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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
GTA with an Adults Only rating now - my thoughts.ARGH!!!!! What the fuck. Did ESRP or politicians who are using this to appeal more favorably to constituents (Hilary Clinton) even play this game? If I were rating this game, I would have given it an AO rating from the start. Why? Well how can I put this ....YOU CAN SLICE THE HEAD OFF OF A COP, STEAL HIS COP CAR, AND RUN OVER INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE STREETS for starters. Not to mention it has strong language, strong drug content, and just total disrespect for authority. That very same authority who (tries to) keep our country safe. And really, the ability to kill a cop in explicit ways would have been enough justification for me to give it an AO rating.Now, because of this "Hot Coffee" mod, everyone's up in arms about how bad this game is. I fucking hate how America is so backwards and naive; it's a country ruled by uppity Christians. They believe "violence is okay for kids, but as soon as there's some sex depicted ...ah hell no!" This dichotomy between violence and sex is thoroughly fucked. Am I the only fucking person in America who believes having a child watch a violent movie (i.e. - Reservoir Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Sin City) is worse than having a child watch softcore porn (i.e. - Lord of the G-Strings, Spider Babe, Model Lust, etc.)? I know I'm not. It's those uppity Christians who rule our government who are so uptight about sex that they'd gladly rate things based on their sexual content more-so than the violence. Like in Team America ...it wasn't the strong language, or graphic violence that had the MPAA pissed, it was this minute long sex scene involving puppets that didn't have any genitalia what-so-ever. It so retarded. They're puppets! Same goes with GTA. I've heard that in these sex minigames you can open up, you can't even see any fucking genitalia! It's not even hardcore sex. They're making it sound like it's explicit anal sex and the guy cums all in her asshole, and you actually see cum dripping out of it. Now that would definitely be an AO game. But just seeing two poorly modeled game character humping each other, without seeing ANYTHING besides the motion in the ocean is nothing to get upset over. Why the fuck is it okay to have it possible for a person to kill cops, but not okay to see poorly done softcore sex - not even involving real people. It pisses me off so much. Give it a goddamn AO rating for the ability to kill cops, it's as simple as that. But no, they didn't do that did they. Politicians were angry about it, but Rockstar would cleverly say "hey, we give the player the option to do it, it's the player's choice." So thus, cop killing was allowed. So why can't they apply the same logic to the sex in the game? It's not like Rockstar is forcing the player to fuck the shit out of every woman around. The code that contains this mini-game is unavailable, unless you have the PC version anyway. How the fuck would a console playing GTA fan apply a patch? It's impossible. So I believe the solution to this problem should have been give the PC version an AO rating, and allow us gamers to continue killing cops. AND WTF?!?!! It's rated M. So technically, kids aren't playing this game. It's the parents who buy this game for their kids. So regardless of the content, parents knew what this game contained (if the retailer did its job). The rating system is a fucking joke, because what it all boils down to is the parent. And if the parent thinks it's alright for their children to kill cops and fuck sluts, then they have the right to allow their kids to play it. Leave the decision up to the parents. Sure that's poor parenting, but I've heard of parents doing worse things to their kids than to give them a M or AO rated game (i.e. - molestation, divorcing, domestic violence, sex orgies in front of kids, etc.). If anything, parents are the ones in this world who fuck their kids up, not video games! You can't hold something so unrealistic like a video game responsible for kids being fucked up. In Japan, they play just as violent games as we do, and they have tons of sex related games out (even for the GBA), and they don't fucking care. It's just fucking game to them as it should be. And yet, the percentage of violence over there is close to none compared to how much violence we have over here. In America, we're so sheltered from sex. And that could easily be the cause of all the sex-related crimes out there. If you don't show a guy tits occasionally when they're growing up, and don't explain the wrong and right times to touch tits, that guy is going to rape someone eventually when he gets older. If you filter the youth from sexual related anything, it's just gonna make them want to have sex faster since our country depicts a picture of how wrong it is. You know how kids are. They do the opposite of what they're told to and not to do. You tell a kid not to fuck a slut, and you don't tell them why ...you're asking for that kid to get AIDS. It's as simple as that. DON'T BLAME THE FUCKING GAMES, BLAME THE GODDAMN PARENTS! I'm sick and tired of politicians accusing the entertainment industry of insolence! It's ridiculous. All they're really doing is trying to get more constituents at the expense of game developers and movie makers getting shitted/shat own. It's so very easy to say, "this game is bad." But it frustratingly hard to develop games. Games were made to be played and for the player to have fun playing it, not to spring someone's political standings. Gawd, I fucking hate America. Bottomline. Don't give GTA: San Andreas an AO rating for it's badly depicted sexual mini-game that 80% of the people who own it won't be able to unlock it anyway, give it an AO rating for the obvious - the ability to kill cops in brutal ways. Politicians, stop using games as a political crutch, and actually do something significant such as voice your true opinions over this small issue of IRAQ, alright. Parents, stop raising future child molesters, wife beaters, alcoholics, cop killers, drug addicts, pimps, hoes, hobos, etc. How about educating your kids about what's right and wrong, it really is that easy. YES, it is. It's just the problem with you stupid parents is that you tell them not to do something, and then you do it yourselves! That's stupidity, and to the child, it totally negates everything you've told them. AND FOR ALLAH SAKE, TELL THEM WHY THEY CAN'T DO IT! fuck. The stupidity in America drives me crazy. Retailers Aren't Gonna Sell This Game Anymore. this changes everything ----------------------------------------------------------------- Goddammit. Why are retailers all of a sudden acting like they've got morals? The message I'm getting from them is, "It's okay to sell games that lets the player kill cops and beat up whores and steal their money, but if there's the slightest hint of sex in there, oh hell no ...we're not gonna sell that game." I can understand Wal-Mart pulling GTA off the shelf, but Best Buy, Gamestop, Circuit City? WHAT? They're treating this AO rating as if GTA: San Andreas has hardcore sex in it. It's rated AO, but it's still a game. And as long as you don't sell it to anyone underaged, then why worry? If you guys don't sell this AO game (pretty much the first AO game ever), what's that saying to the game developers? It's telling them that now there's a barb wired fence preventing them from fully being as creative as they want to be because it would risk their game not being sold anywhere. It's a horrible message to game developers. They should be able to freely create any type game they want. The ESRP Content Rating system was made for that very reason. You should respect the fucking industry, and do your goddamn job - which is selling games and making sure that game goes to the correct demographic. It's not that hard. And yes, has a an employee of Gamestop I could very well get fired if one of my superiors read that statement I just made. In a little employee handbook they gave me, it says something like "if you say opinions about the company without out permission on a website, then we can fire you." I don't fucking care. I would gladly appreciate getting fired from a company that has officially disrespected the game industry I love. I'm a great worker, but my existence wouldn't mean shit if I didn't get to voice my opinions on whatever. Last I checked, our government isn't a dictatorship-type government, so why model your company after that. Anyway, Best Buy fucking sucks. Because they sell softcore porn!!!!! And, they sell movies that contain sexually explicit content that are rated NR (not rated). So why the fuck are they being all high and mighty over this rated AO video game. I do remember seeing an NC-17 movie at Best Buy, I do remember seeing an NC-17 movie at Gamestop (the movie is Showgirls). What's the difference between an AO rated game featuring polygons verses an NC-17 or NR rated movie (or softcore porn) featuring real asses and real tits (and dicks)? I even remember seeing Black Bible (or Bible Black) or something, which is hentai (cartoon porn) that features the most graphic images of sex I've ever seen (i.e. - a woman growing a penis out of her clit, and fucking a school girl complete with lots of juices squirting out), sold at a gamestop somewhere. WTF. And what about that Playboy Mansion game? It's rated mature, but it also features polygons poorly depicting sexual acts. What about The Guy Game? Sure it was pulled off the shelf, but that was because one of the real girls featured in there was underaged. The Guy Game was a party game where when you answer a certain number of questions right, you would get to see real girls' breasts and real girls doing sexually explicit things. So why did Gamestop sell those games? Why did Best Buy sell those games? The Guy Game featuring real ass and tits, and the Playboy Mansion game were both rated M, but WTF? Those games should have been AO too you stupid people who rate games, based on your opinions of GTA anyway. And thus, retailers shouldn't have sold them (based on their logic). The ESRB Content rating system is a fucking joke, and retailers getting all pissy over this GTA controversy is a fucking joke as well. Bottomline. Retailers are free to sell whatever they want to sell. Nothing I ever spit out will ever change that. But you guys need to be thinking about the industry in the long run. With the upcoming release of next-gen consoles, featuring better graphics, violence and sex will be even more photo-realistic which means more AO games will come out in the near future. You can't shun out all of them. Money is money. I do believe the only reason they're pulling GTA: San Andreas off the shelves are because they've already made tons of money off of it, so it wouldn't really matter if they'd stop selling it now or not. That's just fucking cold; being greedy, and only using someone's property as a tool to make money, but then to turn around and use it to display morality by not selling it. It only confirms that retailers care nothing about the games they are selling, and care nothing about the industry they're carrying on their backs. They just care about money. But, I guess that's the American way - capitalism at its best. ¶10:53 AM e-mail me (4) comments Saturday, July 16, 2005 Trip To Texas Part Two: Anime Convention ChaosWhen we got to the hotel, we were pooped out (ha ha, I said "poop"); however, I was equally excited. I was going to attend my very first anime convention ever in less than 12 hours. Wooooooooooooooo! Damn it was hard for me to go to sleep. Not because I was excited about the big convention, but because the fuckers I was sharing the room with kept farting loudly and then laughing about it (note: they're not both fuckers, only one has fucked anything). I know, as a man I'm suppose to be thoroughly amused by farts and the act (or art) of farting, but I'm not goddammit! It's not funny at all, and I hate anyone who farts for entertainment. It's fucking rude and retarded to laugh at someone who squeezes air out from between their butt cheeks with enough force to make disgusting sounds. I just don't get it. Does that make me any less of a man? FUCK NO IT DOESN'T! ~because I have an above average penis. With a big enough penis, a man can declare himself to be anything he wants to be. In fact, now I'm a goddamn lawyer who wears punk-goth clothing whenever I go to a Catholic church on a goddamn Thursday ...damn straight. But of course, I eventually got to sleep.ZzzzzzzzzzzzzTITSzzzzzzz... Hitting A Parked Car the chronicles of a bad driver -----------------------------------------------------------  The day has come. We get our shit together; I brought my camcorder, a bag, a camera, and lots of money. My nakama (comrades) brought similar things. The plan was to take the train over there to save on gas money. We had to drive to the train station, and then get up in that shit (the train was above the streets mostly). Well, upon getting there and parking, the driver accidently drove into a car that was parked next to the empty space. We were all fucking bedazzled. The driver hit this other car, and didn't even show the slight bit of remorse. He was like, "whoops." We got out to observe the damage - he put a goddamn dent in the side of it. It was a white car, so the dull grey paint from his car rubbed off onto the car. It was horrible! Did he take responsiblility for his actions? Fuck no he didn't, he just left that shit like it was. I totally disagree with that way of thinking, but whatever. I'm about to experience an anime convention for the first time, who gives a fuck really.The Train Ride a boring 30 minutes bus ride ----------------------------------------------------------- Well, it wasn't that boring. When the train first arrived, we were so happy. Because prior to us getting there, we had been waiting in the blistering Texas heat. ARGH! It was so goddamn hot, I could barely handle it. So the train pulled up, and we loaded on. Immediately, we saw people who were doing some cosplay action. For those of you who are new to anime-geekdom, here's what cosplay is. Cosplay: The act of dressing up as your favorite anime characters, or anyone in particular. Mainly you would want to come as someone that everyone would recognize. However, people get thrilled when someone comes dressed as someone not many would know. It makes the person extremely proud when the character they are trying to portray is recognized. Honestly, I thought cosplay was a waste of time, and the ultimate form of anime geekdom. In fact, I vowed never to participate in something so retarded. Well, the characters on the bus were Mugen (Samurai Champloo), some guy from King of Fighters, and of course Naruto. Later at the convention, we would discover that everyone who's anyone seemed to be Naruto or one of the hundreds (it seems) of characters of the Naruto universe. It was everywhere! I mean goddammit. Don't worry Naruto fans, I'm one of the biggest fans of the series myself, but can a brotha get some diversity? The Convention a plethora of cosplay freaks and hot chicks ----------------------------------------------------------- As soon as we got in the convention, there was this long ass line of people. We didn't know what was up. The first thing we had to do was buy some goddamn tickets - one of those 3 days tickets because we were planning on staying there for the weekend. Well shit, turns out that long ass line were actually people who were waiting to get a ticket. The estimated wait was one hour. WTF!!! I couldn't believe that shit. But whatever, it had to be done. At least I got to look and laugh at all the people who were passing by. The highlight for me had to be seeing someone dressed as Zoro from One Piece. In fact, I was so "star-struck" that I just had to take a picture of him. The guy didn't mind. He had the kitanas, and he even posed in the classic Zoro pose: one kitana in his mouth, and two in each hand. I have a picture of him, and if I'm lucky enough to get a digitize copy of the old chum, I'll put it right here somewhere. After we got our tickets (and after talking to lots of anime freaks like myself), it was time to explore all two floors of this bad boy. This A-KON convention is said to be one of the biggest anime conventions in the nation, and I could believe it. Spanning two floors of a huge ass hotel, I couldn't believe how large it was. There was so much to see, and so much to drool over. There were tons of vendors selling everything from pocky, to other Japanese candies, to complete anime series, to wall scrolls, posters, manga, t-shirts, imported video games, artist renditions of scenarios from tons of different anime series, hentai (I actually bought some of that for me hentai dad - "hentai" is an adjective in japanese that means perverted...needless to say, it made him happy), Japanese-flavored teddy bears... basically everything that's sold in Japan was sold within these two gigantic floors of this hotel. I was in paradise and loving every minute. The prices of everything were reasonable. Anywhere from $50 to $200 for complete anime series. $15 for posters and wall scrolls. T-Shirts were not bargains at all! $20 for cheap looking t-shirts you could purchase at your local Spencers, wtf!!! But OH ...MY ...ALLAH! They were selling kitanas for $30 each! My friends bought like 11 of those suckers, I only bought one. Of course mine was better than all of theirs. It was red for god sakes! I also bought 3 posters: a guilty gear xx poster, a Bleach poster, and a Full Metal Alchemist one. I also bought some manga: Ghost in the Shell 2: Man Machine Interface. It's fucking amazing. It's also fucking confusing. Jesus fucking christ!! What the fuck is going on??? Please, if someone's read it e-mail me with some goddamn insight on its plot. So yeah, that's pretty much all I bought there. I was going to buy some anime series, but I decided it would be cheaper to buy them off of sites such as kcdvd.com. But wait, that's not all ...I have hot chicks to talk about. Hot Chicks things that makes your penis go bump in the night -----------------------------------------------------------  They weren't everywhere, but when I saw one my jaw and balls would instantly drop like ripe acorns. 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