Vice City, where sex is the only real vice.

[fredericks]

What I find most amusing about the whole Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas fallout - the one about the code that allows you to engage in sexual relations with the "Coffee Lady" the news has been talking about lately - is that 4 out of 5 players of the game had no idea the damn cheat existed. Until newscasters and talking heads took it upon themselves to tell people how to do it. I know in my house my brothers were quick to locate the code online, although I can't say if they've tried it our not (they haven't played VC in some time).

I think GTA: SA is a brilliant waste of programming code; I can see the escapist appeal but I'll never really get it or any games like it. But some geek discovers a hidden sex code in a game where you can pick up hookers and blast random people away at will and suddenly the Powers That Be are clamoring to tighten regulations on ALL games? Get the hell over yourselves. Why can't parents take responsibility and stop buying games of this nature for their 12 and 13 year olds? Why can't the government stop treating its citizens like incompetent drones and point the finger at the parents once in a while? I can't tell you how many young kids I saw pre-ordering the game while their parents stood idly by during the time leading up to its release.


Let's see what else follows because of this.

Comments

[zelle999.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. Parents blame teachers, video games, movies, music for their rotten little bratty juvenile delinquent children and then friggin' park them in front of the TV or computer all damn day instead of actually, you know, interacting with them. Oooh, what a concept!

On another note, I'm sorry about the TB test. Unbelievable! Do you have to be quarantined? ;)

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

What a concept indeed.

Heh. Yes - quarantined in my own house with On Demand cable and unlimited DVDs. A gal can dream.
It's latent if it's anything at all, so at worse I'll be asked if I want to take pills for six months to kill the bacteria. I'm going to go for it, because I don't want to have to deal with it if I get sick down the line. Working in healthcare's going to put me front and center with tons of little microbes that could mess me up good.