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Hot Coffee Cooling Off
The storm of media and cynicism that was "Hot Coffee" is, thankfully, coming to an end. To wrap things up, reactions were mixed to the re-rating of GTA. Some thought it too much, some too little too late. With the removal of the M rating, ESRB president Patricia Vance considers the matter closed. Even those in the industry itself seem glad that it's over, though the folks quoted for the 1up story seem cynical about the whole thing. "[Rockstar] TOTALLY screwed the modding community, as far as I am concerned. Because they could have just removed the content. They tried to get cute and leave it in. In my experience that sort of thing is always deliberate. Anyway, the point is that most game developers are recalcitrant and immature jerks. When mom tells us we can't do something, we're sure as hell going to do it. If you get my meaning. I think 'mom' in this case was the ESRB." As a sidenote, stock in Take-Two Entertainment dropped by almost five percent at close of market today, on the news that even Gamestop is dumping the now AO-rated GTA title.
am going out to purchase this too-hot-for-Gamespot game. Then i'm going to make little kids play it. Call me The Pusher Man.
Slashdot is kind of like Playboy; we aren't here to read the articles.
I can still kill cops and pummel innocent bystanders with a club, smashing their brains in till blood oozes all over the sidewalk. Good family fun.
How do you know it was consensual?
I think the programmers made them do it!
When you have a game that features things that the majority of people have always wanted to do at some time or another, but didn't want to go to jail for it or they just didn't want to hurt people in real life, it doesn't matter what the rating it, it'll always sell like crazy.
Oh, and if you can jump out of a car, and let it keep going and run over gangstas and drug lords.
It won't hurt it.
Might even raise the sales of it, truth be told.
Luke
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This just in. "Real Life" has been re-rated AO by ESRB because it features the same violent and sexual content as GTA:SA.
Quote the leader: "We first noticed this when we found out there are a lot of people being invited for 'hot coffee' everywhere! This has to stop! We had no idea sex is available to everyone"
From now on, life is rated AO which means anybody under the magical age of 18 is no longer allowed to have a life.
... we can see how the ESRB and Hillary Clinton operate.
Hell if I'm going to buy an AO game I better be getting what is promised on the box!
Next weeks headline : "Geek sues Rockstar for false claims of explicit sex in GTA".
Quote from the article "Steve purchased GTA:SA hoping to get a glimpse of naked women engaged in sexual acts, but instead found himself searching Rockstar's website for a 'patch'. Turns out Rockstar didn't live up to their promise of hot sex and coffee - the only way to get to that content is from a program made by some Swedish guy who doesn't even work for the game developer."
A world with violence and no sex. Wait... wouldn't that be the fuckin apocalypse?
Uhm, no it wouldn't. The fucking apocalypse will have sex. I think you're thinking of the regular apocalypse.
THANK YOU ESRB FOR PROTECTING ME FROM BADLY DIGITIZED SEX.
Even though its a game where you steal cars, boats, planes, and government property, shoot cops and bystanders, rob houses, smuggle pot, pimp whores, beat prostitutes to death with a dildo and take pictures when you're done, and generally cause destruction on a massive scale, its a relief to know that I will no longer have to the chance of seeing some badly simulated non-nunde digital sex.
THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING ME ESRB!
And, in the true spirit of Slashdot (Thinkgeek and Slashdot being owned by the same), they misspell the work mourn in the shirt's description.
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The hidden content allows you to tweak other players scores.
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and even more in the spirit of ./; you misspell "word" (work) while complaining about their spelling errors.
Meta meta spelling nazi?
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"Its almost someone giving you a formula for isolating the printed words in the latest Harry Potter book to form a short porn story."
Oh hell, it's WAY easier than that...
Just change every instance of the word "wand" to "wang". One little letter makes the whole series perverse.
There's post on bash.org about it, if i recall.... Yup.
http://bash.org/?111338
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Dotslash? (Meta Meta Meta spelling Nazi).
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>> watch porn using my web browser
You can do that?!?
This could change the whole rating of the internet to AO, better keep it quiet.
http://request-header.info
I'll be taking it back to the shop as soon as possible and demanding they exchange it with a copy that is suitable for a child of his age.
You: "I'd like to exchange this copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for a version that's suitable for my 12-year old."
Shop Employee: "Certainly. We can easily do that with a simple modification to the retail version of the game." [breaks disk in half] "Here ya go."
It is sorta funny, as you know they had to review it as a team and were discussing it. "No no, I think it needs to be longer. Maybe a shade darker. Can you make that motion a little smoother?"