X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,20c892b26035ae7d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-04 23:35:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!hub1.nntpserver.com!news-dc.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!OM9.omantel.net.om!not-for-mail From: "Poster" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episodes 135-143 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:03:49 +0400 Organization: Oman Telecommunications Company Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <5u0f2ush5155jm1vb1a8efavf58bm5eigd@4ax.com> <3c291e05.30230689@news.concentric.net> <3c29ab01$0$62873$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <+EAvPFCSpFa10kQ6le1lOwLzta+v@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.72.5.129 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13404 But I know of a friend who ordered Half-Life coz there was a CENSORED version of the same that was selling in Germany. So legally he can buy it online from US and play as much as he wants in GERMANY... ;) LESS Bloodshed (display of blood) in the censored version... Censorship... Is there really any sense in that and do the guys there really know what they are doing??? ?:) "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" wrote in message news:a14qc4$99l$04$3@news.t-online.com... > > it's plain stupid. why is the majority of players not allowed to play > > those games cause a minority can't deal with them > > It's still our history and for my part it's ok to put them on the 'index' by > the BPjS (though their decisions are sometimes ... a bit strange (Blood II > is still not forbidden; 'Serious Sam' is for players aged 16 or older, but > the US version of 'Half-Life' is indexed as well as Q3 (well with Q3 I can > understand it)). > > Joey >