FTC Investigating GTA:SA Hot Coffee
by Steve Gibson, Jul 26, 2005 11:44am PDTSo perhaps we're beating this to death but hey we're inspired by the government and Hillary Clinton who have taken it upon themselves to save our souls. So we all know about Hot Coffee and GTA:SA by now. The latest is that Congress has now approved a request for a FTC investigation as they feel Take2 deliberately mislead the ESRB about the content of the game. Congressman Fred Upton led the charge
"... to determine if a best selling video game maker intentionally deceived the industry's ratings board to avoid an 'Adults-Only' rating." [snip] "outraged by the brazenness of Rockstar Games in their effort to do an end-run around the ratings system.... Rockstar Games deceit has severely undermined the integrity of the ratings system."Take2 is taking a beating... but hey mature game sales have soared and Smith Barney has upgraded Take2 stock to 'buy'. Just remember, it's way worse to have sex with a woman than it is to run over her with a car. God bless America!
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A total joke of a sex game and the federal government has in investigate.
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Good read on the topic.
You know what they say, no publicity is bad publicity. The game series was already controversial and lo and behold, R* outdid themselves this time around. And they're laughing all the way to the bank. And no, I am not being negative towards them, I think it's great.
"Your tax dollars at work, folks."
Give me all the money that will be wasted to "investigate" this and I'll come up with a conclusion faster and more efficient than the 100 or so bureaucrats will.
That'd be great if one day everyone in America woke up and got sick of the gov't spending waste. What to do, what to do? All of us refuse to pay our taxes. They can't arrest all 300 million of us!
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Hell you show any blood and its rated M for you. Blood and gore should get you a T rating...an M rating should be for the good stuff...like decapitation and trepanation of puppies...AO should be for fucking through the trepan holes in the puppies head!
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So this is a 17+ rating?
It has boobs, simulated sex, and you get to be HEFF !!
Why is this only rated Mature then?
>.< cartmanesque GODDAMMITTT !!!
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How many games are rated AO?
What are the titles?
How may games are rated Mature?
What games are Mature ?
How many of these games rated Mature SHOULD have an AO rating?
I bet there are a number of games that do not deserve the AO rating as well.
Something to ponder over.
The House voted to REQUEST that the FTC investigate the Hot Coffee mod. This is different from ordering the FTC to do so, the primary difference being the FTC can deny the request.
This won't go anywhere.
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AREN'T WE AT WAR?
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http://www.random-moments.com/cusp/adaily.php?date=050725
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Sex = OMFG WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
And these are our leaders.
*sigh*
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That cracked me up lol and should be used in the court case.
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Fucking tradition is harder to kill than quad damage ragnaros
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Just kidding, Echelon guys.
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But hey, fuck war casualties, there's some POORLY RENDERED SIMULATED SEX in a video game for adults.
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On one hand, this is totally ridiculous and I can't beleive lawmakers could be this ignorant... But on the other, I can't help but laugh inside everytime they do something so idiotic as I can only hope an intelligent, unbias, moderate voter when presented with all the facts can recognize how fucking moronic their represented government is and have the presence of mind to vote them out next time around.
Keep fucking up guys!
Bling bling!! Even more $ales for Rockstar.
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Between this and the baseball/steroids crap, I never wanna vote again.
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* T A L I B A N ' D *
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While I'm not a US citizen, so have no power over this stuff (though it will undoubtedly end up influencing me sooner or later), how many of the people here have told their government representative what they think about this whole thing?
The only way they get away with this stuff is because you let them ...
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I know
STEVE GIBSON IS A TERRORIST.
Duke Nuked makes so much more sense now.