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By codemonkey uk (Sat Jan 03, 2004 at 04:45:10 AM EST) (all tags)
My own mother recently told me that she doesn't think she wants to see the game I've been working on. She told me that from what she's heard on the news, it doesn't sound like the kind of thing she would approve of.

But then, if she's been reading the New York Post, she'll have heard that it is: "10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy".

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Penny Arcade have (of course) jumped all lover this, and done the maths, pointing out that the author is comparing a computer game fiction with a hypothetical reality of "drugging and then subsequently raping ten thousand children", which, whatever your position, is quite clearly absurd.

Jurie Horneman has some interesting things to say about it ... most interestingly that he is no longer going to say anything about it.

The game-girl-advance blog has and entry posted about it - and there are some interesting comments / replies there as well.

I am personally lost for words. It's so remarkably stupid have have trouble taking it seriously.

PS: My mum actually phoned while I was writing this. She now wants to "see for herself" what the fuss is about.

Full discussion: http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2004/1/3/44510/03387