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. So if your kid is talking to a pedophile in the game, it means they were talking to them somewhere else before that in order to exchange friend codes.
I really, really like the parting shot of the article. It’s the zeitgeist to a T : " Anderson says this is not something to be paranoid about, but to be aware."
So… what ? Don’t freak out honey, but don’t let your kids play videogames cause thar be pervs about ? Pitchforks are OK but it’s still early for torches ? I’m confused.
Oi ! You ! Don’t you try and weasel your facts into this perfectly legit moral panic. You’ve been warned.
C’mon! Adults aren’t supposed to have fun. Didn’t you get the memo?
So if there is no good reason for an adult to have this game then how do the children get it? Or am I behind the times and 10 year olds have credit cards now?
I don’t play it, so I guess I’m OK.
Whew! That’s a relief 
Scarier thought: Could you imagine being an adult who has to work with his kid?
Well, IOKIAWDI.
Adults buy video games for kids.
I was trying to make a funny.
Andy said, "“There is no reason an adult should have this game,”
To me that means that if an adult buys the game even for the kid then the adult will have the game. The only way for the kid to have the game but not the adult would mean the kid bought the game for themselves with out the parents knowledge.
Or something like that. Anyways it was a pretty weak funny.
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.
Scarier still: Could you imagine being an adult who happen to stop near their house and ask his kid directions?
He should really stop buying the porn flakes.
…when they pry it from my cold dead…
That cop needs to read this:
To see how wrong he is.
New Sugar Frosted Bugger-O’s, from Kellogg.
I…errr…just have something in my eye is all…
Actually, I’m kind of grateful: all this time, and I didn’t have a clue that I was a pervert.
Only problem is, when I tried to turn myself in, the police officers didn’t seem interested — all they wanted to do was talk about lost items and somebody called Crazy Redd. The streets will never be safe until this sort of bureaucratic obstruction is addressed.
Maybe that’s why pedophiles exist - someone forgot to send them the adult memo! They don’t even realize they’ve grown up!
Exactly. We don’t even have other people visiting our town (and vice-versa) because we don’t have anyone’s friend codes, we’ve been lazy about exchanging them with the people we know who also own the game.
It sounds like people are thinking this is like an online game like World of Warcraft, where you’re automatically connected to whoever is playing at the time, and can meet people and talk.
Animal Crossing doesn’t work like that, you’re completely on your own in your town (well, aside from the animals that live there) unless you already know someone else’s code, or they know yours. You can’t simply meet someone just from playing the game at home.
At my house, every controller is a sodomy controller.