ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating 913
Alex Blonski writes "In a stunning move, the ESRB has advised retailers to stop selling Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. This report follows public pressure over the Hot Coffee debacle. Rockstar, the publishers of the game have given retailers the option of restickering the game with an 18+ rating or exchanging it for a new version with the controversial content removed. ESRB head Patricia Vance says 'After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of all three platform versions of the game (i.e., PC CD-ROM, Xbox and PS2). However, the material was programmed by Rockstar to be inaccessible to the player and they have stated that it was never intended to be made accessible. The material can only be accessed by downloading a software patch, created by an independent third party without Rockstar's permission, which is now freely available on the internet and through console accessories. Considering the existence of the undisclosed and highly pertinent content on the final discs, compounded by the broad distribution of the third party modification, the credibility and utility of the initial ESRB rating has been seriously undermined.'"
People are still having sex (Score:5, Funny)
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No Sex please, we are Br^H^H (Score:5, Funny)
'Nuff said.
Re:People are still having sex (Score:5, Funny)
Whoa! Hold up there, champ. It's one thing to threaten some violence, but threatening nudity? Now you've gone too far! Think of the children!!
Next: FCC Action (Score:2, Funny)
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sex? (Score:5, Funny)
That would save a lot of wrist strain.
Re:America (Score:2, Funny)
We left Britian because it wasn't puritanical enough for us!
What did you expect!
Re:America (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, and look at who you picked. That's the painful irony.
Re:What's REALLY sad.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Death throes of the ESRB? (Score:1, Funny)
Hi, this post is all about the ESRB, THE REAL ESRB. This post is awesome. My name is Dave and I can't stop thinking about the ESRB. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Facts:
1. The ESRB raise your children.
2. The ESRB rate stuff ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ESRB is to flip out and rate stuff AO.
The ESRB can rate anything they want! The ESRB rate stuff AO ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. My friend Mark said that he saw the ESRB totally rate some game AO just because you could see the persons skin!
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re:priorities? (Score:2, Funny)
What I can't understand is that a one-pixel nipple would just be a single dot of #A65C3F - is that REALLY offensive?
An ellipse of, say, #EDCFC5, with a smaller circle of #A65C3F therein.. dude, that's another matter, that is seriously offensive. Won't SOMEONE please THINK of the CHILDREN??
They gotta rerate Doom 3 too (Score:3, Funny)
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On one of the shows an American asked about sex in Russia.
An indignant Russian woman stood up and said: "There is no sex in USSR!"
The American audience bent over laughing while the carefully-picked Russian audience tried to figure out what is funny (though I bet there were a few people on Russian side that had a hard time keeping straight faces)
Boots excepted (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, considering how objectionable these people seem to think this scene is, they probably ARE the type of people who do it with their clothes on.
Re:When did America lose its mind? (Score:5, Funny)
~S
Re:When did America lose its mind? (Score:5, Funny)
...but nipples are absolutely for adults only.
Logic (Score:1, Funny)
Lesson: Sex is completely unnatural.
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I think GTA needs more explicit sex, not less (Score:5, Funny)
GTA: Turning Geeks into Better Lovers
~tokengeekgrrl
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I've even heard that the BSA is trying to prevent scoutmasters from smoking near the boys. Because you wouldn't want a role model to be doing something as EEEEEEEEVIL as smoking.
They can have my pipe when they pry it from my cold dead hands. Twits.
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Modified Boardgames? (Score:3, Funny)
I heard a rumor (Score:2, Funny)
Re:this is the hard way to see porn via internet (Score:5, Funny)
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That concept has always seemed a little redundant to me. Why is it okay for parents to swear like hell around (at) their kids, but the moment someone on TV does it, it's time to light the torches?
>>but broadcast television is in some way public behavior, because of its wide exposure.
I hope so, or it wouldn't be broadcast, would it?
>>Wide release movies are similar as well.
Small-release foreign "artsy" films, regardless of the sexual nature, are better, because it only creates a handful of psychopathic deviants.
>>To ask parents to put their kids in a cocoon and never let them out (they may get exposed to something horrible outside of the house), is unreasonable.
Which is why it is better to expose your children, under your careful supervision, to the things they might encounter once they have grown. You don't protect a child from falling down the stairs by preventing him/her from ever seeing steps until they move out of the house, you keep them safe by putting barriers in the way, and gradually you remove the barriers, and give them the guidance and protection they need until they can handle them on their own.
>>At some point you have to regulate some things everyone gets exposed to so that some of them don't have psychological trauma from the experience.
I agree. Parents should be put away if their kid walks in on them when they're having sex. Screwed me up for years...
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The Nipple Pixel Effect: A Demonstation (Score:3, Funny)
This is a (highly magnified) default pixel:
The pixel is devoid of content, ready to receive nuance and meaning. As many Slashdot regulars know, the scientific name for this state is "boring".
This is a (highly magnified) weapon pixel:
Note that the pixel is now filled with violent energies. Careful examination of this pixel shows its propensity to do damage to peace-loving liberal agendas. The scientific name for a pixel in this state is "fun".
This is a (highly magnified) nipple pixel:
This pixel is heaving with throbbing unquenced sexual desire. Take the time to examine this pixel more closely and you will notice how it seems to be renlentless thrusting at your closed, but oh so moist mind with expansive heat which melts conservative agendas. The scientific name for a pixel in this state is "more fun" to male computer scientists and "yeah, whatever" to female computer scientists.
Now, if we examine the firm, yet silky nipple pixel, gently take it between our fingers, so to speak, we can see that the pixel is actually composed of discreet... OH MY GOD ITS ZOMBIE STROM THURMOND AND HIS NEO-CONSORVATORS OF MORAL DISCIPLINE. HELP! THEY'VE MADE IT THROUGH MY FRONT DOOR. ACK! RICK SANTORUM'S SECRET TWO-HEADED FETUS-MONSTER IS CHEWING ON MY CABLE MODEM. AGH! I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER I CAN HOLD OUT. ECK! BILL FRIST JUST DISECTED MY CAT! OH THE HUMANITY! PLEASE TELL MY WIFE I LOVE HER VERY M...
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running around carjacking cars
Erm, what else would you carjack? Zimmer frames maybe?
Re:People are still having sex (Score:4, Funny)
I find it amusing and ironic that Hillary Clinton is spearheading the crackdown on this game especially in light of this particular content...
Perhaps she's focusing her anger in the wrong place?
Re:People are still having sex (Score:5, Funny)
If only there were more gangs throwing condoms or orgy invitations out their windows instead of bullets...
Its WORSE than THAT!! (Score:3, Funny)
the CHILDREN are DOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!
Re:People are still having sex (Score:5, Funny)
I would hope not, because it would be really unseemly if women could deliver babies by reverse peristalsis.
*baaaaaaarrrrrffff* WAAAAAHH!!!
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You must be new here
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>>I don't think I've ever seen that in a game, and rarely have I seen in in movies.Screwing and fucking in lust, yes, but never what you described.
Dude... you've been renting the wrong pornos.
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So I'm signing up for an account, screw something up, and go back to correct it but don't realise that the information on the form has been truncated to just the characters that were visible in the box and not what was off-screen before. Lo and behold, I am now "The Ultimate Fartkno."
The end result was so dumb that I *had* to keep it just for the story...
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In the Further News to Next to Last Furthest News (Score:1, Funny)