So, Amazon are no doubt gonna get their knuckles rapped for flogging this particular piece of software...
I can't believe this shit actually exists...
Link goes to a boing-boing article.
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Just Flange, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 10:17,
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I'm currently doing my dissertation on things like this
Well, not rape specifically; but just how violent video games (And perhaps other games such as this) can affect someone's personality/delinquency/criminal activity etc. (Or not, as it may be).
Very disturbing, but the thing is, the market must be there in Japan for them to even consider making the game.
(, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 10:20, Reply)
That's the scariest part, that there are people out there who will actually buy and play this sort of shit.
Don't get me wrong, i'm not the sort to say that what you see on tv or play in a game is gonna make you behave a certain way, but in a case like this... i think it's more disturbing that you'd ever imagine playing the game in the first place.
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Just Flange, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 10:24,
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Same was said about GTA when it first came out.
An now it's fairly commonly accepted and is also brilliant.
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Rape is a bit different.
Killing people is a pretty accepted staple of video games. Violently inserting your digital penis into crying schoolgirls isn't. GTA may have sex in it, but at least it's consensual.
(, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 10:53, Reply)
I thought you had to rape hookers?
I'm sure that was in the first one
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t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 11:41,
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dont remember that
the original gta didnt deserve the 18 cert when you consider the "realism" it has today.
*excuse this rant, just typing out some ideas as they come up really*
I first played GTA when I went round to my dad's mate who was a copper, I must have been 12 or something. Ive had every one since, except the most recent.. but thats to do with financial issues and generaly being sick of sandbox games.
I gues the reason GTA has the 18 cert is because of the openess to kill/do what you want, the gore in it is pretty panto, yet the gore in somethig like call of duty world at war is fairly sick. CODwow has a 15 cert.
Theyve made a moral judgment that murder in war in more vivid terms is less 'harmfull' to younger minds than having a choice to murder in a fairly un gory fashion.
Games like COD4 and GTA play on the baser human fantasies about violence and war etc. which since time imemorial weve been expressing through stories (beowulf)through to films. Whos side are you on when you watch the Godfather? Saving Private Ryan? You side with the protagonist, you see them in terms of their circumstances, when you leave the cinema though your in your own circumstances.
This is worrying though, not least because of its sick content, because there isn't a history of culturaly glorifying this kind of thing, so it isnt something the vast majority of people can relate to? I gues its trying to play off ideas of power and control for young japanese lads that feel isolated and socialy castrated? I know theres alot of issues in Japanese youth culture? Is that a healthy thing to be exploring in this way though?
I dont think a game like this would contribute to some one turning into a rapist? (weve been discussing this kind of thing in uni in regards to a clockwork orange) But it certainly would allow some one allready on that path to push ans test and act out on their impulses?
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Jorvic, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:32,
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sorry to sound racist
but the asians are the most sexually deviant people on the planet, they will fuck anything, any how, any way, and make money from it.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 11:12,
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Sorry that was completely off topic but I noticed
that that article was posted by him.
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Mrs Sp@m, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 10:27,
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To copy another comment verbatim,
""Mr Vaz said: “It is intolerable that anyone would purchase a game that simulates the criminal offence of rape."
What about the crime of carjacking, or murder, or soliciting?
I don't really want to play devil's advocate here but that statement kind of stood out as absurd. Why is this virtual crime any worse than another?
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Rape is bad, yes. I wouldn't buy this crap, but we're getting in to thought police territory here. If the graphics were a bit better I mite buy it.
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Elvis of Nazareth This isn't a sig, it's a fucking liberty., Wed 11 Mar 2009, 10:32,
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hahah
yeah and if you could upload pics of your friends.
I had an idea for facebook that allows you to select a friend, upload a pic of them to the game, film you raping them virtually then post a notification on their wall "zomg! you've been raped! click here to see who raped you and rape them back!".
Faceraep TM - You think it might take off?
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 11:10,
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And the entirety of asia
you'd have to change it to just verbally abusing to get it accepted over here.
"zomg! one of your friends hates you and wants you to die! click here to find out who and start a slagging match."
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 11:14,
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It's different because it singles out a group as the target of violence
namely, chics.
I take your point that GTA etc. enable you to fuck and fillet ladies of negotiable hospitality, but it's not the aim of the game and probably not the explicit reason (most) people buy it.
Dunno if violent computer games create violent individuals. But if I were a lady prostitute I think I would be a lot more distressed to know people were buying this than GTA.
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