Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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12:42 PM
Click on this button to listen LIVE:  HERE's THE LIVE CALL IN NUMBER: (347) 205-9765 (That is a free call for cell phones nationwide!) Back on the air this afternoon - 2pm EST. One Hour ONLY! SOME CULTURE: Gamers from X-box Universe are screaming for my head, because I object to a game that features alien, lesbian, hetero sex - and is being played by 15 year olds! Here's their chance to dialogue about it - starting at the top of the show 2pm: (347)205-9765. (Free call on most cell phones. And in NYC metro area!) SOME POLITICS: Will Mitt bring home his first win in Michigan tonight, politicos - let's talk about what a Romney win will mean to the race. SOME LIFE: The average human being will lie 88,000 times in their lives, here's an interesting thought - who is the one person in your life that you believe would NEVER lie to you - and why...? BONUS ROUND: Manboobs make the case against socialized medicine! It's not talk-radio without you! Spread the word - and be by the computer at 2pm EST!
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I just had my second child two days ago. Ron Paul has delivered aver 4000 babies and never performed and abortion. Spin as you may see fit. But dont call yourself a conservative when you liberally twist the truth.
I use to like you Kevin, and now it seems you have become so fearful of what is good, just, and right, you poisened you own mind. You sir, have become equal to Clinton smear machine. I find it Ironic that Conservatism has become the very thing it once hated. |
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Right? How absolutely deranged does one have to be to say an ob/gyn of 40 years HATES children?
Does this not destroy ANY intellectual influence Kevin-the-liberal has on readers?
I only see this kind of hateful rhetoric coming from Huck and the dems.
The amazing part is that Kevin is trying to play himself as a moral authority in his posts. Why do self-righteous people always display such hate and pettiness? |
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Why don't you dial up the show and see if I can make my case.
BTW... it wasn't an indictment of Paul. It's an indictment of his supporters... |
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insurance' I'd just vote for Hillary Clinton to start with! Mitt Romney was just as bad when he was Governor of Massachusetts as Hillary was as a Senator in so far as to make everybody have to buy 'healthcare' insurance. Evidently nobody has bothered to tell either one of them that buying healthcare insurance isn't going to make anyone or anything any healthier besides the insurance company's bank accounts! |
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Since you obviously lied in your previous column, how do we know these aren't lies too? In fact, how can anyone, anywhere, ever, trust you not to lie to them again? Can you please tell me that, liar? |
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Some Culture - Hey, if the parents have a problem with their kids playing a video game that has sexual/violent content in it they shouldn't buy the friggin game for them!!!
Some Politics - It's a wide open race and nobody has a clear advantage.
Some Life - Who will never lie to me? Myself, duh.
Bonus Round - Hey good idea, go insult overweight people! That'll help your ratings!!!!
Politics doesn't need another shock jock and you're not even good at it!!!
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Well this is cute. Even after having his whole erroneous point demolished now he is going on the air with his idiocy and lies. Amusing. Hey Musclehead, heads are for brains. You might want to consider getting some. |
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Gamers called you out for lying. Blatently and repeatedly. You didn't check any of your facts and have no verified sources for your ridiculous claims.
I believe the terms you used to describe said game are: Sex Simulater, Virtual Orgasmic Rape, Sodomy, Graphic, and a litany of other vastly untrue accusations.
You are being attacked because you are a moron. The game in question contains absolutely no nudity or graphic sex. You are lying about the content of the game and do not have the guts to admit it. Gamers jump all over you because you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
You were simply making up a grand tale to write yet another story about children, sex, and rape. BTW, why is that such a recurring theme for you? And why do you go into such detail on a complete fabrication? All of what you described came from your own mind, since there is nothing remotely like it is found in the game. In my opinion, you have a very sick and twisted imagination and may need help. |
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That is an interesting stat. Foreshadowing your next article? A thinly veiled excuse for your last one?
Now, in your libel against Mass Effect, you lied no less than ten times. Now does that count as ten lies, or does it count ten times for each reader that read your ill-concieved drivel? If the latter is the case, I think you may have managed to top the average persons lifetime of lying in the 10 minutes it took you to write it. |
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You mean like your news post? HAH. Man I hope BioWare tears you a new one. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NragL5-7Mvo
This is about as bad as it get folks.
Strongly caution for all the graphical sex and body parts flying around. /sarcasm off |
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Kevin,
I was your second caller today who mentioned the study about game sales to minors. Here is a link the the Federal Trade Commission report on game sales showing a drop from 85% of M rated games getting into kids hands in 2000 to 42% in 2005. Showing 15% weren't able to in 2000 and 60% weren't able to in 2005, that's a drop of 400%. The report goes on to spank the industry on some other issues, but this was the main focus of the investigation.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/03/videogameshop.shtm
the pertinent section from the study...
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The undercover shop saw a decrease in the number of M-Rated (for “Mature”) video games sold to unaccompanied children. Video games rated “M” by the ESRB contain content appropriate for those 17 and older. Forty-two percent of the secret shoppers – children between the ages of 13 and 16 – who attempted to buy an M-rated video game without a parent were able to purchase one. In the 2003 shop, 69 percent of the shoppers were able to buy one. National sellers were much more likely to restrict sales of M-rated games. Only 35 percent of the secret shoppers were able to purchase such games there. Regional or local sellers sold M-rated games to the shoppers more frequently – 63 percent of the time. The shop also marked other improvements by retailers, compared with results from the previous undercover shops by the FTC.
Nationwide Undercover Survey Results:
Was the shopper able to buy the M-rated video game? (Percent "Yes")
2000 - 85%
2001 - 78%
2003 - 69%
2005 - 42%
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You are a complete moron. People are angry with you because you are a LIAR, not because you bashed their favorite videogame. |
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Looks like Keving is trying to come up with a "clever" monicker to use to marginalize gamers. Kevin, you failed.
If 15 year olds are playing Mass Effect, that is a problem with the PARENTS who are buying the game for thier kids, or not monitoring what their kids are doing. You've said that parents can't be held responsable, but why the hell not? If a parent actually takes an interest and does this thing called "raising a child responsably" they'll know what their kid is up to. It's called personal responsability - learn it, live it, love it. |
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To quote the usual internet-speak, oft repeated in many online shoot-em-ups...
Kevin, you've been pwned.
Given how out of touch with the gaming world you are, I will define that for you. "pwned" is a misspelling of the word "owned", and is understandable under the context of taunting your opponent by taking the time out of game to type to him in the chat after you've defeated him/her. The "P" key being so close to the "O" key causes the misspelling. It has become so popular to spell it this way, however, that it has come to have it's own definition apart from merely "owning" someone (which I will define momentarily) - it is "owning someone with a stick", as when you add a horizontal stick to the "o", you get a "p".
To "own" someone in this context is to have dominated them completly. To "pwn" them is to do such with a stick. You weren't pwned by gamers, though - you were pwned by your own stupidity. Anybody with ten minutes spare time and an internet connection can find the factual errors in your original "sex-box" blog post, and yet you've not retracted the libel. Do you see a moral problem here? I do - a supposed christian who won't even admit he's done wrong and take steps to correct it. You epitomize what's wrong with the religious right these days. |
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Mr McCullogh, I think much of your failure to understand quite why gamers are so irritated by your column stems from the fact that you've forgotten what you said *in* your column.
You did not say that Mass Effect featured the most explicit sex scenes you've seen in a videogame, what you said was:
"It's called "Mass Effect" and it allows its players - universally male no doubt - to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived."
The most realistic sex acts ever conceived. Now further up in the comments you'll see one of the many links to the sex scene you're talking about, are you really incapable of conceiving of a more explicit sex scene? Frankly I'm pretty sure that "Top Gun" had a more explicit sex scene, and you aren't suggesting people should have to trek to some tawdry shack on the edge of town in order to buy that.
You also represented a game which will sometimes feature a single minute's non-interactive sex scene in the middle of a game celebrated primarily for it's dialogue system as:
" "persons" hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of.
The objections to such filth should be simple to understand."
Filth, you called it, you said it objectified Women, you offered these views without research or evidence, attacked one of the finest Games companies in the industry for, as you later learned, producing a heavily storyline based game in which two characters will sometimes have sex, and should this happen it is dealt with both discretely and briefly.
And even now, on your show, your comparisons are not to movies with equivalent content, but to Playboy and the like. |
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I'm sorry I missed the opportunity to phone in to the broadcast. The question I would have liked to ask you is this:
HOW exactly is (or was, as the case may be) Mass Effect marketed toward 15-year-olds? Nobody can deny that M-rated games unfortunately do find their way into underage gamer's hands when retailers or parents fail to adequetely do their job. But this does not mean said games were targeted toward underage teens (I'm also not sure how you settled upon the age of 15), and in the case of Mass Effect it was not.
And a couple of comments about the broadcast:
You don't have an Xbox because you "have a life to live"; you do "real things" with your time - the insinuation that one must devote all of his or her free time to gaming if one is to own a game console is completely untrue if not a little insulting. It's called a hobby, and believe it or not playing videogames and paying bills are not two mutually exclusive acts.
Also, you again mentioned how Mass Effect features the most realistic sex acts you have personally seen in a videogame. You admit that you don't play games, so I fail to see how this lends any merit to your argument. I could say that an anvil being dropped on Wile E. Coyote is the most despicably violent act I've ever seen on TV, but if Looney Tunes is the only television program I've ever watched, this statement (while true)
doesn't amount to a hill of beans - and makes me look a fool in the process.
Not sure if you'll read all or any of this, but thanks for your time regardless. |
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...give republicans like me a bad name. Thanks for making it all the harder for us to actually win an election. |
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I'd love to call you if you could maintain a reasonable and open conversation on the Mass Effect subject and the facts rather than the misinformation you seem to have been given.
You seem to be a YouTube fan so tell me why this clip from the soap opera General Hospital ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so96t8Kzul0 ) is acceptable for all ages, despite having more nudity and a greater degree of explicitness.
Also, I will ask you again to correct the factual inaccuracies that remain even after you claim to have corrected yourself.
If you don't know what factual inaccuracies I am referring to, well, that's an indicator of how your research has failed you and you are welcome to contact me on the email address from which I contacted you to ask me for more information. |
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.....That his Dallas Cowsissies with crying girl players are going home and the mighty Patriots with the "skuzbucket" Tom Montana are going 19-0.
EVIL WINS AGAIN eh Kev?
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... I wish I had been here to see this. Oh, well.
"SOME LIFE:
The average human being will lie 88,000 times in their lives, here's an interesting thought - who is the one person in your life that you believe would NEVER lie to you - and why...?"
I believe you have surpassed just on your lies about Ron Paul alone.
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