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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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Yep, and I think San Andreas is a phenomenal piece of gaming - love it.
But my point is, why has it only been removed since the discovery that you might be able to pretend sex somebody?
How is that so much more dangerous to my mind and morals than the encouraged and expected levels of violence and murder?
Wal-Mart have removed the game, as have Target, because this shocking sex shocker has meant that game has been slapped with the US-version of 18 certificate (which we have here anyway for these games), and it's policy to not stock games with that rating.
But it's only achieved that rating since this stupid sex thing.
So minors are allowed to maim, kill and crime but they can't watch computer people have sex.
Just doesn't make sense to me.
But my point is, why has it only been removed since the discovery that you might be able to pretend sex somebody?
How is that so much more dangerous to my mind and morals than the encouraged and expected levels of violence and murder?
Wal-Mart have removed the game, as have Target, because this shocking sex shocker has meant that game has been slapped with the US-version of 18 certificate (which we have here anyway for these games), and it's policy to not stock games with that rating.
But it's only achieved that rating since this stupid sex thing.
So minors are allowed to maim, kill and crime but they can't watch computer people have sex.
Just doesn't make sense to me.
It's an 18 ... and I doubt the sex scenes amount to anything worse than whatever hardcore porn an 18-year-old can get hold of. Surely it's up to the people who buy the game - i.e. adults - to decide what they do or don't want to see.
[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4702737.stm[/URL]
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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