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jrd:
Venusy: Aye, that's what I implied. Hot Coffee mod --> uproar over "ooh sex bad" in Puritan States of America --> Jack Thompson becoming even more insane and attacking family friendly TS2 --> EAMaxis removing the easy way to remove the censor blur to avoid backlash.
Nec:
Oddly enough...The GTA: San Andreas packaging says roughly: Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Situations, etc....that was just a load of crap designed to cost taxpayers money. The Hot Coffee mod was less explicit than sims making out on the couch. In fact, from all of the screenshots I have had to endure of it, I would say it is little more than a very pixellated blur of a wannabe sex minigame. I am glad it wasn't included in the final release. My lovely senator (Hillary) had a lot to do with that. I called her office and wrote her letters, as well as emailed her about it. There are far more important things to worry about than games that stick to their ratings.
Mirelly:
It's interesting to compare the ESRB set up with PEGI's. The former (in the land of free speech) goes to extreme lengths to stop naughty game makers from pulling wool over innocent raters' eyes. The latter simply asks the maker a few pertinent questions and warns misleadingly incorrect answers will land them in jail. PEGI seems better, if only because it is simple. Complicated isn't better for any thing except breaking more often. America's cultural hegemony is a damned nuisance. Mustn't let teenie boys see their sims' spotless lady bumps ... or maybe I miss the point. Maybe the idea is to prevent teenie girls gaining a false impression of what lays in wait for them in the trouser dept. (Nothing much if Maxian sims are anything to go buy ::) )
dizzy:
No, the point is that Jack Thompson wanted to play up his political clout with a lot of false accusations. A wolf in sheep's clothing, he is. Even EA, evil as they are, are angels compared to scumbag filth like JT.
Mirelly:
I do get that part of it, Dizzy. Politicians (and lawyers with political ambitions) wouldn't have a moral platform if they used political power to legislate honestly instead of creating big stink-clouds designed to inflame the moral outrage of an otherwise amoral society by pressing the moral outrage buttons of the knee-jerk majority. Who choses the films that Americans watch? Exactly. Who choses the films that I may watch? I do.
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