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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristian Game Developer Creates Shooter Game Called “Kill The F*gg*t”
http://www.thegailygrind.com/2015/05/05/christian-game-developer-creates-shooter-game-called-kill-the-faggot/Shortly after its launch on The Steams downloadable games shop called Greenlight, the game was pulled after receiving an avalanche of comments from furious customers.
Arstechnica reports:
Before its removal from Greenlight, games critic Jim Sterling downloaded and tested the game, which launched via Hermans game shop moniker Skaldic Games. The resulting YouTube video revealed a crude game that has players aim a bullseye to shoot and kill people who say such things as, Can I put my weiner in your butt? and Whoops, I just dropped the soap. (After playing a minute of the game, Sterling shouted, Where is the fucking satire? What is it satirizing? Not really anything. Its just being the thing.)
The game makes very clear that its goal is to shoot and kill homosexuals (with liberal use of the pejorative F-word in the games title, at that). Players get points for killing gay peoplemore points if the person killed is transgenderand they lose points for any straight people they kill. Its hard to make a judgment call about the most offensive thing in this game, but we were particularly disturbed to hear the games announcer celebrate a kill by saying, AIDS carrier eliminated.
mythology
(9,527 posts)And somehow the game is more offensive than I was expecting.
I do sort of like that the designer made the game because people called him a hateful bigot. Because apparently he wanted to cement that reputation.
Kurska
(5,739 posts)Streisand effect people, they threw this game together in what looks like an hour to capitalize on the outrage.
Ignore it and let it die.
That he'll soon claim that he's being unfairly censored, and a GoFundMe account will be set up for him... probably by him.
I think a lot of conservatives are looking at that pizza place in Indiana and want to get them a slice of the hate money out there.
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Aristus
(66,075 posts)he's also evidently a devotee of Saint Hubbins, the patron saint of quality footwear.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Ban this hate spewing pos.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Took all of two hours. Good on Valve!
Initech
(99,909 posts)They don't take shit from anyone, and not a single game streaming site on the Internet has a 3rd of Valve's sales. Unless he sets up a Go Fund Me account, I would be willing to bet no one gives this hate filled shit heap an audience.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Before today, I would have said that Custer's Revenge was the worst video game ever made, even worse than E.T. for the 2600.
Now I'm not so sure.
Initech
(99,909 posts)Iggo
(47,486 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)But you wonder if it's a put on or if it's sincere. Either way this Randall Herman is a tool and an asshole, so it doesn't really matter I guess.
Bryant
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)extreme and clear examples of anti gay materials. If this game was about some other minority group, this thread would have hundreds of responses....
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Doesn't life offer enough in the way of challenges and difficulties that you can focus on something that's actually happened already, rather than getting your feelings hurt about something you assume will happen presently?
It's a suckass video game by some Neanderthal POS. What more is there to say?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)his Rev. Billy Sol Hargis character had a line of "Shoes of the Fisherman jogging shoes".
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Maybe jebus' face is now appearing on shoes to go along with the toast?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Are Hookers and Blow part of the scenery, or are they elevated to bosses?
romanic
(2,841 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)I'm so sick of these bigots crawling out from under their rocks. Ugh.