Four-Year-Old's GTA Birthday Cake - Is It a Lie?
Four-Year-Old's GTA Birthday Cake - Is It a Lie?
August 20, 2008
Over at Fidgit, Tom Chick points out an unusual 4th birthday cake for someone named "Lil Derrick."
A GTA cake for a four-year old?
Someone's not paying attention to those ESRB ratings...
Tom found the pic at Cake Wrecks, where readers are hotly debating whether it is a real cake or simply Photoshopped.
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Regardless, that's a bad-ass cake. I couldn't even bring myself to cut it. I'd have to freeze-dry it and mount it on a wall.
Back on topic. If it is real, then it's the parents' call as to whether or not they think their kid is intelligent enough to play the game. No harm, no foul.
If the kid goes out and shanks a taxi driver, he can say the cake made him do it. The parents are being responsible by providing a scapegoat defense!
I really think that's a fake. The gap between hapy and 4 could very easily hold a 1 or a 2, and the word birthday just doesnt seem right being on the right hand side of the cake.
Give it a minute and JT will be on here acosting gamers when, IF the cake is real, the child is ALREADY screwed up because of piss poor parenting. Remember, when ice cream sales go up, so do motorboat accidents and drownings. BAN ICE CREAM!!!!
That's what I was thinking. That gap is a bit big, and could hold a 1 or 2.
Don't count on all cake decorators to have some of the best writing or layout skills, or even understanding basic instructions that should not be interpreted as a literal message. I've seen a cake that says "Happy birthday in red" - yes, with the words "in red", and all written with GREEN icing.
Why couldn't I get a cake like that for my birthday :(
To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if 4 year old kids were into GTA, hell I know plenty of kids who are into Happy Tree Friends.
Are four year olds capable of gaming?
well, the first video game i ever played was Sonic the Hedgehog, i was 3 years old then, so yes they are but that's beside the point :P
I was playing Super Mario World before I remember... Remembering.
I once imagined, what some M-rated games would be like if they were kids' cartoons and toned down for the content. For example, Metal Gear Solid. It would be like a more serious GI Joe of sorts, what with all the enemies with their weird colorful personalities. But in the cartoon, Snake won't kill anyone (much). He'd just use his tranquilizer gun and close quarters combat for the most part. And you can't forget having tons of badly-aimed lasers coming from the enemies' guns (and gears).
I can see how people would think that it's photoshopped and I can also see how it could be real. If I had a larger version of the image so I could look at its pixelation a little better I could determine if it's real or not.
Okay... I did get to see it a little better. The pixelation on the GTA images and the cake are exactly the same so that either means that it's real or somebody knows a great deal about pixels in photoshop.
Just because it says happy 4th birthday doesn't mean it's for a 4 year old. That's probably a gag cake for some guy's birthday who's a big fan of GTA and irony.
well it's not for the game turning 4 (that's next year). Either way, that's a great looking cake.
Actually the game came out in October 26th in 2004 on the PS2.
So it is close to 4 years old
That is one cool frickin' cake. I'm guessing the age thing is a joke, though.
Hmm, Cake or Death?
"Cake, please!"
"Well, we're all out of cake! I didn't expect it to go so fast..."
"So, my option is, 'Or Death?'"
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"The cake is a lie."
"I’ll have the chicken then, please."
"Tastes of Human sir. Would you like a white wine? There you go, thank you very much."
"Thank you for flying Church of England - Cake or Death?"
To be honest, it doesn't matter whether it's real or not.
First off, it's just a cake. Sound familiar? "It's just a game." There is nothing there to directly say that the person whose birthday it is actually plays or played the game. Perhaps the Parents know about the game, like it, and thought it would be cool. Or, the kid witnessed a Parent or sibling playing the game and thought it looked cool. There's no evidence the 4 year old plays the game.
In fact, it's very unlikely that a 4 year old would be able to play the game beyond the sandbox mode. And even then not successfully.
To top it off, despite whether anyone here or anywhere else would or wouldn't allow their own children to play any particular game, it is still the Right of an indiividual Parent to decide what is or is not appropriate for their own child. If some Parent found the game appropriate for THEIR child, it would be my Right to merely disagree, but not my Right to dictate that they should be punished or even be declared bad Parents. After all, there's plenty out there I wouldn't advise having children exposed to (such as bigotry and hate taught as religious "morality"). But it still wouldn't be my Right to demand that others not have the Right to make their own decisions regarding that or be punished if they do.
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It may be the parents responsibility, but nobody can deny if they let a 4 year old play the game, the child is pretty much screwed due to BAD PARENTING. Not only this, but there are plenty of studies that show media violence has little to no effect in older children/adults BUT has a significant effect on children under the age of six! So while a parent has the ultimate say in what they deem is appropriate for children, Grand Theft Auto, from a psychological standpoint, is not only inappropriate but is also harmful for a child so young.
That being said, I really think this cake is for a 14th birthday and the decorator took a picture before adding the 1 in there.
You really don't want to get me started on my opinions of psychological research, do you? Ask around. :O
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Just letting you know what's out there from a guy who's about to get his masters in clinical psychology. Besides, read my ENTIRE post clearly before jumping to any conclusions ;)
Calm down, troll. You are starting to sound like Jack Thompson.
Where the hell did troll come from?
I wouldn't bother trying to correct someone who can't read a post before throwing out the word troll. If they actually read my entire post they'd see that the kid would be screwed due to bad parenting no matter what video game they play. Not to mention I said that ONLY children UNDER six are usually affected by media violence unless they already have a genetic predisposition. Heaven forbid someone who is actually going into the business of psychology, and is an avid gamer, know anything about the subject. Good F'ing God.
These people are black arn't they...
Dude! There was no need for that...ya racist...
Not to be obscene or anything, but to me, the biggest problem with this cake is that SOMEONE has to eat the crotch. :O
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lol Nightwng. I didn't even think of that. xD
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Seriously
LOL!!! That's great!
It could well be for someone born on the 29th of february and counting their age in the most technical sense.
I never thought of that, but that's a very big posibility. I had a friend that was born on leap year and we'd always make similar cakes for him on birthdays every four years. I believe he just turned 5 last year :p
Well it does say 4th birthday not you're turning 4 or whatever.
I just went to IMDB and most of the dates there were for 2005, hence my comment. :)
If it was released October 2004 then it could indeed be for the game itself.
2005 was the release of the PC version. And IMDB isnt really reliable, it's like Wikipedia, but without fact-checking.
The cake is a lie.....the cake is a lie....
KAHN!!!!!
You know what, I agree.
Yes, it is real. And three cops are really in the ground in Alabama because of GTA. Next question, please.
Jack Thompson
When are you disbarred again?
Soon...
How soon.....
Real soon....
(A little Jewel of the Nile reference for those who don't know) ;)
The cake is real,
JT is a lie...
Ok, my question would be to ask if you actually fact checked this cake or is it because it fits in well with your personal view of things?
In other words, do you actually know something, or do you just assume and pretend like you have any facts?
Jack Thompson doesn't even know the meaning of the word 'fact'.
And your dancing on their graves looking to make a quick buck. What's worse...the game that some think had an effect, or the person (can't say a "man" since you don't seem to have grown up at all) that is sticking his fingers into the wounds and trying to give grieving people something convenient to grasp at just to further his beliefs at others expense? You make me sick whether you are the real jack or not.
Zen
Since when did game discs start running around wielding knives?
Besides, even if the people that you say killed three policemen WERE inspired by GTA, all it means is that it's the PARENTS' FAULT for not teaching their kids/teens/etc. the difference between fiction and reality, or not even making the effort to keep track of their own kid, for that matter.
You know I'm sick of blaming the parents all the time it's the person's fault. He decided to do this. Even if he was inspired by GTA it was still his decision to kill those cops. No amount of obsessive playing changes this.
Wow... you guys are really fooled by the troll? This is hardly JT's work. It's missing his "\\attorney\\\\ and you\re not\\\\" motif. Furthermore, I think he's too vain to ever purposefully mispell the gospel filled name that is Jack Thompson. Nice try though.
Heh, gives us something to amuse ourselves with though!
Good point.
Not a single mention of 60 minutes or the big gay conspiricy either.
He also forgot the childish insult against all gamers and some sort of threat towards Dennis. Either JT's slipping up, or this is a troll. I'm guessing troll, but you never know...
Still doesn't upgrade that post from an F to a D-, though. (or above an F-, for that matter :P)
Hasn't this story been around before? I'm sure I saw it on Kotaku a while ago (hell wasn't their afd thing this year all about gaming-related pastries?)
> Either JT's slipping up, or this is a troll.
Or? Logically I take it. :)
> I'm guessing troll
Thanks that help. ;)
Mr. Thompson, shouldn't you be doing something important like, oh, i don't know, ESCAPING THE HURRICANE THAT'S TEARING YOUR FREAKING STATE APART?!
Your attempt at incedniary inculcation ends up being a debacle, but then again, what can you expect from a washed out lawyer?
You guys DO realize that's not John Bruce Thompson, right?
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No, it's him. He isn't using a proxy anymore.
Yeah, how's your work on that case going again?
Next question?
Okay how about this: Prove that three cops are in the ground because of Grand Theft Auto. I'm waiting.
Old troll is old.
WARNING: DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
Look at how many responses this Jack Thompsom impersonator gets... if you leave him alone he will go away. Have you noticed the real Jack Thompson doesn't even post here anymore? Its alot more fun when the real Jack comments.
again
WARNING: DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
So I take it you are under the delusion that Jack doesn't post here? There are impersonaters yes. But there are also genuine ones such as this. Dennis tends to delete the impersonators you see.
True, he has done so much of the same in the past both online and off-line that such posts are reasonably legit.
Hell, his lack of ethics and unprofessional behavior is what brought the recent disbarment hearing. Sane & rational people do not go bat guano crazy and make up bizarre accusations just because someone in a law firm didn't call him back within an unreasonable amount of time(not surprised though, he did the same email/phone harassment to a poster back in the livejournal days).
No, Metropolitian Moron of Miami, three cops are in the ground in Alabama because of Devin Moore, not because of GTA. You and Moore are clearly lying. Deal with it, loser. Now go chase a chupacabra.
By the way, GTA's a gift from God. Go watch Clerks II to find out why.
Practice what you preach: Grow up and get a life.
Don't do that, please please please don't encourage him to do that. I really really like Kevin Smith movies and I don't want JT meddling in yet another piece of entertainment that I like and care about. 1 losing crusade is enough for this guy.
Next question, please.
Ok, why are you not going after the big retailers like Bestbuy, Walmart, Sears, Amazon that have such "you are 18" clickthrough agreements for M rated games, yet still have the same "security" preventing some kid from getting a R-rated, UN-rated, and even PORN movies?
And a few more questions, what do you have to say about the "parents" who made such a cake(seeing as how you go that way, it would be like them hading their kid a "violent pono" movie...)? Or the fact that maybe they are pulling your leg and are having some more laughs at your expense?
The only sorry thing here is YOUR problem with distinguishing fantasy(i.e. the BS you spew, everything that supports you on the internet must be 9001% true, etc) from reality(repeating such BS doesn't make it true, think of "photo-shopping" is an advanced way of pasting Batman over your driver's license photo, etc). Oh wait, I forgot that you threatened legal action over a photoshop contest involving you...
LOL, speaking of Batman, my last question is what are thoughts on the Mortal Kombat vs. DC game? Besides the "fatalities" being removed, I'm sure there are plenty of other jokes and comparisons we could make....
how about we make it 3 cops and a lawyer...
Hey Jack, you asked what the next question was and you still haven't answered.
So to ask again: What proof do you have that it was Grand Theft Auto that was directly responsible for the deaths of the three officers in Alabama?
Maybe the cake's real, and the guy was just born on a leap year.
That would still mean he's been on this Earth for only 16 years. So he still shouldn't be playing the GTA series until March 2009.
Regardless whether its real or not, I bet you anything that Duff Goldman could make a GTA IV cake that's way cooler than that!
Hmmm... Now that's an idea! ::Starts emailing Charm City Cakes::
Wow, umm, really? That's GP-worthy news?
Next: Three-year old wearing watch with GTA logo. (Story at 5 on Weasel News!)
Go Idgit!
And what ground-breaking stories are you covering on your site which doesn't exist because you're yet another anonymous naysayer?
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Hey, even GP can have a slow news day. What do you suggest, the site starts just making them up?
That's what Fox News and Jack Thompson does....
Rely on multiple news sources. If you EVER get your news from just one source then you're only getting a fourth of what you should. Don't rely solely on gamepolitics to bring you all the game news you need. Besides, isn't this website more of a blog than a traditional news source anyway?
OK. To your question, i ask my own:
Why the crap do you care so much? If you don't like what this blog is talking about, go to google and find another one. It's not that hard. No need to make a stereotypic comment and look like a jerk about it.
Troll more.
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I've seen that cake in some stores. It's very much real. And this more than proves RETAILERS ARE NOT TO BLAME.
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I can easily see this being a cake for someone born on Feb. 29th.
If that's the case, they're lucky they didn't receive tonka trucks and a bag of Pull-Ups. I know that pissed of one of my friends on his 16th (poor Leap year babies...No one seems to take them seriously)
The point of the ESRB ratings is to provide useful information for parents so they can decide what's appropriate for their own children. It is not designed to take over and tell parents how to raise their children. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to backtrack and re-read the ESRB's mission statement.
"The point of the ESRB ratings is to provide useful information for parents so they can decide what's appropriate for their own children. It is not designed to take over and tell parents how to raise their children. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to backtrack and re-read the ESRB's mission statement."
FTW
lol
It could be for a 14, 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, 74, 84 year old.. perhaps they snapped a shot of it prior to 'prefixing' the 4 with whatever number. Just for kicks - and that's a good idea too, just to see who takes the bait~
It's incredible that you all think that the age is fake. Seriously, parents leave thier kids in cars during heatwaves, I don't doubt for a moment that this is real. When it comes down to it, it is the parent's judgement yes, but I think we all can agree that a 4 year old should NOT play a game like that. No 4 year old in the entire world is mature enough to handle a game or a movie with that kind of grapic violence. Would you take your 4 year old to see Tropic Thunder which has an excessive amount of swearing, conversations about race and disablities (that many groups see as racist and demeaning) and excessive violence? Tropic Thunder is satire, but GTA is also highly satirical of culture, people and society.
Yes, there is no concrete evidence of a 4 year old actually playing GTA, but don't be naieve and say that it has never happened before. If there was evidence of this, I would say its negligence on the parents side, and perhaps there should be some kind of penalization.
Penalization? Blech. That would be the government playing parent and deciding what games are appropriate for kids they probably don't know (and we all know how grateful we are when they do that).
Many people seem to be overlooking that GTA:SA and a four year old were "released" around the same time. Like many birthday celebrations, this cake appears to be less about the child and more about the parents.
But what's wrong with that? Is there a gaming father with a four year old doesn't have fond memories of playing GTA:SA with his new infant child at his side? There was this wonderful baby and this wonderful game, and life was good. The ESRB doesn't even enter into it.
People are welcome to mind their own families and leave out other people's children.
It's real: Happy 4th anniversary of your Crips induction, Lil Derek!
Aren't cakes like that supplied without a message on them or the like though? So that you can use them for any age, you just have to ice on the message or get the shop to do it?
Gawd I love Cakewrecks
When I first saw it I assumed someone Photoshopped out the "1" in "14", but that's still pretty sad.
A four year old WILL NOT be hurt playing Grand Theft Auto.
Actually, physically speaking, the cake is more dangerous than the game.
Unless, of course, it is a lie.
I cannot see a 3 year old playing San Andreas or any other game more complex than Crash Bandicoot.
Therefore I believe the cake is fake.
TONIGHT!
WHAT COULD BE A TASTY WAY TO CELEBRATE YOUR CHILD'S MAY END TURNING HIM INTO A VICIOUS KILLING MACHINE WITH FROSTING ON TOP!
ARE CAKES BECOMING TOO VIOLENT FOR OUR SOCIETY? ITS A 3-LAYER INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON FOX!
More at 11.
Don't forget that lighting candles encourages pyromania.
Yeah, it's like making them a sports cake. I mean, seriously - with the criminal records half these professional sports people have - it's a road of death!
You know it is possible the 4 year old has never heard of GTA.
Examine the following scenario.
Parents are out shopping for cakes with the kid, the kid spots the gta cake and thinks it looks cool (and let's face it, it does). Parents have never heard of the game either so they get it for him. Or even if they had heard of the game there's nothing bad on that cake (other than the inedible bits you're supposed to remove before serving the cake). No guns, just a logo, a unoffending photo and a generic city street.
So yeah although if I was his age I'd pick a cake with those plastic army men on it. Come to think of it I wouldn't mind that much if someone gave me that cake for my next birthday (and I'm 18).
The comments I've seen on here are pretty wild. I've seen people suggesting legal action against the supposed parents and shit, good fucking lord...WTF?
-Entertainment isn't the reason the world sucks. It's the reason we know the world sucks. For information on games and psychology, look up: Jonathan Freedman(2002)Block & Crain(2007)Grand Theft Childhood, by Harvard researchers Larry Kutner&Cheryl Olson
I have worked with many many children in my time (usually 8 - 15) and I can say that most of them are just not interested in GTA, and it has nothing to do with parents. There is not the stuff in GTA to appeal to kids. I can talk at length about Zelda, Mario, Final Fantasy, Pokemon, etc. But I have only ever had one ten year old (maybe he was nine, I can't remember) say he loved GTA.
The reason he loved it? It was the only video game he and his dad played together. I think he loved his dad a bit more than GTA.
This is the number one thing the Jack Thompson's of the world forget. Of course these games aren't marketed to children, children don't give a damn about smuggling and hitting people with baseball bats when there are beautiful princesses and magic boomerangs just a foot to the left of the store shelves.
Of course the cake is fake. I can buy a Video game cake and then write "happy 4th" in icing too. I bet the guy who took the picture is proud of the stir he (or she) has caused.
Or maybe someone made the cake just to stir up controversy. Therefore, not photoshopped, but not for a 4 year old either. Also, I work at a retail store and I've explained, in detail, the kind of content that is in the GTA games and the parents will STILL buy them for their small children. Lesson: Some parents just don't care. What's the point of this story you may ask? The point is it wouldn't surprise me one bit if that cake was real.
g:other, it's a real cake, made as a hoax.
When I was about 7 I got a Battlestar Galactica (TOS) cake, that series killed of millions in the first episode.
The cake has not led me to commit genocide, nor to lead a ragtag fugitive fleet to a mythical planet known as Earth.
Even if it's not photoshopped or anything, who says it's ACTUALLY for a kid? Maybe it's just a joke, or someone was bored and wanted an interesting cake? I could go have one made that's far worse than this and have them write some little kid's name on it. Doesn't mean there's actually a kid.
Doesn't matter in the end anyway.
We should ban all cake. It is obviously nothing more than a stabbing simulator.
So it could be a bit of both, if adding some "happy 4th" icing could be considered photo-shopping.
Hmm, given the internet and trolls, I really don't want to know the other things people have tried to print on such cakes.....
There are actually 2 questions here:
1. Is it a real cake?
2. Is it actually for a child?
3. Is it delicious and moist?
Ok, so 3 questions. I suppose a 4th question would be "Why San Andreas and not VI?"
Even if that is fake I'd still love to have it... even it's picture... mounted on my wall... to remind me of the great cake I shall never have, because that thing looks so awesome. And you forgot a 4th question.
4. Where's JT in the midst of this? He should be here blaming Rockstar/Take2 how they have now influenced four year olds to now want to kill people! Yup, because of this cake we're going to have four year old KILLERS!!! (I hope people noticed my sarcasm in all of that).
Awesome cake, shitty parenting. I'm getting sick of this whole "not looking at the ESRB ratings" crap. They're displayed clearly on the box. People notice them on movies, why not INTERACTIVE VIDEOS (aka; gaming). People are stupid, parents are stupid if they're giving their children R18 games, JT is stupid if he tries to take this out of proportion as well as for blaming Rockstar in general for the whole GTA violence charade in the first place.
-- Joshua Smellie
There has never been any law forcing any parent to follow ESRB guidelines, nor should there be. If I, as a parent, wanted to let a four year-old play GTA San Andreas, I would be perfectly right to do so: not just because as a parent I get to decide, but also because no one has ever proved that violent video games are bad for young children.
It's for a 4 year old.
Why else would there be four rolled up dollar bills? It looks as if those are to be lit instead of candles. Brilliant if you ask me.
Awesome looking cake. I have a birthday coming in January. My aunt usually makes cakes for anyone in our family having a birthday. I'll be 25 and now I know what to ask for on my cake.
Is it real or fake. I think it's real.
Who cares if its real. Kids like horror and slasher movies and are in rated R films quite often, why would a birthday cake based on a violent M Rated video game be any more shocking or different.
And could it be in celebration of the game itself (sorry if that was already said). Hasn't it been out for like 4 years (well in Oct. I think).
True, I've been drinking coffee & watching horror flicks since I was 7 & I'm the most "boringly moral" person my friends have ever met.
I would totally eat that cake. That cake is the best cake I've ever seen.
So is it serious? I highly doubt it. I think it's hilarious, whether or not it's fake. And the first person to tell me that I should be ashamed of laughing at such a thing is the first person I'm going to tell to bite me, because I can take a joke even if others can't.
The only thing that could possibly top this cake is if it were multi-layered and had a stripper pop out of it. That would end me in the best way possible, dying of laughter.
Great. Now I've got MacArthur Park running through my head. All that sweet green icing flowing down...
I think it's REAL, but I think it might be a joke.
But then again, how do all the thugs and taxi beaters learn to do this stuff from? Kids gotta start from the beginning to be a good car jacking bastard.... XD
Ok, not really. Well, maybe the parents play the game, and the kid watches?
I used to watch my dad play Marathon all the time, and I was so young he'd read me the terminals because I couldn't read very fast, so maybe they let him watch the OK parts (okay, maybe just the parts where the player is just fooling around, driving a car with a radio station turned up), and the kid likes it?
It's probably a 4th aniversary cake for a guy in his early 40s. Odds are, his wife plays the game too. Lil Derrick is probably a name his old highschool buddies gave him for either being a short-shit or a rapper wannabe.
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