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GTA Sex Game Leads to ESRB Fracas
At first, it was nothing more than a rumour. A "sex mini-game" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, left in the code for the PC version and unlocked by inquisitive players. Then, as more and more information became available it seemed as though the sex game might be real. This revelation has lead to California Speaker pro-tem Yee blasting the ESRB for their apparent slip-up in examining all the content in the game. The ESRB has responded by pledging a "thorough and objective investigation" of the claims to get to the bottom of the situation. Commentary is available from Joystiq, GamesAreFun, and Buttonmashing.
think of the children!
BilldaCat
I hear that there's also a code you can enter into Leisure Suit Larry that unlocks a secret driving game.
As a parent, this concerns me.
I don't care if my child carjacks a senior.
I don't care if he runs over innocent bystanders.
I don't care if he joins the mafia.
I don't care if he kills police oficers.
I don't care if he picks up prostitutes then kills them to get their money.
I don't care if he takes a golf club and starts clubbing to death pedestrians.
But he may never, over my dead body, have adult on adult, consensual sex!
>>>>unless I live in some Bizzaro World im pretty sure just about every 17 year old has either had sex
>>You must be new here, may I greet you to slashdot; advertisements for nerds, stuff that won't get you laid.
You must be retarded, may I greet you to an english language primer so to much help read all of sentence..."OR SEEN PORN"
Dammit man, if you're going to rehash a stale joke for the umpteenth time your Asperger bin baby, at least freaking do it when it *applies*!
I used MSPaint to draw some boobs, why doesn't somebody do something about this indecency!
What do you propose, to ban parents?!
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If you play the game backwards, satan is telling you to be nice to old ladies ...
And here I thought that Columbine happened 'cause those two weren't getting any sex.
My bad.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Now, perhaps if this was the My Little Pony game and there was an easy hack to allow my little pony to join a donkey show in Tijuana and violate the PowerPuff girls in graphic detail with animations of horse-jism and blood squirting out of Buttercup as she's bent over the back of a chair and held down by the Mario Brothers and introduced to the animal kingdom then I could see some cause for concern. But for fuck's sake, it's GTA III. Leland Yee is a worthless, grandstanding sack of shit and what's amazing is that with this tantrum of his he manages to stand out from the other worthless, grandstanding sacks of shit that comprise the state government of California.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
There was a one-page scene in Mad Magazine, I think in the 90s.
Movie production studio. Guy rushes into the boss's office: "Hey, RJ, I got the ratings people to give (movie) an R instead of an x!"
RJ: "Great! How'd you do it?"
Guy: "Remember that scene where Brad takes Michelle home and makes wild, passionate love to her?"
RJ (looking excitied): "Boy, do I!"
Guy: "I changed the script. Now he kills her!"
How's the gameplay?
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
- Walk up to a random character. For the sake of illustration, let's say it's a female.
- Start mashing buttons. Your character begins punching the female in the face, interjecting with expressions like, "You're just a bitch!"
- Chase the character around while still mashing buttons. You will win the "fight." She will then fall over backwards, exposing her panties.
- Keep mashing buttons. Your character will then begin violently stomping the disabled and compromisingly-positioned female in the crotch, while yelling more epithets.
- At some point, the female character will die (become immobile and cease making noise). If you then step back, you will see a pool of blood emanating from the character's crotch area, where you were stomping on it.
Wait, so where was I going with this? Oh, right -- depicting sex in a video game is bad.Breakfast served all day!
"Maybe he should come down with an STD if he fucks every skank in the neighborhood. Or maybe he can be have his cash taken away to support the kid he fathered."
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I can already see the sequel:
GTA: Baby Momma Drama
Hey, can you have more than one woman at a time in the game? I don't have the PC version...
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
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What subliminal message?
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Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
Wait, so where was I going with this? Oh, right -- judging a game based on 15 minutes of play time without reading the manual, trying any of the objectives, or even having the slightest idea that there could be a concept for the game is a stupid idea.
Well, it has prolonged scenes of intense violence...
I hate being a grammar nazi, but you should have said:
Not at all! The violence is occasionally interrupted by non-violent sex.
the smart ones have already left :)
Despite all this I can't help but laugh.
Like usual all of a sudden I want to get my hands on a copy of this game I have been putting off buying for months...
Besides, it's not a sin to beat the shit out of someone. Murder, yes. sex out of wedlock, yes. What's so difficult to understand?
It looks like I won't be able to pick up GTA:SA for quite a while longer, now. This ought to send it flying off the shelves *again*...
Maybe he should come down with an STD if he fucks every skank in the neighborhood. Or maybe he can be have his cash taken away to support the kid he fathered.
I haven't played San Andreas (been waiting for the PC version's price to drop), but with the population I've seen in GTA3 and Vice City, the whole population must be sterile. (Or at least half of it.) Everyone apparently reproduces by full body mitosis whenever you turn your back on them. Even their clothes get in on the cloning action.
As to STDs, I don't know what ones you think you can catch from the sex depicted in those two games. You're just sitting motionless in the front seats of a car while its shocks bounce it around. The characters don't even touch each other. As far as I can tell, it's the car that's getting off!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Ehm... you are either:
A. A repost troll
B. Posting in the wrong story. Try the ESRB and GTA story next time, m'kay?
Heheh, vulgar variable names. That brings back memories. I was 7 years old, programming in BASIC on my Apple IIGS, writing a very long, silly, useless program. And I used vulgar variable names wherever possible... at least whatever vulgar words I knew at that point. Years later, I learned that Apple BASIC only took the first two letters of a variable name into consideration. :'(
In retrospect, this explains why I was having that bug involving the BOOBIE$ and BONER$ variables.
Signature.
There's also a pretty realistic living hell in Windows ME
live in some Bizzaro World im pretty sure just about every 17 year old has either had sex or seen porn...
this is slashdot. most of us have seen, hosted, and archived porn. Sex, that's something most of us can only dream and read about....
I for one have dated a couple virgin nerds and subsequently deflowered them. I found that once they got over their issues, they were quite spectacular in bed. Non-nerds can't compete in that arena, IMHO.
Obligatory Futurama quote:
Bender: "C'mon, it's just like making love! Y'know...Left, down...Rotate 62 degrees...Engage rotor..."
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
Sure, there are times when players just "go nuts", start messing around and go on random killing sprees, seeing how much carnage they can commit before being caught or killed - but if you persist, the consequences will always, always catch up with you.
Unless you have a tank.
Which, once again, conclusively proves - the one with the bigger stick makes the rules.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
You mention that you can find sexual material on the internet.. Care to list some examples?
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
When was the last time you felt a woman's breasts? It doesn't count if your girlfriend is overweight.
Because sex is, obviously, so much more damaging to the mind of a 17 year old than killing people.
Nah, it helps keep the country strong. We want the stupid kids to kill each other off. And dear god no, we don't want them to reproduce.
The smart kids will figure it all out.
Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
wait until you get a virgin in his mid 40's!
No doubt -- this will send sales through the roof. Why doesn't someone break down and just make a great porn game? I mean, anyone remember Passionate Patty? If Larry got some in the early 90s, why isn't any one doing something similar anymore? Even with EGA graphics, helping Larry get laid was a blast. Nowadays, all we get is FPS after FPS? Damnit
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Lessee...some amoral politician looking to secure reelection latches onto a non-issue like a very badly made sex scene in a video game - cut out and only accessible through an externally produced mod. A few anal-retentive assholes who see this as another good way to tell the rest of us how to live our lives, or raise our children, jump on the bandwagon.
How exactly is this news? Happens just about every goddamned day in the former land of the free, so far as I can see.
Fuck it. I'm going to load up Carmageddon and run over a few hundred screaming pedestrians, pretending all the while they're either extremist righties or extremist lefties. No sex in that game, so the politicians and their whacked out fascist-jackboot-wannabes shouldn't even life an eyebrow at the carnage....
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Remember, folks, if you never watch porn you'll never want to have sex.
And remember that wanting to have sex is Wrong(TM).
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
He said "great" not "so bad it hurts AND involving elementary school children".
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.