Text 5827, 61 rader
Skriven 2005-07-09 18:36:24 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 5823 av Adam Flinton (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: This should sell another million copies of GTA
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

GTA  is the current target of the 'purveyors of all that is decent and good'. 
If the programmers just would have settled for tanks blasting civilian targets
there would have been little protest. Alas they threw in sexual material in an
attempt to divert our youth from mayhem and destruction. What is this world
coming to? <g>


"Adam Flinton" <adam@NOSPAM_softfab.com> wrote in message
news:42d0443e$1@w3.nls.net...
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> It looks Google will be busy searching on GTA and 'hot coffee'.
>>
>
> I think this is terrific.
>
> After all it's not like it's "available to kids by mistake" when you've
> got to find & then type in odd commands etc.etc.
>
> Adam
>
>> http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/07/09/sex_scene_stirs_
up_a_fuss_over_grand_theft_auto/
>>
>> Enough with the endless controversy over violence in video games.
>> Instead, let's talk about sex.
>>
>> Raunchy, full-contact sex -- the sort of thing you'd see in a porn movie,
>> only with cartoonlike, computer-generated images.
>>
>> According to some software-savvy game geeks, you can find this kind of
>> seamy excitement hidden inside one of the world's most popular computer
>> games, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
>>
>> But if Dutch gamer Patrick Wildenborg is to be believed, enemies of GTA
>> have a new reason for outrage.
>>
>> It's no big deal if a Dutchman creates a pornographic version of GTA. But
>> Wildenborg said he and his buddies did no such thing. He said the porn
>> movie was built into the game at the factory and his mod simply revealed
>> it. He claims a million people have downloaded ''Hot Coffee" since it was
>> posted on the Internet a month ago.
>>
>> ''All the material that is used during the sex scenes of the 'Hot Coffee'
>> mod are on the official San Andreas release," Wildenborg said. In other
>> words, he claims it's an ''Easter egg," an old tradition in computer
>> programming. Easter eggs are what result when an engineer adds a secret
>> mini-program that does something unexpected and amusing. Microsoft's
>> Excel 97 spreadsheet program, for instance, has a little flight
>> simulation game built in. You just have to press certain keys in the
>> right order, and up it comes.
>>
>> Wildenborg said it's harder to get at the porno video in GTA. It can be
>> done only on the version for desktop PCs, and it requires running the
>> ''Hot Coffee" program, which changes one bit of data in the computer's
>> memory --  ''the censor flag," as Wildenborg calls it
>>

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