I read this on 1up.com under the title slow news day in (whatever the city the family was in)Player Two said:
Adoptive Parents Call Portal 2 Jokes Offensive to Orphans
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Good lord. Grow a backbone please. If you can't take a light joke, wait 'till you hear the serious stuff intended to make you feel like trash.
Meh, I got no problem with the guy whining about it, at least he's not being over-dramatic about it or attempting any mindless legal action. Hell, he's still playing the game, but he loses major points for making this into a news article. Some people just need to grow up about the notion of what is 'offensive' and how they respond to it.
Uhh... PG is not 15+, that is either M, or MA15+. All it means is that Parental Guidance is recommended, nothing more.Bob the frantic said:
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My mistake. I come from the old days before colour coding when my statement was true. Looks like Australia is less overprotective than I thought (It still is though *cough* R rated games *cough*).The Eupho Guy said:
Geez people. Give the guy a break. The child is 10. 10 year olds can be susceptible to all sorts of insults, and perhaps more so being adopted.
I think he has a right to be annoyed. It's not like he's blaming videogames for fucking up humanity here. He's just saying his 10 year old got upset by the E rated game.
I think some of the reaction I'm seeing here is exactly the reason people think we as gamers are violent angry individuals warped by our hobby. Some people need to stop thinking the world's against them and just chill out a little.
I think he has a right to be annoyed. It's not like he's blaming videogames for fucking up humanity here. He's just saying his 10 year old got upset by the E rated game.
I think some of the reaction I'm seeing here is exactly the reason people think we as gamers are violent angry individuals warped by our hobby. Some people need to stop thinking the world's against them and just chill out a little.
Am I the only one who found it funny that there daughters name is Zoey and they were playing a valve game? but anyway its a joke and its a robot...robots aren't nice...
They ate the cake.captain underpants said:
At his birthday party. There were supposed to be candles and everything, but the fat people ate those too.
We can get you more cake, if you just come back to the furnace room?
Despite how over-sensative this parent appears to me, I'm glad that the parent said "We'll just avoid that part" rather than yelling at others to fix it. I think it shows the parent actually being a parent rather than trying to load the responsibility on another group like most attacks on "offensive" gaming, not sure how he made the news though.
I love when these things pop up, not just for the daft folk getting all offended by the smallest thing in a video game but also for some of the comments the articles get on here of just pure bile and flame.
"ARRRGH they are offended by something...that offends me, now here is a wall of curse words!"
XD
OT: I found the back and forth about adoption in Portal 2 to be hilarious, I should mention here that I am an adopted orphan, which is likely why I found it so funny. As for the fathers concerns that he had never told his child and what damage it might do, I discovered I was adopted in quite an abrubt way at a young age, come to think of it two bantering ai would have made it alot better.
I'm the same ethnicity as my parents so it was totaly out of left field to me, however, they raised me pretty well so I delt with it and moved on and it had no major impact to my identity or my life.
Anyway, my point being, if this is something that really effects this girl now or in later life she is going to have a hell of a bad time out in the real world.
Another win for over reaction and media mountains from molehills.
"ARRRGH they are offended by something...that offends me, now here is a wall of curse words!"
XD
OT: I found the back and forth about adoption in Portal 2 to be hilarious, I should mention here that I am an adopted orphan, which is likely why I found it so funny. As for the fathers concerns that he had never told his child and what damage it might do, I discovered I was adopted in quite an abrubt way at a young age, come to think of it two bantering ai would have made it alot better.
I'm the same ethnicity as my parents so it was totaly out of left field to me, however, they raised me pretty well so I delt with it and moved on and it had no major impact to my identity or my life.
Anyway, my point being, if this is something that really effects this girl now or in later life she is going to have a hell of a bad time out in the real world.
Another win for over reaction and media mountains from molehills.
Agreed, there's only so much to be said here other than this guy getting pissed off for no valid reason.Pipotchi said: