# Cop: Only pedophiles play Animal Crossing... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854 "2009-03-18T05:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/41 "2009-03-18T17:49:39Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > Maybe _that’s_ why pedophiles exist - someone forgot to send them the adult memo! They don’t even realize they’ve grown up! 😃 And the thought that immidiately crossed my mind: “Wait, if they’re pedophiles (pursuing sex with children) because they don’t realize that they grew up, what were they doing with the other kids _before_ they grew up?” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/42 "2009-03-18T17:57:42Z")
> [@omgzebras](#): > > You can’t just run into random people in Animal Crossing. It requires you to exchange a code unique to your copy of the game with somebody before you can chat with or visit them. Great, so it’ll only attract the _dedicated and resourceful_ pedophiles! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/43 "2009-03-18T17:59:53Z")
My wife generall yloves games targetted more for kids, her favorites are “Endless Ocean” and something about a polar bear. In both games all you basically do is run or swim around and look at stuff. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/44 "2009-03-18T18:33:36Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > It’s a fun, cute, no-pressure, free-form little game. There isn’t really a lot to do, but you can still end up wasting hours on it. It’s a game that appeals to people who like collecting things, or who can come up with their own little projects. There are a lot of cute surprises. Like the whole game is real-time, so there are things that only happen at certain times or seasons. Or when you “write letters” to your friends, their reply can reflect what you wrote. It’s a stretch to even call it a game, really. I find playing it to be calming, almost meditative. And, until you get bored of it, it can be immensely addictive. No pressure? Do you know what its like when you need that last piece of furntiture to finally get the last 5000 poiints you need to shut that darn little ferret up about feng shui? And the grass! Don’t you dare walk on the grass! I painstakingly built sidewalks all over town to keep you off the grass!! I still havent caught a ceolecanth… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/45 "2009-03-18T18:37:44Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > So you’re proposing… what? A ban on sales of kid-friendly video games to adults? A reverse rating system? Not getting hysterical about stupid nonsense and recognize that chatrooms are semi-public spaces and that parents need to simply recognize that rather than all of society freaking out and singling out one manner of chatroom over another for no fucking reason. Maybe require children’s MMO style games to have paid adult moderators. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/46 "2009-03-18T18:39:37Z")
> [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](#): > > At the very least they should ban the wii sodomy controller. [You only _think_ you’re joking.](http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html) ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/47 "2009-03-18T18:39:39Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I’ll cut this guy some slack too. I don’t think he meant to imply that all video games were for kids. But, let’s be fair, someone seeing Animal Crossing for the first time, and knowing nothing about it, would figure it was a game for small children. Well, sure. One might want to alleviate his ignorance a bit more before opening his mouth to a local news station and coming off like a moron, however. I’m going to agree with Hal Briston’s original sentiment and fail to cut him any slack. At any rate, this isn’t that new. Remember a year or so ago when some dipshit discovered Picto-Chat on the DS and went around screaming that the DS was a tool for pedophiles to virtually rape your children? Totally ignoring the fact that Picto-Chat, like Animal Crossing, works by invitation, and that to use Picto-Chat you have to be in close proximity, meaning that the alleged molester would have to be already hovering over your child anyway. I’ve never played the Wii Animal Crossing, but I logged many hours on the DS version. Goodness only knows how dangerous and evil that makes me. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/48 "2009-03-18T20:21:55Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I…errr…just have something in my eye is all… Uh…I…er…I think it’s catching. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/49 "2009-03-18T20:51:27Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Maybe require children’s MMO style games to have paid adult moderators. Children should already have adult moderators, I don’t think an MMO should have to hire somebody to do their job for them. Besides, if an MMO has any kind of traffic it is going to be next to impossible to police all of the conversations going on. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/50 "2009-03-18T21:02:56Z")
> [@omgzebras](#): > > Children should already have adult moderators, I don’t think an MMO should have to hire somebody to do their job for them. Besides, if an MMO has any kind of traffic it is going to be next to impossible to police all of the conversations going on. Every adult MMO has moderators. Why should children be unmoderated when adults are not? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/51 "2009-03-18T21:08:13Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Every adult MMO has moderators. Why should children be unmoderated when adults are not? What unmoderated children’s MMOs are you concerned about? ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/52 "2009-03-18T21:25:44Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [You only _think_ you’re joking.](http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html) I have to say, that Sam Brown quote ThinkGeek puts at the bottom of every page (_“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance”_) has never seemed more appropriate. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/53 "2009-03-18T21:58:15Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > [Gaming and Video Game News & Reviews | Engadget](http://www.joystiq.com/media/2007/11/animalcrossing.jpg) God, I don’t know if that gave me a warm fuzzy, or made me want to cry. It’s an awesome story, though. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > At my house, _every_ controller is a sodomy controller. Mental note…don’t accept invitations to Wii parties at VT’s house. Anyway…cop quoted in the OP is a twit…but I’ve come to expect that whenever I see the word ‘pedophile’… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/54 "2009-03-18T22:27:14Z")
Hang on, you have to be a pedophile to play Animal Crossing? So that’s what I was doing wrong. I thought the game was just a mind numbing exercise in tedium. I’ll try that strategy the next time I play it. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/55 "2009-03-18T22:56:57Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > At my house, _every_ controller is a sodomy controller. I dread to imagine what the Konami code unlocks… ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/56 "2009-03-18T23:00:43Z")
> [@simster](#): > > And the grass! Don’t you dare walk on the grass! I painstakingly built sidewalks all over town to keep you off the grass!! :eek: I’ve never thought of doing this! Cool! I’m such a sicko pervert that I maintain two separate characters in my town. I’ve got one set up trying to pay off the house as fast as possible, the other is trying to purchase all that GracieGrace stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/57 "2009-03-18T23:05:48Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > :eek: I’ve never thought of doing this! Cool! > > I’m such a sicko pervert that I maintain two separate characters in my town. I’ve got one set up trying to pay off the house as fast as possible, the other is trying to purchase all that GracieGrace stuff. Is this game Sims-esque in that people ever do things like put their pandas in the same room as their birds and watch things get mauled? or put a fox in the pool and take away the steps so it can’t get out? …Or am I just too sick for this? ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/58 "2009-03-19T00:01:22Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > That cop needs to read this: > > [Gaming and Video Game News & Reviews | Engadget](http://www.joystiq.com/media/2007/11/animalcrossing.jpg) > > To see how wrong he is. > > [http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2007/11/19/animal-crossing-story-makes-us-sob-like-little-babies-update-1/](http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2007/11/19/animal-crossing-story-makes-us-sob-like-little-babies-update-1/) This needed to be posted, so I immediately started looking through the thread to see if it had been. I [STUMBLEUPON](http://www.stumbleupon.com/help/What_is_StumbleUpon_and_how_do_I_use_it/) this comic/story every few months, and something gets in my eye every time. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/59 "2009-03-19T00:24:41Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > :eek: I’ve never thought of doing this! Cool! > > I’m such a sicko pervert that I maintain two separate characters in my town. I’ve got one set up trying to pay off the house as fast as possible, the other is trying to purchase all that GracieGrace stuff. When Wendell comes to town, feed him the right fish and you can get some patterns that make for very nice paths - you can also just paint a square solid grey to get it started. Keep in mind - if you change out a pattern that you used to make the sidewalk, everywhere that pattern is used will change to the new pattern. So, use your “other” charector to build/maintain the sidewalk. My wife and I both have “slaves” - we build thier houses up as a turnip farm and holding facility for the rare stuff that you cant buy later, but dont ‘really’ want to keep. That way, we maximize our turnip investments and can still decorate our main homes to please that darn ferret. Done properly, you can store 16,300 turnips, and if you’re on the right pattern, can net a handsome profit. Yeah, clearly we’re a team of pervs here. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854/60 "2009-03-19T00:53:14Z")
[http://www.crispygamer.com/news/index.php/2009-03-18/kmiz-news-director-responds-to-wii-story-criticism/](http://www.crispygamer.com/news/index.php/2009-03-18/kmiz-news-director-responds-to-wii-story-criticism/) I guess they responded to this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-only-pedophiles-play-animal-crossing/489854.md?page=4)