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Mass Effect banned in Singapore over lesbian scene

by Ross Miller on Nov 14th 2007 10:30PM

If a human female and a humanoid alien who is classified as female want to express their love in a physical manner, who are we to interrupt the natural order of the universe? According to Singapore newspaper The Straits Times, the government's Media Development Authority has banned BioWare's Mass Effect from sale in the country.

As reported by Reuters, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said, "the city-state should keep its conservative values and not allow special rights for homosexuals." The lesbian scene was posted on GameVideos earlier this week before Microsoft asked them to remove it.

[Thanks, Mitchell]

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Tags: bioware, gay, lesbian, lgbt, masseffect, sex, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (81)

Singapore actually buys non-pirated games?

Honestly, I'm just as surprised as you are

Yes. A good number of Singaporeans do buy original games. It's actually hard to find pirated discs here these days, not as rampant as it was just a few years ago.

That said, the vast majority still download ISOs and buy pirated discs when the opportunity arises. The attitude towards respecting IP is very poor here. Parents pirate and children learn it from young when they use a R4 with their DS to play Pokemon. A sad state of affairs which is improving only slightly. But it's better than no improvement at all.

I bet Iran will ban this game, cause there are no gays in Iran.

if there are no gays in iran then this game shouldn't make a difference in that, since these are virtual

*wink*

man iran is so fucked up. well all hardcore muslims are

I don't think video games are sold in Iran, anyway.

They are but they all end in you blowing up.

@gonk
Too bad only a tiny portion of Iranians are "hardcore" Muslims. Don't believe everything you see on Fox.

they should overthrow their government then and erect one that represents the majority

Funny, I would say the same thing about the US government.

bush was re-elected by 51% of the voters... (not by me though)

Having worked in the previous election Nov 6, 2007, let me tell you this. Don't change the voting machines again. It cost us a pretty penny already for new machines. And then they made us buy brand new ones in the next election. Ugh. And don't get me started on photo ID, absentee, and provisional votes.

There are about as many "hardcore Muslims" in Iran as we have hardcore rednecks that truly believe we should nuke Iran. It is a lot, but certainly not the majority. If fact, Iran's youth generally want a more progressive future.

I don't think we are talking about hardcore Muslims--true Muslims only care about following the Koran and don't give a shit about the US. you are talking about extremist radicals, called so because they are not in the majority. And the movement would be much smaller and more isolated if: 1. it wasn't funded by the Iranian government, and 2. the US didn't involve itself in what is bound to be a decades-long conflict in the Middle-East. The hilarity of the whole situation is as long as U.S. treats Middle-Eastern nations like shit, Anti-US hard-liner fundamentalists will stay in power and will continue to fund terrorist cells and promote a culture of terrorist extremism.

I'd rather deal with a hardliner Muslim than an evangelical Christian any day, and I'm Catholic.

Can we get back on the Mass Effect talk now? Save the huffing and puffing for another blog.

"...well all hardcore muslims are."

Perhaps, but we could say that same about "hardcore" Chrisians and probably even "hardcore" gamers, Mr. Narrowminded.

"the city-state should keep its conservative values and not allow special rights for homosexuals."

Do you mean "equal rights"? Fuck, I hate these people.

You should google 'Thio li Ann' and see what the country has become.

Props to Bluebrake for the Springheel Jack pic.

Ahh, yes, "special rights." Such as those considered normal rights for everyone else.

Hmm, should i let video games mold me into a heartless killer without remorse, or should i let them teach me the ways of the lesbian?

come on singapore who doesnt like sum extra teresttiual extra teresttial love

come on singapore who doesnt like sum extra teresttiual on extra teresttial love*****

what

It's extra terestrial. Damnit ET!

i dont like extra terestrial love
it makes my penis hard and uncomfortable

yah how ever you spell it im not an english teacher and i was being sarcastic i dont thinkt hat scene got ne one hard well maybe the occasional nerd who never talked to a girl face to face

jesus dude, go back to school

Funniest comment of the day.

You know, Firefox 2 has this wonderful spell checking feature that checks your spelling when you type.. ;p

aww did i get every ones panties in a knot because i spelled a few words wrong I'm sorry i didn't think of your feelings and used spell check, now you that you got your apology now you can go off and spell check every ones grammar over the internet

You can't spell check grammar.

Now I really have to see that NSFW video. Sigh why are things always better when you can't get them.

it's been reposted on youtube, just search

fyi, it actually is safe for work

Trannys with boob suits don't cut it- it's who got da Ouzzi dat do da real shootin !!

hmmm..

a video game with inter-species lesbian sex scenes causing some sort of legal ruckus somewhere in the world?

didnt see that coming....

Nostradamus predicted it.

Youtube and other outlets just have the old ign hosted video. Was there nothing else special about this new video?

it showed some blue buttcheeks and a little kissing

"not allow special rights for homosexuals"

Wow... Thats fucked up.

seriously though, how do the blue chicks reproduce if they're all women?

Pretty sure they have both sexual organs.

so it's not really lesbian sex, it's just a blue dude with boobs?

More like a Blue hermaphrodite.

they are hermaphrodites

theyre asexual so they dont reproduce sexually they must still enjoy the contact though

"Special rights"? As opposed to what?

Damn you Singaporean government! Damn you Asian governments (Japanese excluded?) for being so restrictive on the freedom of expression!

Never been to Bangkok, eh? And trust me, there's a lot of banging and cocks there.

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