OT: Too much game playing!

[Raapys]

It's good enough to have someone die of exhaustion playing.

5 years after its release.

[RCCCL]

I know someone who lives in Korea, and he said that gaming is taken extremely serious there.

He said they have internet cafes on nearly every corner, and that they can play for $1.00 - $1.50 an hour.

There was also something not long ago about a couple leaving their infant alone to go play World of Warcraft. The child died from it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

This is the bad side of the entertainment industry.

Not that I'm saying the companies are responcible; it's just that nothing happens in a vaccuum.

[RCCCL]

Ok, the vaccum part confused me , but I agree.

It's especially troubling since it envolves a video game, since most people in charge seem to have a negative veiw on them to begin with.

The recent GTA: San Andreas is a perfect example.

If anybody has happened to check out the Original "Hot Coffee" mod then you'd know that what it was was just a playable scene where fully clothed chars mimed a few sexual acts. Albeit that is a bit extreme, it was never intended to be seen. Besides the game was rated Mature anyways. Which means parents were already warned that the game wasn't meant for younger children.

What really pissed people off was the later versions of the mod, in which other people wrote new char skins into it to make the women nude. Rockstar had nothing to do with that.

[Raapys]

I don't get it, though. I mean, go ahead and kill that girl, cut her up with your knife, shoot her with your shotgun, drive her down, beat her up, whatever, but don't have sex with her!