Oh, Eliot Spitzer is eating these words right now:
Like all parents, I know it is increasingly difficult to protect our children from negative influences… we have learned that when self-regulation fails, government must step in… we must do more to protect our children from excessive sex and violence in the media…
Media content has gotten more graphic, more violent and more sex-based… Currently, nothing under New York State law prohibits a fourteen-year old from walking into a video store and buying… a game like ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ which rewards a player for stealing cars and beating people up. Children can even simulate having sex with a prostitute…
Maybe his objection is to the “simulate” part. O rperhaps he was jealous that kids could get off on the crude “if the van is rockin’ don’t come knockin’” depection ofsexuality in GTA III. This is a guy who spent as much as 80 grand on hookers.
I doubt he was getting porn star caliber for that kind of money. Those girls don’t come cheap. No sir.
But if he could have turned to technology, if he wasn’t a Boomer-Age Luddite, he could have just picked up some POV porn… a couple hundred dollars would have netted him a wide selection from amongst the best in the biz… and then simulated the act of picking up the ladies with a quick game of GTA III… or Vice City or San Andreas if he wanted a change of scenery.
No. No, instead he had to blow boatloads of cash on the self-destruction of his career. This is the problem with the moralizing anti-gaming crowd: they lack the right kind of imagination. The kind that keeps them out of real-world trouble.
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March 12, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Hmn… if I was his wife I’m not sure what I’ll be pissed off more about: him using call girls without my permission, or him blowing 80K of our kids’ college money.
I’m cheap: I’d be pissed about the cash first.