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Who can argue, possibly, that Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas is a good thing. It’s not. And I’m definitely not going to let Mass Effect in my house…
RAGE. BURNING.
Edit: I never thought I’d see the day: Electronic Arts, FORCE OF GOOD
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about 2 years ago
Would be nice if people were actually held to some standards of Accuracy, or had to show said full digital nudity and control over their character’s sex acts in order to get anyone to listen to them.
about 2 years ago
Ah, the two unalterable truths:
1) A large segment of older people never understand the interests or hobbies of younger people.
2) A large segment of older people forget that the harmless entertainments that they enjoy were considered scandalously evil and corrupt by their elders.
about 2 years ago
The only reason there are 13-year-olds who’ve never seen Playboy is because they have the Internet, where they can find video of real people having sex in less than 4 clicks.
about 2 years ago
So when two people fall honestly in love and their romantic relationship culminates in sex, this is dirty and wrong and unfit for public display.
Ok.
I wonder if there’s a kind of sex these people WOULD find appropriate. Possibly no.
about 2 years ago
The people involved in that disucssion were not old – just horribly misinformed. In fact, it’s not even misinformed it’s a complete lack of interest in obtaining knowledge and fact about the topic at hand.
Did the woman who mentioned what kids do when they come home from school even bother to read or listen to the Microsoft statement about parental controls? Seems not.
I’d love to blame Fox News for another utter piece of crap segment but honestly – this is what 99% of the adult population thinks.
about 2 years ago
The completely smug dismissal of the only person in the segment that had any real experience with the game is what got to me. He seemed perfectly well informed and was presenting a rational argument, and they wouldn’t let him finish to make time for four more people with no clue what was going on.
Who I feel sorry for are all the kids that get Mass Effect because the media has promised them a sex simulator. They’re going to be very disappointed.
about 2 years ago
Reminds me of a church of young people I used to go to that held a “sock hop” playing 50s music and being kinda silly, and this other church of older people we were renting space from got all angry and upset because when they were kids that darn sock hop dancing was full of the devil’s music!
But honestly, it’s nothing even to do with religion ,that’s just the excuse. The average person does not truly research and try to understand points of view other than their own, whether left or right, “open minded” or not, 99% of us are more interested in beating down ideas we don’t hold to.
about 2 years ago
Fox News… 3 million viewers last I checked… not 99% of adults. Cable news agencies, like big newspapers, are not about news anymore. It is shock value, and if that means bending the truth, not fully understand a story, etc. then that is what they’re going to do. Eventually, the truth will win out, the big news conglomerates will run out of cashflow, and a new monster will rise in their place.
I stopped watching Fox News a while ago and will continue not watching. It sickens me sometimes that I watched them everyday and it pains me to hold my tongue at the in-laws when it is on. I have no problem with opinionated reporting, but do not fucking call it news.
about 2 years ago
Heh, Heartless…I think I have hard-wired code in my head that kicks in whenever anyone says “I saw on Fox News Today…”
Sub FoxNews
If PersonSpeaking says “Fox News” THEN
call IgnoreOpinionsForever(PersonSpeaking)
End If
End Sub
about 2 years ago
Just as a note, the spam blocks on valid comments seem to be triggering for this blog post, probably due to the use of the word “sex”. I’ll try to keep an eye on it, but there’s so much actual spam coming through as well I might miss something. Feel free to drop me an email at scottj -atsign- -blogurl- if you get spamblocked inappopriately.
Or drop me an email if you actually are a spammer, so I can visit you with a lead pipe.
about 2 years ago
It’s absolutely insane that any news organization would broadcast this tripe. Of course FOX News isn’t a news organization. Never mind the ignorance of the ‘panel’, the lack of familiarity with the subject matter on the part of the interviewer or the lack of qualifications of the ‘expert’. The real irony here is that FOX News has frequently shown far more suggestive content on their own show. http://foxnewsporn.com/
These people should be ashamed.
about 2 years ago
Oh above link is NSFW. But is safe for your living room TV. According to FOX anyway. Or something…
about 2 years ago
Wow, why don’t we all just kill ourselves and let these retards take over the world. I hate Fox so friggin much.
“I’m gonna stick with the research” fuck you
“I’m not gonna let it in my house” I highly doubt your fucking 6 year old DAUGHTER would even know wtf mass effect is, douche.
“It was so easy to bypass the age verification screen” Go to any fucking porn site on the, yep that’s right, you guessed it, the INTERNET and enjoy discovering that they dont even have fucking drop down menus to declare your age. Stupid fucking cunt.
God damn I hate getting this mad, I should just never watch anything ever again.
about 2 years ago
As a responsible parent it was my duty to finish ME before my daughter so I could decide whether or not she should play the game. Of course she’s 20, bought the game herself and complained when I used the excuse I’m paying for the power to preemt her from using her XBox to play her game, but I take my parenting seriously
about 2 years ago
All I can say is: Meh. I find this whole thing kinda funny. This isn’t the worst case of ignorance I’ve seen. It’s not the worst bash on video games either. The truth is – this ‘story’ isn’t going to make a bit of difference to anything. Since when has ‘Big Business’ needed anyone to stick up for them? Do you know how much money has been sunk into Mass Effect? Do you think BioWare is really going to be pushed around on this? In all honesty these little bouts of indignation from the ignorant are likely bringing up sales and if they truly threaten the game, the gaming industry will release the lawyers to protect their own bottom line. If you let every stupid person in the world get to you, or every stupid thing on TV for that matter – well, your going to have a pretty angry life. This won’t make a bit of difference for Mass Effect or the gaming industry at all. The only thing I don’t understand is: why Mass Effect? There’s games that really are designed basically as porn – this just isn’t one.
about 2 years ago
What can you expect from a bunch of Fox wits?
What amuses me is that Mass Effect got rated 12 “Contains moderate violence and one moderate sex scene” in the UK. Oddly it got 18+ on PEGI (Pan-european) but *only* the violence rates mention.
Maybe they’re just narked that people are playing games instead of watching TV.
about 2 years ago
So, let’s review the state of things, shall we?
1) No one is required to do research of they’re own, or fact check. I think I’ll ask some friends at harvard to announce that people who watch Fox News are more likely to raise children who will grow up to be flaming @*@&tards who live off of welfare.. And according to their logic, they’re just gonna have to go with the research!
2) Parents have no clue what their kids do.
3) Parents want absolutely no part in shaping the lives of their children. Apparently, rather than exert ANY effort into insuring the well being of their child, they’d rather that anything that THEY, THE PARENTS feel MIGHT affect their child, to be completely unavailable to anyone so they have more free time to do their pilates and go to Starbucks in their over sized SUV for an overpriced shitty latte.
4) Parents THEN turn around and blame everyone else for their half-ass invlovlement in their kids lives when little Johnny beat this 13 year old girlfriend he impregnated with a baseball bat. It wasn’t the fact you never talked to your damn kid, let alone monitored him AT ALL, or helped make sure he stayed the course, or bothered to ask who the hell his friends are and what they do… No.. It’s movies/video games.
THIS is why I’m not a parent, and I’ll never, EVER having a child. It’s not that I don’t like kids. I HATE STUPID, RETARDED, DOUBLE-DIGIT IQ ADULTS WHO NEVER ACCEPT RESPONSIBLITY FOR ANYTHING IN THEIR LIVES, and then PASS that trait down to their kids, while blindly accepting whatever bullshit their fed.
Not saying I’d be a world-class parent either, but sweet jesus.. It’s like no one else even TRIES anymore.
about 2 years ago
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-News-Fark-Media/dp/1592402917/sr=8-1/qid=1168639219/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-1500276-2229705?ie=UTF8&s=books&tag=farkcom-20
“It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News (Hardcover)”
Less to do with the subject matter or not, and more to do with the state of mass media.
about 2 years ago
This kind of stuff never happens here in Australia. I feel for you guys.
about 2 years ago
I had pretty much the same reaction. This video caused me real, palpable pain.
about 2 years ago
That’s why we call them Faux News.
about 2 years ago
All cogent points aside did “video game expert from Spike TV” make anyone else chuckle?
At this point studios should feature no less than one solo or group sex act in every game they publish. Maybe then it will be considered “the norm” so people like this won’t be able to find any dandy to kick up.
about 2 years ago
Scott, even linking this Fox coverage on your site is silly. You’re giving more exposure to people who claim to be one thing (morally right, conservative, etc) and are obviously not (the above linked fox news porn is a great example). Why respond to trolls from the media when you don’t do it on the internet?
The content that is objectionable in this case in not what is or isn’t in Mass Effect, but the crap they try to pull on Fox to make things seem more sensationalist than they are.
The PA guys had it right when that TownHall guy posted even worse claims… Ignore the outrageous claims of idiots, basically.
about 2 years ago
Why is someone that articulate and well spoken working for SpikeTV? That surprises me more than the “ahhhh!!!!! XBOX is gunna turn yer babiez into sluts and women haterz!!!!” fear mongering from FOX news.
Honestly, the guy gave a much better defense than I was expecting going in.
Really parents need to worry about winger and gimp porn on their teen angel’s macbook a hell of a lot more than digital boobiez.
about 2 years ago
What I don’t get is why everyone here is ranting about the n00z people and not the pinhead psychologist.
about 2 years ago
Fox News is pornography.
What do I mean? Didn’t they just inflate, conflate and project an unrealistic image of something?
about 2 years ago
With our powers combined we’re … JACK THOMPSON!
about 2 years ago
Meh… just wait until some celebrity gets caught with a hooker / shows their bare crotch on camera / dangles their newborn baby over a balcony / any number of other things that attract media outrage, and the news will forget about this little piece of “newsworthy” crap. There are people in this world that don’t have a consience, and will do anything to succeed. Obviously Fox News employs the majority of them.
Don’t believe me? Take a read:
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=936
about 2 years ago
Looks like EA is asking Fox News pretty please for a correction:
http://kotaku.com/348187/ea-calls-fox-out-on-insulting-mass-effect-inaccuracies
This is only gonna get more entertaining.
about 2 years ago
Gosh why doesn’t EA just ban fox news from mass effect and sue them for copy right violations? Just kidding it’s fun to watch corporations kiss each others asses.
I guess EA is News Corps bitch now.
about 2 years ago
I’m still not forgiving them for making games with massive system requirements.
about 2 years ago
Mass Effect is the number 1 problem facing America right now.
FACT! And if you don’t agree then you’re a filthy liberal who hates the troops.
about 2 years ago
I like the “This is not a legal threat” bit in EA’s reply – a subtle way of putting legal action on the table without actually putting legal action on the table: “Legal threats? What legal threats? Who’s talking about legal threats? Incidentally, we have lawyers ready but choose not to use them…this time. Now, are you going to apologize or what?”
about 2 years ago
Congratulations, Fox News, you’ve just had your very own personal CBS-Dan Rather Can’t Research For Shit moment.
And it wasn’t about a presidential election, either. It was over a VIDEO GAME.
Nice work, you morons. Thanks so much for making us conservatives look like COMPLETE FUCKING TOOLBOXES.
*headdesk*
–TR
about 2 years ago
Typical…
“Fox News. We Decide. You Listen”
about 2 years ago
So how soon before Hillary Clinton starts mentioning Mass Effect in her campaign speeches?
about 2 years ago
Oh my oh my. I don’t even know where to start – where did they did up the physco bitch??? (sigh)
If you don’t want the game – don’t buy it, but if you think that the worst thing your kid is going to see is on a video game, well, I think that you should tune in a little more to what the hell is going on.
poor video games… when will they ever catch a break =(
about 2 years ago
I love it that she criticizes the game for the objectivfying women, while the cover of her book has a full body “sexy” shot of her. What a hypocrite.
about 2 years ago
If it upsets you so much, don’t buy the game. Simple. Just don’t expect the rest of humanity to live by your moral compass. You’re a single, insignificant megalomaniac that will be soon forgotten in the pages of history.
about 2 years ago
Interesting. If you step back and simply see how many times the game’s name is mentioned, how often they go back and forth on its merits, you end up seeing that this was not any kind of ‘news’ segment, or discussion, but an advertisement for the game, disguised as news. I wonder how much FOX got for this ‘balanced’ review?
about 2 years ago
Video games companies have the right to make, market, and sell video games, even though I prefer the old school games like Pac-Man or Legend of Zelda.
The Entertainment Software Rating Board is corrupt. Just like tv and movie ratings, sometimes I wonder who these people are. De-regulation is an option.
Parents should monitor what video games their offsprings are playing. And parents should also know that fresh air, sunlight, and physical activity are a little better than sitting in front of a tv screen like a zombie.
about 2 years ago
Wow — the Harrison Bergeron network strikes again. They need to adjust their headbands….
about 2 years ago
*looking confused* Did this really happen or am I dreaming? I will never get back the time it took to watch this garbage. What idiots.
about 2 years ago
“…here’s how they’re seeing women, they’re seeing them as these objects of desire..”
My “duh!” meter is going off the charts!
Fox is a blight on this planet.
about 2 years ago
Don’t forget this Fox News classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XNUEINIVFo
Imaginary aliens kissing: BAD. Bikini girls: GOOD.
about 2 years ago
I think Fox News is just seeing what it would really like to see — and I would, too — more frontal nudity and sex in videogames.
Really, we’ve been far too remiss in this industry for far too long. It’s time to get hella more explicit!
Make sure there’s plenty of gay and lesbian sex as well, our player base is quite wide-ranging and we shouldn’t be excluding anyone in our thinking here.
about 2 years ago
Fox News is “mainstream”? And a double dose of heroin jammed into your arm is “self medicating”.
PLEASE STOP REFERRING TO FOX AS “NEWS” AND TOWNHALL.COM BLOGGERS AS “JOURNALISTS”.
Such things bring out the violent in me.
about 2 years ago
*sigh*
about 2 years ago
I am disappointed in Fox News. I watch them fairly regularly (before The Simpsons) and up until now I was always more or less content with their coverage.
This is seriously very sad. I feel like there is no room for me and my beliefs. On one said there are evil conservative bastards, who are telling me what I can or can’t believe/do/own, and on the other side there are evil liberal bastards who are telling me what I can or can’t believe/do/own.
Where can I go so I could be left in peace? Is there a place that will allow me to have both guns and sex toys, will not rob me to “help the poor” and will not force me to believe in their god?
about 2 years ago
Dear Michael,
It’s a tough world that you live in that makes you feel that Fox was your only bastion of hope in a dark place.
I’d suggest The Daily Show. They don’t care what you bring to the party, as long as you like both smart and stupid humor.
If you’re seriously looking for different media coverage, start looking online or in out fo the way places. Big Media isn’t really liberal or conservative, it’s sensationalism for the point of selling ad space. You need to broaden your horizons. Try NPR. What conservatives and liberals claim aside, they run a pretty balanced show most of the time. Or look for web sites or message boards. Real information no longer comes from Big Media.
about 2 years ago
I don’t get it, where were all these people when Playboy the game came out? It’s the same crap over again as when the “Hot Coffee” mod came out. Don’t worry it will go away soon enough.
about 2 years ago
So to sum up the comments thus far…
ZOMG FOX NEWS SUXXORZ They are ruining teh GAMERZ!
Let’s take a step back, shall we? Fox News is no better or worse in this regard. CNN and MSNBC all cater to their core viewers as well. And when you’re called out? Kill the messenger. So saying that you hate Fox News more because of this probably means you hated them already. Is it bad for FNC? Yes. Are they wrong? Absolutely.
Are they alone in having wrong or biased reporting? Heck no.
about 2 years ago
I’m a concerned parent as well as an MMO player. As Jeff Freeman can attest, I take a pretty strong stance on this stuff, and our debate on a related subject as a hole was linked as a very interesting debate by several blogs.
But here, even though seeing the entire scene made me a bit uncomfortable, it was tastefully done and had the kind of meaning that isn’t so harmful to young minds. It wasn’t a slam bam kind of thing. My kids see far worse on TV every night, and with parenting and all, I sure hope by now they recognize the difference between tasteful and meaningful compared to raw, meaningless, and emotionally empty stuff. Hell, I’m more concerned with some of the things said on TV at prime time in shows made for young adults and teens.
As far as FOX news, I watch it allot. I like it. I’m conservative. I agree with most of the view points expressed there. This is one of the times that I think they bungled it. I sincerely hope they revisit this with more accurate statements. If there’s one problem with ALMOST ALL of the primary TV news, it’s that they spend so little time on a subject as well as not sufficiently exploring it. Points can’t be made that way, and truth gets buried under the blanket of time constraints.
about 2 years ago
wzrd, you must be joking. I love NPR, they have no shortage of great programming, but they are in no way, shape or form balanced political coverage.
about 2 years ago
She apologized, check gamepolitics, or this thread once Scott’s spam filter decides to allow me.
about 2 years ago
Even NYPD Blue is getting in on the buttock action: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7210826.stm
Quote:
“US television network ABC may have to pay a fine of $1.4m (£707,000) for airing an episode of NYPD Blue which depicted female nudity.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said the 2003 show had “multiple, close-up views” of a woman’s buttocks before the US watershed.
The FCC deems “sexual or excretory activities” shown in an “offensive” way before 2200 as indecent.”
ABC’s reponse:
“ABC has rejected the claims, saying the buttocks are not a sexual organ.”
They have a point.
Quote:
“The proposed penalty has been imposed on all 52 of ABC’s stations who broadcast the episode.”
What with realistic TV shows broadcast with parental warnings and Mature rated games showing buttocks, it’s no wonder the US are heading for chaos. How do you guys cope?
about 2 years ago
Well I say Hurray! Look at all that free press! If anything that coverage is going to drive MORE sales for Mass Effect, not less.
about 2 years ago
My point exactly. I’m betting it was really advertising for the game.