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What I learned from Leisure Suit Larry
To save minors from inappropriate content, YouTube has this handy “verify you’re over 18″ deal. Because that will prevent 13-year olds from saying they’re 25. Yup.
I’ve mentioned in the past that I would always try to sneak into Leisure Suit Larry on my best friends computer when we were little, and they reason we could get on was because they asked you current event and historical questions that 10-year olds just didn’t know the answers to. We tried to find answers in the Encyclopedia Britannica (you remember the books? Before Wikipedia?) but I think we only cracked the code once. Myspace is having similar issues with kids younger than 14 (the new lowered age limit) trying to score accounts. Little kids might not know too much in the way of worldliness, but they sure as heck know how to put in a lower year to make themselves instantly 15.
So, what to do? Keep inappropriate content off of easily accessible sites? Find a new age-verification method? I have a feeling the younger generations will always find a way to get past anything we throw at them! They’re smarter than us.
Dan sez: “Heh… there’s also the radical concept known as ‘parenting’”
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Yeah, I remember that. I can’t remember how, but one time I figured out the shortcut to skip the quiz.. I think it was Ctrl-X or something similar.
I do actually remember when I was about.. 5 or 6 and remember asking my babysitter how to spell “hooker” (to tell the taxi driver where to go) and she refused. I might have got mad about it.
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Yea, those systems are lame. I always assumed they were in place just so the website can cover their ass legally (“We have a system in place to prevent minors from accessing our content… granted its a shitty system, but then so was Communism…”) It really irks me when videogame sites are “protected” by this type of system (cause its annoying and gets in the way, and half the time its done in Flash, wtf). Like any kid who has ever touched a video game controller wouldn’t be able (or inclined) to quickly defeat the “clever” age verification system.
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#8 written by Jboswell2000 5 years ago
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Is Leisure Suit Larry really porn?
I mean, pixelated female anatomy isn’t really that hot. ESPECIALLY if you were old enough like me to have the CGA version of Leisure Suit Larry.
Leisure Suit Larry 4 was by far the BEST LSL ever!
I miss Sierra. I wish they’d come back and be a dominant force in the gaming market again. King’s Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest! Gotta love it.
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#16 written by Shantanu 5 years ago
(5:42:10 PM) shantanubala: MySpace has a lot more questionable content than one could imagine. I have an older sister who I refer to as a MySpace addict, and I\’ve been clicking through friends profile\’s and such. Not only are people absoluteley out of control, they use profanity and sexually explicit terms
(5:42:30 PM) V: it\’s true
(5:43:30 PM) shantanubala: and none of this is filtered, blocked, or even censored. You don\’t even need an account to look at these profiles. I think that is absurd.
(5:43:55 PM) V: so how do you think they could change it?
(5:45:28 PM) shantanubala: leisure suit larry is an example, but atleast make people register, so they \”confirm\” they are fourteen
(5:46:15 PM) shantanubala: Or have some sort of javascript warning when viewing a profile that is profane
(5:47:23 PM) shantanubala: but honestly, there\’s no way to truly fix the issue, but the main thing is adults paying attention to what their kids are surfing. It\’s called browser history(5:47:58 PM) V: so you think parents should check what their kids have been surfing?
(5:48:29 PM) shantanubala: definately
(5:48:44 PM) shantanubala: not only that, but have filteres to block myspace
(5:50:26 PM) V: so you don\’t think the responsibility lies with the websites
(5:51:23 PM) shantanubala: it does, but what can they do? If they block all profane content, The teenage wasteland will just be a bunch of inactive accounts.
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#17 written by Kyle 5 years ago
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Sure….
Yeah, there should be another form of identification that the Social Security Dept. office gives you when you turn 18. You should then be able to use that identification to get into your favorite porn and gambling sites… for research, of course!