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.44 Magdalene
01-15-2008, 08:10 AM
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/KevinMcCullough/2008/01/13/the_sex-box_race_for_president?page=full&comments=true

I know that they all probably assume they have better, much more important, urgent, timely, things to campaign on, but I sure would like to get their individual takes on the new video game that one company is marketing to fifteen year old boys.

It's called "Mass Effect" and it allows its players - universally male no doubt - to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived. One can custom design the shape, form, bodies, race, hair style, breast size of the images they wish to "engage" and then watch in crystal clear, LCD, 54 inch screen, HD clarity as the video game "persons" hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of.

The objections to such filth should be simple to understand.

Starting with the disgusting idea that one can "create" their own versions of what people look like, removing warts, moles, and bald spots while enhancing - shall we say - the extended features of the game's characters tends to objectify women, sex, and human relationships. Right? We can all agree on this?

Then there's the dishonesty behind the game' title. "Mass Effect" sounds like a war game with a deadly virus that is spreading unless the GI-Joes are able to defeat the evil and deadly substance and it's covert war plan. By it's design, kids could ask for it, or for their parents' Best Buy Card to go purchase it with nary a raised eye-brow. Generic, non-descriptive, and relatively harmless.

But it IS marketed for the X-Box 360, perhaps the most visually stimulating gaming system ever made. The software for such allows the blending of DVD video, component graphics, and the manipulation of actual pictures so that an alternate reality engulfs the fifteen year old boy playing it without much objection.

Now if I have trouble with my son taking his James Bond 007 games a little too emotionally, imagine the powerful effect that hormones add to the mix when the player's own character is copulating like jack rabbits with super-models, actresses, and anyone else they can spend the patience to create, name, and "put into play."

I hear the libertarian Ron Paul's answer already, "Government has no business censoring freedom of expression." Figures, he's a libertarian.

In the race for President there has been a lot of discussion about faith and it's impact on the lives of the individual candidate. Some pretty inane ones like Carl Cameron's less lucid moment this past week when he posed the inquiry about marital submission to Governor Mike Huckabee.

Yet here's a question that deserves to be asked, and in all likelihood will not be: "How much moral judgement should the President push into legislative issues that are likely to severely damage our children's innocence, function, and capability?"

I hear the nay-sayers claiming I'm being the wild and crazed Bible thumper I've always been - but its a worthwhile question isn't it?

If a pre-teen, teen, young adult, or adult male plays such a game in which the women DO submit without choice, are made to appear as Barbie streetwalkers, and perform whatever act can be imagined, what's to stop that same male from assuming that the women in his "other world" shouldn't be forced to do the same.

We now know because of the lengthy track record of serial killer after another that addictive use of pornography was prevalent in case after case - long before the switch got flipped and what their masturbatory imaginations have given into became what they were forcing real live human beings to do.

And because of the digital chip age in which we live - "Mass Effect" can be customized to sodomize whatever, whoever, however, the game player wishes.

With it's "over the net" capabilities virtual orgasmic rape is just the push of a button away.

Yes there will be many snickers that I decided to bring this issue up in the Presidential cycle of 2008 but how refreshing would it be for a President to prove to the nation that his own manhood was not in question and put his pen and signature to a bill that dealt with such simulated sex excess in a way that was punitive to its creators to such a degree that they would never recover from it?

As technology continues to push the limits of imagination and interaction more and more the brain, the emotions, the feelings will integrate with physical responses in reality. And while the makers of such trash seem to be pushing our next generation of young men through the gates of hell as fast as is humanly possible, it needn't be that way.

Here's hoping that as the next President will be forced to deal with this continual emerging reality - and enemy that has set its site to our destruction from within - that we will have elected a man of such character that he will have precision in the clarity of his response.

How would that be for a bold and uncompromising "Mass Effect?"


Lololololol.

Kalyx triaD
01-15-2008, 08:58 AM
Then there's the dishonesty behind the game' title. "Mass Effect" sounds like a war game with a deadly virus that is spreading unless the GI-Joes are able to defeat the evil and deadly substance and it's covert war plan. By it's design, kids could ask for it, or for their parents' Best Buy Card to go purchase it with nary a raised eye-brow. Generic, non-descriptive, and relatively harmless.

Wait... What? That was wild.

.44 Magdalene
01-15-2008, 09:01 AM
I fucking dare you to find some solid logic in that entire article.

Kalyx triaD
01-15-2008, 09:10 AM
You mean to tell me its not a comedic article? It has to be...

.44 Magdalene
01-15-2008, 09:17 AM
Furthermore, he responds to criticism: http://kevinmccullough.townhall.com/blog/g/ad4fece3-3a1e-42bd-8546-295599024191

Kane Knight
01-15-2008, 09:41 AM
Furthermore, he responds to criticism: http://kevinmccullough.townhall.com/blog/g/ad4fece3-3a1e-42bd-8546-295599024191

He responds to one asshole who's (surprisingly) more out of touch with reality than he is.

.44 Magdalene
01-15-2008, 09:44 AM
I just like that he wants to be taken seriously using phrases like "the fruit of the loom droopy drawers living in the basement."

TerranRich
01-15-2008, 10:40 AM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The "virtual world" that "engulfs" you in video games is no different than the world that engulfs you when reading a book, getting into a movie you're watching, or anything else entertaining.

And yeah I thought this guy was joking at first. Now I realize he's just a joke.

Kris P Lettus
01-15-2008, 11:07 AM
His whole argument is retarded..

Simple fact of the matter is, video games are rated, just like movies.. If parents are too stupid, lazy, or uninvolved enough to allow their child to buy whatever they want, it's their fault not the game manufactuors..

Outsider
01-15-2008, 11:15 AM
........wait, how do I make Mass Effect do this?

Blitz
01-15-2008, 11:25 AM
Oy vey.

Mr Regal
01-15-2008, 09:33 PM
I'm pretty sure most fifteen year old boys nowadays still get thier jollies from stolen or free or found porn. Not blue aliens in a computer game.

Fucking cretin.

Mr Regal
01-17-2008, 07:55 PM
I got shepard to nail the asari chick last night, and after seeing the afore mentioned scene that whole rant looks even more retarded.

Kane Knight
01-17-2008, 09:49 PM
I got shepard to nail the asari chick last night, and after seeing the afore mentioned scene that whole rant looks even more retarded.

See, I don't even know what he's talking about, but it doesn't take much to figure out he's blowing shit way out of proportion. I mean, I have almost no faith in the ratings system, and almost no faith in the video game industry. However comma, They wouldn't get away with this. Really. After Hot Coffee and such, it'd be all over the news, rather than being unveiled weeks later by some jerkoff who screams at "nerds."

LoDownM
01-17-2008, 10:21 PM
Wait, what, you can rape people in Mass Effect?

Time to go steal my sister's boyfriend's 360 and Mass Effect again.

.44 Magdalene
01-18-2008, 07:48 AM
You can get one scene in the game where dramatic Lifetime-esque sex ensues. Like, passion music starts up, they touch each other's faces, it cuts away suggestively... then there's some more intriguing camera angles and obscured kissing. The most you see is some ass for like, a second and a half.

If you're a chick and you romance another chick, then this part of the game involves two chicks. It's really a testament to equal rights and shit. I'll dig up a Youtube of it when I feel less lazy.

.44 Magdalene
01-18-2008, 07:50 AM
Keep in mind, I haven't played Mass Effect, nor do I own a 360. I saw the whole scene on YouTube after reading the article. It took me all of four seconds to conclude that he's full of shit, and all of four minutes to find proof of it. How the fuck do people come up with things that are so ridiculously wrong?

TerranRich
01-18-2008, 11:42 AM
It took me one second to conclude that he's full of shit.

.44 Magdalene
01-18-2008, 12:44 PM
To be fair, I was reading the article at seven in the morning.

Requiem
01-18-2008, 12:59 PM
The guys at Penny-Arcade have been tearing this guy a new one.. lol

Kane Knight
01-18-2008, 01:16 PM
To be fair, I was reading the article at seven in the morning.

That's your excuse for everything since you stopped being "The Critic."

.44 Magdalene
01-19-2008, 07:36 AM
That's your excuse for everything since you stopped being "The Critic."

:shifty: When else have I said that...?

.44 Magdalene
01-19-2008, 07:42 AM
Or is that the joke? I mean, maybe it's just me... it IS 6:42...

Kalyx triaD
01-20-2008, 04:06 PM
I miss witty Jack...

Kane Knight
01-20-2008, 05:43 PM
I miss witty Jack...

Pirates Four is only a couple years away...

...Oh, you mean....:shifty:

tuney41
01-21-2008, 09:15 AM
God this game eats shit. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.geocities.com/dude_in_salem/LaceyEatsShit.jpg&imgrefurl=http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dgroups.groupProfile%26groupID%3D104248610%26MyToken%3D5c50bde1-7bf1-409b-ab98-f9f9607b349d&h=450&w=629&sz=33&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=GH4KINRmqWNuWM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Deats%2Bshit%26imgsz%3Dsmall%257Cmedium%257Clarge%257Cxlarge%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl% 3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG

Requiem
01-21-2008, 01:12 PM
God this game eats shit.

What are you on? Mass Effect was pretty much awesome.

Mr Regal
01-21-2008, 08:30 PM
tuney is our latest resident crack head....clearly.

.44 Magdalene
01-22-2008, 09:09 AM
Fox News has a fair and balanced take on the whole affair:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/163925.html

Kane Knight
01-22-2008, 09:22 AM
....That was sad, even by Fox standards.

.44 Magdalene
01-22-2008, 09:34 AM
The best part is at the end, when it's like

"Parents have to keep up with what their kids are doing and shit"

"Yeah, unfortunately"

Kane Knight
01-22-2008, 09:48 AM
Yeah, unfortnuate you have to be parents.

BTW, is ME a third person shooter? I know it's an "Action RPG" bu they always described it as FPS style, whereas those clips made it look third person.

I don't play FPS, but if it's third person I might give it a shot.

Kane Knight
01-22-2008, 09:50 AM
I love that that chick was sexed up for the cover of her book and was bitching about objectification.

I also love that she was talking as if kids were still the primary game players.

And that she copped an attitude when asked if she had actually played the game.

.44 Magdalene
01-22-2008, 10:56 AM
Yeah, it's third person. It's basically Knights of the Old Republic without the Star Wars.

Requiem
01-22-2008, 02:26 PM
It's like KotoR in a way, except that you actually aim.. there's no queuing up attacks like in KotoR. You can set how well the auto-aim works in the settings, so that it takes more aiming, or not much at all.

Basically it's a freaking sweet game.

BigDaddyCool
01-22-2008, 03:58 PM
I need visual examples of what they are talking about.

Kalyx triaD
01-22-2008, 04:14 PM
There aren't any.

Kalyx triaD
01-22-2008, 04:14 PM
'Cause they're idiots.

BigDaddyCool
01-22-2008, 04:25 PM
Damnit, how dare they get my republican blood all angeried up over nothing. Next time they want to attack smut, there had better be real smut to attack, and they are going to have to show me said smut first so I know it is real. I'm from missouri, the show me smut state.

Kane Knight
01-23-2008, 12:26 PM
They usually angry up your blood without any real facts; why should today be any different?

BigDaddyCool
01-23-2008, 12:58 PM
They usually angry up your blood without any real facts; why should today be any different?

I'm pro-seeing boobs.

Kane Knight
01-23-2008, 01:27 PM
Usually a good thing. But they rarely set you off with real boobs. It's almost always metaphorical T&A.

Kane Knight
01-24-2008, 12:54 PM
http://gaming.monstersandcritics.com/xbox360/news/article_1388213.php/Amazon_intervenes_as_Mass_Effect_critic_suffers_review_backlash