{"id":424,"date":"2005-07-24T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2005-07-24T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T15:16:00","slug":"i-mean-the-title-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"I mean, the title alone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard a bit about the &#8216;Hot Coffee&#8217; scandal surrounding <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas<\/span>. Here&#8217;s a quick summary &#8212; there&#8217;s a hidden mode in the game (which one must do some hacking to get to) in which your character has sex and the ESRB has pulled the game to replace it&#8217;s Mature (17+) rating with an Adults Only rating. Stores are pulling it, and NY senator Hillary Clinton called for a Federal Trade Commission investigation.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that if any medium has X-rated content, it should be for adults only. The fact that the mode is not accessible by people without proper tools makes this whole issue a little gray.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an abbreviated list of things I have done in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Grand Theft Auto 3<\/span> which are worse than having consensual sex:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exceeded the speed limit.<\/li>\n<li>Ran a stoplight.<\/li>\n<li>Escaped from a prison transfer vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Driven a prostitute to a job.<\/li>\n<li>Stolen a car.<\/li>\n<li>Stolen a police car.<\/li>\n<li>Jacked a car.<\/li>\n<li>Jacked a police car.<\/li>\n<li>Jacked an ambulance.<\/li>\n<li>Jacked a firetruck.<\/li>\n<li>Jacked an FBI vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Jacked a tank.<\/li>\n<li>Jacked an ice cream truck.<\/li>\n<li>Engaged in a street race.<\/li>\n<li>Engaged in a high-speed chase.<\/li>\n<li>Disposed of a vehicle used for a crime<\/li>\n<li>Disposed of a vehicle with a dead body in it.<\/li>\n<li>Located 100 stashes of drugs and exchanged them for weapons.<\/li>\n<li>Assisted in a bank robbery.<\/li>\n<li>Assisted in several murders.<\/li>\n<li>Planned and executed several assassinations.<\/li>\n<li>Solicited a prostitute, and killed her to get my money back.<\/li>\n<li>Started a gang war in order to decrease property values.<\/li>\n<li>Engaged in a drive-by shooting.<\/li>\n<li>Engaged in a random drive-by shooting.<\/li>\n<li>Killed police officers, FBI agents, and military personnel who were firing upon me.<\/li>\n<li>Killed police officers who were not firing upon me.<\/li>\n<li>Killed non-gang-affiliated civilians in order to attract the attention of law enforcement.<\/li>\n<li>Killed the emergency personnel who arrived to care for these civilians.<\/li>\n<li>Killed wantonly and without cause using a large variety of weapons, including but limited to my bare hands, a baseball bat, various guns, various incendiary devices, a flame-thrower, and a tank.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Apparently 17-year-olds hacking a program and simulating sex is more deserving of government attention than them simulating any of the acts on the above list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard a bit about the &#8216;Hot Coffee&#8217; scandal surrounding Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Here&#8217;s a quick summary &#8212; there&#8217;s a hidden mode in the game (which one must do some hacking to get to) in which your character has sex and the ESRB has pulled the game to replace it&#8217;s Mature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}