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Matt Collins
07-30-2010, 12:03 PM
SOURCE:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=184733

dannno
07-30-2010, 12:08 PM
It's abstinence education...

TonySutton
07-30-2010, 12:14 PM
wow what a waste, kids can already do that on Sims, even same sex encounters.

tangent4ronpaul
07-30-2010, 02:14 PM
This is pretty hypocritical as some puritanical congress critters with their panties in a wad got wind of a relatively unknown game from Japan and made a stink about it. They put pressure on the Japanese gvmt and their industry association about sexually violent video games and as a result several titles stopped being sold, even in Japan and others got classed as Japanese customers only. There is a wide range of adult Japanese (sex) games ranging from sex being an aspect of the game, but not the major aspect, to building a consensual relationship with a virtual character to sexually violent games. Ironically, it's industry standards groups that are actually "banning" these things. What's really weird is that the Japanese industry association actually reviewed and approved the "poster child" game folks are up in arms about.

With this congress critter screaming WOLF, the predictable thing happened. It went viral and according the torrent sites with counters has now been downloaded millions of times.

Here's Penn's take on it:

YouTube - Japanese Rape Game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ACSsUhFk7I&feature=player_embedded)

There are a bunch of posts about the situation here:

http://www.gamepolitics.com/category/topics/rapelay

this one talks about the game politics:

The embers of the RapeLay controversy were stirred a bit yesterday with a report that the game - and others of its ilk - had been banned in Japan. Not by the government, mind you, but by an industry standards organization.

As it turned out, the report was false, but it prompted a great deal of hand-wringing about Japanese censorship. And yet, RapeLay is already banned - in advance - in the United States by an industry standards organization: the ESRB. Again, it's not a government ban, but it is a de facto ban.

Think about it. Video game retailers won't carry unrated games, which would require RapeLay's publisher to submit the software to the ESRB for a rating. Given its digusting subject matter, RapeLay would certainly be tagged with the quickest AO (adults only) rating ever issued by the ESRB. If you think back to the 2007 Manhunt 2 situation, you'll recall that major retailers won't carry AO-rated games and console manufacturers won't license them. That last bit wouldn't be a problem for RapeLay, of course, since it's a PC game.

Yes, the game could still be sold online by independents. Even governments have a hard time stopping that. But the AO rating is retail death and everyone in the video game business understands that. No publisher would waste their time and money submitting a RapeLay to the ESRB, which is why I maintain that such games are banned in advance. I don't have a problem with any of this, by the way. It's how the system was designed to work. True, there are occasional calls for a marketable AO rating. But the ESRB would probably need to create an XXX rating to accomodate games like RapeLay if AO ever became acceptable to Wal-Mart and GameStop.

And while RapeLay's developers are within their rights to create a game based upon sexual violence and pedophilia, retailers are certainly within theirs not to carry the game. Women's groups are free to protest its messages. And the rest of us are free to be creeped out by RapeLay.

Predictably, the Feminazi's want to ban much more:
http://hentai-watch.com/hentai/feminist-group-%E2%80%9Cjapan-must-ban-adult-games%E2%80%9D/

A US-based international feminist “human rights” group, Equality Now, is demanding the Japanese government ban adult games (and manga and anime by extension) which “promote violence against women,” and violate the human rights of women.

Here are a couple of lists of other controversial games:
http://screwattack.com/blogs/MadHeros-Blog-of-Madness/Madheros-List-Top-10-Most-Controversial-Games-of-the-Decade

http://www.oddee.com/item_96977.aspx

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/hentai-game-reviews/


remember, the OP is about the US government paying to developing a game that puts PRETEENS in sexual situations...

-t

jmdrake
07-30-2010, 03:11 PM
This project is targeted at Hispanic girls. Does that make it racist? :rolleyes:

Anyway, what Dannno said. From the story it seems they're using this as an abstinence teaching tool. It sounds like the old "roleplaying" scenario where the boy says "If you loved me you'd let me" and the girl says "If you loved me you wouldn't ask." I'm confused as to why the need for the whole "3-D simulated environment" is though? :confused:

tangent4ronpaul
07-30-2010, 08:46 PM
jmdrake - you ARE my ignore list - I don't see your postings. If your reply was to mine, I don't see it and don't want to. You are not worth reading. Do not bother.

On games - for those to lazy to click through.... There is some shocking stuff out there.

Ethnic cleansing - a neo-nazi video game aimed at recruitment. WARNING! - Racist song! I think the band is SKrewdrive - a racist band whow's lyrics are pretty objectionable, bit is not bad music wise...

YouTube - Ethnic Cleansing Video Game review part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0x-YNdJ-po&feature=player_embedded)


Then we have games that glorify "wasting towel heads" like:

Muslim Massacre: The Game of Modern Religious Genocide

and

Six Days in Fallujah

YouTube - Six Days In Fallujah 1ST GAMEPLAY 6/11/09 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0oOGjEATjw&feature=player_embedded)

There is a sniper game that lets you "wack" random innocent victims, Another lets you be one of the Columbine killers....

Pretty sick stuff.

But it is out there....

RapeLay is pretty mild - despite it's name. There is resistance in the train scenes - molestation - a Jap fantasy, but the sex is pretty consensual. not forced. Games like streetfucker are not. That's pretty hard core.

While we are on the topic, the majority of "rape/snuff" vids are staged, the Hollyweird film "8mm" did create the first "snuf film from a copy cat. there was another in Philly that was a photo shoot. Before that they were all fake. THANK YOU HOLLYWEIRD! NOT!

While we are slightly on topic - here is a clip from M*18 from Russia...

YouTube - Russian skinheads we are here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m6FI8qYjLQ&feature=related)

-t

thehunter
07-30-2010, 09:12 PM
Interesting notion, but I doubt that tween girls will be interested in playing a game like this ever -- the target groups will be skewed in all likelihood as soon as the question "Would you be interested in playing this?" gets asked (common mistake in the industry because it almost always come back more positive than the market will). I'm a bit surprised, but pleasantly so, that abstinence is in the program; hand on the burner argument.

Finally, I'd add that this should be privately funded, but that a) goes without saying and b) is a rare beast in Official Academia (TM) these days.