BOOBIES!

I'm not dead yet, honest. I've just been lazy. Those are two different things you know! Unless, you're so lazy that you might as well be dead - but that's not me. I feel bad for not updating, but I'm too lazy to sit down for 45mins to flesh out the things on my mind.

When I first heard about the whole Mass Effect controversy on Fox news, I was going to go into a rant on the matter. I was going to take the entire debate with Fox vs. Keighly and break apart each and every claim and "rebuttal" that Fox offered. Everything they said was flawed, all of their evidence was skewed, and they had no idea what they were talking about. I was going to take each line and show why and how it was completely wrong. But, while I'm still perturbed by Fox, I'm too lazy to do it. Plus, the "expert" they hired to argue with Keighly offered an apology for her incompetence - er, I mean, lack of research. I'm not sure whether she was being sincere about it, or just trying to cover her butt - in either case, I'm just mad that there are people who watch this stuff and believe it to be true. If Mass Effect has full frontal nudity, then all beaches in the entire world should be off limits.

I've played the game; and I've seen both scenes in question. The first, I would never have encountered because it required following the "evil" track. The second was only through "hard work" of completing the love story with one of the other characters. To be honest, it's a very cinematic (in the plot sense) progression. You get to know the said love affection-character throughout the game, fight with them, and talk to endless NPCs with them. It's only reasonable that before the finale - the final battle - that your character and their love interest get a little something... But wait, what's all this fuss about! Mass Effect is rated M. The equivalent in movies is R. Both are for ages 17+. Take the movie 300. Just before the King goes to battle, he and his wife have at it - OMG BOOBIES! -- Mass Effect: NO BOOBIES! OMG THIS IS BAD!

I will venture to say that it is harder to play a game through to get to the "sex scene" (a very mild one in comparison to movies and even TV these days) than pop in a comparably rated movie just to get at some nudity. I guess I couldn't help ranting about the ordeal despite saying I was lazy. There's more to be said, but there is one point that completely shuts down any possible intelligent argument. Mass Effect is rated M. "but but! kids are seeing this!" ... Your point? Are they supposed to? Porn is meant for 18+. I don't have statistics, but with the advent of the internet... Hell, even movies depict kids with porn mags as if it's daily life. My favorite quote is, "I went on the website today. I clicked on a lot of different trailers. I tried to learn as much about it as I could before we did this... It's interesting: when you click on it, it asks you your age. It says you must go through a scanning process. So I though, ugh, this is going to take forever. Ok, so I put in my age; and then Boom you're in, no problem. So that is a pretty screen to get past."

Wait, was she trying to make a point of something? Wait, is she trying to say that a 10 year old could do this? Wait, let's up that age to 13. Wait, oh my god! Wait, she's saying that a minor could be getting into a restricted site! Wait, they're getting access to potential nudity?! Refer to one of my older posts about this age verification subject. I felt pretty good that I had already made her look stupid, before she put out the idea. There's free porn on the internet that's much worse than a video game site.

Anyway, I'm done with that. I got a new keyboard today; I'll probably share pictures next post. I also went to the Wash. DC auto show yesterday with some friends yesterday too. So stay tuned for those as well. Nothing too exciting though. I'm sorry there were no pictures in this post and it was just a long string of text. Tomorrow is Monday! Enjoy the new week. *cough*