The most retarded “controversy” in videogaming history took an even stupider turn today when Hilary Clinton stepped in to demand the US FTC launch an investigation into who put “explicit material” in the game.

The game being GTA: San Andreas, a game which involves no small amount of shooting pedestrians, carjacking, running people over, beating up prostitutes, mugging people and all manner of other unsavoury activity. It’s not a terribly pleasant game and, yes, I’d be uncomfortable with children playing it. But apparently that’s all by the by because some hacker has managed to mod the game so that you get to see people having sex, and apparently it’s now much, much worse to see two badly rendered polygonal characters having poorly animated sex (mostly fully clothed and, in the girls case, lacking in nipples) than to allow people to gun down policemen, steal their car and run over pedestrians.

sigh. Sometimes I really do wonder if democracy really is such a good idea or if an intellectual meritocracy might be a better way of doing things.

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