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July 14, 2005
Nanny Clinton Wants a Probe

You'd really think our government has nothing to do...

Sen. Hillary Clinton pressed on Thursday for a government investigation into how simulated sex cropped up in a modified version of the blockbuster criminal adventure video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas."

Clinton asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate the origins of a downloadable modification that allows simulated sex in the personal computer version of one of the most popular and controversial video games in history.

"We should all be deeply disturbed that a game which now permits the simulation of lewd sexual acts in an interactive format with highly realistic graphics has fallen into the hands of young people across the country," Clinton wrote in a letter to the head of the Federal Trade Commission.

Reuters

You know, it's just sex. This happens to be one of the most violent video games ever made — you can decapitate police officers in it — but Congress is all up in arms about some hack that lets people have sex? My god, focus, people.

Clinton is just trying to show she's all about "family values" in an attempt to pull conservative scolds to her side for '08. Pathetic.

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A sex patch? Hehey, sweet. I'm downloading it right now. Finally, a simulation that's no holds barred. Will I turn to a life of crime, gangster shoot everything up, because they killed my mother? Hmmmm, naaaaa. Grow up! The virtual reality stays in the virtual world. Hey, maybe next, I'll be picking up Steven King, or Bret Easton Ellis, and really go haywire.

If only there were a way to strip Democrats of the ultra-censor fascist side of them. Then they'd be no-nonsense okay. Maybe do some real studies on human sexual behavior, so the issue no longer remains as unhealthy taboo as it has.

Here's a vid link to the sex clip, in case anyone's interested in watching. WARNING: it may turn you into a polygon based, scripted, character-based actor.

Rumors have been going around that there is a sex scene mini-game in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that was removed from the game but the code still existed on the DVD. Well, it's been proven true and now you can download a mod for the PC version that puts the sex scene back in the game. There's a video too, for the non-believers.

http://files.gtanet.com/gtasa/videos/hotcoffee.wmv

And, in case you're interested, here's the link to the mod itself:

http://www.gtagarage.com/download/file.php?F=82

There is an assumption, perhaps an unfounded and unrealistic assumption, that parents pay attention to the ratings of games they purchase for their children. Just like there is an assumption that parents pay attention to the caution stickers on the CDs they purchase for their children. If Grand Theft purposefully circumvented those ratings in order to sell more copies of the game, knowing that many retailers will not carry product that has too high of a rating, well, that’s just a little bit dishonest. And while the ratings systems generally may be a polite hypocrisy designed to assuage the sentiments of the hysterical (What good parent isn’t hysterical when it comes to the education and entertainment of their children?), I think that any company that violates the “gentleman’s agreement” is just too craven to be allowed to slide.

If you want to make an X-rated game, with all sorts of sex and violence, I say great. Just do not market or sell it, or allow it to be marketed or sold, to anyone who has not reached the age of majority.

It's not an X-rated game, because it isn't being sold with the sex scene made available in it. One has to go to the web, and download a program to modify it. The download explicitly lets you know what you're downloading. The download aspect is no different from anyone going to any website looking for porn. The company cannot be held liable for the modifications others make on its product, no more than me going off to buy a car, taking it home, and welding on it, a couple of illegal side arms, which I then proceed to use on my personal property. What, am I then to go blame the car company for my personal actions? No, because this is willfully irresponsibly preposterous.

The rating fits fine with the game as sold. If someone decides to download a mod, that changes the product from what was originally intended to be sold, then that falls back on the consumer.

As for parents paying attention, wanting the government to take care of its children at all times, for every little bit of media, to censor reality from the children, sorry, that's not good parenting. That's sloppy parenting; a sign that perhaps one should be dedicating less time to making dollars, and more time to molding the kids' minds.

I'm incensed at this. They are acting more like the puritans than the puritans. For the love of pete, can't they focus on what's important and quit obsessing about sex?!?

If they are trying to win over the evangelical wingnuts, they are crazy, it'll never happen. And it will alienate people like me.

Good lord, what the hell are these Dems on??!