Ancient Web Game Raises Anger of Mainstream Press
Smart Alec online idiocy gets Vaz up in arms
Bless them, but what with the US presidential election over with it would seem that the mainstream press has little to do but call on a game made in 2002 to get rent-a-quote MPs and innocent victims of terrorism up in arms.
Yes, right of centre dailies, The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph are yelling 'Outrage!' about an independent web-based piece of attention seeking that was first posted six years ago.
The inanity is called 'Kaboom - The Suicide Bomber Game' or even just 'The Suicide Bomber Game' as seen on the Newgrounds site by user 'fabulous999'. Fabulous comes out with the usual nonsense attached to this kind of 'look at me' stuff (see Muslim Massacre).
"By the way, I'm not jewish, I'm not an arab, and I'm not a terrorist. I have little interest in what goes on in the middle east so I don't share any extreme views. I just think people who blow themselves up are stupid.
That's the kind of logic that is truly inspiring... 'I have little interest... so I don't share extreme views... but I will make a game out of it'. Superb!
There are various versions off the project floating around on the Internet spawned from the Newgrounds version that was originally uploaded.... on April 17th 2002. Yup, 2002.
But this hasn't stopped the UK press getting themselves and other figures into the discussion. According to The Sun, who went straight to our old friend Keith Vaz, MP who the paper quotes as follows:
"Mr Vaz said it was offensive to the relatives of those killed by suicide bombers. In a Commons motion, he called on the game’s creators to “show sensitivity and responsibility” and remove it from the internet."
Vaz then, of course, used the US-served game that has spawned copies all over the Interworld to demand that the UK government revise its regulation of violent games”.
The more sedate broadsheet, The Daily Telegraph, tells us that"The game's creator (is) an anonymous man from Houston, Texas". Mmmm, the Newgrounds author profile page says the following:
"Age/Gender: 23, Male
Location: MI
Job: Student
mistersasser@gmail.com"
So, not so Texan after all - and that email address rather dismisses anonymity. As does the photograph of Fabulous (right). Indeed The Daily Mail also researched the tale and came up with the same 'facts' as the Telegraph.
Little old Fab' also points out in his page that, "UPDATE: Children were removed because the only .fla file i could find of this game did not have children incorporated yet and I wanted to install the Newgrounds API deal. So deal with it."
Nice.
We're not sure what is more offensive, an adolescent attempt to shock using lowest common denominator gaming... or the mainstream media and a government minister's attempts to make capital from it. We know who should have been more responsible.
Yes, right of centre dailies, The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph are yelling 'Outrage!' about an independent web-based piece of attention seeking that was first posted six years ago.
The inanity is called 'Kaboom - The Suicide Bomber Game' or even just 'The Suicide Bomber Game' as seen on the Newgrounds site by user 'fabulous999'. Fabulous comes out with the usual nonsense attached to this kind of 'look at me' stuff (see Muslim Massacre).
"By the way, I'm not jewish, I'm not an arab, and I'm not a terrorist. I have little interest in what goes on in the middle east so I don't share any extreme views. I just think people who blow themselves up are stupid.
That's the kind of logic that is truly inspiring... 'I have little interest... so I don't share extreme views... but I will make a game out of it'. Superb!
There are various versions off the project floating around on the Internet spawned from the Newgrounds version that was originally uploaded.... on April 17th 2002. Yup, 2002.
But this hasn't stopped the UK press getting themselves and other figures into the discussion. According to The Sun, who went straight to our old friend Keith Vaz, MP who the paper quotes as follows:
"Mr Vaz said it was offensive to the relatives of those killed by suicide bombers. In a Commons motion, he called on the game’s creators to “show sensitivity and responsibility” and remove it from the internet."
Vaz then, of course, used the US-served game that has spawned copies all over the Interworld to demand that the UK government revise its regulation of violent games”.
The more sedate broadsheet, The Daily Telegraph, tells us that"The game's creator (is) an anonymous man from Houston, Texas". Mmmm, the Newgrounds author profile page says the following:
"Age/Gender: 23, Male
Location: MI
Job: Student
mistersasser@gmail.com"
So, not so Texan after all - and that email address rather dismisses anonymity. As does the photograph of Fabulous (right). Indeed The Daily Mail also researched the tale and came up with the same 'facts' as the Telegraph.
Little old Fab' also points out in his page that, "UPDATE: Children were removed because the only .fla file i could find of this game did not have children incorporated yet and I wanted to install the Newgrounds API deal. So deal with it."
Nice.
We're not sure what is more offensive, an adolescent attempt to shock using lowest common denominator gaming... or the mainstream media and a government minister's attempts to make capital from it. We know who should have been more responsible.