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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Games are Eeeviill
Hillary Clinton just lost my vote. What the hell is wrong with these people? Lieberman wants to censor the game industry too, and for that matter, I couldn't bring myself to vote for Gore, since his wife was instrumental in self-censorship by the music industry. And these are supposed to be Democrats? For the record, Senator, Grand Theft Auto does not encourage people to have sex with prostitutes and then kill them. Grand Theft Auto allows you to drive up to a prostitute; have the prostitute enter the car; have the car rock for a bit; and have the prostitute leave the car, the net effect meaning a modest reduction in your money stat and a modest increase in your health stat. Grand Theft Auto also allows you to run over people, and also increases your money stat when you do. (Which is bogus, btw--realistically, you should be required to get out of the car and rob their corpse. As it is, it's too easy to get some money quickly by mowing people down--which, of course, also increases the 'wanted' stat and, if you do too much of it, winds up with a lot of cops showing up who want to take you down.) In other words, the "fuck prostitute then kill her" is not "built into the game," but an emergent behavior that arises from a game that allows you to fuck prostitutes, allows you to kill people, and awards you money (but also applies negative sanctions) for killing people. For a "thug simulator," it all sounds pretty reasonable to me, actually. Note also that "fucking prostitutes" happens in a pretty discreet, almost G-rating way. The car rocks. Whoo hoo. I'm getting excited just thinking about it. Not. The real focus of the game is on violence. Which is All-Amurrican, after all. And a whole lot less disturbing in GTA than in, say, Reservoir Dogs. But nobody's calling for censorship of Quentin Tarantino. I do wish Democrats would get it through their pointy heads that the reason the Republicans have been as successful as they have is not because they cater to the "moral values" of fanatical religious nutcases, but because they emphasize freedom--and portray liberals as out-of-touch elitists who want to reduce individual liberties in order to achieve woolly-headed ideas about equity of outcomes. They way to fight that is not to cater to moral-values fanatics, who are about as likely to vote Democratic as to volunteer to be inoculated with leprosy, but to emphasize the aspects of freedom that Democrats support, and Republicans generally attack--like, say, freedom of expression. 15 Comments:
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