NEW "SIMS" DEEMED X-Rated

“This administration will do everything it can to make sure this garbage does not get into the hands of our children,” said Ashcroft. “And we won’t stop until the last drop of immorality is drained from our movies, our music, our television, our radios, and yes, even our video games.”

Well, on those grounds even Star Wars would be banned, considering how immorally the bad guys acted.

41 posted on 05/03/2004 3:38:33 AM PDT by Junior (Remember, you are unique, just like everyone else.)

42 posted on 05/03/2004 3:52:09 AM PDT by Jonx6

Click on one of the links at the bottom of the page and read the page that appears to tell you the page you request is not available.

43 posted on 05/03/2004 3:54:32 AM PDT by Jonx6

Electronic Arts announced the release date for its much anticipated followed up to The Sims, despite a recent move by the Bush Administration and Christian groups to block the game from store shelves.

The Sims 2, which is scheduled to hit stores this summer, is drawing harsh criticism for its realistic depiction of sex and adulthood themes like abortion, gambling, sexual disease, and drug use.

The sequel to the best-selling PC game of all time lets you create and control your own virtual people and influence the outcome of their lives. It contains all of the features and challenges of the original Sims, but with better artificial intelligence and more mature subject matter.

The latter is drawing the ire of US Attorney General John Ashcroft, who labeled the upcoming game “obscene by anyone’s standards,” in a speech to the Christian Coalition of America on Thursday.

From infancy to childhood, and from teenage life to adulthood, you can guide your virtual character through any of the following situations:

Two virtual characters can have sex (in any number of positions). You can even have sex with multiple partners.
If you choose not to wear a condom, you can produce a baby that looks like you and your virtual partner. If you decide that you don’t want the baby, you can give it up for adoption. The Sims virtual world also has any number of abortion clinics to choose from if you decide that an abortion is best for you and your partner.
If your character has sex with multiple partners, you can run the risk of getting STDs like herpes, gonorrhea, and HIV. The Sims virtual world will contain support groups for full-blown AIDs patients.
If a drug dealer approaches your character you can purchase drugs. You can even choose to smoke (or shoot) the drugs alone or with the dealer in a back alley or crack house.
If your character quits smoking, it may develop physical side effects like shaking and sweating. You can counter these effects and make your character “happy” by picking up another habit like gambling, drinking and, ironically, video gaming.

In his speech Thursday, Ashcroft blamed an “immoral and money hungry” video game industry for trying corrupt teenagers with graphic depictions of sex and violence. He also went on to blame parents for not keeping a proper eye on their children.

“This administration will do everything it can to make sure this garbage does not get into the hands of our children,” said Ashcroft. “And we won’t stop until the last drop of immorality is drained from our movies, our music, our television, our radios, and yes, even our video games.”

44 posted on 05/03/2004 7:28:03 AM PDT by sharktrager (The greatest strength of our Republic is that the people get the government they deserve.)

of course I knew it was fake, just having some harmless
fun...for discussion purposes only...

45 posted on 05/03/2004 8:07:44 AM PDT by hookman

46 posted on 05/03/2004 8:08:31 AM PDT by hookman

47 posted on 05/03/2004 8:10:04 AM PDT by hookman

We Have A Winner! funny, very funny

48 posted on 05/03/2004 8:12:14 AM PDT by railsplitter (with extreme prejudice- destroy the enemy... foreign and domestic)

Happens to the best of us... ;)

49 posted on 05/03/2004 8:35:29 AM PDT by general_re (Drive offensively - the life you save may be your own.)

To: hookman; tiamat

Hookman, sorry to break it to you, but you've been had. Mired isn't a real news site. Tia, check this out!

50 posted on 05/03/2004 8:37:13 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I shall defend to the death your right to stick it)

no, really, I knew it was fake,
It was sent to me from Liquid Generation.
I thought it would do some good fun, thanks for warning me any way! :)

51 posted on 05/03/2004 8:58:44 AM PDT by hookman

To: Xenalyte; hookman; All

Oh, Wow.

And of course a bunch here swallowed it whole.

IT'S BOGUS!

And the graphics can be manipulated! Which is what has happened here.

YES. Some people do naughty things with their game, but generally that involves hacking it. It does NOT come off of the shelves like that. You have to willfully WANT to do that and go about arranging it.

Would I let my daughter play The Sims?

No.

Why?

Because she is developementally delayed. ( mild autism)

The game is complicated, and it would break her heart if a Sim got fired from it's job or had a house-fire.

She'd cry actual tears over this little pixalated person and she'd feel bad.

That's the ONLY reason I won't let her play. ( She is nearly 12, but it is better to think of her as 9)

( Hi, Xena! Thanks for the ping! )

Tira Now!

52 posted on 05/03/2004 11:01:25 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")

53 posted on 05/03/2004 11:04:13 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I shall defend to the death your right to stick it)

54 posted on 05/03/2004 11:06:26 AM PDT by The_Victor

Dish grau is fredyshay! :::;laugh::::

55 posted on 05/03/2004 11:15:26 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")

Those screen shots were taken from the EA/Maxis website. I doubt that they would be putting up fake images of their product.

The article might be fake but the crap in the game isn't.

56 posted on 05/03/2004 3:38:26 PM PDT by COEXERJ145

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