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Thu 03/01/02 at 13:33
Regular
Posts: 787
No.
Or, if you're stupid, yes.

Rockstar were recently interrogated by The Daily Mail before they launched their weekly "Ban This Sick Filth" campaign. Having contacted Chris Morris for an interview but being roundly told to "jam their nosebeak up their chute and mong off", they settled for hassling the company responsible for Grand Theft Auto 3 and the upcoming "State of Emergency"
What follows is the outline for the article, to be under the 12-point banner headline:
"IS THIS THE SICKEST GAME IN THE WORLD EVER?"

---

Games today are far removed from the halycon days of Connect 4 and Hangman.
These days, young people or "children" derive entertainment from mindless murder and mayhem on what are known as "video games consoles".
To you or I, close-minded adults that believe the age of consent for homosexuals should be 42 and that England still rules the world, video games are a waste of time.
Time better spent worshipping the Royal Family (12 page report on Prince William's new sunglasses by Nigel Dempster in next Sunday's "Mail on Sunday")

Grand Theft Auto is a prime example of the degenerate "entertainment" that "kids" seek these days. Surely, having played this game once, it is only a matter of minutes until some poor little child (obviously white and middle-classed, otherwise it wouldn't be a tragedy) will emulate the behaviour on screen.
We spoke to Rockstar about our concerns, and once the laughter had died down, they agreed to speak to us.

"It's a game" said Mr Bloke from Rockstar, "You would have to be terminally stupid to think it was real-life simulation."
Well we at the Daily Mail think that your children need protecting from the menaces of today's social ills.
So do not let your children play this vile game, as it will lead to them trying to board subway trains, cross roads and shoot Triad gang-members with rocket-launchers.

Rockstar said "Look, it's a cert 18 and that's for a reason. Now go away please, we're trying to read a book and evolve."
Reading a book, or WORSHIPPING THE DEVIL?
It is a simple path from playing video-games to dancing naked in the worship of the Dark Lord, and The Daily Mail is here to protect you.

Keep your children in at all times, do not let them play videogames. Instead, let them watch the news with genocide and racial murder on a scale not seen since the 100 years war. Or entertain them with soap operas like "Eastenders" (a tale of simple cockney folk), a programme that has had plotlines concerning rape, incest, domestic violence and fratricide all before the watershed.

We believe all video games are evil.
Tomorrow, "Why women are evil and probably witches"

Report by U.P.Tight
Thu 03/01/02 at 13:43
Regular
"bearded n dangerous"
Posts: 754
You think you've got problems mate.

Since becoming hooked on Baldur's Gate, I believe myself to be a voluptous elf sorcerous called Adrianna. You should see the looks I get on the bus when I realise that I've forgotten to put me chainmail on, and I'm left blushing in only me underkeks, clutching my Spiked Mace of Disruption +3 to meself trying to cover me ample cleavage. 'Specially third day in a row.

Mind you, them orcs that live down the road haven't been so lippy since I learnt me new Chain Lightning spell.

Eat Electric Deat, HellSpawn!
Thu 03/01/02 at 13:40
Regular
"The GAD Realm"
Posts: 209
Look at SSX Tricky for example - The moves are not impossible, they're just very unlikely. As the game's director had mentioned in the DVD Extras.
Thu 03/01/02 at 13:39
Regular
"Infantalised Forums"
Posts: 23,089
Me too.
And since playing FIFA 2001, I am convinced I am a world-class player called "Huge Balls" that plays for Bratislava.

Reality is so confusing.
Thu 03/01/02 at 13:37
Regular
"Pouch Ape"
Posts: 14,499
Playing THPS2 has left me convinced that I can skateboard in real life. So as soon as I get me grubby mitts on a board, I'll be breaking me neck.
Thu 03/01/02 at 13:33
Regular
"Infantalised Forums"
Posts: 23,089
No.
Or, if you're stupid, yes.

Rockstar were recently interrogated by The Daily Mail before they launched their weekly "Ban This Sick Filth" campaign. Having contacted Chris Morris for an interview but being roundly told to "jam their nosebeak up their chute and mong off", they settled for hassling the company responsible for Grand Theft Auto 3 and the upcoming "State of Emergency"
What follows is the outline for the article, to be under the 12-point banner headline:
"IS THIS THE SICKEST GAME IN THE WORLD EVER?"

---

Games today are far removed from the halycon days of Connect 4 and Hangman.
These days, young people or "children" derive entertainment from mindless murder and mayhem on what are known as "video games consoles".
To you or I, close-minded adults that believe the age of consent for homosexuals should be 42 and that England still rules the world, video games are a waste of time.
Time better spent worshipping the Royal Family (12 page report on Prince William's new sunglasses by Nigel Dempster in next Sunday's "Mail on Sunday")

Grand Theft Auto is a prime example of the degenerate "entertainment" that "kids" seek these days. Surely, having played this game once, it is only a matter of minutes until some poor little child (obviously white and middle-classed, otherwise it wouldn't be a tragedy) will emulate the behaviour on screen.
We spoke to Rockstar about our concerns, and once the laughter had died down, they agreed to speak to us.

"It's a game" said Mr Bloke from Rockstar, "You would have to be terminally stupid to think it was real-life simulation."
Well we at the Daily Mail think that your children need protecting from the menaces of today's social ills.
So do not let your children play this vile game, as it will lead to them trying to board subway trains, cross roads and shoot Triad gang-members with rocket-launchers.

Rockstar said "Look, it's a cert 18 and that's for a reason. Now go away please, we're trying to read a book and evolve."
Reading a book, or WORSHIPPING THE DEVIL?
It is a simple path from playing video-games to dancing naked in the worship of the Dark Lord, and The Daily Mail is here to protect you.

Keep your children in at all times, do not let them play videogames. Instead, let them watch the news with genocide and racial murder on a scale not seen since the 100 years war. Or entertain them with soap operas like "Eastenders" (a tale of simple cockney folk), a programme that has had plotlines concerning rape, incest, domestic violence and fratricide all before the watershed.

We believe all video games are evil.
Tomorrow, "Why women are evil and probably witches"

Report by U.P.Tight

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