It's finally happened. Not only can you have a "Second Life" on the internet, you can now get virtually high. Virtual world Red Light Center has started selling virtual drugs in its online nightclubs, hotels, bars, cinemas and shops. The company, which claims to be world's second most populated virtual space, is limiting the virtual world to 18+ users. Red Light Center says its users are reporting the "virtual high" is quite realistic.
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.
News source: vnunet.com
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.
News source: vnunet.com
Where is that virtual world where you can get a woman (or man) and...
They had that on Grand Theft... then they removed it
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..
-fm
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.
That would only drive it further underground and make the uneducated even more curious as to what it's all about.
-> 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
-fm
Sounds like a great place to market my "Medicine Stones"
Better than any hooka.
Pot is OK. It's the other stuff that kills.
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