[Matt]

PODCAST [ GameDamage, L4D2 Rated, Fairytale Porn & Brutal Legend ]

[Moondogg]

itunes can't download this one. Or is it only me?

[andrewbrownster]

I can't get it through iTunes either, maybe just give it a while.

And yug - did you say that the MW2 trailer looks like "fucking shit"?? Or did I mishear twice?

[G-c@t]

I'm not sure about youse but I use WMP for the podcasts and I think my main problem for not being able to getthe podcast is this

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Microsoft has retired WMPlugins.com. Thank you to all of our Windows Media Player partners and customers who submitted plug-ins over the years to help give users a richer media experience.

which means I may not have the online decoder whatever to play anything back anymore

[Yug]

No idea why you guys can't get it on iTunes - it might take a bit of time to update perhaps?

[White_Pointer]

Just an update on that Left 4 Dead 2 thing, and what was actually removed:

http://www.kotaku.co...-left-4-dead-2/

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Valve told us yesterday that they had submitted an edited version of Left 4 Dead 2 after the game was previously refused classification due to its high impact violence. Gabe Newell declined to say what had been edited out. That edited version was awarded an MA15+ rating late yesterday. This morning the Classification Board told Gamespot what had been cut:

The report states that the Australian-specific version of Left 4 Dead 2 “no longer contains depictions of decapitations, dismemberment, wound detail, or piles of bodies lying about the environment”.

[Luke]

iTunes is giving me this error :-
"Australian Gamer Podcast" does not seem to be a valid Podcast URL. Please check that you entered the correct URL and try again.

[Moondogg]

Yug, on 09 October 2009 - 11:30 PM, said:

No idea why you guys can't get it on iTunes - it might take a bit of time to update perhaps?

Just did, actually everytime I update it there seems to be a problem with the AG podcast downloading, at least there has been the last three... conspiracy?

[Cartoon Boy]

Crash, on 10 October 2009 - 12:52 PM, said:

iTunes is giving me this error :-
"Australian Gamer Podcast" does not seem to be a valid Podcast URL. Please check that you entered the correct URL and try again.

What he said.
This is with a few of my other podcasts, but they havn't been doing them for ages, oh hang on a minute...

[Ionboy]

Still cant get to it on iTunes

[Indigo_Dingo]

I'm probably gonna be alone in this, but I found Revenge of the Fallen tolerable. But then, this year I've also seen Knowing and Year One (Jack Black, probably at his worst), so its all pretty relative.

[Starks]

I gots it. Was a good cast Was happy I got plugged for me expertz journalisticz with the Fairytale Fights post

[rwh]

For your amusement....

[Yug]

Yay for YUGSPAM

[Mistymoose]

Hey, Misty is a Stripper's name!

[Moondogg]

Not trying to sound like a bastard or anything, but I still can't get it. In fact it doesn't even list this latest podcast, the latest one available is the one from the 48 hour games convention dated 3/10/2009.

Have resubscribed, itunes is the latest version, I even sacrificed a chicken to Loki god of the podcasts... don't tell I'm going to have to manually download it... what is this the darkages.

[rwh]

Yeah, it doesn't work on iTunes. Just through the manual download thingy.

[Indigo_Dingo]

Moondogg, on 12 October 2009 - 05:00 PM, said:

Have resubscribed, itunes is the latest version, I even sacrificed a chicken to Loki god of the podcasts... don't tell I'm going to have to manually download it... what is this the darkages.

Loki is the god of these podcasts? That explains so much

[RedXian]

FWIW. Turtle Power was made by Partners in Kryme

And I know that song off by heart. And still do after all these years.

[mrlefty]

Nice, Matt. Nice. Always good to pop in a podcast and find yourself being randomly abused.

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YUG: I noticed there were some people actually posting on the forums saying things like "Michael Atkinson isn't actually the only issue with the R8, we don't need Michael Atkinson, he's a front for the other attorney generals" - do you know about this?

MATT: No, this is someone with no idea spouting off shit he doesn't know anything about. He's basically saying blah blah blah we don't need an attorney general, the other attorney generals (sic) can simply do what they want on a state level, so...

Someone "with no idea spouting off shit he doesn't know anything about"? Cheers for that. Particularly ironic given where you went next, but for the record - I'm a lawyer. I have a fairly good idea what I'm talking about on the question of government powers.

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YUG: Can they?

MATT: No, because it's an international classification system... sorry, a national classification system, so you can't just do it state by state, it's a ridiculous idea, the problem is the problem, you can't just get around it.

The point I made about the state AGs having the POWER to opt out of the national scheme (or to, for example, adopt it but add an R18 rating in their state) is entirely correct. The National Code is an agreement between the state AGs, and nothing more. If one of them is being a spoiler - ie, Atkinson - the others could go around him. It wouldn't even need to be messy - they adopt the code, but they also permit the sale of games rated for adults. It's state law that enforces the code, and state governments have the power to change that.

The political question is something else, of course, but in essence - the various state AGs could, if they chose, implement an R18 rating. It's politically convenient to blame it all on Atkinson and not rile up the nanny staters, of course - unless people realise that the only power Atkinson has in other states is that power that those states' attorneys-general choose to give him.

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YUG: Don't different states have different classification - like isn't there still an X rated thing in...?

MATT: Yeah, different states can actually have slightly different legislation, um, classification, why and how I'm not quite sure, um...

YUG: So in that case it could be possible to subvert the attorney generals in different states?

MATT: I'm going to look into why exactly there's an x rating in Canberra because it is true that x rated titles are actually illegal in most of... in all of Queensland...

I accept your apology.

Way to welcome listeners, by the way.