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MADD Protests GTA 4 Over Drunk Driving
MADD Protests GTA 4 Over Drunk Driving
ShackNews - April 30, 2008
Submitted by Jonus010 (574) at 4:12PM PST on April 30, 2008
Why is it that video games are subject to the morality police more often than Hollywood movies? GTA and other games are protested for their violence, language, drug use, etc. while no one protests violent movies where someone's brain gets vaporized by a pressurized air canister or someone is killed over a coin toss. “No Country for Old Men” received “Best Picture” while GTA is protested…
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2vGInfidel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) at 5:05PM PST on May 1, 2008. RE: MADD Protests GTA 4 Over Drunk Driving@lstormy10,
these people feel the need to save the world from it for one of two reasons.
1. to make a name for themselves and/or secure something to their own end.
2. they actually do think in their deluded little minds that games are evil and they need to warn the world, to save their own souls from eternal damnation regardless of whether they're just providing free publicity or not.
JT may actually fit both criteria[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 150 ]bids
4lstormy10 posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) at 2:38PM PST on May 1, 2008. RE: MADD Protests GTA 4 Over Drunk Driving@vGInfidel,
Don't people realize that they are just giving free publicity to GTA IV? Rockstar's games thrive off of the free publicity all of these random groups create for their games.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 294 ]bids
6vGInfidel posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) at 1:06PM PST on May 1, 2008. RE: MADD Protests GTA 4 Over Drunk Driving@Jonus010,
Due to this content, MADD is calling on the Electronic Software Ratings Board to re-rate the game as an Adults Only title, as well as asking developer Rockstar to "consider a stop in distribution."
that made me laugh out loud
seriously the only reason games are attacked is because of the perception that the interactivity causes all teenage boys to become mass murderers and is the root of all mankinds evil.
also the fact that games are a relatively new medium that is easy to attack as there are few to defend it, unlike film where if you tried to protest against violence you would be confronted by hoards of people denouncing you[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 150 ]bids
22Jonus010 posted on Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) at 4:12PM PST on April 30, 2008. Article: MADD Protests GTA 4 Over Drunk DrivingWhy is it that video games are subject to the morality police more often than Hollywood movies? GTA and other games are protested for their violence, language, drug use, etc. while no one protests violent movies where someone's brain gets vaporized by a pressurized air canister or someone is killed over a coin toss. “No Country for Old Men” received “Best Picture” while GTA is protested…[ Lurker ] [ Level 17 ] [ Rank: 574 ]
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We shouldn't even mention his initials. It may summon him like Beetlejuice if we talk about "he who can't be named" to often.
Seriously though, you do make a couple a good points and while they may be truisms, they are at least true.