More App Store controversy from Pocket God

Next up: Rasta Monkey.

You know it.

I wonder if Bolt Creative has gotten a spike in it's profits since all this complaining began.

"Wouldn't that just shed more light on the penises?"

Elaine Howard of the International Pacific Women's Information will be going after Dogz next, since she is ulgy and resembles one breed in that game... It is always the ulgy people that get offended...

was that comment mean? YES
Should I have typed it? NO
Is pocket god just a cartoon and merely playful? YES
Should pocket god have been made? YES it doesn't directly affect anyone unless you're a cartoon.

This whole debate is stupid, its a cartoon, if you don't like it don't buy it...

She should also talk to the networks about getting gilligans island reruns banned since they depict Pacific islanders in a backwards stupid manner...

...or, people could just take the stick out of their ass.

No matter what kind of fictitious scenario you come up with for entertainment purposes, there is always going to be someone who's going to either be honestly offended by it, or at least act offended to push along some agenda by making an example of you.

Entertainment is almost entirely driven by stereotyping in some form no matter what the product. The only way to prevent offending someone is to simply remove entertainment items from your product line. (Something I'm sure Apple won't do, as the games section of the App Store is their single largest profit source for that service...)

About the only other option is to turn everything into meaningless garbage like the majority of student films from a high-end liberal arts college, where there simply is no clear message... just pointless random action.

It's important to remember that we all have our own system of ethics we each *choose* to live by. Just because something runs across the grain of your own ethics, doesn't necessarily mean it is violating the ethics of others. If we start policing everyone's morality for them, eventually we'll hit a point where there will be nothing left of the very things that make our own lives worth living.

I think the International Pacific ***Women's*** Information Network will be taken down by disgruntled iPod touch and iPhone users protesting before that game gets pulled. It's an awesome little time waster! They can go f*ck themselves- there aren't even any women in the game (unless part of their culture includes females growing a significant amount of stubble).

Dave Cola needs a new perspective and few new balls... what a **ssy.

Wait, you voted for Obama right?

The reason this "outrage" is misplaced is not because the characters do not represent any particular nationality, ethnicity, etc.

The reason is, we've already accepted games in which the assault and murder of innocents is not just accepted, but rewarded.

Frequently those depicted being murdered are clearly of a certain ethnicity (even if the game is not exclusively about killing that ethnicity).

So you cannot allow GTA (and its ilk) to be sold, and then complain about PocketGod. You just can't.

I mean, really - do you want to be in the position of saying, "yeah, running over prostitutes is OK, so long as you don't kill a Pacific Islander" ?

The only question is - do we permit the player to engage in criminal acts inside game worlds, or don't we?

Making different decisions based on the particular race or nationality of the people in the game would be, I am sorry to tell you, racist. That is precisely what racism is - making different decisions based on ethnicity and race.

Don't be racist, ignore the nationality and ethnicity, and ask the question without reference to race - should we be allowed to "kill" characters in computer games, or shouldn't we?

While we're at it, can we get Jesse Jackson or the NCAAP to rally against people putting the black iPhone in a case? I am offended by the notion that black isn't good enough to be seen and must be covered by another color.

Use Rush Limbaugh, Bush and Cheney...why not?

The stone face is clearly a pacific island tribal object. There is no such thing as generic symbols. All of them belong to somebody.

The software company misspoke really, cause these symbols are easily identifiable and not generic. Tribal people are sensitive. Modern people are so poorly informed on these subjects. Being poorly informed is not a virtue.

However, it is strange how the app store has become this weird forum on control and sensitivity. never have purchased from the app store. never will. this part of apple, the app store, is in itself offensive in its hunger for cash and its imposition of SteveJobian morality over free choice.