How Retarded the Bulletstorm "X-rated" Skillshot Controversy Really is (old blog repost)

Reading up on the Whole Bulletstorm‘X-rated Skillshot BS’ (Yes, that’s what I’m calling it now), made me realize how idiotic Fox News has gotten. For those who don’t know what bulletstorms ‘Skillshot’ system is, it’s a system that rewards killing enemies in different creative ways.  At the bottom of the article, taken from The Skillshots Page on the Bulletstorm Wiki is the total list of all the Skillshots in the game. Read them. How many are obviously sexual in content. 1 maybe. Rear-Entry. That’s it. Maybe Topless. Here is a lovely quote from the Fox News Article :

“The in-game awards system, called Skill Shots, ties the ugly, graphic violence into explicit sex acts: ‘topless’ means cutting a player in half, while a ‘gang bang’ means killing multiple enemies. And with kids as young as nine playing such games, the experts FoxNews.com spoke with were nearly universally worried that video game violence may be reaching a fever pitch.”

Number 1. Topless in this game means to rip the top end off of an enemy. Literally. It’s nothing about Undressing anyone. Number 2 Gang Bang can be sexual but also can refer to gang activities without any sexual acts mentioned at all.  In this case it’s neither. It’s  a very clever play on words because in the game to get a ‘gang bang’ you blow up multiple enemies at once. A Gang of bangs. It has NOTHING to do with sex in this case at all.

I looked through the hundreds of Skillshots mentioned on an OFFICIAL source (Faux doesn’t use these) trying to find anything overtly sexual to see If I was wrong. I couldn’t. Only ‘Rear’ Entry has any sexual conotation but in this case it means shooting some enemy in the butt. Doesn’t say whether the pants are off or not.  ‘Gang’ Bang in this case is NOT sexual, nor is ‘Topless”.  Even the Classic Shooter Duke Nukem 3-D (Awsome Game BTW) Has more actuall sexual content (Strippers, pornography) then Bulletstorm ever will.  Also the Quote on the Age of kids playing Bulletstorm is clearly designed to Incite complaints from ‘Save The Children’ type groups and ‘Parental Concern’ Groups. The Average age of gamers today is 34. NOT 9.  I watched the Recent ‘Adam Sessler‘s Soapbox’ Update, and Have to agree on one point. This seems Awfully desperate by Faux news to cause a controversy, for the sole purpose of causing a rediculas anti-video game moral panic that is bad enough to spread to the government to cause bans of all violent games, games far less violent then Bulletstorm it is. Claiming Bulletstorm allows people to Rape Women in the game might just do it. Even though you can’t actually do that in any game I know of besides the 1989 title ‘custer’s revenge’, that has faded to obscurity and rightfully so.

Mercy	100	Shoot/kick an enemy in the crotch, then the head.
Intoxicated	100	Kill enemy after drinking an Alcoholic Drink.
Head slicer	100	Wrap a flail around cover cutting your enemy’s head off.
Firefighter	100	Kill a large group of flaming enemies.
After Burner	50	Set an enemy on fire and shoot him to death.
Fertilizer	50	Make the enemy explode into pieces and let the pieces fertilize the ground.
Gang Bang	25	Kill multiple enemies with a Flail Gun explosion
Bullet Kick	25	Kick the enemy, then shoot them to death.
Headshot	25	Shoot the enemy in the head.
Minefield	25	Shoot a flailgun shot at the ground near an enemy and detonate
Gag Reflex	50	Shoot an enemy in the throat, causing him to vomit blood.
Overkill	50	Shoot an enemy in the head with a charged PMC.
Vertigo	50	Kick an enemy off a cliff or building.
Bad Touch	100	Impale an enemy with a cactus.
Fire in the Hole	50-150	Leash a person and shoot his butt. Enemy specific.
Full Throttle	50	Kill an enemy while firing full-auto.
Trap Shooting	50	Using the leash to slam more than one enemy in the air, then kill an enemy.
Machinist	50	Destroying an enemy vehicle.
Enviro Mental	50 – 250	Kill the enemy using the environment.
Meatball	100
Feeder	100	Leash or Kick an enemy into a carnivorous plant.
Frequent Flyer	25 – 100	Kill an enemy while his is in mid-air
Double Cut	100	Cut 2 enemies with the chain of the flail from the Flail Gun.
Brain Blaster	100	Get a Headshot with the flail gun.
4th of July	150	Cause an enemy on the ground to explode and fly up in the air.
Chain Reaction	50	Kill multiple enemies with a charged Flail Gun.
Mass Murderer	150
Stroke	50
Bullet Slide	25	Kill an enemy with bullets after sliding into him.
Double Ignition	100	Ignite two enemies with one shot.
Heat Wave	100
Killing Spree	150
Burn	50 – 250	Kill multiple enemies with a charged shot from the Boneduster.
Voodoo Doll	100	Leash/Kick an enemy into a rebar.
Body Wrap	50
Steady Hand	250
Direct Hit	25 – 100	Kill an enemy with the Bouncer
Facial	50	Headshot with the Bouncer.
Boom	50 – 100
On the Ball	50 – 250
Kick of Doom	50 – 250	Kick a Bouncer bomb.
Bombshell	175
Shocker	100	Kick an enemy into some electrical wiring.
Brotherhood	550
Yoink	100
Acid Rain	100	Leash enemy skyward then finish him with a charged Boneduster blast.
Deep Penetration	100
Piledriver	250
Splatterpunk	100
Sadist	50	Wrap an enemy with the flailgun and kill them before it explodes.
Flyswatter	50	Leash Launch an enemy into the ceiling
Trip Wire	50	While an enemy is running shoot their legs or feet to trip them. Then quickly finish them off.
Graffiti	25	Kick an enemy into the wall multiple times until their blood covers said wall
Rear Entry	50	Shoot an enemy in the butt.
Spun Right Round	150
Friendly Fire	300	Manipulate an enemy into being killed by other enemies.
Savior	250
Topless	250	Cut or bomb the torso of an enemy away
Skyjack	100
Drawn and Quartered	100	Anarchy specific skill shot, have two players leash the same enemy at the same time, ripping the enemy apart
Blind Fire	500
Pancake	250	Flatten an enemy
Slam Dunk: leash enemy skyward then leash back down to the ground	50
Nom Nom Nom	200
X-Ray	100	Kill an enemy through a different enemy.
Parashoot	100
Juggler	100 – 500	Leash an enemy skyward and shoot him multiple tiems with the Boneduster
Flak	50
Bossed	250
Grenade Gag	25	Wrap a Flail around an enemy’s neck
Sausage Fest	50
Smart Mine	100	Wrap a Flail around an enemy then pull/kick another enemy towards him and explode the Flail
Parashoot	500	Leash a gyrocopter pilot out of his vehicle and finish him off with the Peace Maker Carbine while he’s in the air.
Boned	50	Headshot an enemy with a charged PMC
Torpedo	50	Slide into an enemy and finish him off with the shotgun.
Blind Fire	100 – 500
Pump Action	50
Homie Missile	100	Wrap a Flail around one enemy then kick into another. Explode.
Bossed	750
Gotcha
French Revolution	200 – 300	Get a minimum of two headshots with one of the flailgun’s charge shots.
Fireball	50	Kill an enemy directly above the player with a charge shot from the Screamer.
Ding Dong	100	open a door using the leash to let the rubble crush an enemy
One Hit Wonder	25	Kill an enemy with one shot to the head with the Screamer
First In Last Out	100	Use the leash to launch a group of enemies in the air kill, all enemies and kill the the first leashed one last.
Tenderizer	50
Meat Slicer	50	Dismember an enemy with the Flail Gun by wrapping a charged shot around cover.
Fast Draw	50
Snapshot
Toxic Love	50	Kill an enemy while infected with green mutant toxin.
Misfire	50	Shoot an enemy with a charged Screamer and have them die from something else.
Enlightenment		Shoot an enemy in the head with a charged Screamer and have it detonate.
Antidote	50	Kill a toxic-mutant with a headshot near other enemies and then killing the resulting ‘infected’ enemies.
Gunslinger
Fireworks	50	Leash an enemy skyward, and kill him with a charged Screamer shot, making him go upward.
Letterbomb	100	Kill mutiple enemies with a single charged sniper shot.
Breakdance	125	Kick an enemy and finish him off with a charged drill shot.
Hotshot		Headshot an enemy with the sniper rifle.
Pricked	100	Kill an enemy with a cactus.
Broken Wings	250	Kill an enemy with a headshot using the sniper rifle in mid-air.
Pump Action	250
Sledgehammer	100
Early Retirement

http://bulletstorm.wikia.com/wiki/Skill_Shots

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