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    Image of scottieb2 scottieb2
    04/14/09

    In reply to Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
    I see a flash game called "Don't Talk to Strangers on the Internet or They Will Rape You." If you even go anywhere near that computer, you get raped...


    If they want to be effective, let's teach children at a young age not to be sex offenders...I see a better game called "Don't Be a Sexual Predator or You'll Get Raped in Jail." That should ultimately break the cycle...


    Seriously, who is going to listen to some "game" they are forced to play at school. D.A.R.E. doesn't seem to work, and those Truth commercials piss me off so bad I only want to take up smoking to spite them...good luck with that, Kentucky.

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    Image of roscoe roscoe
    04/14/09

    @scottieb2: have you not played oregon trail? i have learnt everything i needed to know to be successful from that game.


    yay! healthy oxen!

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    Image of roscoe roscoe
    04/14/09

    In reply to Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
    i think they need a catchy phrase like if you catch on fire you STOP, DROP and ROLL. maybe if you see an online predator you STOP CHATTING TO THEM. makes sense, no?


    kudos to you, kentucky.

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    Image of Ryguy226 Ryguy226
    04/14/09

    In reply to Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
    I don't think they need that much money to produce the game. Just take a Carmen Sandiago game and just change the text and change Carmen to some guy that looks like the WoW geek from South Park (or not?) and you got yourself the same concept.
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    Image of 超外人 超外人
    04/14/09

    @Ryguy226: Does Carmen Sandiago even exist in this decade? We're already approaching another one... :x
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    Image of nightwheel nightwheel
    04/14/09

    In reply to Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
    Wow.. Why in the world does the state I live in want to spend $300,000 on a game. When there are pleanty roads in Western Kentucky that could use the Money to help finish them.
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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    04/14/09

    @nightwheel: All the better to drive your white van with tinted windows on eh?
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    Image of BelmontHeir BelmontHeir
    04/14/09

    In reply to Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
    Zachary Taylor? I swear that was the name of one of the child actors on Home Improvement.
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    Image of rudeskata rudeskata
    04/14/09

    @BelmontHeir: It is, minus Thomas as the end.
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    Image of Copadope Copadope
    04/14/09

    @rudeskata: *Jonathan* Taylor Thomas
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    Image of ph15h ph15h
    04/14/09

    @Copadope: so... he basically mixed up all the children's names?


    :o That's GENIUS.

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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    04/14/09

    @BelmontHeir: Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the US.


    But I can see how that can be confused with "kid on Home Improvement"... :)

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    Image of TaylorEatWorld TaylorEatWorld
    04/14/09

    In reply to Game Teaches Kentucky Children About Online Predators
    Children Versus Predators?


    Is that the name of the game?

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    04/14/09

    @TaylorEatWorld - Imma chargin' mah UBER!: Hah. Well done.
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    Image of exion exion
    04/14/09

    @TaylorEatWorld - Imma chargin' mah UBER!: lol... I know who I'd put my money on! Go Predators!
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    04/14/09

    @TaylorEatWorld - Imma chargin' mah UBER!: Somewhere in an abandoned warehouse, child predators are playing a similar game which teaches them about children...
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    Image of The Cap'n The Cap'n
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    I had some beers last night for St. Patricks Day (hey, it starts at midnight). Followed by a few Beamish when I played P4 for a few hours. I woke up 30 min ago, and turn on Kotaku. I see this article and the sentence:

    "Is Mayor Tortimer actually a man in California that asks for naked images from Missouri children?"


    I feared that this was some hallucination from not having coffee yet. So I left and came back. The offending sentence hadn't vanished. I started to worry that maybe I needed to stop drinking. Or maybe my life had become a Thomas Pynchon novel.


    I'm really glad all of you are seeing this, too, though. This is the most harebrained thing that I've ever read in this video game hysteria context. What you have to understand is that as terrible as St. Louis and Kansas City are (ok, I'm exaggerating a bit), mid-Missouri is full of the people who aren't qualified for either of those two cities (Columbia is given a pass here). Terrible lot.


    I'm thinking of googling 'how to write a cease and desist letter' and emailing a threatening sounding one to them, as acting attorney for adult AC players. Hey, if they believed that Tortimer nonsense, they'll believe this.

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    Image of LucasReis LucasReis
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    This guy is sure an ignorant prick.


    Sure, adults don´t play Animal Crossing, they also don´t play stuff like Pokemon! This guy should get a cup of STFU.

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    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    Pong is teaching us to beat people with paddles! Dr. Mario is teaching us how to stash drugs in small spaces! Imagine: Babiez is causing us to imagine MAKING babies! And then actually doing it! Before marriage!


    HEAD FOR THE HILLS!

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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    "I cannot come up with any legitimate reason that an adult would be playing that particular game"


    REALLY?! Gee, I dunno... maybe because it's FUN?! Pardon me, a 29 year old adult, for playing these kiddie games. What WAS I thinking?! Where is that Trivial Pursuit or Wii Solitaire that I SHOULD be playing?! I AM on foot in the grave, after all and can't have too much stimulation from those kiddie games.


    I hate the human race, sometimes/mostly/all the time.


    >_<

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    Image of Gossy... Fortune and Glory Gossy... Fortune and Glory
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    "I cannot come up with any legitimate reason that an adult would be playing that particular game,"

    Oh, okay Andy. Thanks for clearing that up, seeing as your obviously such an expert.
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    Mayor Tortimer? That decrepit old tortoise?


    I guess it's true what they say: you don't turn from green, if you know what I mean.

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    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    No pedo on earth would be willing to put up with all you need in order to get into some kid's town. Not even Pedobear.
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    And I thought Kotaku had slow news days on the weekends. These guys must have completely bottomed out.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/17/09

    In reply to Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
    I absolutely loathe the logic they're demonstrating here. That's like saying I have no reason to read The Phantom Tollbooth because it's made for kids.


    Piss off and leave me to my Harold and the Purple Crayon.
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    Image of Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky
    03/17/09

    @Mount_Prion: Meh, Harold and the Purple Crayon is so overrated. Amelia Bedilia is 10x better.


    :P

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/17/09

    @Gorilla Snow is hot for Snorlax: No way! I love the self-reflexivity! Harold is so meta.
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