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Grand Theft Auto And The Witch Hunt On Porn ScenesCan Rockstar be accused for something the modders did? |
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11th of July 2005, 19:02 GMT
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The scandal Rockstar is being dragged into and which could also affect ESRB just doesn't seem fair as long as Patrick Wildenborg, the one who developed the mod by means of which the pornographic scenes (which were built or not into GTA San Andreas, that's for ESRB to decide) can be viewed, is not held responsible for his actions.
It looks like, during this witch
hunt aimed directly at Rockstar, everyone seems to forget that after all, Patrick Wildenborg has modified a piece of software. I wonder what would have happened to Wildenborg should he have modified Microsoft's source code in such a way that instead of Windows Explorer we would have seen one of Pamela Anderson's pictorials. I doubt that even Wildenborg's grand-grand-children would have finished paying the damages to Microsoft.
The National Institute on Media and the Family has issued a warning regarding the fact that GTA San Andreas might contain scenes of explicit sex, but nobody seems to care that these are available only by applying a quasi-illegal modification. The National Institute on Media and the Family does a very good thing, after all, by issuing this warning, because this is actually their duty, but is there no organization to react with a message of the type "Don't let your children watch pornography, but also explain to them that they are not allowed to interfere with other people's software?"
And then we still wonder why 19 year old kids are convicted for disasters the likes of Sasser or Blaster.
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Fair (2.9/5) |
78 vote(s) so far |
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| Comment #1 by: booster_2k2 on 12 Jul 2005, 08:31 GMT |  reply to this comment | hey, you've got it all wrong: the mod doesn't add code, the code is already there and the mod just unlocks it. Have you read what the author of the mod wrote? He said that there were portions of source code int the game that were unused. When they were unlocked, the sex scenes could be seen. I just don't understand what the fuss is all about. It's already rated M, and I think that means it's 17 , and by that age you know where babies come from. It's those idiotic and paranoid parents' associations fault. They always try to blame someone else for thier failure as parents. Well, screw them! Rockstar deserve our admiration for having the courage of being the "Terrance and Philip" of 2005. |
| Comment #2 by: shiggity on 13 Jul 2005, 05:59 GMT | reply to this comment | okay, (1) they don't know whether the mod adds code or unlocks it, that's why they are reviewing it, (2) there is fuss about this because even though gta is rated M, other games aren't, and people are afraid those other games will be modified to contain pornographic material accessible to minors. (3) Terrance and Phillip aren't real. Contrary to popular opinion, they are South Park characters. |
| Comment #2.1 by: booster_2k2 on 17 Jul 2005, 10:31 GMT | I don't know why I even bother, but here goes nothing:
1. The truth is out there :))
2. If games are modified by people not linked with the developers, it's not the developers' problem.
3. I know that, but it seems you didn't get the point. In the South Park movie, when confronted with the "crisis" generated by "Asses of Fire", the parents prefered to "blame Canada" for their failure as parents. Can you see a pattern here? Also, with the involvment of extremist politicians like Mrs. Clinton, we're likely to see a war. |
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