Comments on: Mother Recognizes Her Murdered Toddler in Video Game! Game is Withdrawn.

By: ChrisMac

ChrisMac — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:38:39 +0000

#6 – I was going to make a remark about how this publicity might help sell a few copies of this horrendous excuse for a game. (see: Grand Theft Auto) But I thought I’d just keep it short and fire off a oneliner.

Nice try though.

I suppose if I had said what i really *thought* about this, we’d be further along than 8 msgs by now on this thread..

By: tallwookie

tallwookie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:55:02 +0000

haha pwned!!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:04:36 +0000

#5 – let’s put some plausible pieces together:

“The haunting video [...] has often been rebroadcast”

Many people have seen it, including some who will be the sort to play this game. It doesn’t take a genuis to realize that someone spoke up, maybe to a TV station, maybe to a newspaper, and the woman, reading this, borrowed a copy of the game to verify the claim? C’mon, just *think* about it…

By: ChrisMac

ChrisMac — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:05:58 +0000

Either way.. What the hell is she doing playing this stupid video game

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:00:51 +0000

#3 – Wait… Yes… Was it the actual child’s image… Or was it just an unfortunate coincidence that a fake image reminded this woman of something real… Because if the latter, I retract #2…

By: Janky-o

Janky-o — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:55:29 +0000

Wait. The headline says it was a picture of the kid. The text said it was “similar.” Which is it?

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:33:10 +0000

That may cause offense

I understand why these guys use such freaking lame language, but wouldn’t it be refreshing to hear a company spokesman say, “Wow… We are so amazingly sorry we did this… We really screwed up… Please accept our heartfelt apology and know that we are doing everything we can to make sure a horrible mistake like this never happens again.”

You know… a little something my conservative friends like to call “personal responsibility”.

By: moss

moss — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:14:07 +0000

It is, in fact, the first time a video game has been ordered withdrawn by the British government. The other half of the equation is the sleazy heads of corporate game production – no, they ain’t just gamers who got successful.

They can prate all day about their artistic rights and freedoms; but, pandering to the lowest common denominator eventually results in backlash. Supporting freedoms is tough enough in the best of times. Watching our transatlantic race to the scuppers of morality – from Iraq on over – makes it even more difficult to defend these creeps and their opportunistic niche.

It might be easier if folks had sufficient political understanding to develop, say, a boycott of crud. But, I look around and see a couple of English-speaking nations barely up to figuring out why they shouldn’t vote for the evil of two lessers.