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Poor Rockstar

Discussion in 'Gaming and PC Discussion' started by Tobang, Jan 28, 2006.

  1. Tobang

    Tobang Fourth Year

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    Last Thursday a bunch of self-righteous, stuck up prick’s, who have probably never touched a video game in their life are now suing Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar's parent company, for selling ‘pornographic content to minors.’

    The prosecuting attorney is a guy named Rockard Delgadillo, and he claims that Rockstar ‘knowingly withheld information about the Hot Coffee scenes in order to garner an "M" rating and gain distribution through major retailers.’ If Delgadillo wins Take-Two Interactive will be heavily fined.

    (I was just mildly mad at this until I read about Delgadillo’s next fine and request….)

    In addition to the other fines the city is trying to get 10 million more dollars from Take-Two Interactive, which is some of the profits the game has made in Los Angeles. And they asked for the company to ‘Cease marketing games to children.’

    So basically some politicians are trying to get reelected by jumping on the ‘Lets attack video games and blame all are problems on them’ bandwagon. For christs sake people, why don’t you go sue the World Wide Web because I GARENTE you that almost every single 17 year old who played that has seen much worse porn on the WWW then they ever saw in any video game.
     
  2. bornagainpenguin

    bornagainpenguin DLP Archivist

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    :roll: Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Not so loud dammit! [hides porn collection] You're gonna give 'em ideas!

    :mid5 Free teh pr0n games! :mid5

    --bornagainpenguin
     
  3. Xiph0

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  4. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Well known about, theyve had multiple problems over that stupid fucking scene.

    Forget the fact that you had to enable it yourself, (regardless of how simple it was it was disabled, the fact that its content was left in there was a fucking stupid move)

    Forget the fact that anyone who should be playing a game like that, should be old enough to handle goddamned sex. I forget the rating on it atm, but I'm sure it's not rated for little kids, or those under 15. Actually google it just now, it's rated M which means 17+. Get the hell over it whackjobs of America

    Long point short, if the parents bought the game for their kids, they're the ones to fucking blame for it. God forbid anyone in this lawsuit happy country take accountability for what they do to their own kids.

    How about they each be forced to stop being such pricks and actually watch their own damned children if they are that worried about it. I shelter nothing from my kids if I believe they're at a point mentally they can handle it. The flipside of the coin with those assholes, is the over smothering parent, who's bulshit has turned out this current generation of 17-24 absolute pussy, spineless bunch that you often see wandering around extremely girly and wouldn't know how to take care of themselves if they had to.


    As far as politician's go, anytime there is a item that's guarenteed to get them alot of press time and endear them to the sickeningly-anal christian majority (the bible belt bastards, the ones who follow the "book" like it's word is law) they jump on the topic like a vampire going for a jugular
     
  5. ip82

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    This may sound stupid... but what is this scene exactly and how to activate it?

    As to why would they leave it behind for pricks to complain about, I'll never understand. It's not like they didn't know that every self-serving moralistic idiot will look over every scene with magnifying glass, looking for any excuse to start a crusade about.
     
  6. Midknight

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    [​IMG]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_coffee

    Basically when you date a girl in the game, she can invite you in for hot coffee. The game alludes to the fact that the two of you have had sex when you go inside, but you don't actually go inside the house, nor see anything.

    Well the code was there for you to go inside, and see yourself having clothed sex in a minigame style setting. A small mod allowed the content to become useable, and it as called "Hot Coffee"

    And as we all know, sex in a rated 17+ game, is a no no. Shit you can get porn movies from anywhere in the world by that age, not to mention being for all intents and purposes a legal adult in much of the world. Just a stupid lawsuit, much akin to those dumbassess that sue a video game everytime some nutjob goth kids goes apeshit and whacks his tormentors
     
  7. bornagainpenguin

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    Which just goes to show that the world didn't learn anything from Columbine...

    --bornagainpenguin
     
  8. Xiph0

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    I remember when they linked the columbine kids to playing Doom, and tried to blame that - fucktards. It's a flawed society - the school system, and just like any other society it has its criminals and people who snap.
     
  9. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I don't remember if they tried to blame a specific videogame, I was thinking they tried to blame a movie (Matrix maybe?)but I do remember the news revealed that it was blatantly obvious those kids were up to something wicked, and their parents just flat out ignored it. That they'd gone around telling folks that they were making lists of folks to kill and nothing was done.
     
  10. bornagainpenguin

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    It was worse than that.

    They'd used a level editor for one of the main FPS to create a replica of their school's layout and they 'practised' running through it over and over until they knew exactly how they wanted things to go down.

    The 'true horror' of the situation though was that for a period of a year and a half or so instead of the 'nerds' or 'unpopluar' kids respectintg their place on the social totempoles and putting up with abuse from their 'social superiors' or committing suicide you had a large group of kids who decided 'you first' was a viable solution. These kids decided if they were going to end their lives then they'd take as many of their tormentors with them as possible.

    Does anyone remember the furor that was created when it came out that not even a week or so after the shootings things went right back to 'normal' at that school with the jocks and popular kids continuing to harrass people, only now with full support from the new security guards?

    My point in bringing Columbine into things was that the two kids who did this (can't recall their names at the moment) had a video tape and a note ready for release to the press when they did their shootings and they said quite clearly that the media would try to blame their music, their clothes (those trench coats were almost banned at schools!), even the video games they played-- when the real fault was society's for letting the abuse at school go so far as it did that this seemed like a good idea.

    --bornagainpenguin (who still thinks it was a mistake after all these years not to have released the full note and video to the media)
     
  11. DGD

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    I ask that you please don't refer to us as "sickeningly-anal" just beacause we follow the word of the bible, it hurts my feelings as well as any other christians on this site(if there are any).
     
  12. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    There's a difference between using the "good" book as a helpful way to assist your life, and then using it, as a word for word testament to how every single step of your life is dictated, and being totally obsessed about it.

    I won't bother going into how hypocritical that pos is, as that's been covered here before and we always wind up with everyone in large arguments over it.

    My point was, those politicians couldn't care less about any possible issues, they're just endearing themselves to the sheep.
     
  13. LT2000

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    Yeah...this is definitely not a discussion I'm getting involved with...

    Anyway, I'm just pissed that I don't have the skill to unlock it in my own game. Katie is teh hawt, brah. San Andreas is a great game, but GTA3 is still where it's at as far as I'm concerned. Psychotic lesbian Yakuza bosses equate to huge ratings.
     
  14. bornagainpenguin

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    Here's another thing... :mid1

    How many people who'd normally never even think about buying this type of game are going to run out now and grab a copy just to try this out? Hmm.. how much did this 'advertising' cost I wonder?

    --bornagainpenguin
     
  15. Midknight

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  16. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

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    ::snorts::

    The company was being idiotic in not mentioning that little tibdit, especially in this country. But seriously, all the SOB's who think that sex is sin...::rude gesture:: This country is supposed to pride itself on being free and democratic, but there are restrictions on everything, and now this shit. If you're 17, you're old enough to handle it. And anyone that's 17 has seen more than that, I'm sure. Or at least heard it talked about.

    Sorry DGD, but you have to admit, it's the Christian fanatics that are leading this. I'm not talking about the normal people who go to church every Sunday, and drink beer, and gamble, and have a life, but about those people who take the word of the Bible as law, even though several sections have been proven false. (World made in 7 days, evolution anyone?)
     
  17. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Aye I agree Sree, wtf make Rockstar think they could get away with trying to act like it was user created, when even the PS2 and Xbox were unlockable by Action replay, or other methods.

    Especially since once folks heard about this, any and everybody went over their games with a magnifying glass looking for stuff.

    I think it's retarded no one has raised hell about some of the other games (true crime LA?) that had strippers bumping and grinding giving lapdances, and that had a nudie mod out for it quite some time ago.

    Games like Postal 2 that encourage rampantly murdering everything in sight I could see them going after, but barely a peep. But flash some sex and the uptight numbnut politicians smell the blood in the water and jump on it for media time.
     
  18. Antivash

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    Blah... the rating mentions sexual situations on GTA i thnk... all this fuss is pointless really if people would start being PARENTS instead of simply tossing the brat in front of a TV and running off to get that few extra minutes of fucking...

    Parents are idiots these days and, whether you admit it or not, VGs dont encourage violence, the cant-be-found parents do...
     
  19. UnholyWarlord

    UnholyWarlord Fourth Year

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    It just pisses me that the damn fanictics are at it agian. Trying to talk ot these people is a waste of time. I guess Christains like me, who don't care what you do on your own time, are dieing out
     
  20. DGD

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    It seems like I'm backed up into a corner. While I'm not fanaticly fanatic I do belive in the Bible. I'm not afraid to admit that I'm deeply religious, nor am I afraid to stand up for my religion as I'm sure anybody else from a different religion would do.

    I wasn't saying that they weren't. I was just asking for this community not to call other Christians by undesirable names. Because although you weren't talking directly to me, you were insulting my brothers and sisters in Christ.

    Sorry I had to go into Uber Religious mode there, but like I said, calling people that share my faith bad things comes across as a personal attack to me.

    I'll now stay out of this thread as we obviously have different beliefs, and I'd rather just talk about fan fics. I have nothing against any of you and wish you all the best, this just got on my nerves.