We always knew that these anti-game wing nuts were looking for problems that weren't there, but never has that idea been so literal. Connecticut State Senator Gayle Slossberg is currently searching as hard as she can for the rape scene in Grand Theft Auto IV, and isn't about to let the fact that no such scene exists stop her:
[Sen. Slossberg] wants confirmation of the rumored rape scene in Grand Theft Auto IV—but she can't reach that level of the game. The Milford state senator's never played GTA, but she fears it's corrupting the youth and thinks a law requiring better warning labels might be the fix. She told the Nose as much at a Capitol press conference last week...
Slossberg hints she'll... introduce legislation next session calling for clearer labeling of depraved video games like Grand Theft Auto... Slossberg's a bit unsure of how the warning labels might read: "I mean what would it say? 'This game will make you a sociopath'?"
Well, the stupid woman is going to be waiting a long time for her confirmation, considering there isn't any rape in GTA IV. I'd burst into my usual vitriolic outrage at this story, but I'm too busy sniggering bitterly at this imbecilic wench to do so. If ever there was a true snapshot of the idiocy of anti-game lunatics, this would be it -- an out-of-touch politician trying to play a videogame in the hope that she might see some of the rape she heard about.
Says it all, really.
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1:40 PM on 06.25.2008
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Either their all a hungry rabid pack of wolves or...
They are all Schizo or...
ALL of the above with nothing else to do... DUH!
Most likely she's just as ignorant as her with hunting intelligence seems to be flawed.
GTA having levels. HA!
She knows she's breaking a cardinal law of nature doesn't she?
I went an entire post about a women without asking how she left the kitchen. For once.
A human who wants to play GTA IV.
And indeed, we would be owned.
Senator: LOOK! LOOK! RAPE! I'm walking into this girl and she's standing there! RAPE!
luckily we don't have to pay for that c*nt :p
You're so right, and it depresses the shit out of me.
Zing.
Wrong...
Wait, no. Sorry politicians, you were and likely always will be dumb as rocks. Am I the only one who feels sorry for these underprivileged political tools who weren't gifted with a capacity for rational thought? Maybe we should start a charity devoted to educating them and shifting out of their ignorant ways.
Nah, that would be too much effort. After all, I am a gamer, which means I am a lazy, immoral, drain on the economy, quite unlike our leaders in the government. Well, that is true in my case but that is besides the point.
The label already says why it's rated the way it's rated. Just like movies. Just like television. If folks cant figure this shit out then the games that their spawn are playing is the last thing we should worry about.
It all starts with a rape.
Politicians = ubertards.