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Heh... Yes, because the kiddies don't get to see a pointless sex scene in a video game, they are now doomed and unprepared for the "real world."
With that in mind, perhaps we should remove fantasy games off the market? I mean, they don't prepare us for anything in the adult world. A child could be heartbreakingly disillusioned when she learns relationships don't exactly happen like fairy tales.
Games are for entertainment, not preparation for life, excluding indirect learning stuff, like developing social skills.
I wouldn't call it freedom of speech really... since no message is trying to be said by the unlocked scene. It's the freedom to show pixels of humpage and boobage to attract kids as described by Super Munch. But as you said, people will do as they please. *shrug*
Anyway, I agree, publicity stunt to the maxorz.
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You've twisted what I said and put words in my mouth. You fail.
I'm not saying that it's some kind of vital message that kids can't do without, I'm saying that it's a crime to wrap kids up in cotton wool just so that they can be anal about something as tasteless but generally absolutely harmless/insiginficant as a random dry-hump scene, and even launch a stupid campaign against it.
Why get your pants in a knot over something that's entirely fictional, harmless, insignificant, and can easily be taken with a pinch of salt? Why breed into our kids a trait like that? It's stupid. But largely I'm talking about censorship in general, not just in games. Words like f
uck and shit... while we should all be aware that they're offensive and hurtful words, I don't think we should be sheltered from them as though they emanate harmful radiation. The more you shelter someone from something and give them the impression that it's bad, the more shocking it will be for them when they come across it. But the real world is far worse than just a few curse words.
The real world is war, blood, guts, crime, illness, death, killing, hate, propaganda, and ignorance... that's why we have people in organisations like PETA who have a problem with the production of meat. They don't understand the reality of the world because they've been sheltered from it. When they're exposed to it they're immediately horrified. What good is this doing? Creating people who are horrified by something as natural as eating meat? Creating people who are shocked and disgusted by curse words? Creating people who go on public tirades when they see some stupidity in a computer game?