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Okay, everyone else is ranting and raving about this, I'm certainly not going to sit quiet about it. On the off chance you haven't heard about it, Rockstar Games is currently going through a bit of a scandal. Parents and politicians are up in arms because a clever modder released a hack that allows you to play a sex mini game in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Apparently the point of the mini-game is to sexually satisfy both yourself AND your partner.
That's it, it's fully confirmed. The entire North American continent is well and truly fucked up. Parents are afraid that their children will see this while playing GTA:SA and become corrupted! And I can understand why! I certainly wouldn't want my son to have his cop-killing, pedestrian crushing, fast-food munching rampage interrupted with a SEX scene! And I sure as hell don't want my child to think that sex is supposed to be mutually enjoyable, I much prefer the sex that IS in the game right now. Good, wholesome, old fasioned, "pick up a prostitute, take her into the alley, watch the car rock, and then kick her out into the street" sex.
Now, part of the controversy is because Rockstar claimed that the content that is unlocked in the game was actually added by a hacker, and that the game doesn't actually contain that mini-game on its own. Well, if you head over to Gamespot you can see that this just isn't true. My guess is that when confronted with the information that someone had unlocked this questionable content, the rep from Rockstar games was so busy laughing that they couldn't think of anything to say but a total denial.
America, wake up. Lets face it, there is so much questionable content in this game that if you have a problem with the one bit that actually allows you to bring a bit of joy into another character's life, then obviously something messed you up WAY before video games came along. Hell, they have it right in Europe! Over there they heard about this and said, "So what? It doesn't change the game's rating. It was an adult game before, it's an adult game now."
That's what gets me about North American culture. There are places where you can get more prison time for certain consensual sexual acts than you can for drunk driving, or for beating someone nearly to death. Consensual sex in a video game should be a non-issue. Why does this need to be a fresh controversy? I can turn on the television at almost any time of day and see worse things than are in this game, hell, I can read Shakespeare and get just as much blood and violence.
On the bright side I can almost guarantee that all this fresh media attention is going to help sell GTA:SA over the next few months. In fact, with GTA:SA having been recently released for X-Box, I wouldn't be surprised if you could track a hefty transfer from the Rockstar marketing department accounts to the accounts of a certain game modder...
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