Letters to the Editor
Angry Midwest
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 1
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AO ratings death
[Read the article: "GTA" outrage: MADD confuses virtual/real drunk driving]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People here keeping talking about the AO rating, which means they must not be gamers. Things aren't rated AO for a reason. They can't get distributed. If it was a simple as them being locked behind the counter for request, I would be all for it, but the moment a game gets an Adult rating it cannot be distributed through the normal means. It's the kiss of death for a game.
Now, maybe that should be different, I don't know, but there is a reason why big titles will never be allowed to be AO.
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Ha Ha
[Read the article: He's just not that into (sex with) you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think some people's crummy marriages are showing.
At at Chief Payne- so I'm supposed to let my stud fuck me hours a day while I'm young so that I can harangue him to get it up when he's old. That's rich. Getting a new hubby seems a bit more fun and convenient.
Less snarky, I think it's age. I have seen my own partner's desire diminish with time. I think people just grow out of the urge to have to get off every second they can. I think it's people who don't grow out of sex a little who are strange. It seems more to me of people trying to recapture youth via the genitals than anything else. Or other underlying personal issues.
Sex is fun, but there's a lot of shit to do, too.
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Why do people read Cary when they want Ann Landers?
[Read the article: I'm really a self-actualized being, but my family is all messed up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to ask this. Cary writes Cary's column. I read it because I want to hear what a hippie, ex-druggie thinks about thinks. If I want to know what a square thinks about things there are a million other advice columnists out there.
I realize the majority of Salon's readers are retarded, middle-aged, coastal yuppies, but sheesh? Sanctimonious much. Surely there must be another, straighter column out there for you.
Keep on trucking, Cary. I love your column.
AM
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It's good for this to be talked about
[Read the article: Walk in a brothel, walk out a rapist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think there is anything wrong with this campaign. It's calling attention to something that is becoming increasingly widespread. I have met so many men in the past few years who think going to a foreign country and trying out the girls is a sport. I mean the brothel girls, not just picking people up at the expat bars.
I think it's nasty. I have met numerous male and female prostitutes, and while I am sure some of them dig it, the ones I met did not. The brothels seemed sad, the prices ludicrously low, and the workers anxious to pretend to be somewhere else. Or many gay-for-pay boys eager for some female attention.
The morality and right to sex trade is an entirely different argument in my opinion. I think it's time someone addressed our rapidly changing public opinion of the propriety of using people for money. Capitalism has commodified everything, and I am sick of it. Just because you can, should you? I keep meeting men with stunted sexualities and porn addictions. This sort of crap doesn't factor in to that?
I guess that is just one person's opinion.
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It's okay to not go
[Read the article: I don't want to go to my college friend's wedding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see lots of people expounding about taking care of your friends, blah, blah, blah. They aren't your friends. If they were your friends, you would want to go. It's pretty simple. I know lots of people who confuse friendship with acquiantanceship. They are different. Would these friends come see you in the hospital? Would they go through equal hassle to be with you if necessary?
I suspect not. Lots of throw away friends are made in uni. That's how it works. It's okay to just let it go. Send a gift and a card, that's just the appropriate thing to do.
But really, it's okay. It really is. You aren't going to die and old spinster, or whatever. What is wrong with saying enough is enough. I think it says more about your friends that they would rather have you fake check-in than just acknowledge you have moved on, and maybe they haven't. (Some people just don't seem to get over college.)
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Much more serious
[Read the article: "Grand Theft Auto IV" is a dark urban masterpiece]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have played nearly every GTA, and this one by far is the most dark, but in a very human way. Niko's life is horrible, he frequently complains that no one told him life was so hard in the states. He wears thrift store clothes, his cousin runs an off license cab with a 20 year old car. I just got it (literally, yesterday), but there is NO glamour so far.
People rant on this (I guess because of the sex trade elements) but just blow off games like Condemned 2, a game whose entire raison d'etre is to beat deranged people with whatever weapon you can grab.
The violence in GTA isn't even stylized. Just a little gush of red, compared to other games where things copiously bleed. I don't know. I think this is just bait to mental old people. You know you are the guys that actually made our real country suck, right? I was just a little kid playing Nintendo when you fucks were blowing Regan. So put a sock in it already!!
I agree, this game is art. It speaks to the state of our country, our morality, and the pervasive hopelessness that I think is defining my generation.