Online World Offers Virtual Drugs
Posted by Emil Protalinski on 15 January 2007 - 16:11 · 14 comments & 3362 views
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#1 Posted by Islander on 15 Jan 2007 - 16:41
- Quote -"Games are interactive and psychologically powerful. Now we have a game that glorifies drug use. Where do we draw the line?"What a n00b! What about FPS, war games, being played by millions of people daily? Either both are bad, or both have no impact. This is another example of people doing a job they have absolutely no idea about.
Where is that virtual world where you can get a woman (or man) and...
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#1.1 Posted by linx05 on 15 Jan 2007 - 17:09
- Quote - (Islander said @ #1)Where is that virtual world where you can get a woman (or man) and...
They had that on Grand Theft... then they removed it
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#1.2 Posted by Glassed Silver on 15 Jan 2007 - 21:39
- Quote - (linx05 said @ #1.1)Quote - (Islander said @ #1)Where is that virtual world where you can get a woman (or man) and...
They had that on Grand Theft... then they removed it
if u were dumb enought to install that patch that had the only mission to disable the hot coffee-mod yes...
seriously... who did install this? raise your arms!
i mean... if i have this hot coffee mod installed its for a certain reason... i dont want it removed or i just re-install the game and dont complain
2nd option: if i dont want it, tho i didnt test it, i still may just avoid installing the mod
3rd option: i am a parent and care about my children... oh wait... SAN ANDREAS + little children too young for sex scenes ... wait... im complained about sex scenes but not about the violence in games?... WTF
all in all you can say: there's practically NO reason to install that crappy patch LOL.
if it at least improved something in the game, but its only freaking job is to reduce ur freedom of changing the game the way you want... its like locking yourself out..
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#2 Posted by Shetland on 15 Jan 2007 - 17:08
- in what way is it virtual at all? it says there are hookah's in this café place.... its just being branded as virtual because its to do with a net café or something. unless im reading it wrong
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#2.1 Posted by YaddaMe on 15 Jan 2007 - 17:29
- Quote - (Shetland said @ #2)in what way is it virtual at all? it says there are hookah's in this café place.... its just being branded as virtual because its to do with a net café or something. unless im reading it wrong
No, it's some web-based adult version of The Sims, from my understanding, where you character can go toke it up. How this translates into anything even remotely "quite realistic" is beyond me.
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#4 Posted by +Lt-DavidW on 15 Jan 2007 - 19:16
- Uh, so it would be better to pretend that drugs don't exist?
That would only drive it further underground and make the uneducated even more curious as to what it's all about.
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#5 Posted by StimyJoeBlue on 15 Jan 2007 - 20:45
- So stupid
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#6 Posted by Glassed Silver on 15 Jan 2007 - 21:45
- "quite realistic"...
-> Oh that cocaine headaches and shaking and crap comes again... naaah... i better have a coffee and some cookies and watch TV instead of watching the crappy part of virtual drug using...
or wait... i could tape that and watch it all over again to be stoned all time, so i dont need to buy my coke any more, YEAAAH.
WTF
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#7 Posted by Typhon on 15 Jan 2007 - 23:01
- That game looks fun I am going to try it lol. Lets so how real it realy is lol.
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#8 Posted by Croquant on 16 Jan 2007 - 00:46
- It has to be in a virtual reality to be a virtual drug. These are just pretend drugs in a pretend game.
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#9 Posted by The_Decryptor on 16 Jan 2007 - 02:26
- Oh this is just stupid.
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#10 Posted by black_death on 16 Jan 2007 - 03:35
- I love it when old people who can barely even use Hotmail without getting a blue screen talk about something they have absolutely no clue about (see http://youtube.com/watch?v=1lYiDo0DjSk ), the same losers who would be heavily involved in these "virtual drugs" are also the same losers who probably don't leave their house too many times in a month let alone ones that go seeking out drug dealers. Maybe its not video games that are destroying todays youth but rather all the old people who are boycotting them with stupid excuses and while the kids parents are at the anti-video game rallies the kids go out and score some crack.
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#11 Posted by Spectate Swamp on 16 Jan 2007 - 13:40
Sounds like a great place to market my "Medicine Stones"
Better than any hooka.
Pot is OK. It's the other stuff that kills.
Dr David Walsh, a spokesman for the National Institute on Family and the Media, isn’t pleased with the use of “virtual drugs” in video games. He believes it creates curiosity and allure for players, instead of emphasizing the negative impacts. "Games are interactive and psychologically powerful. Now we have a game that glorifies drug use. Where do we draw the line?" he said.
"In a move sure to draw fire from the anti-drug establishment, any user who enters Merlin's Café will find an assortment of hookahs, or Oriental water pipes. The pipes can be freely smoked, and doing so will cause the user to experience the sensation of getting high. Smoking more virtual pot increases the effects, which range from 'mellow' to 'wasted'," the company said.