duvinnie
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Thu Nov-13-03 07:42 PM
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City reportedly contains dialog about "killing the haitians". Does anyone have contact info for Rockstar Video? http://cbsnewyork.com/shamestories/local_story_310210921.html
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yella_dawg
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Thu Nov-13-03 07:46 PM
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1. Do you often call for protests based on rumor? |
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GTA is vile. It's also great fun. The hatians are members of a drug cartel. And they usually shoot first. I prefer to run them down with a truck.
It's a game.
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duvinnie
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Thu Nov-13-03 07:56 PM
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Haitians are not "members of a drug cartel", any more than Americans are.
I wonder where you draw the line between fantasy and reality - or do you?
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Thu Nov-13-03 07:59 PM
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4. Very firm grip on reality |
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The Hatians mentioned in the game are members of a drug cartel. This pretty much proves my point. You are ranting about something you don't know anything about.
It's a game... Not reality. A game is fantasy.
Geez
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duvinnie
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Thu Nov-13-03 08:08 PM
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Is it ok to label a (real, not fantasy) ethnic group as violent drug pushers? p.s. purely rhetorical question; no its NOT OK even in a game.
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Thu Nov-13-03 08:22 PM
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9. Sigh... Forget I said anything. |
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I think I'll go fire up the PS2, steal an attack chopper and blast the hell out of some Hatians. I'll probably machinegun a few Cubans too.
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Thu Nov-13-03 07:53 PM
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I don't have a Playstation, and my computer isn't powerful enough to play the pc version. I wanna kill some Haitians too. :-(
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duvinnie
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Thu Nov-13-03 08:01 PM
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hope your mom buys you a PS soon - and dont forget to tell her what its for!
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Thu Nov-13-03 08:03 PM
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6. I will make sure to pop in GTA:VC in tonight |
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Edited on Thu Nov-13-03 08:03 PM by Langis
and kill some haitians, whatever they are.
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duvinnie
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Thu Nov-13-03 08:12 PM
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why not join the marines, go to Baghdad and see if you like the 'real thing'. plenty of live, violent brown people just waiting over there.
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Fri Nov-14-03 11:35 AM
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if what you want is to increase sales of GTA-Vice City, then by all means protest. You're a little behind the pike though, people were protesting almost a year ago about the prostitutes depicted in the game.
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Fri Nov-14-03 01:40 PM
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11. Get REAL .. It's a Frickin GAME! |
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dont take stuff out of contex... if you play it you will understand it's not against Haitians, its about criminals!
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Fri Nov-14-03 01:58 PM
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I just went on a haitian killing spree....you mean that wasn't a video game?? I'm so confused....losing touch with reality...
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Sun Nov-16-03 11:30 AM
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The game has all of these radio stations that you can listen to, including an incredibly toungue in cheech right wing hatetalk radio station. Lighten up. It's just a game. And a really fun one at that.
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Tue Nov-18-03 02:14 AM
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16. I haven't laughed so hard |
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Edited on Tue Nov-18-03 02:17 AM by eablair3
I haven't laughed so hard about a thread here in a while. Didn't Jumpin Joe Lieberman and Lynn Cheney try to censor video games, too?
I just got the GTA III/VC Double Pak.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll be on the lookout for those Haitians.
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Tue Nov-18-03 06:11 PM
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17. Please fight the disease not the symptom |
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Enhance, amplify, make clear and obvious the symptom!
I hate that term politically correct usually, but this is is the classic example of political correctness gone insane.
First, like the others say, you really should actually look at the game before attacking it. I haven't seen vice city yet, but I saw the previous which is most likely similar. It portrays gangs, in order to be realistic/ironic it approximates reality where people are racist and violent. Portraying reality more or less accurately is good. Don't shoot the messenger.
There are examples where this can be stretched too far. For example, if there where a video game called terrorist rampage, let's say (I don't think it exists), where the enemies are all protestors and people from India, this could be appalling, unless it were intended to be satire or irony. A person with a brain would be able to tell which it is and argue for their position.
All this is more of my favorite flogging horse. The enemy of justice and freedom is not on one side of the left/right line. The enemy is the left/right line. A dumb fascist would be a Republican. A smart fascist would probably be a Democrat.
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Tue Nov-18-03 11:23 PM
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18. Don't take away my mindless fun |
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Yes. You participate in gang wars. You're a criminal.
IT'S NOT REAL!
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!
SHUT UP ALREADY!
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Wed Nov-19-03 02:45 AM
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19. I love that this thread is still here! |
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I love that it was even here in the first place!
By the way, why was Vice City so controversial, when it's predecessors were just as bad, the only difference was the addition of a chainsaw and a motorcycle. GTA3 was just as popular but had less bad publicity.
Well, I'ma gonna go chainsaw me some hookers..
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