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Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee
Relin writes "Out of the millions eligible, less than 3,000 have come forward to collect their money in the 'Hot Coffee' settlement. While the plaintiffs' lawyer is surprised by the development, Theodore Frank of the Legal Center for the Public Interest at the American Enterprise Institute seems convinced that the lawsuit was 'meritless' and will result in no payment for the legal counsel opposing Take-Two."
American Enterprise Institute seems convinced that the lawsuit was "meritless" and will result in no payment for the legal counsel opposing Take-Two.
Oh boy, I can only hope. Oh please.
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If the GTA makers owe me $35 for their hidden NPC sex scene, then the Second Life makers owe me seven figures for emotional trauma from the brief virtual walk I took though the general area.
and I still want my money!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
For a second there I read it as 'Seth the Lesser' and wondered why a WoW character was lead lawyer.
Remember, any suggestion of sex or sexuality to children will warp their tiny widdle minds. ...but violence, that's just good red-blooded American fun.
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
had Joe Pesci, these stupid lawyers against Take-Two and a big, fat baseball bat....
I live in the GTA. Where do I get my free coffee?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Could we send in $5 to enable the hot coffee mod?
I bought a version that didn't have the sex scene. Can I collect $5 from the people that made them cut it out?
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What if I'm offended by other things in the game? Like the substandard story line, the lousy dialogue, the lack of interactivity with the environment, the poor AI, or the nonsensical game logic?
Why were you and your 5 year old daughter's friends discussing WooHoos?
Who the fuck would tell their kids its called a cookie while trying to keep them sheltered from sex? Cookies is something you eat. The child may eventually decide to test out why s/he calls it a cookie.
If I pay the $5, will they show me what all the fuss is about?
Exactly. I bought this game and enjoyed it. There's no way I would stick it to the people who gave me so many hours of fun game play.
I really doubt any of the people actually purchasing this game were offended. There might be an occasional stupid parent who thought the hyper-violence in the game was tolerable, but the nudity was over the line. Regardless, it was baseless, in my opinion-- and the people who are okay with violence and freak out over nudity are rather scary. I would not enjoy living in their heads. Give me nude women any day over guns. I'll take both in my video games when it's an option, though.
Actually, the people who have a stranglehold on America's censorship are the scariest of all. Every other TV show or movie have probably ten times the violence than sex. I remember in the 1970s and early 80s, you could, at least, see the occasional boob on UHF broadcast. Something went wrong somewhere.
As Too Much Coffee Man said, "You can bear arms but you can't bare breasts."Maybe she's really bad at GTA ;)
This puts a whole new spin on Sesame's Cookie Monster :D
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Little kids often seem to have very different ideas on what's acceptable as compared to adults (even their parents).
No surprise they talk about such stuff. I think some of the stuff they say, do and think might horrify their parents.
A few of these little kids in my church think it's funny to run at me, and try to punch me in my balls. I most certainly didn't teach them that (and I doubt I gave them a good reason to). Maybe their parents taught them that? Or they learnt it from some movie/show?
Letting kids see shows where people hit others in their balls is not good. I figure that comes under violence.
However exposing little girls to male nudity, could make their aim better.
This doesn't apply to any versions of the game sold outside of the US, correct?
No, it doesn't. Nobody else is quite that stupid.
I really want to see Mr. and Mrs. Pacman getting it on while Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde watch...
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Simulated sex has to be realistic to be fun?
Ok, you're not into Hentai, I can tell...:)
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Because precious little 12 year old Timmy could never install a hack like that. It showed up all on its own, and now he is scarred for life, boobs should never be seen until you're 18 years old.
/sarcasm
It's not a pipe it's a PICTURE of a pipe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
I think this article sums it up the best:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ticket_to_hell
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I would like to send Take Two an extra $5 for putting the coffee mod into the game. I found it much more entertaining then that.
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