Hey, Florence!
Ok. I had originally planned to send this to the linkblog (feed), but I’ll make an exception.
Wired features a story about a grandmother that sues Take-Two Interactive over the Hot Coffee cheat codes for GTA: San Andreas. You know, those that enables the main character to do something non-violent and non-criminal. Yes, I’m talking about video game sex.
Wired writes:
The plaintiff, Florence Cohen, claims in her lawsuit that she purchased the game for her teenage grandson in or about late 2004 when the game was rated “M” for mature by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. She says she was damaged when it came to light that sexually explicit scenes believed to be inaccessible by players were left in the game by developers.
Hey, Florence: You buy one of the notoriously most violent video games for your grandson, made by a company known to have created one of the most vicious and violent video game titles ever, Manhunt — and you sue over something other than that violence. Here’s a word for you, perspective — take particular note of definition 2:
2 a : the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed <places the issues in proper perspective>; also : POINT OF VIEW b : the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance
Which is worse? Murder and violence or a little polygon humping?
Comments
Comment from Jor on 2005-07-28 06:26
And that’s not even taking into consideration that unless you either install a mod or type in a load of cheat codes using a cheat device, you will never see the ‘Hot Coffee’ content at all.
Comment from Jarle on 2005-07-28 15:13
Just wanted to point out that no human being are harmed during the violence in the game either. Its just pixels man..
Comment from Freexe on 2005-07-29 00:42
Did you not read the story?
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