Regarding "Golden Flavor Syrup"...a few months ago I was at a Giganto-plex theater standing in the concession line waiting to get a $9 soda and watched person after person pump gobs and gobs of whatever that butter substitute is supposed to be on their popcorn. Gobs and gobs and gobs...I was physically sickened.
You can play the game without picking up and/or killing prostitutes, but I think that's beside the point. As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, the dilemma is whether or not to buy a game that you really really want to play but has an element that you (and I use "you" throughout in the universal sense) find distasteful or offensive.
If something bothers you, well then it bothers you. Do you want to support a product that depicts sex (or anything else for that matter) in a sick way? It's a personal issue, but I don't think it's a trivial one.
Whenever someone says, "I don't want to work," I feel myself compelled to ask, "You just want to bang on the drum all day?"
posted by ampersand 19 years ago
In "100 Favourite literary characters."
I can't see including Philip Marlowe but not Sam Spade...there's THREE characters from "Catch 22" on the list.
posted by ampersand 19 years ago
In "Curious George-Movie"
Regarding "Golden Flavor Syrup"...a few months ago I was at a Giganto-plex theater standing in the concession line waiting to get a $9 soda and watched person after person pump gobs and gobs of whatever that butter substitute is supposed to be on their popcorn. Gobs and gobs and gobs...I was physically sickened.
posted by ampersand 20 years ago
In "Curious George: Sexism in "Grand Theft Auto""
You can play the game without picking up and/or killing prostitutes, but I think that's beside the point. As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, the dilemma is whether or not to buy a game that you really really want to play but has an element that you (and I use "you" throughout in the universal sense) find distasteful or offensive. If something bothers you, well then it bothers you. Do you want to support a product that depicts sex (or anything else for that matter) in a sick way? It's a personal issue, but I don't think it's a trivial one.
posted by ampersand 20 years ago
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