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So, with the whole Hot Coffee thing, I'm sure you've all heard that the lawyer who went after Rockstar for the Hot Coffee mod is now going after The Sims 2 for nudity.
Those of you unaware... a quick recap... GTA: San Andreas was pulled off the shelves recently and given an Adults Only rating for code that had to be reverse enginneered in order to put the mini sex-game in.
Excuse me, but I played The Sims 2. There IS NO NUDITY in The Sims 2, despite being mildly more sexually revealing than San Andreas (look... the graphics are better, and it's a life simulator, come on) but the bodies beneath the mosiac fuzz is COMPLETELY MANNEQUINLIKE...
What the fuck.
I also heard that the politicos in the States are now viewing all modding as a sort of hacking.
Uhm...
Let's just say that I'm about to freak the fuck out here. A large part of the longevity of games, which a lot of games count on, is the modding community. Hell, Counter-Strike would NEVER have been a thing of today if modding was illegal in the first place.
So in an effort to see what the hell is behind all this nonsense, I went and downloaded the Hot Coffee mod, dragged out my copy of San Andreas, and gave it a go.
Point number one: The unlockable content is completely non-nude, and only additional downloadable content makes the girlfriends in the game nude. This is, however, not availible for the PS2 or XBox versions.
Point number two: The low-poly models used in San Andreas don't look real at all. In fact, I can think of many more games that (without the notorious reputation GTA's had for all the violence and whatnot) are plenty more revealing and far more detailed.
Point number three: The guy is totally clothed in every scene. Shirt, pants, everything.
Point number four: The downloading of the mod is OPTIONAL, and does not come with the official game. It is hidden away in the official game under piles of unused code.
You want to tell me, then, that this mod is heinously revealing in some fashion or another... and moreso that Rockstar should claim responsibility for a MOD?
Well Jesus Christ! I heard the Bush Administration was getting bible-bashy on pornography, but I didn't realize it extended to pinning blame on the wrong parties and fervent anti-gaming policies.
Scratch that, not just the Bush Administration. Every old little fucking loser politician that dares call themself a defender of the innocent, hiding behind the smiles of children while they dabble in things they don't even understand! Do they even understand the amount of code-monkeying it requires to unlock the Hot Coffee thing? Or do they need to keep up their caring image and the whole motherly/fatherly thing?
Besides... if you don't want your child to be playing a game of San Andreas' nature, don't BUY it for them. And if you think video games will fry their brain, then REGULATE THEIR USAGE. Parents have to pick up responsibility for their children at some point.
I mean, legally in America they're your goddamn responsibility till they're 18. So bloody fucking take responsibility and stop blaming everyone else for your bloody failings as a parent!
Making an uninformed choice like that is banning a mod... I dunno... asking a man who really has never seen combat to command a platoon of soldiers into battle... or be Chief of Staff and hold all their lives in his han... ooohhhhh wait.
Right... in the middle of my rant there I had almost forgotten what a stupid stupid world we live in.
Never mind then, carry on.