Hey -- what else are they supposed to be devoting their time to, ever since they stamped out real-life drunken driving for good a couple years ago?

Driving drunk in this game is way harder than it is in real li—

Um. Nevermind.

I'm starting my own group: Nerds Against Not Being Able To Find A Decent Car To Steal When You're In Some Strange Part Of Town At Night And There Are Only Shitty Delivery Trucks And Vans And All You Want To Do Is Get To Michelle's To Take Her To Burger Shot For The Post Date Coitus.

"Mature" is a rating?

I always thought it was meant to be some kind of ironic joke.

This reminds me of a quote our favorite local prick recently gave against GTA:

"Vallone also added with the use of a sarcastic analogy, "setting Grand Theft Auto in the safest city in America would be like setting Halo in Disneyland."

Which I, for one, can't wait for.

Yes, because only adults should be allowed to drink and drive.

@fiveinchtaint: Kill innocent bystanders until the police show up. Kill the police. Flee in police car.

I do think that video games have an affect on some people's real life actions; and definitely affect everyone's world view. However, give up trying to regulat them. It won't work. You can't stop the wicked march of modernity. If we haven't learned that by now, what have we learned?

wait, people drive sober? I can barely swipe my metrocard without a swig of jack

I'll stop driving drunk when they stop putting the bars so far away from my apartment. I mean, come on -- let's put the blame where it belongs.

So the video games which involve disembowelling people or chopping off their heads are fine? Or is that only as long as they haven't been drinking first?

@Conbon: But then you'd have like 5 stars and have to deal with choppers. I prefer no stars, as does my profile here.

@fiveinchtaint: We're talking about a video game right now, Taint. Save it for your therapist.

This reminds me of the time I tried to turn a bunch of people into pillars of salt after reading the Bible in Catholic School.

You know what Mothers? Get a job!

What MADD doesn't know is that bearded guy outside the window is saying "C'mon. Give me the keys. You don't wanna do this. Did you know that 9% of Americans recently admitted to driving drunk within the last month? Do you think that's funny, dude? Do you want to be just another statistic, buddy?" before his friend drives away andhe has to shoot his friend's car's rear tires out to prevent him from smashing into a minivan full of kids.

But seriously - driving drunk isn't funny. Visit Mothers Against Drunk Driving to see why they think this is - rightly - a big deal.

[www.madd.org]

@fiveinchtaint: Michelle likes 'em dangerous.

This is going to stir up trouble with IDDAMADD

Imaginary Drunk Drivers Against Mothers Against Drunk Driving

@In Other News...: Driving drunk = bad.

Driving drunk in a video game = harmless and awesome.

Why is it that MADD cannot make the distinction?

@Conbon: Really? She gave me shit for taking her to the beer garden!

Still got the coitus, tho, so maybe it's all okay.

@Astigmatism: I took her to the beer garden, got yelled at but got my warm coffee. Then my roommate saved over my game. After I got through acting out a real life version of the game on his stupid face, I replayed the mission and took her to the cabaret. When I tried to close back at her place she said "I'd invite you in, but it would probably cost about $20 million." So drunk driving makes Michelle horny, depressing vaudeville acts make her funny.

What about Mothers of Hookers Against Not Paying the Tab for Video Game Sex (and Instead run over hookers)?

Some of the themes of this video game enrage me. So does pokemon and Hannah Montana. Kids today are too susceptible to this crap.

@tempest: I don't know about you, but I've killed every evil space alien I've come across since Halo 3 came out. Whether I've been drinking or not isn't anyone's business.

I wonder what the Mothers FOR Drunk Driving have to say about this...

@Conbon: @dummyfakeroller: There seems to be little rhyme or reason as to when she'll allow you in for coffee. First date bowling - score. Second date restaurant - no dice. And it was as if she had totally forgotten the beauty that transpired on our first date.

First they came for Custer's Revenge, and I said nothing. . .

[flowtv.org]

Does gawker have some quota of posts about GTA now that they advertise it or something?

@Conbon: Just dial 911. The cops will come like a freshly delivered pizza.

Meanwhile, Plumbers Against Shrum Abuse has yet to weigh in on the dangers of snaking drains while high. Won't anyone please think of the princesses!

This is BS. I took Michele to the Comardes Bar and got hammered. The game suggested I take a cab, but still let me drive all cockeyed on the road. Same thing that happens in real life.

Incidentally, she only kissed me in the car after the Cabaret show, but after driving her home all trashed I was invited upstairs for a lil' sumthin sumthin.