Post by trashcanman on May 20, 2011 2:23:49 GMT 2
Whoa. This is a whole new level of oversensitivity. Portal is a popular series of action puzzle games known for it's comedically abusive AI antagonists. That is to say that the appeal of the game is that robots taunt your character as you try to work your way through the game's puzzles. But apparently this premise is too much for this father.
www.1up.com/news/portal-2-adoption-jokes-controversial
So anyways, I was in Morro Bay the other day and my son was wearing a t-shirt we bought there featuring a wicked-looking great white shark and i started thinking. Now, some years ago, such a beast killed a swimmer at that very beach. The question at hand is, should the family of the victim be deeply offended by the fact that people are wearing t-shirts depicting the thing that killed their loved one?
One of my mantras in life is that it is much easier and wiser to adapt to the world than it is to attempt to force the rest of the world to adapt to you. If a trait of a character is pathetically taunted by robots for comedic value in a video game, I think it's safe to say that nobody is being harmed. Even if you happen to share the traits being remarked upon. IT'S A WORK OF FICTION! Not only that, but it is the villains doing the taunting. They are bad guys. They are not supposed to be nice. And I'm pretty sure that "fatty, fatty, adopted fatty" or whatever is not meant to declare the inferiority of the overweight adopted everywhere so much as it is meant to portray the desperate lameness of the characters doing the taunting.
In conclusion:
www.1up.com/news/portal-2-adoption-jokes-controversial
So anyways, I was in Morro Bay the other day and my son was wearing a t-shirt we bought there featuring a wicked-looking great white shark and i started thinking. Now, some years ago, such a beast killed a swimmer at that very beach. The question at hand is, should the family of the victim be deeply offended by the fact that people are wearing t-shirts depicting the thing that killed their loved one?
One of my mantras in life is that it is much easier and wiser to adapt to the world than it is to attempt to force the rest of the world to adapt to you. If a trait of a character is pathetically taunted by robots for comedic value in a video game, I think it's safe to say that nobody is being harmed. Even if you happen to share the traits being remarked upon. IT'S A WORK OF FICTION! Not only that, but it is the villains doing the taunting. They are bad guys. They are not supposed to be nice. And I'm pretty sure that "fatty, fatty, adopted fatty" or whatever is not meant to declare the inferiority of the overweight adopted everywhere so much as it is meant to portray the desperate lameness of the characters doing the taunting.
In conclusion:
Happens regardless of what you let your kids watch.
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