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NY Post Says GTA Worse Than Molesting
wiredbeat2000 writes "The New York Post has an inflammatory article which argues that Take Two's Grand Theft Auto is worse than child molestation and more harmful than second hand smoke. The story, which appears in the business section, calls for an outright ban of video games it claims are no better than snuff films, and concludes: 'Stay away from this [Take Two] stock - far, far away - and you'll be doing both your wallet and your fellow man a favor'." Lucky the author hasn't checked out Manhunt yet, huh?
Oh please, tell me that was sarcasm because I have a hard time coming to terms with the possiblity that you are just that stupid. And screw the adult world, as Tom Waits said: "I don't want to grow up"
but it's nothing new.
That's what hyperbole is all about. Exagerating to make your point, which is likely non-existant.
And now a story.
Back in the day, before I was old, one of the "traditions" among my circle of friends was to play Capture the Flag, at midnight on a certain friends birthday. (These games always ended with civil servants and tears which is what makes them such great memories.) On the second annual event of this birthday was the best, and not just because it's the only game we were able to play to completion. Tony, the person who's birthday this was, as the birthday boy, got to pick the teams. So he stacked them. All the fastest people on his, and I was on the inteded loser team. Kevin, was very fast, but something of a non-conformist, and occasionally had strong expectation which he demanded people live up to. I am VERY slow. Always was, always will be. I'll skip over the twin brothers showing up, the cop coming, and everything about Dave (including him shining his maglight on the cop). Long storie shorter, Kevin got caught. We was careless, we were clever. As the slowest I was the prison warden, as it were.
Tony, who was also very fast, and one of the brothers, who had to be faster than me, would come up to the border of our flagged fifedom, and watch. So I'd wave at them, talk with Kevin about them and why they're so certain they can't out manuver me. They go away, and come back. This persisted for about an hour. This made Kevin, who liked being fast, mad. He was just standing around! And the game couldn't advance until something was done to free him anyway. So he hatched a clever plan. In addition to anything else I've said, he's cunning, and true to his word. Even so, when he told me, if I let him go, he'd bring his teams flag back, I doubted, and just assumed that the stalemate such as it was, would be broken.
Not five minutes later he did return flag in hand. At which point Tony flipped out and said many funny things that were in-jokes for sometime. But a week later, when talking over the matter, more at me than with me, he said of Kevin, "If he'd do that in a game, imagine what he'd do to his country." He'd accurately estimated my nationalistic tendancies, I must confess, but to this day one of the most absurd things I've ever heard anywhere.
Kevin took a paper plate (we always ment to get better flags) two hundred feet and formaly ended a game that had degenerated into an inexplicable stalemate.
I also learned my presence is so repulsive people will betray their friends to escape it. At the time I didn't know it, but this would be a reoccuring theme in my life and explains why I'm reading slashdot.
In conclusion. Yes, lying is bad. Believing them is stupid, and maybe worse than lying when the lies are obvious. But the problem is what to do when people are on average too stupid to detect even the obvious lies, and worse yet perpetuate them and lie unknowingly. The sophists are winning, at look at the result.
Nevermind that our non-elected, paid his way into the presidency, dipshit of a leader sends 1000's to their deaths so he can keep control of the worlds oil. Yeah, way to use your voice NYT's reporter. Report on the stuff that really matters, good job. Jackass
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"Incomplete degree."
Haha, like I'm going to hire some fucking college dropout.
These journalists receive TONS of email each day. Thus, they tend not to read a lot of it. If you would like to have your letter be looked at with more consideration, I would advise you to write with proper capitalization. Its a very minor suggestion, but it makes your writing look more professional, and less like a hastily written flame.
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