{"id":134,"date":"2008-04-30T23:25:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T03:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/04\/30\/madd-has-a-hissy-fit-about-gta4\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T23:27:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T03:27:57","slug":"madd-has-a-hissy-fit-about-gta4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/madd-has-a-hissy-fit-about-gta4\/","title":{"rendered":"MADD Has A Hissy Fit About GTA4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADD is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madd.org\/Media-Center\/Media-Center\/Press-Releases\/Press-Releases\/2008\/MADD%E2%80%99s-Statement-Regarding-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">demanding <\/a>that Grand Theft Auto be giving the rating of Adults Only because players can drive drunk in the game.  Citing their tiresome ass numbers, they proceed to give us their standard lecture, and then &#8220;suggest&#8221; that Rockstar remove the game from the market.<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar has spent an estimated $100 million developing the most eagerly anticipated game ever, and these mouth-breathers think they&#8217;ll pull it because it offends their tender sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>This story was sent to me by Mike T, via <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5007372\/madd-demands-ao-rating-for-gta-iv\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>.  Mike writes, &#8220;I remembered your MADD show a while ago and am pretty shocked at how dumb these people are.&#8221;  I&#8217;m not.  Nannyism is a mental disease, a religious infection that makes nannies immune from reason, logic, facts, or even simple common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Mike says, &#8220;I&#8217;ve had GTA since it came out and the game *really* discourages you from driving drunk. You crash a lot, (usually with others in the car, sometimes sending them to the hospital,) and it&#8217;s a great way to end up with cops chasing you.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the first time I came out of a bar in the game, my cousin, (in the game,) said something like, &#8216;we really should get a cab. You&#8217;re in no condition to drive.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My guess in the MADDtards have never played the game, but are going on some report somewhere that someone heard about from someone else who told them that there&#8217;s drunk driving in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Wait until they hear about the hookers. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADD is demanding that Grand Theft Auto be giving the rating of Adults Only because players can drive drunk in the game. Citing their tiresome ass numbers, they proceed to give us their standard lecture, and then &#8220;suggest&#8221; that Rockstar remove the game from the market. Rockstar has spent an estimated $100 million developing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}