{"id":248,"date":"2005-07-27T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-27T13:46:56","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T13:46:56","slug":"sex-drugs-and-rockstar-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/07\/27\/sex-drugs-and-rockstar-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Drugs, and Rockstar Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again.  I know the sex stuff buried in GTA:SA is old news, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/27\/AR2005072700603.html?referrer=email\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/07\/27\/AR2005072700603.html?referrer=email', 'washingtonpost.com');\" target=new>washingtonpost.com<\/a> has a great article about the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo \u2014 the justification for this use of our tax dollars is that Take Two misled the public by promising a game featuring enough violence to make Sam Peckinpah blush, but instead sprinkled it with near-hardcore pornography. (I use \u201cnear\u201d as there isn\u2019t any display of genitalia, at least as far as I could see. And it\u2019s a cartoon graphic, not real people\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Good heavens, citizens! What\u2019s going on here? Oh yes, of course, we\u2019re getting all bent out of shape over nothing again. I keep forgetting that this is a proud American tradition, on the same display shelf as the controversy over \u201cDarling Nikki\u201d and the fuss over video games in general from the early \u201980s. I bet some of the folks who thought our children\u2019s brains were turning to mush over too much \u201cCentipede\u201d aren\u2019t looking at it this way today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My sentiments exactly!  But it gets better, much, much better.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLauren Charbonneau didn\u2019t worry about purchasing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for her son, Luke, in October when he was 11. Luke is \u2018pretty mature,\u2019 his mother says. She figured he could handle an M-rated video game. Then news broke last week that explicit interactive sex scenes were discovered hidden in the code of the game that touts intense violence, blood and gore. \u2026 Luke says he never accessed the hidden scenes, but the news of their existence upset his mother. \u2018I\u2019m shocked and angry,\u2019 says Ms. Charbonneau, 47, of Plano. \u2018They deceived the public.'\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow!  The GTA series is an easy target, but why not go after parents such as Lauren Charbonneau for not actually following the ratings guide?  Why not make parents responsible for actually supervising their children and (I know this is crazy talk) actually watching what their kids play?<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on with this one, but enough for now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. I know the sex stuff buried in GTA:SA is old news, but the washingtonpost.com has a great article about the story. \u201cSo \u2014 the justification for this use of our tax dollars is that Take Two misled the public by promising a game featuring enough violence to make Sam Peckinpah blush, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/07\/27\/sex-drugs-and-rockstar-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sex, Drugs, and Rockstar Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}