Generation: Hot Coffee

Generation: Hot Coffee is a series of woman's T-shirts designed for The Sims 2 by the Dozerfleet founder, as a way to spoof the Hot Coffee Scandal in which Florida lawyer Jack Thompson attacked both The Sims 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for alleged sexual content.

History
The idea for it came from when the Dozerfleet founder first learned of the Hot Coffee scandal through Wikipedia. Since then, numerous Sims players complained about how only those with access to adults-only sites knew of ways to get their hands on the mods that put adult content in the game. They argued that this made it unfair for Thompson to pursue a lawsuit against Maxis, since it was the third-party sites that were distributing obscene content and not Maxis itself. Maxis argued that it has little control over how third parties violate its content.

While the Dozerfleet founder sympathized with the lawsuit against the GTA franchise, the lawsuit against Sims seemed preposterous. As a result, the idea came that women in the game would wear T-shirts that basically stated: "Yeah, we're the generation of Hot Coffee, and we're proud of it!"

This image of virtual women rebelling against Thompson soon became a shirt design, that was modified several times for release to ModTheSims2. However, as that site kept increasing its standards regarding what content it would vs. would not allow on its servers, the constantly-improved designs were always rejected.

Claims made by Thompson
Thompson sued Maxis accusing the game makers of knowingly installing adult-only content in a game, and then “tricking” the ESRB into giving the game a “T” Rating. He is said to have called the game “a pedophile’s paradise;” and claimed that on adult Sims, one can clearly see nipples, genitals, and pubic hair, and that by typing in a simple cheat: “ intProp censorgridsize 0 ,” the blur could be removed, allowing Sims to engage in all manner of erotica at the hands of any player who so desired. [1], [2]

Challenges to allegations of sexual content
In truth, only users of sites such as PandoraSims and SexySims2 are capable of unlocking such features through the addition of custom content.

Those sites in turn have measures to regulate who uses their services, protecting nearly all under-aged users from gaining access to such material. Also, these sites have very strict regulations against child pornography, forbidding users to upload content that sexualizes Sims beneath the Teen age designation and even threatening to alert authorities on users who violate this policy.

Thompson lost his case when EA officials pointed out that their skintones are made cartoonish, rather than realistic, along with eyes; as Maxis wanted a “soft, gentle, if not infantile, feel for the game.”


 * Pubic hair only exists when skintone default over-rides by artists such as Helaene are installed.
 * Eyes only look realistic when Enayla, Helaene, Exnem, JoanneDryer, or IcedMango mods are installed.
 * The "woohoo" animations are not very graphic, as Sims become (mostly) invisible when they have sex in any setting.
 * They will always magically slip into their underwear.
 * They will only get naked for sex if hacks by the likes of TwoJeffs and Squinge are installed.
 * The "make out" animations are most often used for sex scenes by storytellers, who avoid showing anything below the stomach line as the legs never align properly to imply anything else.
 * As of the University expansion pack, the bug patch released by Maxis disables the censor cheat. The only way players can get around it is with a censor hack, such as the one generated by Dave Luv’s SeeThem 2.31 from SimSky.
 * Maxis was very careful to code children in the game so that while hackers can make children nude, children have no concept of romantic interaction.

Concerning basic issues with nudity, EA lawyers were quick to point out that any such mods void the game warranty. By default, Sims are “basically just a bunch of Ken and Barbie dolls.” Responsibility was therefore shifted to 3rd parties to make sure that under-18 players cannot gain access to adults-only content. Many of these providers were more than happy to oblige, not wishing any legal trouble for themselves.

Jack Thompson was also known for his lawsuit filed against Take Two Interactive, the owners of Rockstar Games. When he sued EA, he said that The Sims 2 was “worse than Hot Coffee.”[3]

As a response, Rockstar Games agreed to hold a recall on all “Hot Coffee-infected” versions of the game, and redistribute them in adult stores with the A-O rating. All new packages would have Hot Coffee removed, so the game could continue to receive an M rating.

Dozerfleet works alluding to Generation: Hot Coffee

 * In the Ciem trilogy, Dolly Malestrom sometimes wears a Hot Coffee shirt.
 * Jen in Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" wears a Hot Coffee shirt.

Download

 * Catalog #: TS2020
 * '''Requirements: [[Image:TS2BaseGame.png]]
 * File details: File is a simple shirt recolor for Adult female Sims.
 * Storytelling: There are no restrictions on storytelling.
 * File distribution: Don't redistribute.

Never live down Hot Coffee!

Celebrate forever with a Generation: Hot Coffee T-shirt for your female Sims, featuring an innocent little coffee cup on the shirt. This is the one hot coffee mod that actually is safe for work!

Note: While the controversy was over an unlock to sexual material hidden in the code of GTA, and some potentially objectionable material about the mod is visible on the above-linked Wikipedia article, this T-shirt contains an innocent coffee mug. If the imagery at Wikipedia offends you, visit at your own risk.


 * Generation: Hot Coffee at MediaFire