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My Mom Contacted Nintendo Today...
She was watching me play, and when I got to Celestia Town (sp?/name?), she saw what the Galaxy guy said about blowing the town up and said it was Terrorist Propaganda...so she called NOA..i was so embarrased.
I'm so mad @ my mom too..but now that i think about it, its kinda funny. What are your views on it? |
i thought it was strange and a little violent, but then again, there are pokemon that look like bombs that actually do *explode* XD
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ROFL. Wow this is freaking hilarious. I really don't see anything serious coming out of this.
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>.< Good god... If Team Galactic - the ENEMIES in the game - blow up a lake, then why don't our nation's children all just go out and explode things? Yeah, right. <.<;
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Oh no! Diamond's gonna be banned in the US! :P
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Oh gods *rolleyes* first the airports now this...what's next? Just saying the word bomb?
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yo pochama, your kidding right?
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At least it's not Neo Leafhugging Canadian Propoganda... Imagine the chaos that would cause!
<.< -cough- You poor child. D: -gathers into arms- Parents can be so whacked at times. |
Hahhahahaha....you, I thought this would be about something good.
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Now let's see...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_mom There. Not to be mean or anything at the OP <:) |
pahahaa this made me laugh. Did she write to them or call them? And what exactly did they reply???
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Ha, I'd like to hear the replay too. XD I'd hate to be Nintendo's PR for calls like that.
Anyway, I did think it was a little overboard for a Pokemon game when I got to the place, but sicne it is a Pokemon game, I knew nothing would come of it. In most other RPGs with their competent evil societies, the town probably would've blown up right when I got there or just after I left. And it would have been my hometown. But yeah, as soon as you beat the guy, he leaves. It's mostly just showing little kids that justice always prevails or something like that. I don't think it's enough to contact Nintendo or anything. :| Just a game, after all. |
Hahaha! LOL!! If you live in the US don't go around saying there are Terrorists in your Pokémon D/P.. they'll arrest you and hold you for questioning!!! LMAO!!!
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all i'm saying is that with all the given recent events, the situation of a bomb threat posed in a popular game might have a few negative outcomes. they could've had the same scenario but just not discuss a bomb at all. |
I hate to be the one to say this and this is not an attack at the OP's mom directly, but she is acting exactly like the terrorist want her to act. The whole point behind terrorism is to freak people out and to make them paranoid & scared of things they would otherwise not think twice about. By freaking out at even the smallest thing related to terrorism, you are basically saying "You win terrorist. I'm scared now.". You know how to beat terrorists (other than waging a full scale war on them)? You treat their acts the same way you treat a bully's acts. You ignore them. You don't show that they get to you, and you continue on.
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I'm sorry, but that's just a tad bit on the..... well stupid side (no offense to your mom. My mom is the same way and if given the chance she would do something like calling up NoA or some other game HQ just because of something in a game).
It's a game, seeing someone say "I'm going to blow ... up" is a game and won't make a kid go out and blow something up because he/she saw it in a Pokemon game. Quote:
I'm not saying Nintendo was trying to freak out a bunch of people, it's a game, and people need to understand the line between real life and games. |
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i find it strange that you can have quite that opinion and yet you ARE an administrator. |
^Being an admin at PC doesn't have anything to do with bomb threats.
Sure, his/her mother was being cautious, but like Red Wolf said, it's exactly how terrorists expect her to ask. Plus, it's a little too exaggerating, come to think of it, no? I mean, it's a freaking game that uses a top-down style with huge heads and disembodied arms, little creatures that scratch and screech at each other, and we get this reaction? This is starting to remind me of the grandma looking for a Mario game for her grandson's 360. |
=\ i dont beleive it because ...well actually i kinda do o.o
from the chat room: [15:00:11]‹ @bgt › i feel like locking the thread just because of its retardness. |
Don't worry everyone! We shall all be saved with the power of political correctness and nanny-like state's! And there was me thinking it was stupid that they left out the white and black magic and soul stuff from FRLG; who would say anything about that? Obviously I was wrong.
Yes, little kiddies are going to want to bomb everyone, in a game where you travel around the world by yourself at 10, use animals that mindlessly obey whatever you say, make your money by making animals fight until they faint, because some person out of a million people in some team that are you completly defeat said something about a bomb. Yes people, very realistic. |
wow phoning NoA that's a bit OTT, does she still let you play the game?
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that's just silly. there's no logic in that. the motives of terrorists have nothing to do with how the public should treat profanities, especially when considering the way D/P presented the bomb situation. bombs are a BIG deal and bomb threats should be just as BIG, and if game developers continue to present bombs in such a small, putrefied light, then their audiences, children, will grow up thinking they aren't a big deal, and will probably make a couple bomb threats a year just to get a few days off. if you think there's no problem with that, then i'm the fool for thinking i could have a reasonable discussion on a pokemon forum. |
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I never said bombs weren't a big deal, but the way we interpret these quotes on a game is indeed a big deal. We should always have two points of view in order to make an unbiased point, like the one I'm about to present right here. Think of it on the other side. The kid might see the Team Galactic member talking about blowing up a city. However, he's identified that Team Galactic member as a bad person, since Team Galactic are interpreted as the villains of the game. Sure, if your own character were to talk about a thread like that, then that'd be incredibly serious, but Nintendo's not stupid. Hence, Galactic being identified as the villains, they're interpreted as a bad example to society. Remember, we're talking about a psychological belief under the mind of a basic child, say, little Tommy. And thus I end my point once again with Arcanine's quote that summarizes my beliefs. Quote:
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And you hit it right on the head also Arcanine. I would be scared also Quote:
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