{"id":402,"date":"2008-01-28T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-01-28\/hot-coffee-settled\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:11:20","slug":"hot-coffee-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/hot-coffee-settled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Coffee &#8211; Settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/gtasa11.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"gtasa11.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>GamerParents who&#8217;ve been reading for a while doubtlessly remember the &#8220;Hot Coffee&#8221; scandal (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/detail.cfm?itemID=2433\">here&#8217;s my take on it<\/a> courtesy of questions from the Dallas Morning News). As a synopsis, &#8220;Hot Coffee&#8221; is a piece of what&#8217;s called &#8220;abandoned code&#8221; &#8211; a common thing in software development. Basically one of the designers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas created a silly sexual minigame and the code was severed from the game. It was found by a hacker and a bunch of faux outrage was the result. I mean, there was no nudity and what was depicted if you went to the considerable trouble to get it working, is tamer than the marionette sex scene in &#8220;Team America: World Police&#8221; (Rated-R) &#8211; not to mention that the game already had an M-rating and &#8220;sexual content&#8221; descriptor. The ESRB over-reacted and forced the game to accept the sales dooming Adults Only rating and the game was re-released at considerable expense for basically no reason and protecting no one. Well, Take Two settled and guess who won?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As reported by GamePolitics and discovered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingsteve.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/its-not-often-that-people.php\">GamingSteve<\/a> the true\u00a0 &#8220;winners&#8221; here, apparently, are the lawyers. They get $1 million and, provided you can prove your fake outrage, consumers who felt cheated get between $10 and $35, provided they kept a paper trail of their outraged-ness.<\/p>\n<p>Justice is served? The kids are safe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GamerParents who&#8217;ve been reading for a while doubtlessly remember the &#8220;Hot Coffee&#8221; scandal (here&#8217;s my take on it courtesy of questions from the Dallas Morning News). As a synopsis, &#8220;Hot Coffee&#8221; is a piece of what&#8217;s called &#8220;abandoned code&#8221; &#8211; a common thing in software development. Basically one of the designers of Grand Theft Auto: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}