And yet there sits God of War, still on the shelf, complete with the sexual minigame.
Double standard, anyone? Considering there's no actual nudity within the "Hot Coffee" thing that is causing politicians to brandish their swords. Just an example of an act that most human beings tend to go through. The change of the rating is more or less the gaming industry freaking out and attempting to cover their own ass.
The fact that the country has come back around to this again, four years after the original brouhaha, is just as ridiculous. And, in fact, Hillary Clinton pretty much shows how behind the times she is when it comes to video games and "them precious, precious child'en!"
"They're playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them. You know, that's kind of hard to digest."
Well, I suppose the first thing is that the game never encourages anyone to have sex with a prostitute. Especially in this game, where eating or sleeping is a bit more viable (and more rewarding) idea than finding a hooker to fill ten points on your health gauge. Nor does it ever say to murder them. That's up to the person, up to how they want to release their emotions.
And, also, that was a big deal four years ago. Not today.
I swear, we actually vote these people into positions of power, and then they half-ass their research on the way into creating a furor (and hopefully a pathetically loyal voter's base that will blindly consider whatever they do to be great).
Add in the Pope calling Harry Potter a stunter of Christianity's growth in the soul, and you can really suppose that the misinformed opinions of millions has just been formed.
I do find another double standard in my store, also: we carry the original NC-17 cut of The Dreamers, a film that is quite frank with nudity and sex, and yet we refuse to carry the John Waters comedy A Dirty Shame, which is simply gross-out humor that is pushed only a little bit past an American Pie film.
Sometimes I just hate this fucking country.