Video Game Scandals Are Boring

The Guardian Gamesblog has an editorial up registering the author's frustration with VG-related scandals. From the article: "No matter who weighs into the arguments, however, be it Hilary Clinton or the latest pious whining superstar of the American Religious Right, one fact remains: the videogames industry just can't do scandal. Let's face it, a few laughable scenes of polygonal coupling does not a Watergate make. Even the troubled relationship between Jude 'mind-blowing in bed' Law and Sienna 'pictured without engagement ring' Miller is more interesting than this limp tale of adolescent sex fantasy, Christian self-righteousness and coding."

Comments

Re:Who's The Guardian Gamesblog

[MBraynard]

You would be well within your right to criticize the Mayor of London for he is an idiot.

And if the critic finds things boring, it's his own fault for paying attention to things that bore him - or maybe video games have so atrophed his attention that everything short of internet pr0n and Warioware bores him.

It's also more examples of stupid geeks whining about things and trying to instill meaning in their lives (sorta like whining about the Patriot Act) with no sense of context or even a basis in reality. Where is the whining about movie theatre ratings? The only point is that stores can't sell to kids without parental permission. Big deal.

Re:As a a purveyor of "Christian self-righteousnes

[Hungus]

So responding directly to an article is trolling? Fortunately the alternative to rejecting the truth is an eternity in hell, so there is no need for me to get angry with you. Your choice is simple, Hell or the service of the God who created everything.

Re:As a a purveyor of "Christian self-righteousnes

[Hungus]

You're telling me that without intentionally harming anyone else, I'm bad and will go to hell.

Even if it were the case where you had never done any harm to another person, nor thought of harming another person, Yes that would still be the case. This is my point about self righteousness vs real christianity... Real christians realize that everybody is bad and going to hell. Yes that is right everybody. God then reached down and took some folks who were going to hell and for no reason in them and for His own sake chose to redeem them.
Real christians do not try and legislate morality outside the church .. well except for theonomists who I think have things a little bit wrong. Real christians remember that outside of Christ in our lives we would be no different, and possibly worse than the average heathen (meaning One who adheres to the religion of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of Christianity in this case). Further, one does not expect non-christians to behave like christians.

That sounds awfully self-righteous to me.

No see thats the point christians realize that any righteousness that they or anyone else can have must be foreign, and cannot be from themselves.

Saying specifically that God knows I'm bad and am going to hell doesn't make you any less self-righteous because use of the word "knows" tells me that you believe it as well and carries the same message: "I know you are bad and going to hell."

Why does it matter what I think? You going to hell or not is in God's hands and quite honestly I have no say in the matter. I do know that God is consistant and has said that there is only one way. The one way is through the redeaming work of Christ on the cross, His subsequent resurrection and ascention and His eventual return. That honestly is the only hope that any of us have.

Let me give you a finite example by giving you my take on this whole GTA/ESRB/Rockstar/ Hillary clinton/ everyone else thing.
1) I do not like the game, played it once just to take a look see and didn;t like the game play style or anything about it.
2) The game got an M rating IIRC which means that it was intended for 17+ year olds If it had the tea tiome segment enabled would it have still gotten an M rating? I think that would likely be the case or it simply would have been not rated.
3) that said (2) Rockstar did disable the "mini game"
4) ESRB has withdrawn the rating... Well that is there business but if it would have gotten the rating with the mini game in then they sould not have done so, if they would have not rated it had the game been public then maybe but I still think they are giving into pressure and I don't like it.
5) Hillary and most others are making a big deal about this because they want their names heard in the press.
6) Overall I would never buy the game, and I would hope that no one else would either. That being said you can spend your money on whatever you want to, and so long as it does not harm another person, or give the potential of harming another person/ people group I really do not expect that I would need to step in and stop you from doing it. Instead I would rather bring people to know Christ and have a relationship with Him, then they wouldn;t want to play this game either. Convert enough people and rockstar suddenly doesn;t sell any games and I don;t have to worry about it anyways.
7) In the same light I can and may take time to go through what is bad or wrong about the game, but unless I bring the focus back on Christ the prevous 6 points I made kicj in and it is all pretty useless.