re-rating GTA

Well, now GTA San Andreas is officially Adults Only. Copies are being pulled from major retailers and the game is being reworked to get back to the M rating. Wow, a victory for American moms! Now kids will be safe! Now all our problems are solved! Yeah! Video games bad, see? Right? GTA is all about sex, sex, sex!!!!!
Well, no. This solves nothing. This just proves that the ESRB regulates the games industry just fine, so parents can fuck off and try to parent. Will kids still play GTA? Sure, but that's not my problem, nor the games industry. It is now the parents responsibility to watch what kids buy. The major retailers are good about this. They check ID, they enforce ratings. So if you're whining about your ten year old playing, then maybe you shouldn't have bought them the fucking game. But really, how much more dangerous is a game than the very real possibility of your kid being drafted in five years to die in Iraq?
But, damn if this doesn't put wood in the fire over video game violence. That's what will be remembered. And for that I blame those dicks at Rockstar for putting this shit in there and the modders for fucking with IP. In all reality this content was not a problem before third parties hacked the game. No way was the average gamer going to see this hot coffee shit. Not unless third party groups went ass over heels out of their way to let you.
What about them? Them and their shady activities. Well, I blame Rockstar for being cute. So what if it wasn't to be seen? They should never have put this shit in there in the first place. Or maybe this was planned. Anyway, it's way unprofessional and can hurt the industry in its fight over public perception. Which in itself is a bigger American fight between the right and the left. Although when senators jump on the anti-game bandwagon, how far to the left are they really?
Rockstar reminds me of those pot advocates. The ones who don't bathe and wear hemp all day. The worst possible poster children for a worthy cause. Come on Rockstar, get your shit together. You brought this on yourselves. Very likely if this had been cut or disclosed it would have kept the M rating. Now it's got the games equivelant of X and it is the retail kiss of death.