The evilness of Hilary Clinton relates to nothing particularly interesting to actual politcos but rather to her backing of Jack Thompson, rabid (pardon my bias) lawyer who as you might well know has been attacking attacking attacking every corner of the video games industry he can for many years now, because of course, games are evil and they make children commit school shootings. His latest target being Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas particularly over the secret (as in only accessible through game cracking cheats) sex scenes that are included in the game for mysterious reasons (at least the developers responsible for the game are blaming everyone but themselves for the inclusion). So now the US government is launching an investigation of Rockstar games to see if they intentionally tried to lie to the ESRB to get around an AO rating. Personally, I think that Rockstar are responsible for creating their own mess and a cleanup is due, but Jack Thompson is a nutter, pardon again. There was a website where this guy was trying to write him for a rational discussion and he kept writing back saying he wouldn't listen to gamers and that gamers are the problem.
He has also recently taken to attacking the sims 2 as a pedophiles dream because if they remove the blur over private parts (again through some not normally done game hacking), they can see kids naked. Except, when the blur is removed, there is (as far as I'm told) nothing there, sort of the way it is for Ken and Barbie dolls. So now we have a situation. The oppurtunity that politicians and clergy, etc. were waiting for. Now they can attack games all they want and no one can stop them because apparently gamers won't be listened to asthey are the problem. Sigh.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming//thomps...ion-112565.php
I'll remember this forever as it's the letter where I agreed with Bush. The world must be ending. A lot of peoples problems with video games apparently stem from the accessibility children have to the violent ones. The ratings are there for a reason. As Bush said, parents just have to be better parents.
He has also recently taken to attacking the sims 2 as a pedophiles dream because if they remove the blur over private parts (again through some not normally done game hacking), they can see kids naked. Except, when the blur is removed, there is (as far as I'm told) nothing there, sort of the way it is for Ken and Barbie dolls. So now we have a situation. The oppurtunity that politicians and clergy, etc. were waiting for. Now they can attack games all they want and no one can stop them because apparently gamers won't be listened to asthey are the problem. Sigh.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming//thomps...ion-112565.php
I'll remember this forever as it's the letter where I agreed with Bush. The world must be ending. A lot of peoples problems with video games apparently stem from the accessibility children have to the violent ones. The ratings are there for a reason. As Bush said, parents just have to be better parents.