GTA IV Mock Pedophile Website Trap: One Man Irritated + The Sun = Controversy?
I do enjoy me some controversy, but I think some people are grabbing for straws on this one. GTA IV features a parody of just about everything in some way shape or form. Killing video game advocates, killing 'mos, defending 'mos, hookers, pimps, drug lords, and more than I care to list here. If you can name it and it is morally objectionable to anyone it is probably included in game.
One of the funniest things I've seen included in the game is a mock Pedophile web page (www.littlelacysurprisepagent.com). It's one of those trap web pages that are created with the sole purpose of logging visitors and then punishing them. The page simply states that you are being watched and your IP was logged, and your wanted meter is immediately maxed to 5 stars. The page is barely suggestive, but that did not stop one man from getting his panties in a twist.
Jason Deschoolmeester, 23, of South Wales, said: "I was looking on the internet for cheats and the name of this caught my eye as my daughter is called Lacey. This crosses the line. The makers have obviously sat around and discussed putting this in, and it's not on. What will they do next?"It's disgusting. It could lead people to indulge in things like that. It is totally sick. I won't play it again."
The Sun of course amplified the drama and is now calling it some grand outrage. I think it's pretty safe to say that no one at Rockstar takes pedophilia lightly. It never ceases to amaze me how little a sense of humor people can have with that sort of thing.
A HIT computer game has sparked outrage by featuring a spoof paedophile (sp) website. [The Sun]
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Posted to Video Games on 16 June 2008
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With a name like Jason Deschoolmeester I propose the police see what he's been downloading.
They're Sun readers, if you combine the brainpower of all tabloid readers you nearly get 2/5ths of a regular person.
Using the same software the Sun uses to make ridiculous drama of epic proportions I have conclusive proof Jason Deschoolmeester is a paedophile, his name indicates the words could if you skew them and choose to purposely look at them this way say "To School Mister" which is something a child would say to a stranger in a morning on the way to school, in a car offering sweets.
Also cheats are something school kids have been known to use.
Also people as YOUNG AS 3 YEARS OLD have played computer games.
Get this depraved monster behind bars.
i dunno, that quote almost seems too retarded to be true, even by sun standards - maybe it was just some bored teenagers seeing if they could get in the papers by pretending to be outraged. especially considering the guy's name.
although you never know really. i'm constantly impressed by tabloid readers' (and journalists') ability to switch their brains off (if they were ever switched on in the first place) whenever someone so much as alludes to paedophilia, regardless of context - the reaction to that Brass Eye special for example.
Heh, Brass Eye exposing the gullibility and of attention seeking celebrities "its scientific fact paedophiles share more genetic code with crabs than they do with humans" lulz.
The Sun, bastion of truth and Saviour of a nations children. Anti-paedophillia stories on one page, opposite page a photo journalism piece on how attractive Emma Watson (Hermione Granger in Harry Potter) is will be (when she is of legal age).