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Will Sex In Games Ever Be Sexy?

Posted by Zonk on from the as-opposed-to-creepy dept.

The Guardian Gamesblog has an editorial up discussing the pitiful state that sexuality is in when it comes to games. Titles like "Singles: Flirt up your Life" and "The Guy Game" are not sexy...they're just embarrassing. From the article: "Historically, you can understand the reasons behind the industry's adolescent handling of adult themes: a younger audience, a male-dominated development environment and, of course, basic pixilated visuals which only ever really allowed a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, 'Confessions of a Bitmapped Bikini Lady' approach to portraying sex."

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  1. GET YOURSELF A NEW PSP FOR TYPING 50 WORDS by s0nygirl · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ** THIS IS NOT BULLSHIT! ** I just received my PSP today via UPS totally free by typing words on some site. I thought it was BS at first but man was i suprised when the UPS guy showed up at my door with a frikkin PSP. Just for typing 50 words. Before you flame me and call me a d*ck just remember I was totally suprised I got my PSP and jsut wanted to share the love with you all. Free for typing some words is way better than paying a lot of money. Here is the link for anyone interested: http://psp-4-free.cjb.net/ I hope you all are enjoying your PSP as much as I am. Peace and love.

    1. Re:GET YOURSELF A NEW PSP FOR TYPING 50 WORDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      this IS in fact bullshit. i entered in over 100 words with no sign of it stopping. not to mention, all the "buttons" on the page are not actual links -- but rather they're just designed to appear that way. you shall be wasting your time (unless you happen to enjoy deciphering words from stray lines).

  2. Looks like a CAPTCHA farm to me... by titzandkunt · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Hm. I remember some time back - when captchas were starting to be used in anger - some /.ers predicted that spammers and the like would set up shop in some low-rent burg somewhere in the world, and have teams of malnourished orphans typing in the words/answers.

    Looks like my estimate of the gullibility of the surfing public was way too low, and they just need to dangle a PSP in front of people's eyes to get them to bust captchas for free.

    T&K.

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    Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable...
  3. I'll drink to that! by Friar_MJK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm 19 too, and you got some good advice. A little alcohol will help. Just to brag, I f-ed a 29 year old in her own bathroom last night after a couple Yagger bombs. I think if a chick is drunk enough she doesn't much care, she just wants the D. Hope my post gets modded for being useful. Fuck it, I'm still hung over....