping us safe

The upcoming game Fallout 3 has just received a ban in Australia due to its portrayal of drug use in the form of chems that give you in-game boosts and physical upgrades. Feeling this would have a negative influence on us down under, the classification board refused to classify the game thus prohibiting it from being distributed in Australia.

Man, I for one am relieved that someone is out there looking out for my best interest. I mean I could have ended up buying a cool looking adventure game and be subjected to drug use. Really dodged one there.

But they where a little too late though as I have been confronted with unsuitable material in games before. I recently bought Metal Gear Solid 4 expecting a normal cool stealth shooter, but at one point the game took a dark, dark turn. Suddenly I saw my guy injecting him self with a needle to fight off "the shakes." Even though I don't really feel it, I am sure the experience damaged me mentally. So I think it's about time we ban it to protect people like me and of course the children.

Though I haven't played it, I have also seen images from the game Bioshock where the main guy injects him self with a big needle to enhance his performance abilities. Obviously this has been a slip up and we should warn the government body that this needs to be taken away.

Come to think of it allot of games have drug related imagery in them and I think back to my childhood and how reckless some of the games where back then. Just take Super Mario for instance. A man who by eating mushrooms not only grows in size (obviously a metaphor for how drugs make you feel), but by eating a weed like flower gained super human abilities. How I'm not a drug addict by now is a mystery to me, but I guess I was one of the lucky few. I think we should, for the sake of future generations, ban all Mario games just to be sure.

So now that we are ridding the country of games with drug referencing I would like to see this as a spring board to get rid of other bad influences in today's entertainment. Drugs is not the only problem, all though I have seen drug use in several films and some song lyrics (especially from that white rapper guy, best ban him too) that deal with drugs and other none Christian content.

In films we also have allot of violence and alcohol content. Just a month ago I saw Iron Man and the he was drinking allot. So when the movie was done the first thing I and the other kids there did was go down to the local bar and get wasted. I mean, Iron Man did it so it must be cool. I regret it now and see the error of my ways. I surely hope that Australia keep such movies out in the future.

I just want to finish with expressing how safe I feel here in Australia, knowing that both me and the kids here are safe from damaging influences =)

Now if you will excuse me I just picked up a city simulator called GTA 4. I am sure it will be fun...

THANK YOU AUSTRALIA! <3