In the FEAR demo ALONE, there's a scene where a child walks through pools and pools of blood, and the only way to get out is to follow her bloody footprints on the floor... during a cutscene, a posessed man slits the throat of a security guard, not only are both figures covered in blood, but there's blood spurting from the guard's neck. The posessed man is later seen EATING a scientist. There's blood on his MOUTH and blood all over the corpse, and pool of blood on the floor. This comes default with the game.
ESRB rating: MA.
GTA:SA scene with sex, no actual genitalia. For all we know they could be using protection. You can't even view the scene without intentionally downloading a fix off the internet and installing it. In other words, if you want to watch the scene in GTA:SA, you already have access to the INTERNET, *gasp* that huge dipository of hardcore porn (and a few other things, like MSN Style, but C'mon)
ESRB rating: MA, changed to AO because of this recent scandal. This is an important distinction - It's not the violence, it's the SEX.
Meanwhile, we have things going on like THIS (Grandmother SUING for unlocked content - I know it's a repost. )
Totally absurd... even the DEFINITION of indecency, for things like the FCC, just involves sex and language. Not violence.
The only things defined as indecent by the FCC are sex and foul language. Not violence. Considering that sex is innately an act of creation and mutual joy, or at least momentary happiness, and violence is innately the opposite, why is sex considered indecent and violence isn't?
Furthurmore, is this coming to the internet next? We've seen what companies such as microsoft have done to try to promote DRM, and I'm sure that the government would have no problem with attempting to do some pretty crazy things, if it looked as if they're making a major effort. We're seeing games like GTA get shafted for sex because of a 3rd party hack that you have to download off of the internet intentionally, and that's just for the PC - you have to have a modded console to unlock it there. Anyone with an unmonitored internet connection has almost surely seen things much worse - gotse, for example, comes to mind, and that's if they're NOT looking for it, as they would have to be in the case of this hack...
I don't have problems with sex. If everyone stopped having sex, we'd be screwed (or not, heh...). It's
A. The fact that the very people that go out to protest this game go home to their children, put them to bed, and have sex with their spouse, and
B. The fact that this increasingly protective stance on sex does NOT have an increasingly protective stance on violence.
Violence is truly the problem. It's common knowlege that the MA rating doesn't mean anything. Halo was Ma, and it was everyone's favourite game. No one thought twice about playing that with their children, their friends, at a party infront of their parents, anything. "Wow, what a nice headshot" becomes a common compliment, bloodied corpses flying across the screen.
But OMGWTFSEX?!???/??//? can't have any of that... It just doesn't make much since in my book; my definition of a hotfix for GTA:SA would be to add an advertisement for condoms before the sex scene... It's the job of parents to talk to their teenagers about these things because this is NOT something you can stumble upon, dispite how much the media twists otherwise. Being an MA rated game, people under 17 shouldn't be playing it anyway, and because it's not going to be stocked in as many stores now, this is solving consumer ignorance by removing consumer decision. People OVER 17, however, vary VERY little from the demographic of people over EIGHTEEN, and considering that
Sorry if that was long. It's 2:34, and well... Read my sig 😉
~Ruff_ilb
ESRB rating: MA.
GTA:SA scene with sex, no actual genitalia. For all we know they could be using protection. You can't even view the scene without intentionally downloading a fix off the internet and installing it. In other words, if you want to watch the scene in GTA:SA, you already have access to the INTERNET, *gasp* that huge dipository of hardcore porn (and a few other things, like MSN Style, but C'mon)
ESRB rating: MA, changed to AO because of this recent scandal. This is an important distinction - It's not the violence, it's the SEX.
Meanwhile, we have things going on like THIS (Grandmother SUING for unlocked content - I know it's a repost. )
Totally absurd... even the DEFINITION of indecency, for things like the FCC, just involves sex and language. Not violence.
The only things defined as indecent by the FCC are sex and foul language. Not violence. Considering that sex is innately an act of creation and mutual joy, or at least momentary happiness, and violence is innately the opposite, why is sex considered indecent and violence isn't?
Furthurmore, is this coming to the internet next? We've seen what companies such as microsoft have done to try to promote DRM, and I'm sure that the government would have no problem with attempting to do some pretty crazy things, if it looked as if they're making a major effort. We're seeing games like GTA get shafted for sex because of a 3rd party hack that you have to download off of the internet intentionally, and that's just for the PC - you have to have a modded console to unlock it there. Anyone with an unmonitored internet connection has almost surely seen things much worse - gotse, for example, comes to mind, and that's if they're NOT looking for it, as they would have to be in the case of this hack...
I don't have problems with sex. If everyone stopped having sex, we'd be screwed (or not, heh...). It's
A. The fact that the very people that go out to protest this game go home to their children, put them to bed, and have sex with their spouse, and
B. The fact that this increasingly protective stance on sex does NOT have an increasingly protective stance on violence.
Violence is truly the problem. It's common knowlege that the MA rating doesn't mean anything. Halo was Ma, and it was everyone's favourite game. No one thought twice about playing that with their children, their friends, at a party infront of their parents, anything. "Wow, what a nice headshot" becomes a common compliment, bloodied corpses flying across the screen.
But OMGWTFSEX?!???/??//? can't have any of that... It just doesn't make much since in my book; my definition of a hotfix for GTA:SA would be to add an advertisement for condoms before the sex scene... It's the job of parents to talk to their teenagers about these things because this is NOT something you can stumble upon, dispite how much the media twists otherwise. Being an MA rated game, people under 17 shouldn't be playing it anyway, and because it's not going to be stocked in as many stores now, this is solving consumer ignorance by removing consumer decision. People OVER 17, however, vary VERY little from the demographic of people over EIGHTEEN, and considering that
More than half, until age 17, right? So at 17, the recommended age for this game, at least 50% of the players will have had sex of their own, and you can bet that the other 0-50% of teens know full well what it entails. If they don't, you can also assume that they'll never get their hands on the game, even if it's rated Early Childhood.
Sorry if that was long. It's 2:34, and well... Read my sig 😉
~Ruff_ilb
