I’m a peaceful guy who would never dream of hurting an infant in real life, but I laughed my ass off at this.
Then again, I’m inordinately proud of cracking my wife up by MST3K’ing all the way through our rented Passion of the Christ DVD, so maybe I’m not the best guy to talk to about good taste.
I had serious fun heckling that movie. It’s been two years, and my wife still slaps me upside the head for making her laugh at that, but I don’t regret a goddamned thing.
Apple knows damn well what they did. Approve an outrageous app, collect the fees from those sales, and then decry it.
And no, I’m not offended. Shaking a real baby, and shaking a game are not the same. Nor is it a gateway for people to shake their babies in the future, that idea is dumb.
You sound like someone I’d enjoy hanging out with.
I consider myself to have a morbid sense of humor. Hell, I’m one of those A-holes that’s always laughing at those “Life Alert” commercials. (you know the ones “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” or the old man clutching his chest like Fred Sanford “I’m having a heart attack!”)
This just wasn’t funny.
I’m with Snarky_Kong had they made the baby a rag-doll model that bounced off the sides of the screen as you shook it; that might be worth a few chuckles.
If anything, I’m more outraged at the lazy programmer’s lack of imagination.
No, pretty much anything getting a piano dropped on it is funny. I realize that makes me a hypocrite, given the thousands of tragic piano-related coyote deaths every year.
I think it would be funnier if the kiddy was loaded into a catapult and flung away. Kids or squirrels, either one works for me.
You’d only be a hypocrite if you were out there protesting all the thousands of tragic piano related coyote deaths every year. As long as you laugh publicly AND privately, your integrity is intact.
I am of the opinion that nothing is sacred. Nothing. Nothing is above being mocked. Not ALL the time to EVERYONE in ANY situation…but neither is there anything that is ALWAYS sacrosanct. NOTHING.
Because if you can’t laugh, then you are truly doomed.
So the right time and place, bring on the cruel humor about the mentally challenged, child porn, 9/11, the Holocaust, what the fuck ever. All I require is that you be funny.
I don’t know what the process is for getting applications approved for posting on the Apple Store, but you all seem to be thinking that Steve Jobs is personally sitting there verifying every app for proper Apple™ styling and content.
I used to make cellphone applications. Not for Apple, but all they cared about was that the app didn’t crash the phone and would hold its state during a phone call. The moral content wasn’t something they verified, nor is it probably something that the flunky QA dude in India probably has the power to pass or fail an app based on it.
See, that’s what I thought I’d see when I clicked on the link. That would be funny (says the mom of two). So with this app you get a pencil sketch of a baby, and if you shake it the eyes turn to red Xs? And they want 99 cents for that? That’s at least 98 cents too much. Something with amusing animation would at least function as a stress-reliever.
I don’t share the outrage, but I do wonder about people who think that app is replayable.
And I don’t just kill off my Sims characters when I get bored with them, I taught my kids how to do it, too. I’m clearly a bad bad mommy.
I didn’t think it was funny, but I wouldn’t ban it either. Censorship for no better purpose than protecting non-existent babies is ridiculous. Not only was no one harmed by this app, but it probably did more for raising awareness of shaken babies than all the PSA’s and maternity-room pamphlets ever made.
Like thisone?
Mildly NSFW, woman in a bikini.
This does skeeve me. Not in an an offended way, just in a fascinated train wreck that is SO creepy, boneless people are odd way. Like, ewwww, wow. Is it just me?
Ummm… Not too disturbing, but there were some serious crash contortions going on there.
Did anybody else notice that when she eventually gets ‘trapped’ between bubbles, and has nowhere to go, that she keeps … um… bouncing?
I reset it several times to check, and the last time she was trapped flat on her back, legs fully extented over her head, ankles by her ears and bouncing… I could just image some porn star on top of her hamm…
excuse me, I think I need to phone a friend.
IMO, it’s just stupid. I didn’t laugh, but I’m not angry at the inventors of this. Is the rag doll supposed to be funny? I just see it as puzzling. If she’s “real”, it’s disturbing and nasty; if she’s not, it’s just a doll falling–how is that funny? The graphics are boring and it goes on endlessly. What is with these types of --well, what are these things called, anyway–videos?
Maybe I’ll develop one that shows a guy"doll" getting kicked in the nuts again and again and make Big Money!
The mentality that comes up with this stuff is the saddest thing about all of it. But then, I’ve never been a fan of the 3 Stooges type humor, either. YMMV.
Yeah, perhaps someone brighter than myself will be along to explain why that happens from the physics of the program.
One possibility would be that the app, internally, shakes everything as an attempt to get the body dislodged. More likely, though, the body is trying to fall through the bubble, detects that it is there, and gets moved back to above it, ending up in a slightly different position.
No, it’s just an animation exercise; coding for physics, interaction between defined objects, rule-generated objects, etc. Then he threw a woman in a bikini on top of the object. He’s really not good enough for the way she looks and falls to be interpreted the way you’re doing; check out his other animations and you’ll see what I mean. You could throw a man-shape onto the animation, and I guess it says something about him that he didn’t, but not much beyond “he’s a guy,” and probably a geek at that.
You can always just have fun with Buddy
Am I the only one who started thinking of K.C. and the Sunshine Band? You know, “Shake shake, shake shake, shake your baby…shake your baby?”
I didn’t get to see this, is it anything like what i just downloaded, the free iPhone app “Fuzz Friend” (don’t know how to link to an app…)?