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?”
Great, so it’ll only attract the dedicated and resourceful pedophiles!
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.
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…
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.
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.
Uh…I…er…I think it’s catching.
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?
What unmoderated children’s MMOs are you concerned about?
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. 
God, I don’t know if that gave me a warm fuzzy, or made me want to cry.
It’s an awesome story, though.
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’…
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.
I dread to imagine what the Konami code unlocks…
: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?
This needed to be posted, so I immediately started looking through the thread to see if it had been.
I STUMBLEUPON this comic/story every few months, and something gets in my eye every time.
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.
I guess they responded to this.