I looked through the FAQ and found this:

quote:

Reasons that your film wouldn't be accepted would be that the tape sent was of poor technical quality (see technical requirements below) or the film contains content beyond what would be an R rating.

I'm wondering just what variety of content is disallowed here. I imagine it extends to nudity and extreme violence, but is there anything else? Suggestive themes? Language?

I'm considering production of a short which might challenge some of the content restraints. It's a comedy, and, if made, will be done so only in the interest of entertainment; I'm not trying to offend anyone.

I don't feel entirely comfortable revealing here the nature of the dubious content of the movie. I probably won't even want to credit myself; I think I'll have one of the actors submit it or something.

Anyway, Chris, or any mods who are familiar with policy, tell me what you can about this, and let me know if you'd like me to send you a personal email detailing the nature of this short.

Thanks.

(It's not THAT bad.)

Oh yeah, and it's loosely based on a true story.

If you want you can send me a PM or an email and I can tell you what I think.

My email is josh@joshwoolf.com.

Done and done. Thanks, JW.

Well it's mainly to prevent porn, basically - as that would be beyond an R rating.

It's pretty sad that sex gets us all worked up but violence does not.

Read this great article on the whole sex Hot Coffee here that I found through Joystig.com:

http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2005/07/24/perspective.html

It's pretty funny.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

I actually tried out that Hot Coffee mod on my copy of San Andreas. It's unbelievably raunchy and blatently sexual. You press the up and down buttons in rhythm with the thrusting (this is after a good 15-20 second animation of oral sex) to the voice acting of "tell me I'm the best, baby." "Good guys finish last." and "Oh, baby!"

Thank you, Hilary, for bringing this to our attention so everyone can watch it.

There's voice acting too? That's funny. Well - they were dumb to include it thats for sure. If there is voice acting - then it definitely wasn't added by a "hack". It is pretty ironic that this is what gets everyone worked up, and not the murder of civilians and carjacking.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

I have not played GTA. However, I consider this big hullabaloo to be a bit absurd. Chris, you're absolutely right.

What the hack actually does is activate parts of the code which were disabled during development. The Hot Coffee section was cut out by the programmers due to either it's content or apparently poor quality very early in the production, but they didn't actually delete the code, because that often messes up other sections. They just turned it off.

So, some hacker makes a patch which re-enables the code, and everyone goes nuts. First of all, it's not really GTA's fault if someone causes unexpected things to happen by hacking the game, second of all, GTA had so many extreme things happening in it already that this really doesn't make much difference.

Sorry to hijack the thread, Harris.

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Originally posted by titaniumdoughnut:
Sorry to hijack the thread, Harris.

Well that was my fault.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

No problem. I got my answer. Thanks.

The whole Hot Coffee thing is...just stupid. Who cares? Changing the ratings from M(17+) to AO (18+) is also stupid. Like a year matters that much. But all this excitement has got Hilary and that lawyer after GTA going on a roll. I read somewhere they were going after SIMS 2 because you could hack away the blur on the sims...In which EA responded with pictures of the hack...its like looking at Barbie and Ken for Godsake.

What is the problem with these people and their grudge against GTA? Don't like it? DON'T PLAY IT. It's not like its intended for frickin ten year olds anyway.

Oh, and another question about the rating's here on Studentfilm. I am in the process of writing a comedy where the whole joke on one of the main charactors is how he talks...which is every other word being reasonably offensive. And this goes on the whole time to the point where he says the F word alone over 50 times. Is that a problem?

Saying the F word alot isn't a problem.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com