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PAX East 13+ events?
19 days and counting! Hugely psyched to be back for my 6th PAX East. With the event schedule now posted (WOO!), I'm making my decisions about which events to attend and which to skip at conflicting hours. This looks to be the first PAX where certain panels are flagged as for ages 13 and up. For any eventfolks with the knowledge to answer, I have a few questions on this:
1) Are these recommendations akin to the PG-13 rating? To quote the MPAA: "Parents strongly cautioned – some material may be inappropriate for children under 13". Technically, this doesn't prohibit theater owners from allowing 12 year olds in to the movie in question, but simply recommends parental supervision/consideration, unlike the R rating, which requires parent/guardian attendance. I guess what I'm asking is: are you going to be carding kids, or is it a recommendation to let parents know in advance, or something else?
2) Are the designations on which panels are 13+ and which aren't made by the panel producers, the event, or a mix of both? I ask because some events where salty language and frank discussions/drawings of a sexually graphic nature (e.g. Draw-a-Strip's double-headed dildo) are historically expected weren't given the designation.
3) Would you consider designations for specifically kid-friendly panels? For reference, I'm a dad, and will be bringing my 5 YO for his 2nd PAX ("The Video Game Show", as we call it). I've been to enough events to presume that most of the panels will be relatively sweariffic, but am hoping there'll be some events that I can take him to that won't leave him too weirded out or cursing repeatedly on the ride home/in pre-school the next week. For example, my boy loves Pokemon and Minecraft (shocking on both accounts, I know), but I'm hesitant to bring him to either the "Let's Play Pokemon" or Minecraft modding panels.
To note, I'm not mad about the designations. Far from it - I seek out info on the media/games my kid has interest in, and screen in advance when possible. I'm just curious about how the decisions were made and how they'll be Enforced (with a capital E - see what I did there?). If anything, I'd love to see the panels all assigned ratings like those used for broadcast/cable TV (http://www.tvguidelines.org/ for full details). Thoughts/answers? See y'all there!
RW
1) Are these recommendations akin to the PG-13 rating? To quote the MPAA: "Parents strongly cautioned – some material may be inappropriate for children under 13". Technically, this doesn't prohibit theater owners from allowing 12 year olds in to the movie in question, but simply recommends parental supervision/consideration, unlike the R rating, which requires parent/guardian attendance. I guess what I'm asking is: are you going to be carding kids, or is it a recommendation to let parents know in advance, or something else?
2) Are the designations on which panels are 13+ and which aren't made by the panel producers, the event, or a mix of both? I ask because some events where salty language and frank discussions/drawings of a sexually graphic nature (e.g. Draw-a-Strip's double-headed dildo) are historically expected weren't given the designation.
3) Would you consider designations for specifically kid-friendly panels? For reference, I'm a dad, and will be bringing my 5 YO for his 2nd PAX ("The Video Game Show", as we call it). I've been to enough events to presume that most of the panels will be relatively sweariffic, but am hoping there'll be some events that I can take him to that won't leave him too weirded out or cursing repeatedly on the ride home/in pre-school the next week. For example, my boy loves Pokemon and Minecraft (shocking on both accounts, I know), but I'm hesitant to bring him to either the "Let's Play Pokemon" or Minecraft modding panels.
To note, I'm not mad about the designations. Far from it - I seek out info on the media/games my kid has interest in, and screen in advance when possible. I'm just curious about how the decisions were made and how they'll be Enforced (with a capital E - see what I did there?). If anything, I'd love to see the panels all assigned ratings like those used for broadcast/cable TV (http://www.tvguidelines.org/ for full details). Thoughts/answers? See y'all there!
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I think if you want more designations, the best plan would be to fill out the post-pax survey and mention that, and/or also mention it in the feedback thread that we do after pax is over.
pax_questions@paxsite.com may have more information about the markings
PAX has not carded in the past for US shows (PAX Aus runs by different stricter rules in this regard) and I'm not aware of any intention to card at East.
@zerzhul is right on for the more designations bit.