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ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating
Alex Blonski writes "In a stunning move, the ESRB has advised retailers to stop selling Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. This report follows public pressure over the Hot Coffee debacle. Rockstar, the publishers of the game have given retailers the option of restickering the game with an 18+ rating or exchanging it for a new version with the controversial content removed. ESRB head Patricia Vance says 'After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of all three platform versions of the game (i.e., PC CD-ROM, Xbox and PS2). However, the material was programmed by Rockstar to be inaccessible to the player and they have stated that it was never intended to be made accessible. The material can only be accessed by downloading a software patch, created by an independent third party without Rockstar's permission, which is now freely available on the internet and through console accessories. Considering the existence of the undisclosed and highly pertinent content on the final discs, compounded by the broad distribution of the third party modification, the credibility and utility of the initial ESRB rating has been seriously undermined.'"
I found a patch in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstars that allows me to see naked chicks on ANY computer connected to the Internets!
America is violent, barbaric, and 2 minutes out of the stone age.
It makes me wonder who is more barbaric: Sadam for torturing and killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians or Bush for torturing and killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
Unfortunately, show me a country that doesn't rely on war to keep the peace and I'll show you a country that is ripe for the taking by one that does.
"To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic." Cicero
It's not Bush who's torturing and killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, it's Al Qaeda and the Baathists - the very people some on the left would like to see us turn the country over to. Unfortunately enough in the American public are gullible enough to accept it as being Bush's fault.
Mmmm.. Donuts
Hilary Clinton is a stupid bitch that deserves to die a slow and painful death. Anyone with the mentality that "everyone in society should participate in raising my child and should share the blame and responsibility for his actions when I allow him to play ADULT themed video games" should immediately be shot in the face at least 15 times and have glass shards forced down their throat while having an incredibly old and splintery piece of wood shoved up their ass.
Accountability
Responsibility
These words have been lost in time, their meanings forgotten over years of "it takes a village to raise a child" bullshit. Guess what hippies, we don't live in a village, we live in a country with almost 300 million fucking people and the United States is not a fucking daycare. Parents used to be forced to take responsibility for their children. Now everyone seems to think its ok for bad parents to just point their fingers back at society with bullshit explanations like "my child is a murderer because while I was out on the street turning tricks to pay for my crack addiction he was playing a video game where you murder people that I bought him to keep his mouth shut while mommy freebased herself a snack".
When a kid goes and finds his dad's gun and uses it to shoot a cop, don't blame GTA, blame the stupid fuck parents who didn't teach the kid right from wrong, the value of life, the difference between reality and fantasy, gun control and safety, and that ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
On another note, I don't understand how they can revoke a rating for San Andreas "due to unauthorized third party "Hot Coffee" modification". There are a handful of guns that can easily be modified into fully automatic weapons, yet those manufacturers aren't held responsible. But some 8 year old playing a game with a Mature rating goes onto the INTERNET and finds a patch for nudity? Nudity on the internet, what is the world coming to...
Also, I didn't hear a big stink about all those nudity patches that came out for the various releases of The Sims.
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I'm more concerned with my children hearing George Bush refer to a reporter as an "asshole" in public an Cheney telling someone to "go fuck himself". Hearing real life people that you're supposed to respect treating other people with such contempt and disdain in such an unprofessional manner is going to have a greater long term impact than my kid going through the detailed steps to unlock some sexual content in a videogame (that they could see on television any hour of the day anyway). Not to mention the whole, you know, president being a former alcoholic and a cokehead thing. With all of that in consideration, what my kid sees in some cartoonish videogame would be the last of my fucking concerns.
so you just comment out the call to activate it
...and then include the cheat to re-activate it.
Nicotine is a stimulant in small quantities and a depressant in larger quantities.
This means that when you get stressed, you can smoke a lot and relax, and when you get lethargic, you can smoke a little and get revved up.
So you can continually modify your mood using cigarettes and remain on a more even keel than you would otherwise.
Perhaps this does nothing for you, but I think it's cool as all hell. I don't know why they put it in anti-smoking literature... if I wasn't already a smoker, that would definately catch my interest.
I've been smoking for 15 years, am in good health, and can still run most ppl into the ground. I'll quit smoking my cigarettes right after all those fatties quit poisoning themselves with aspertaine and get off the couch. Until then, quit taxing my 2nd favorite plant so goddamned much, dammit!
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I would mod this insightful if I had the points.
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Post.
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It's a fan fiction. No pictures. Amusing for anyone who has a sense of humor.
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