Game Politics: Congress, Talk to Rockstar, Take-Two

I have seen several of my younger cousins and 2nd cousins all become a bunch of little spoiled shitty kids. They have no sense of respect for anyone and a huge sense of entitlement. What did this to them?

10-15 year olds for the most part.

Violent M-rated video games? They play those.
Sex in movies and from the internet? They all view it.
Credit cards? Some spend $300 a month.
Bedtime? Most stay up till 2am on school nights.

It's a very different generation. The people to blame for this?

The parents.

Yes, my cousins and younger aunts and uncles have ABSOLUTELY no parenting skills. They are all enjoying their lives so much that they neglect their kids. To abide this guilt, they buy them anything they want. They let them do what they want. Those parents just don't care. It makes me sick when I visit with those cousins. I had a 10 year old telling me about all the people he killed in GTA SA and how he bought a PSP and didnt like it so he destroyed the screen. No fucking respect for anything. With kids like this, I have little hope for our future. You shackers with kids better try your hardest to stave off the effect from my generation of family members.

Oh god, not again.
I'm sorry, but does anyone even give a fuck?
So what the 8 year olds will see some polygons thrusting into each other, if they don't see it then they'll only see it a few years later.
This attitude has to change in America, because its beyond a joke. Its not bad parenting, its a bad mindset that seems to be entrenched within the minds of a lot of people.
Sex is NOT bad.
Violence IS bad.

Its time to start writing emails and letters folks. Tell your reps to stop wasting taxpayer money on government replacement for parenting.

From this page, http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm , you can look up who all your elected officials are, go to their home page, and email them.

man, this is all Rockstar's fault. Either leave the content in the game or take it the fuck out. Don't hide it and let it cause a huge fucking debacle when some kid finds it.

holy double standard.. kids watch movies with gruesome sex and violence all the time, but when there's cartoony simulated sex acts in a game, all of a sudden the world is going to end.. the amount of bullshit these old tools are dishing out is staggering, all it does it make them look good to parents so the parents can keep voting them them so they can keep lining their pockets..

This is fucking rediculous, Why is the american government so afraid of sex? It's the stupidest shit I've evern heard.

Put all that energy some where else for god's sakes.

i honestly think bender had it right, "It's the parents fault! Have you ever thought of turning off the TV, sitting with your kid, and hitting them?"

God of War was more violent and had a better sex mini game that you didn't need to hack to see. Lots of boobies too...also a 'M' game.

Do they even realize how stupid they sound when talking about the hot coffee mod?

All of this is just so...retarded.

Hehe, it was locked -unreachable- in the game, so who cares? In fact it's all fault of those modders.

Do you think it's all caused by religion? Don't tell me that those politicians are atheists.

When did America come to be like this?

Seriously, none of these politicians have even seen the mod in action, much less actually played GTA enough to realize that it's satire. There's no nudity or depiction of genitilia in Hot Coffee, much less than you'd see in a standard R rated movie. The nude skins that are available are fan created.

It's sad to see gamers/the gaming industry taking it up the ass from such uninformed bigots.

why does the fact that YOU CANNOT ACCESS the sex mini-game unless you add in a mod to re-integrate it never factor into any of the discussion.

It's as if someone built a skyscraper and put a box of porn magazines in the foundation. You can't get at them without digging really deep and it's not going to affect almost everybody.

Someone don't tell congress about the internet, that shit is like XXXXX rating.

Sometimes I get a giant cock on my screen for no apparent reason while trying to search for something. Other times I see shit so messed up (thanks Japan) that I feel like vomiting.

Looking for porn? haha

There are more imporatant things to be decided by Congress than who conceived a fuck mod for a game. Hmm, let's see now, how about fix the fucking problem with the fucking illegal immagration. At this rate, the U.S. will become a real life Escape From L.A. This anti-game legislation is getting a bit old.

OBVIOUS:

-who conceived the Hot Coffee idea?
It was part of the core game idea. Something that got spurted out in a brainstorming idea. The specific team member who suggested it is irrelevent.
-who created the animations?
DUH. The animators. Who cares? It is irrelevent. It's not some animators fault at Rockstar for doing his job.
-who eventually decided to nix it from the final version?
Ok, now we're getting somewhere. But the answer is still pretty obvious. The management team, when they realized it would give them an "AO" rating.
-why it wasn't removed from the disc entirely?
To save time. It was probably a last minute decision. It's probably easier to disable it via some code rerouting.
-did insiders realize the active and highly-skilled GTA mod community would find the sex animations?
Ok, here is the operant question!
-why did Rockstar and Take-Two lie about Hot Coffee when it was revealed?
To cover their ass. But good question. They should be accountable for obviously lying about this. Their first statements were basically to the affect that none of the content was there, but pretty silly when a small binary patch (a few kilobytes?) contains a ton of art, animation, and game logic.
-why did they try to blame the mess on their biggest fans, the GTA mod community?
Because they're lame.

This whole thing is still retarded. One of the most violent games ever, a game that allows you to turn into a murdering nutcase and do all sorts of wrong, gets an "M" rating. Then they throw in some sex (no worse than a Leisure Suit Larry game) and its a big deal. I love repressed American sexuality... Shooting people ok! Sex is a no-no!

Yay, I'm glad to see GamePolitics getting some press. I visit every day, they're always up to date on the latest.

yesss! now we have more excuses for bad parenting. score.

It's so good to see the polititians tackling a really important issue like this. Stay the course I say, brave warriors, do not be distracted by a spiraling national debt or the looming energy crisis!

Let's take all the sex scenes out of R Rated movies next. The "M" is there for a reason, you fucking assholes.