Here we go again with my lovely friend from yesterday who talked about Mass Effect and all the pornographic content the game would have. This time he tries to correct his article, well more or less. The Problem is just he does not really tries to set all the things, which are not true, right. Instead of that he is more and more trying to offend gamers and spreed his untrue comments. The only god thing for his at the moment that I didn't work on the game, although I tested it once for a view hours and found one bug. Also normally such persons should be ignored because the air that they need to live is hits on there websites and being in the news, just like all time favorit Jack Thompson. But there are some things where I have really to comment on it as example the first sentence is great:
The Gamer-Nerd universe exploded in anger over the tone and a couple of the specifics of my most recent column, "The 'Sex Box' Race for President."
Well one thing that this person (sorry forgot the name and not worth to remember so he=this person) really likes to do in the correction is the use of Game-Nerd. Usually thats not offensive as long as it comes from someone who has any clue about anything, well this person does not have any clue about anything. No gamers where not angry because of the tone or “couple” of the specifics, they where just angry because everything in the column was wrong and/or completely made up.
"The most realistic sex acts..." - from the YouTube footage I saw, I still concur, to me these acts are the most realistic put in video games - that I have seen. In the lesbian version one woman's hand appears to stimulate the crotch of the other passing between the legs. Today many of the more perv-oriented gamer-nerds took delight in describing for me the detailed description of games they claim are MORE realistic... Ok fine, I'll take them at their word, but for me the statement stands...
The corrections of the person:
Ok first of all better don`t try Fahrenheit or Hot Coffee mod for San Andreas otherwise his head will explode, or well maybe he should give the game a try. Sure a hand that is not visible could not do anything else, maybe she is scratching here own ass? Thats like assuming in a very cloudy night where the moon is without any indication where the moon could be. Here we go again the nice term gamer-nerd, a normal gamer would do it and would not offend people (last PlayStation 2 sale numbers 130 million or something like that and they are all “game-nerds”)
"One can custom design the shape, form, bodies, race, hair style, breast size of the images..." Evidently the only thing I got wrong on this was the breast size, though I would like someone to explain to me how the female characters end up having different sizes again on the YouTube footage I witnessed with my own eyes... But the rest of it was true. race, hair style, color - etc.
How evil is that you can change race, hair style, colour and so on, that game needs to be band and all copies put in a rocket and send to the sun. Reminds me my hair is already to long and I need a new hair cut and maybe some different colour this time. Especially for the race thing, thats a very important point of the game and the game showed how humans are usually responding to different cultures (in the game Aliens).
"...the video game "persons" hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of." Again true (not that there are that many combinations of human sexuality to begin with.) But since the makers of Mass Effect decided to throw in a little alien booty both hetero and homo it seems to me that they covered the range. Would these gamer-nerds have preferred that the game included bestiality? Later in the column I make a reference to being able to perform sex acts, homo and hetero, with whomever... Ok - you can't have sex with every single character in the game... But between copulating with Aliens, girl on girl, guy on girl, and according to my gamer-nerd friends who I checked with - it does not take a great deal of manipulation to add a few extra "kinks" to the mix for those who know a little bit about such things.
Well I can think of quite a lot of different things between humans that are connected with sex, so I might send the person maybe a Karmasutra book so he can find out that there are more then one or two things you can do with your partner or one night stand or what ever the prefers if he even have ever meet a woman. Wow “my gamer-nerd friends” I wonder how long those people will be his “friends” in fact I guess I would punch him in the face and no the game can not be manipulated it is not a PC version.
They (the gamer-nerds) also took outrageous umbrage to the claims I made in the column that the game is marketed to teen-age boys. (Though many of those giving me feedback happened to be under the age of 17/18.) The common argument is that because the game is marked "M" that means that no kid under 17/18 (depending on your state) would be allowed access to it...
That part is a bit longer, but the short version is retailers are selling it to kids under the assigned age. To go fast through that, Game Developers are free to do what they want, when they want and how they want in there games. If the retailers are not checking for the right age it's there fault besides of that Xbox 360 and also PS3 has parental control systems implement. So to speak age rating is printed on the disc and parents can set up the console that it will only play games that are for kids up to 12 years or what ever they want. It is they duty of parents to check what there kids are doing and not the responsibility of game developers.
The major criticism the Gamer-Nerds had for me in their reaction was this challenge: "Unless you've spent the 20 hours of game time it takes to get to the explicit scenes, keep your fat mouth shut!" Many challenges stated that unless I played it myself then I had no business pointing out its objectionably content. Would they say the same of a strip club at the end of their block or hookers knocking at their door? (Well maybe sexually repressed gamer-nerds would...) Normal people would not. There is an innate instinct that tells us right from wrong, it's called a conscience. Did I play the game? No. Did I talk to some gamers who had and who knew the possibilities of the game. Yes! Does it make the lesbian, alien, hetero, homo sex that a player arrives at in the game a proper thing for teenagers to be tantalized by? Absolutely not!
What could I say to that? I heard someone in the tram talking today that GTA IV is coming out tomorrow for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP and NES so that must be true right? I better go and post a news about the release. I wouldn't have also no problem with hookers (they can also be lesbian and two or more) knocking on my door as long as it is not 4 in the morning and they would wake me up, because I have to be fit for work so I can help destroying the human civilisation as we know it by working on games. Don't know about the US, but at least in Austria you learn at school about sex when you are something like 12 or 13.
He makes also some statement about Blue channels on Europe TV stations. I don't know what he means, but I'm proud to be from Europe so I'm at least not from the same nation as this person. Still the problem is we are both human and apparently still somehow connected even if I don't like that.
"The real point of the piece was however to say that in the election coming up the next President will preside over a society that does more to push the envelope than any that have come before it..."
"God didn't design it that way..."
At least one point where I can only say yes even because of a different meaning. I really hope the next US president is more open to games and not like some stupid and clueless person who likes to lie about Mass Effect. Also the thing with god, I don't believe in god, sure if he really exists he would punish such ignorant persons who think there way is the only and true way. On the other side if he exists he has e good sense for jokes. Why? Because he created this person who wrote the article so he must have a very good sense of humor because he created a good joke there. At the end games are a form of art one where creativity is needed, like with movies and music (remember Rock and Roll that it would be evil?) the circle of life is repeating it self. Gamers are easy to bash at the moment like other art forms before, but sooner or later people will realise the truth and I hope the first president who grow up with games will come soon.
So long and god bless the USA, they really need that.
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