I suppose everyone's heard by now that the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been re-rated for Adults Only and has been pulled from some major distributors' shelves. It strikes me as ironic that murder, mayhem, gangs and drugs are OK in a game, but S-E-X knocks it into "Adult" territory. At any rate, good riddance.
An excellent argument can be made that if adults consider playing Grand Theft Auto to be a worthwhile use of their time, well, so be it. To each his own. (However, I do wish these adults came with prominent warning stickers, so the rest of us could steer clear.)
The problem is, we have to depend on these same people to keep the game away from children. From conversations I hear among my kids' friends, children as young as seven are playing this thing, often alongside their parents.
It is too much to expect restraint from any branch of the entertainment industry; after all, they make wads of money selling sex, shock and violence. But maybe they'd think of something better if we adults would just quit buying it.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a great game and only somebody with the mental capacity of a pea or with nothing better to do (considering we have here somebody who not only agrees that they are easily amused but would like to share their "find" among their friends, if existant)would ridicule it for creating material that is forbidden access by the User License Agreement that must be agreed prior to installation of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PC. If Maraca's children are 'chilling' with seven year-olds whose mothers allow them to download the hot coffee mod then I would suggest leaving the neighbourhood. In an era where the average age a child loses his/her drinking virginity is decreasingly at a steady rate I believe that one should either roll with the times or home-school. I applaud the logic that mothers who would allow their children to play this game have considering they clearly know that it is inevitable to keep their children sheltered from sex, violence and whatnot for the duration of their childhood. Good Riddance to Maraca's kids.
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