Tell me that’s copied from The Onion. Please.
Even if you’re lying. :eek:
I love the second paragraph, concerning Mayor Tortimer.
One old lady in my ward thinks that no single adult male should ever talk to any female child under any circumstance, yet she’s quite happy for single adult women of any age to talk to any male child. And, yes, she’s never been married either nor does she have any children of her own.
So no confession, eh? Or communion-er…maybe that’s not such a good example. 
Huh. Under NO circumstances? No grandparents, uncles, cousins? No brothers? No store cashiers? Ever?
Huh.
And let’s hope these morons stay away from MySpace or Facebook. I think their heads would explode if they found SuperPets. No, not the TV show-it’s a plug in for either website, and you can adopt your own little pet, and when you “friend” someone on either-I have about twenty some friends on MS who have Pets-you go and “hug” said pets and you get money. Then you can buy things in the Pet Store. And you can feed and bath your pet. It’s pretty cool. But then, most of them are adults, except for a few teenagers.
Coincidentally, you’ve just summed up perfectly why I’m beginning to hate Facebook. Someone sent me a virtual drink … while I was drinking an actual drink. I wanted to send back a virtual kick to the junk, but I don’t think they have that application yet.
Who said I was? I just said that if you are going to run an MMO for kids you have a responsibility to have a moderator process because you are providing a service to children in a semi-public space. Just like you might if you were running a children’s museum or something.
Two unrelated things:
Animal Crossing is not an MMO. It is a game that can only connect to other players by sharing friend codes via some other medium. If the kids are interacting with adults through Animal Crossing, they’ve already been interacting some other way, probably through the internet or in person. Animal Crossing is not a vector.
There has never been an MMO, for children or adults, without some sort of impersonal oversight and ability to report problems with other players. Animal Crossing does not have this because, again, it is not an MMO.
You don’t have to go into the requests. (I generally don’t.) I only play Super Pets (and Dog World on MySpace.)
And quite frankly, I actually would not be surprised if they do have that app.
(And WTF are MMO’s?)
Massively Multiplayer Online (Games). MMO, MMOG, MMORPG, and variants all refer to essentially the same genre. MMOs are like World of Warcraft. You play in one communal world simultaneously with lots of other players.
Animal Crossing may have been mistaken for an MMO due to all the town inhabitants wandering around and talking to the player, but those are computer-controlled, not other players. Online play is rigorously controlled. You can only connect your town to other players’ towns voluntarily. You have to know them and have a code only they can give you.
Really, this is Nintendo, whose reputation is built on being family friendly. You can’t even really communicate with other players in most of their Wii games, specifically because they’re going to extreme measures to make the games safe for children.
But, but…they used the word pedophile! That means you’re supposed to quit thinking and start hating people!
Everybody knows that…sheesh!
Actually, we LDS do have confession, just in a different manner than the Roman Catholics.
You probably don’t want to know the answer to that.
In reality, she was covering up for–or maybe supplementing–another kind of prejudice. I laughed at her when she finally admitted it. She doesn’t think foreign men should be around minors. Apparently, the Stake President selecting me for the Ward Bishopric wasn’t cleared through her!
Agreed. I’m really shocked at how willing, no, how insistent the general population is on abandoning civilized trappings such as the rule of law and sense when it comes to any crimes committed by, against, or around minors. Get the wrong person executed? No problem! After all, the crime charged was committed against a child. Destroyed someone’s life? No problem! Just because there’s no proof he molested a child doesn’t mean he didn’t do it, you know. Got a moron working as a cop and saying that only pedophiles play Animal Crossing? Again, no problem! After all, he just cares about the children.
But, really, he doesn’t. He’s just a neanderthal who’s shown he doesn’t care about facts.
That actually sounds like fun.