OMG - NYPost bashes GTA - in the business secion, no less
12-30-03, 05:28 PM
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OMG - NYPost bashes GTA - in the business secion, no less
http://www.nypost.com/business/14640.htm
WOW - email him a piece of you mind.
this comment is just out of line:
"People, [GTA] is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy..."
WTF?
WOW - email him a piece of you mind.
this comment is just out of line:
"People, [GTA] is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy..."
WTF?
12-30-03, 05:36 PM
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If you read the article, there are also unflattering comparisons to tobacco companies, polo players and Martha Stewart. I wouldn't get too enraged... it is the New York Post after all...
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If you read the article, there are also unflattering comparisons to tobacco companies, polo players and Martha Stewart. I wouldn't get too enraged... it is the New York Post after all...
12-30-03, 05:40 PM
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The hyperbole is strong in this article.
This line brought a chuckle.
...and this seems out of bounds for an article of this sort.
And when you do, everything will look incredibly and shockingly real, with blood spewing everywhere.
Take-Two was founded in 1993 by a young fellow named Ryan Brant, who was apparently raised in a family steeped in its own Vice City values. Ryan's daddy, Peter, a polo-playing fop from Greenwich, Conn., did time in federal prison for tax fraud after trying to write off $1.5 million worth of massages, jewelry, scalp rubs and what-not as business expenses.
What do you expect from a Rupert Murdoch company?
12-30-03, 08:32 PM
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Re: OMG - NYPost bashes GTA - in the business secion, no less
Originally posted by slop101
http://www.nypost.com/business/14640.htm
WOW - email him a piece of you mind.
this comment is just out of line:
"People, [GTA] is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy..."
WTF?
http://www.nypost.com/business/14640.htm
WOW - email him a piece of you mind.
this comment is just out of line:
"People, [GTA] is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy..."
WTF?
12-31-03, 12:52 AM
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The Post is for people who can't read beyond a third-grade level and equate news with sensationalism and sports. Its only redeeming virtue is that it keeps the poor and uneducated mildly informed of the basics of current events. Until these articles start appearing in the Times, there's nothing to worry about.
12-31-03, 07:15 AM
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Right here his whole 'argument' falls down:
"Besides: By what preposterous reasoning can one argue that once someone turns 17 years of age it magically becomes OK to glorify mass murder? Are we saying that it would have been OK for that Beltway Sniper guy - who was apparently in his 40s - to have been allowed to play "Grand Theft Auto" before going on his killing spree, but it wouldn't have been OK for that young teenager who went along with him to have done the same?"
So he's implying the sniper didn't play GTA. and yet he STILL killed people. My God--that means--violence occurred BEFORE and WITHOUT video games. Can it be?
And surely he won't be a hypocrite; by saying
"This whole age-cutoff thing is simply garbage"
ne must want to remove the age limitation on R-rated movies, alcohol, cigarettes, driver's licenses, getting a job, joining the military, etc.
Sigh: "And cases surface constantly in which "Grand Theft Auto" has been linked to violence and killing." No it hasn't. Stupid, sick kids who don't know right from wrong, reality from fantasy, have been linked to violence and killing. I can't think of a single case when GTA was linked to a killing--unless that guy whose apartment collapsed in on him had a copy of GTA in his stacks of crap.
This kind of political correctness gone mad, moral relativism is what's going wrong with the country. IF Michael Jackson did those things with little boys, then I'm sorry Christopher Byron, that is worse than a *fictional* game that *only adults* should be allowed to buy and *voluntarily* play or not play.
"Besides: By what preposterous reasoning can one argue that once someone turns 17 years of age it magically becomes OK to glorify mass murder? Are we saying that it would have been OK for that Beltway Sniper guy - who was apparently in his 40s - to have been allowed to play "Grand Theft Auto" before going on his killing spree, but it wouldn't have been OK for that young teenager who went along with him to have done the same?"
So he's implying the sniper didn't play GTA. and yet he STILL killed people. My God--that means--violence occurred BEFORE and WITHOUT video games. Can it be?
And surely he won't be a hypocrite; by saying
"This whole age-cutoff thing is simply garbage"
ne must want to remove the age limitation on R-rated movies, alcohol, cigarettes, driver's licenses, getting a job, joining the military, etc.
Sigh: "And cases surface constantly in which "Grand Theft Auto" has been linked to violence and killing." No it hasn't. Stupid, sick kids who don't know right from wrong, reality from fantasy, have been linked to violence and killing. I can't think of a single case when GTA was linked to a killing--unless that guy whose apartment collapsed in on him had a copy of GTA in his stacks of crap.
This kind of political correctness gone mad, moral relativism is what's going wrong with the country. IF Michael Jackson did those things with little boys, then I'm sorry Christopher Byron, that is worse than a *fictional* game that *only adults* should be allowed to buy and *voluntarily* play or not play.
12-31-03, 01:15 PM
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You didnt see the History Channel program about Hitler and video games? Hitler played GTA3 non stop! And Hitler made all his SS guards train daily on "Doom" and sniper games so they could be cold blooded killers.
As for the tool and his little article: I would get pissy about it, but he just said that video games are worse than fondling small boys.
So i guess that means he likes the idea of fondling small boys?
Sicko
As for the tool and his little article: I would get pissy about it, but he just said that video games are worse than fondling small boys.
So i guess that means he likes the idea of fondling small boys?
Sicko
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Hmmm...
I hate GTA but I hate the Post as well, so...push.
It's kind of like watching the Republicans turn on Trent Lott...fun, but ultimately pointless as they're equally reprehensible.
It's kind of like watching the Republicans turn on Trent Lott...fun, but ultimately pointless as they're equally reprehensible.
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Re: Hmmm...
Originally posted by BeckysBoy
I hate GTA but I hate the Post as well, so...push.
It's kind of like watching the Republicans turn on Trent Lott...fun, but ultimately pointless as they're equally reprehensible.
I hate GTA but I hate the Post as well, so...push.
It's kind of like watching the Republicans turn on Trent Lott...fun, but ultimately pointless as they're equally reprehensible.
Maybe we need the next GTA to occur in a mock DC.
