Battleangel

Stupid. Stupid. Gotta love that self-righteous plan for purifying the American youth. As opposed to looking at or even acknowledging the actual problems.

If Rockstar Games thought its statement on Wednesday regarding pornographic material within the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was sufficient, at least one U.S. Senator and a media watchdog group disagree.

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on Thursday announced that she would ask the Federal Trade Commission to look into the matter, and the National Institute on Media and the Family said they would back Clinton’s efforts.

“The disturbing material in Grand Theft Auto and other games like it is stealing the innocence of our children and it’s making the difficult job of being a parent even harder,” Clinton said in a press conference. She argued that children’s access to inappropriate content in video games “is spiraling out of control.”

According to the creator of the “Hot Coffee” modification, Patrick Wildenborg, it is. All of the scenes were already on the disk Wildenborg said, and all it takes to make them part of the gameplay is the removal of something called a “censor flag.”

So far, Rockstar has denied all involvement, saying the added scenes were the work of hackers. However, those who have seen the actual modification say that it is too professional to be the work of hackers, and the actual scene itself must have been some type of “easter egg.”

Being liberal isn’t what it used to be.

And whatever happened to the game being rated M? If so, how are minors getting hold of the game? Could it perhaps be the parents’ responsibility after all? And is there anything wrong with nudity and sex? Is it not perhaps more normal than drive-by shootings and robberies?

Also, GTA hardly qualifies as “highly realistic graphics.” I mean, come on, I haven’t seen characters so blocky in a long time. Plus the content requires some modding to unlock, it’s not like someone would stumble upon it. Stupid.

Talking about the US, the only thing “spiraling out of control” is the real violence and abuse children are subjected to via a highly individualistic and competitive society, militarism, endless wars, fear mongering and just plain watching the state terrorism unleashed upon the world.