And ESRB Aren't the only assholes...

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It seems that there is now an attorney from Miami, Jack Thompson who has taken it upon himself to go after EA Games, the makers of the extremely popular and best-selling game, The Sims 2 (they are affiliated with Maxis, who were the geniuses behind the original Sims).

Sims 2 content "worse than Hot Coffee"

Well, this only affirms what I said in my rant about the GTA:SA change in rating - American censors are ignorant assholes who have never played the game themselves, as well as those who avocate for the censor of the game itself.

So, this Thompson asshole has managed to prove himself to be extremely ignorant, even if he is seemingly "educated" and even then I question his qualifcations as a competant human being, as he seems to apparently lack a very key feature that is found in the standard non-deluxe floor model - a cognitive process.

Before I quote this loud-mouth ignorant feces-spewing malcontent, allow me to explain to the innocent masses what exactly is Sims 2...

It's a simulation game, in which you control one or more sims (whether as friends, family, etc...) in a house, or in a dormitory (as allowed in the university expansion). These sims are tailored to look as you wish (when you first use CAS - Create a Sim). But, since sims can have babies and adopt, the family changes appearance over the generations.

Sims depending on age can participate in a wide variety of activities. They can marry, have children, divorce, play games (such as and not limited to, pool, darts, MYSHUNO, chess, redhands), cook (the variety depends on cooking ability and age; children can only cook using a child's toy oven).

They also have their own little quirks like humans, and require food, fun, hygeine, socialisation and rest to be happy.

To be socially happy, they need friends, which can come from the family or close colleagues.

Adults can marry, have a common-law partner, many partners, work, write best-sellers, and eventually retire. They also get little fun things like woohoo.

Teenagers can go to school, work part-time, have a semi-intimate relationship (everything but woohoo), go out and even more sinister - sneak out! If they have a bad home life they also run away.

Children are more limited, but they like the teens and adults have friends. They also go to school, play, and make mischief.

Toddlers are taught by thoughtful adults how to walk, talk and use the body.

Infants are just little wailing diaper fillers whose only feature is that they are mildly cute.

The game is very innocent until you add mods (or hacks) which can alter the game play in very mild to severe ways (in some cases corrupting the files if one is not careful). These mods alter game play.

Now, without a mod, sims are generally, when nude, covered with the madatory "blur" grid, which in the case of males covers where the penis is, and for females, the breasts and vaginas.

With a simple piece of code placed into a start-up cheat file (placed in the Sims 2 directory in your My Documents, under config), you can remove the blur by setting the grid side to 0 (zero).

Now that I've explained this, here is what this blow-hard pulled out of the murky depths of his ass...

In the statement, Thompson says, "Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise ... contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair."

Uhm... I have to wonder how much crack this ass was smoking because that is the more farfetched piece of tripe I have read since...well, reading the reasons for censoring, removing and re-rating GTA:SA and making the developers redo the code to remove the portion that contains (without a mod) an UNPLAYABLE minisex game.

This shit-spewing loud-mouthed arrogant malcontent then goes on to say,

It's not just the adults that are liberated from their wardrobes. Sims kids can also be nudified, "much to the delight, one can be sure, of pedophiles around the globe who can rehearse, in virtual reality, for their abuse."

I'd like to see how since the worse thing that can be done to sim children, which is pure neglect (from failing to send the child to school to not feeding them), gets them taken away by SimState (and put into an adoption pool). This removal process, however can be circumvented with a mod. However, the only thing that mod does is prevent the social worker from making a housecall. There is another similar mod, but it doesn't outright stop the social worker; it makes the social worker more reasonable, and so, the social worker just doesn't show up at the drop of a hat if the baby cries for too long.

Naked sim children have very genric bodies (boys and girls look the same). The only thing that sets them apart is the face and any other features, such as hair, skin and eye colour and shape.

I've seen requests to allow children to have crushes on other children, but all the hackers and modders on all the forums I go to (such as Various Simmers and ModtheSims2) flat out refuse to touch that, and these are the same people who have developed such hacks like teen-woohoo, anti-social worker, flamingo of doom, and various others.

To even get someone to mod it so that pedophiles could play out their perversion in a game would require a very amoral modder to take up the request, but there is no such thing as non-conseual woohoo in the game. The behaviour would have to be modified, and then the global variables for that may be uneditable and if modded, would make the game unplayable.

I'd seen modders refuse to make a hack that makes a teen pregnant by chance if she sneaks out with a male friend...

This asshole then goes out and flatout draws parallels between The Sims 2 and GTA:SA.

Thompson doesn't buy it. "The sex and the nudity are in the game. That's the point. The blur is an admission that even the 'Ken and Barbie' features should not be displayed. The blur can be disarmed. This is no different than what is in San Andreas, although worse."

So it's worse than the sex minigame, in which the player can watch, while almost fully clothed, intercourse, and yet, Barbie and Ken doll-like nudity is worse?! What the hell rock has this retard been hiding under, because he better damn well return to it before all the angry gamers come out of their parents' basements (forgive the stereotype) and chase him lynchmob style!