http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/02

You have no idea how many levels the message of this strip speaks to me.  The concept of a group regulating how video games are rated, yet being a group that has no familiarity with the games themselves, is both horrifying and, unfortunately, inevitable.  This is due to the fact of the preconceived notion that the current rating system, as set up by the ESRB, is a failure.  To a degree, I think it has failed, but this is due more to the fact that the retailers of video games have failed to enforce them, as well as the fact that parents themselves don't generally give enough of a shit to watch what their kids are playing until they see that there's obviously objectionable content.  So its not so much the concept that's a failure as much as the implementation.

Unfortunately, there may eventually be a group set up that fails both in implementation and in concept.  The fact of the matter is that the ESRB generally has a good idea as to what in the hell they're doing when they rate a game and who the game is meant to be geared towards.  I can't possibly imagine how badly another group may end up in attempting to rate games, especially if that group is composed of people genuinely unfamiliar with videogames.

Fuckin' bureucrats.......