Sims 2 content “worse than Hot Coffee”
Miami attorney Jack Thompson claims cheat codes make EA’s life sim a pedophile’s paradise by showing genitalia; calls for ban on T-rated game.
You give them an inch, they want a goddamn mile.
On an aside: This is my 1000th blog post. I was hoping to save it for something a little more introspective, but here we are.
The ESRB has [essentially recalled GTA:San Andreas](http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3142154). The rating [has been changed to AO](http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050720/205870.html?.v=1). Stickers will be provided for retailers who want to continue to sell the Hot Coffee version. Take Two has provided revised, lowered fiscal year guidance.
What the fuck is going on these days?
**APPEND**: Jared has [a good post](http://sl1p.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=5287031&publicUserId=5380122) featured over at 1UP on the subject.
(There’s some irony in writing about Texas Hold’em – or poker in general – on a blog, when the overwhelming majority of comment and trackback spam I see these days is for poker sites. Nevertheless…)
I got my gaming addiction at a very early age, and despite the looks of it from my biography page, it’s never been limited to video games. Before the age of 10, most of my desires rested in board games of all shapes and sizes. When I was 7 or 8, I was grounded temporarily for spending the first day we had cable doing nothing but watching game shows on USA. My parents would be more than happy to show you pictures of me in a cabin in Maine pretending to host Press Your Luck.
Most of all, I have maintained a healthy level of interest in card games over the years. Sure, I played Uno, and I still have a huge pile of Magic: The Gathering cards kicking around my old bedroom – these are not terribly unique traits. But how many people do you know that would check out every book the library had about card games? (Hopefully, not many – we’re a frightening bunch.)
Poker, more than any other game, appeals to my sense of logic and analytical nature. I started off playing five-card draw; the constant tactical decisions on what to draw were, well, addictive. Sometime in the late 90’s I fell into Texas Hold’em, and while there weren’t a ton of opportunities to play in Ithaca, I did find somewhere online during college to let me partake in my poker needs: PokerRoom.
Now, there are a lot of poker sites online; I have a handful of criteria that must be met in order to satisfy me, and amazingly, this very first site I fell upon met all of them.
Now, no one gaming site will ever be perfect – Pokerroom shares the problem of kids who jump into tournaments and push all-in every hand until someone knocks them out, often clearing half the table in the first five minutes. But outside of that and the always moronic chatters, it’s an excellent Poker site.
So why am I posting about it rather than, well, playing? As it turns out, Pokerroom will be dealing its one billionth hand sometime today. (For the purposes of handing out even more cash, play-money games are unavailable until 12 hours after the billionth hand – hence the time for the post!) Congratulations to the entire PokerRoom.com team – here’s to another billion!
Disclaimer: I do not work for or have any connection to Pokerroom.com, other than being a very satisfied player.