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[theweaselking]

therayven is wise in the ways of lawsuits:

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So Rockstar is being sued for false advertising and unfair business practices.

If Rockstar loses this suit, I stand to make billions in legal damages.

Why? It's simple. I'm going to sue everyone I come into contact with for exposing themselves to me.

How? Easy. Underneath their clothing they are naked; using a third-party pair of scissors, I can modify their clothes - whether or not they intended for me to modify their clothing in such a way - to reveal their naughty bits, therefore scarring myself for life. They never intended for me to modify their clothing, but because they have uncensored nudity underneath their clothing, they are liable, in much the same way Rockstar is liable. I don't even need to alter their clothing to win the suit; since it is merely possible for me to do it, that's enough for me to be able to press charges.

I can't wait to see the results of this lawsuit. If they lose, it'll be a sad day for justice... and a rich day for me.
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Comments

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

The issue here with Rockstar is that they had a game, who's content shoudl have been Adults only and they had it rated M (17+). While it's a really silly distinction, they fasly claimed the content was one, when it should have been another.

ANyone who designs a video game and expects people to NOT be able to find hidden content is a morom.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

But this is *not* "cheat code" stuff, AFAIK. It's actual "patch the game to unlock it" type of thing -- there are plenty of patches for all manner of games that make them EVIL SEXY ( Lara Croft Nekkid patches come to mind, frex). The 'difference', such as it is, seems to be that this time, some data is already there in the game data. So fucking what? Games, most software for that matter, are full of no-longer-used code and data because nobody bothers to clean the shit up.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

this "patch" didn't add anything to the game, so it really wasn't a patch. it was just a key. i don't know about other patches, but from what i understood, this was the first time, it was simply just unlocking content already in the game.

"So fucking what?"
Is simply that they were careless enough to let this happen. The industry rating remained government free because there was an inherant trust in it's integrity. This broke that trust. I couldn't care less about sexual content in video games, but somethign that makes the "counsil of anti-sex-obsessed parents, who can't take enough time to learn about their children and related idiots," salivate does irritate me.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

No, you see, it really *was* a patch. It's not a 'code'. It's a *patch*. There's no functional difference, and there's not even a significant difference in download times between a patch that references some dead code that should never come up, and a patch that has the code and introduces it.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

but this patch did nothing but unlock something that was already there. They should have taken it out it's as simple as that.