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GTA:San Andreas has been removed from Wal-Mart & Target stores following the news that locked/hidden sex scenes are in the game.
Wal-Mart & Target are major players when it comes to the distribution of entertainment in the States, I think I remember reading they're responsible for about 70-80% of CD sales to show how big - record companies send advance copies to albums to Wal-Mart to check it meets with the standard of "family safeness".
Ok, pretty grim state of business there but not what I'm wound up about.
What has riled me is the fact the game has only been removed since the "shock" discovery of badly-pixelated simulated sex.
Riiiiiiiight.
So it's ok to sell a game that has brutal murder, car-theft, corrupt policemen, drug references etc. It's perfectly fine for me to kick a teenager of a BMX and shoot him in the face. There's no moral danger whatsoever with murdering an old woman, kicking her to death and taking her money. I can quite happily cause a traffic jam on a bridge and then satchel-charge rows and rows of commuters trying to get to work.
That's all good, it's acceptable for a family-aimed chainstore to stock a game that lets me do that.
But I can't buy a game where people do sex?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hidden sex at that, not intended to be played without actively seeking the option?
What is the world coming to, won't somebody think of the children???
Can somebody explain why organised crime, drug running, murder and random violence is family acceptable, yet (ironically) sex and the creating of families is such a threat to the civilised world?
GTA:San Andreas has been removed from Wal-Mart & Target stores following the news that locked/hidden sex scenes are in the game.
Wal-Mart & Target are major players when it comes to the distribution of entertainment in the States, I think I remember reading they're responsible for about 70-80% of CD sales to show how big - record companies send advance copies to albums to Wal-Mart to check it meets with the standard of "family safeness".
Ok, pretty grim state of business there but not what I'm wound up about.
What has riled me is the fact the game has only been removed since the "shock" discovery of badly-pixelated simulated sex.
Riiiiiiiight.
So it's ok to sell a game that has brutal murder, car-theft, corrupt policemen, drug references etc. It's perfectly fine for me to kick a teenager of a BMX and shoot him in the face. There's no moral danger whatsoever with murdering an old woman, kicking her to death and taking her money. I can quite happily cause a traffic jam on a bridge and then satchel-charge rows and rows of commuters trying to get to work.
That's all good, it's acceptable for a family-aimed chainstore to stock a game that lets me do that.
But I can't buy a game where people do sex?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Hidden sex at that, not intended to be played without actively seeking the option?
What is the world coming to, won't somebody think of the children???
Can somebody explain why organised crime, drug running, murder and random violence is family acceptable, yet (ironically) sex and the creating of families is such a threat to the civilised world?
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Tphi wrote:
> Seriously, I created more realistic porn scenes with my sister's
> Barbies when I was little.
I hope you cleaned them afterwards.
> Seriously, I created more realistic porn scenes with my sister's
> Barbies when I was little.
I hope you cleaned them afterwards.
No no, he romanced her into bed. Then made sure she came first. True gentleman, with a gat.
BUT THE CHILDRIN! THINK OF THE CHILDRIN!
Even IGN have a picture from the simulated sex scene.
It's so un-shocking it's laughable.
It's so un-shocking it's laughable.
Perhaps because she knows Carl is about to brain her with a bat and steal her money, like you do with prostitutes?
Which is acceptable, to sex and kill a streetwalker - just as long as you don't actually show the nude part.
God Bless America
Which is acceptable, to sex and kill a streetwalker - just as long as you don't actually show the nude part.
God Bless America
Why does the woman in that video run off down the street?
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Wal-Mart are also the store that only sells clean versions of music
> Cd's. Yet just across the store in the same retailer you can buy all
> manner of guns, knives and ammunition.
Hahaha yeah.
We'd never been to America before March of this year, seeing the assortment of Shotguns and readily available handguns just outside of the fruit and vegatable aisle in Wal-Mart was quite a culture shock to us.
One reason why the game might of been banned in the States is because a lot of the people over there do take religion seriously, and things such as sex before marriage and so on could cause offense.
Although, saying that, like Goatboy has already said, 99% of the games content also offensive and unmoral behaviour...
> Wal-Mart are also the store that only sells clean versions of music
> Cd's. Yet just across the store in the same retailer you can buy all
> manner of guns, knives and ammunition.
Hahaha yeah.
We'd never been to America before March of this year, seeing the assortment of Shotguns and readily available handguns just outside of the fruit and vegatable aisle in Wal-Mart was quite a culture shock to us.
One reason why the game might of been banned in the States is because a lot of the people over there do take religion seriously, and things such as sex before marriage and so on could cause offense.
Although, saying that, like Goatboy has already said, 99% of the games content also offensive and unmoral behaviour...
Well, there aren't any age restrictions on crime, I suppose.
monkey_man wrote:
> My dick is so big you can't see the bellend because of the draw
> distance.
Jesus. I thought WoW jokes were the pinnicle of geek...
> My dick is so big you can't see the bellend because of the draw
> distance.
Jesus. I thought WoW jokes were the pinnicle of geek...
My dick is so big you can't see the bellend because of the draw distance.
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