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Brent Bozell on Nudity in Upcoming Video Games

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the watching-the-watchmen dept.

Ant writes "Brent Bozell of TownHall.com wrote an editorial about the video game nudity trend. It covers games like 'Playboy: The Mansion' and 'Singles: Flirt Up Your Life' that are due out later this year." Ultimately, Bozell seems to distrust the ESRB, citing Eidos' decision to only sell Singles in downloadable form.

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  1. Coming soon from Brent Bozell! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Weapons of Mass Distortion : The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media

    Brent Bozell is Founder and President of the Media Research Center, whose poll "Do any of the Pew Research Center findings (that 'Liberals Dominate Journalism, Think Media Too Easy on Bush') surprise you?", had only three responses:

    Yes. I was surprised so many journalists would admit they're liberal.

    No. But it's nice to have more proof of what we already knew.

    Don't know.

    Talk about loaded questions? Everyone's entitled to their opinons, Mr. Bozell included, but before judging his article on nudity in videogames, be forewarned that Bozell's site makes the Simpsons' Fox News spoof ("Do Democrats cause cancer?") look like the friggin' New York Times...

  2. Thanks, Brent Bozell! by 2megs · · Score: 5, Interesting


    I completely overlooked Singles: Flirt Up Your Life at E3. Now that this article has brought it to my attention, I'm definitely going to check it out! ...which pretty much drives the point home that self-serving "journalists" such as this care more about raising their own visibility than about the moral agenda they claim to promote.

  3. Old people should quit hogging the oxygen and die by veritron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let us, for laughs, point out the assumptions this idiot has made in the article:

    The target audience for the Sims 2, and the Singles, is pasty white teenage boys.
    There is on-screen explicit sex in "The SingleS"
    Pornography is inherently evil.
    Exposing children to pornography is inherently evil.
    Video game players tend to be ignorant, smut-obsessed, teenage males.
    Parents are stupid and ignorant and are perfectly willing to lend their sons credit cards so that they can purchase an Adults-Only game over the internet.
    The ESRB is a toothless organization composed only of malcontent pedophiles who wish to corrupt our children's minds with sex and violence.
    Movies inherently contain less violence, filthy sex, and coarse language than videogames do, and are much harder for little kids to see/obtain.
    Homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle, and depictions of homosexual acts are somehow worse than ordinary pornography.

    Questions you might ask the author:

    Did you actually play the games in question?
    Are you aware of any of the earlier shit that came from Japan?
    If so, are you aware how it is sold, and what the sales volume for it is, and what the target audience is?
    If you're so morally pure, then why do you use such sexually charged language?
    Are you compensating for something by growing that thick, 1970's-style beard?
    Are you aware of the how much better the pornography industry is doing in terms of gross sales in comparison to the movie industry? Are you aware of how much more profitable video games seem to be in comparison with traditional feature films? Why do you think that is?
    Do you have a template or something for writing reactionary articles against bullshit you don't understand? Could you try using a different template next time, perhaps one more subtle?