Rockstar calls out terrible parents

Ratings or not, parents should be doing their jobs.

Originally posted by siriuswriter
"We were only making the games for adults!" = The Nuremberg Defense of the video game industry

wow, actually, deconstructing this, you look rather foolish

The Nuremburg defense is: Individual actors are not responsible for their actions because they were ordered to.

For Rockstar's position to even come close to this, individual Rockstar employees would have to be saying they aren't personally responsible for the content of their games, they were forced to create it and sell it.

And the article shows this to be undeniably false. Individual Rockstar employees did the specific opposite. They took full individual responsibility for the content of the game, and said that there was a problem in the way these were distributed (parents, retailers, etc). They are not attempting to pass responsibility off for their actions, they are expecting those who society has deemed the caretakers of children to use proper, industry designed, content warnings which are in practice identical to those that exist in music and movies.

so ya, you can try to paint this however you want, your position is fairly limited, and inappropriate appeals to nazis shows you probably aren't taking this too seriously anyways

EDIT: you are also in the rather ridiculous position of comparing human produced media made for a mature audience that demands it in a totally consentual context to the imposition of genocide on a race of people. The former requiring no justification, because it is simply the market and nobody is getting hurt, the latter caused the death of 6+ million people in the most terrible of ways.

do you work for PETA by chance?

I don't really agree with the premise that all parents who buy these games for their kids are bad. In some cases, they may be very good parents. And they buy them for their kids because they know their children are educated and smart enough to know the difference between a video game and real life.

The ones who just lazily buy their kids whatever they want without any knowledge of the product, and then get upset when little Jimmy kills a hooker - yeah, bad parents.

Originally posted by inimalist
and in practice, no major retailers will carry AO games

Rockstar hasn't said anything... It was Lazlow, a man who I highly doubt has the authority to speak for the company.

I don't work for PETA, and I meant the comment more as humor.

mine to, if you can believe it

if i could hear the tone of voice you would say that it in, yeah, i probably woulda caught the joke. sarcasm isn't easy over the web.

it wasn't sarcasm per se, just that deconstructionism is fun.

A sufficent amount of words is all that is required to make anything mean anything.