Impending doom?

Remember back a few months ago when Fox News had its whole "new video game shows full digital nudity and sex" thing with the tag line: "se"xbox? Sex box! Even now i still shake my head at reading their very cleaver pun. What cleaver people these Fox News anchors and writers must be!

Seriously though, if you missed it the first time it's good for a few laughs:


The anchor starts the segment by saying the game features "full digital nudity", that you can "engage in graphic sex", and that the player "gets to decide exactly what happens between the two people, if you know what i mean".

Here's one of the sex scenes in question:


The game has a total of 3 characters that your character can have sex with(as a male you can only have sex with 2, same with the female), and this is such a very small part of the game that it's actually really funny that they are even talking about it. Well it's not funny, actually, it's extremely aggravating if you've ever played the game. The sheer stupidity of the "Mass Effect sex scandal" is just a small part of the medias attempts to point to video games as a the cause for all the ills of society.

Grand Theft Auto 4 is less than 3 weeks away, and I'm curious to see how the media will react to it. The most outspoken individual of video games has been Jack Thompson. Jack has quite a past with law suits against video game company's on the assumption that they have caused violence. Take-Two was successful in filing a lawsuit to prevent Thompson from preventing the sale of Grand Theft Auto 4, so this time he will have to sit quietly while GTA4 hits store shelves, however, we have seen the lack of research being done by the media, so there is no reason not to assume they will charge head long into this whole fiasco again.

It's hard to think how anyone could get the impression that by playing video games they will learn how to properly handle and aim a fire arm. It's also hard to think that someone could not see the parallel between the 60s with its hate on rock music to today with its hate on video games.

It's simply a generation gap, and it's sad that they don't see it.