[Linux-Anyway] Re: Fwd: Retailers rebuff "XXX" game

Meph Istopheles wrote:

>Retailers rebuff "XXX" game
>By Reuters
>October 15, 2002, 5:54 AM PT
>http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962057.html
>
>Three of the nation's top retailers on Monday said they had
>refused to carry a new video game billed as the first major
>release to feature full-action nudity, and prostitutes and pimps
>as major characters.
>
>Using the tagline "Keep it Dirty," video-game publisher Acclaim
>Entertainment is gearing up for the Nov. 19 launch of "BMX XXX,"  
>a game that also features copulating pink poodles and a variety
>of racing-bike stunts.
>
>But major retailers Wal-Mart Stores, Toys "R" Us and KB Toys all
>said they would not carry the game, a potential blow for the
>game's exposure.
>
>"We're not going to carry any software with any vulgarity or
>nudity--we're just not going to do it," Wal-Mart spokesman Tom
>Williams said.
>

Right, the youth needs to be protected from all evil. Of course it's ok 
to sell Quake because after one of those direct rocket-launcher or 
raygun hits I love so much, the fragments of your adversary that lay 
spread across half the map still have discernible fragments of garments 
on them. But where the society would be going to if children were to see 
nude persons, and such inherently evil persons like prostitutes and pimps?
Heh, I sometimes wonder how you people manage to be one of world's most 
promiscuous and simultaneosly most prudish nations. I tend to find this 
contradiction rather funny and  likeable (well, at least the promiscuous 
part).

Cheers
Horror Vacui

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