News Report on Kinect Sex Hack Could Arouse Parents' Fears
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they might once it becomes true. The problem, in the meanwhile, is the fact that the wrong people (or the right people, from their perspective) do take it as a serious news network.Angus565 said:
I'm not saying that Fox News is a good station, but I find it funny how many posts are about Fox News when the story is more affiliated with CNN.
Internet slap fights are fun. Okay but seriously, it would really help your argument for the fact that you may be a level-headed and fair person if you stopped calling them "Faux Noise". It's just stupid, like calling Microsoft M$ and feeling like you're stickin' it to the Man. I don't like them that much either (although O'Reilly and Beck have given me quite a few laughs), but most American news outlets are extremely one-sided. FOX just does a bad job of hiding the crazy. They do run shit stories (the Mass Effect one is a good start) but, again, so does every other news outlet. It's just that this outlet is likely the most viewed in America. It is an over-generalization to say that it's a network of racists or to say that their viewers have low-IQs. You can quit riding the "FOX News Sucks" bandwagon any time you want.LightPurpleLighter said:
I'm not seeing a smear campaign there, those are two separate and unrelated pieces - as is MS not reporting the actual number of RROD Xboxes.Mornelithe said:
We write what people send in. If nobody sends in a tip about the BBC YLOD article, we probably won't write about it. This is interesting and timely and sadly all too emblematic of how mainstream journalism treats our industry.
You're getting worked up over nothing.
For what exactly? There aren't any outright lies written in the article. It was just hyperbole, fearmongering, a stupid quote, whargarrbl, excessive derping, and speculation.Jabberwock xeno said:
Just what we needed. More games that need supervision. Tamagachi was bad enough, then all those stupid whateverville games, now this. I don't have enough time to supervise all these damn games.Original Article said:
Once again, parents don't actually realize what the actual "game" is.John Funk said:
Kinect is not a game. To be fair, this is one of the more confusing ones, but it's more of an add-on to the Xbox 360 console. Which is also not a game.
Thrixxx is the "game" in this situation. I kind of doubt it was advertised on Nickelodeon though. If it was, I'd be more pissed at Viacom than Microsoft.
Strangely enough, I recollect seeing something about CNN doing quite poorly as of late. Honestly, though, I cannot claim to have faith in any of our U.S. news media outlets. Wait a minute! Time Warner owns CNN and Time Warner owns Cartoon Network!!! So I bet that the Cartoon Network is brainwashing eager children into buying Kinect so that they can access the PC sex hack, allowing a CNN subsidary to capitalize on the scandalous outbreak of small children fondling the air!!!
Erm, waitaminute... Nope, sorry, that's just plain silly. About as silly as a parent being concerned over a PC sex hack that their child will have no exposure to except from looking it up themselves. Which begs the question: What were these parents Googling in the first place to find a Kinect sex game?!?
Might as well just witch-hunt the internet; heaven forbid little Timmy gets a' Googlin' with the PC his parents supplied him with in the first place.
Erm, waitaminute... Nope, sorry, that's just plain silly. About as silly as a parent being concerned over a PC sex hack that their child will have no exposure to except from looking it up themselves. Which begs the question: What were these parents Googling in the first place to find a Kinect sex game?!?
Might as well just witch-hunt the internet; heaven forbid little Timmy gets a' Googlin' with the PC his parents supplied him with in the first place.
And this, ladies and gents, is exactly why Microsoft wants to stop people from making this kind of crap for Kinect if they can, even if it doesn't hit the 360. They didn't even do anything wrong and now they are going to get blasted by this bullshit from a news outlet that can't do any simple fact checking.
Because no one in their right mind takes Fox seriously and those who do think the "electoral process" is what happens when someone gets the chair. IOW, people who follow and create this sort of media shitstorm are like that little brat of a kid on the bus who is screaming their head off with half their fist shoved up their nose. Irritating, disturbing, but ultimately a mere nuisance which will hopefully be avoided in the future with properly functioning prophylactics.Jabberwock xeno said:
Why doesn't microsoft sue fox news for slander? why doesn't ANYONE ever sue fox news for slander?
Because it's totally unbelievable that another network might adopt the "Shoot first, broadcast second, think eventually" practice that Fox is notorious for, a tactic that has served them well so far seeing as how their questionable broadcasting has actually remained on air.Vicarious Vangaurd said:
And of course, having an edit to the OP three pages in is a total oversight to boot. You're right though; Ha ha, we all expected to get another firefight over whether or not our opinions of Fox network content being the bottom of the barrel are justified only to find out that CNN might be slipping in to join them.
Now weep for the failing health of journalism, pay your membership dues and remember, if it doesn't sell it's not news.