Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas

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Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 27, 2012 @04:34PM from the gift-that-keeps-on-giving dept.

dotarray writes "One Colorado family received more than they'd bargained for this Christmas when they gave five-year-old Braydon Giles a pre-owned Nintendo 3DS that apparently still contained 'graphic images' from a previous owner. From the article: 'Refurbishing is an art, as well as a craft. The whole point is to make a gadget feel pristine, even when it used to be owned by a cult leader, a scout leader or an exhibitionist. Sadly, someone in a Colorado GameStop stopped refurbishing before the job was complete. So much so that 5-year-old Braydon Giles opened his Xmas gift — a Nintendo 3DS — and discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things. As Channel 9 News tells it, Braydon showed the 3DS to his brother Bryton. He wanted his help to remove these weird pictures. '"

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Greatest present ever by atari2600a · 2012-12-27 16:38 · Score: 5, Funny

I would totally risk sexual traumatization at the age of 5 if it meant a free 3DS. I swear I'm going through like Miyamoto withdraw or something ever since I accidentally my Wii's firmware before Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out.
1. Re:Greatest present ever by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-27 16:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes, children can be traumatized.
That explains my present... by tbird81 · 2012-12-27 16:42 · Score: 5, Funny

All I got was a bunch of simplistic children's games on my 3DS.
1. Re:That explains my present... by davester666 · 2012-12-27 17:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You're not holding it right.
  
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"Quality Control" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-27 16:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Best part of the article:

GameStop is currently researching this situation. We have a rigorous quality control process in place
As a former GameStop employee, I can personally attest to the fact that their "rigorous quality control process" consists of "Now don't get too stoned in the back room when you're on the clock."
Make love not war by NettiWelho · 2012-12-27 16:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
1. Re:Make love not war by aardvarkjoe · 2012-12-27 17:01 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Given that most European countries have laws against selling pornography to minors (albeit that exactly what is banned and what is not depends on the specific country and culture, ranging from more strict to more lax than the laws in the U.S.), perhaps you should consult with people closer to home?
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Europe
  
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2. Re:Make love not war by Evtim · 2012-12-27 17:36 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Poking silliness should never stop, otherwise the silly might decide they got it right...
3. Re:Make love not war by GloomE · 2012-12-27 17:56 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  He, being a sheltered US child, has not seen porn. Therefore the trauma.
  What trauma?
  The trauma where the parents run around yelling THE SKY IS FALLING!
4. Re:Make love not war by Kjella · 2012-12-27 18:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Yes, Americans do have some serious issues with nudity in non-sexual context but from TFA there's every indication that this was porn or at least erotic images and we don't let kids have that in Europe either. I wouldn't care at all if my kid got a half second nipple flash during the Superbowl, for all I care we could go to a nude beach but I would get pretty pissed if I bought a 3DS for my kid and it had porn on it. As for violence, there's degrees to everything - I don't remember exactly how old I was when we first started pointing plastic guns and saying "bang bang you're dead" but I wasn't that old yet it wasn't exactly like seeing Saving Private Ryan. I wouldn't worry one bit if my kid was laughing his ass off at the Road Runner tricking Wile E. Coyote to fall down a cliff, there will come a time and place where it's natural to talk about the difference between play violence and reality.
  I'm guessing a good time would be around the first time I find - or hear a wish for some semi-realistic FPS game, if you're old enough to pretend running around shooting people/monsters you're old enough for that talk too. About real people that don't respawn, that don't have magic medikits to fix them, that experience genuine fear and terror at gunpoint, that end up crippled or scarred for life or die bleeding out in the gutter, about widows and orphans, friends and family left behind. But there's a time and place for that talk, just like when your five year old want to play house with a mommy and a daddy it's still not time for the "okay, but remember to use a condom" talk. What next, are you going to point out the electric car track I had wasn't realistic because the car would be totaled and the driver dead if it crashed like that? Reality will get gritty enough in time.
  
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Re:Why did the moron parents have to publicize thi by ifiwereasculptor · 2012-12-27 17:02 · Score: 5, Funny

What did you expect from the folks who named their kids Bryton and Braydon?
Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Taco+Cowboy · 2012-12-27 17:26 · Score: 5, Insightful

discovered images of naked people doing less than pristine things

Sex act by itself is a part of nature.
Without sex acts, many higher form animals have no way to procreate.
When sex itself is deemed something that's not "pristine" something is very wrong - way beyond wrong .....

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1. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-27 17:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Well i dunno i've been on the internet a long time and i can tell you most of the stuff i've seen wouldn't result in procreation...especially the stuff involving animals, faeces or huge dildos.
2. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by pwizard2 · 2012-12-27 18:39 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Mod++ (if I had the points).
  
  I swear, there's a bunch of goddamn prudes in this country (yet violence is ok for some reason). Sex is the most natural thing ever and nothing to be ashamed of.
  
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3. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by arth1 · 2012-12-27 19:36 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Just as natural is the act of guarding the privacy of sex. It reinforces the advantages of the natural practice of monogamy in nature in general.
  
  You have never been to the park in spring and seen ducks fuck? Or looked out a city window to see pigeons fuck? They certainly don't hide it.
  And if you're of European descent, neither did your ancestors. The sleeping partition of typical houses was for everyone, both children and adults, and the adults fucked with the children present. It was no more interesting to the kids than watching the farm animals go at it.
  If anything, fucking in front of others strengthens monogamous relationships, because you make your claim on the partner where others of your gender can see it. And that's at least partially why couples kiss in public too.
4. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-27 19:43 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  If most of the things you've seen involve animals, feces, and huge dildos, I'm thinking this is more a problem with your tastes than of pornography's lack of procreative potential.
5. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Opportunist · 2012-12-27 23:46 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Yeah, titties are not for little kids...
  Seriously, though. I don't really get it. An act that is supposed to bring joy and fun is considered worse than an act that supposedly brings grief and pain? Is it me, or is something wrong with this?
  Or, in the immortal words of Mr. Jack Nicholson, "Kiss a pair of titties and the movie's X-Rated. Chop 'em off and it's PG13"
  
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6. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by Hognoxious · 2012-12-28 00:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  my reaction was "if that's sex... I guess I can do without".
  ...and here you are, years later, posting on slashdot.
  
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7. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? by PopeRatzo · 2012-12-28 01:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm not sure that what happens in porn can even be considered sex any more.
  Imagine if extraterrestrials had gotten that 3DS full of porn and that's the only thing they knew about humans. They'd think we reproduce by having the man ejaculate up the woman's nose.
  
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Talking snakes and rib women by Okian+Warrior · 2012-12-27 17:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
Because the universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master.
He can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
He has defined a category of behaviours which are biologically imperative but which we should not do, lest he judge us unworthy in his eyes and stick us in his personal torture chamber for all eternity.
Showing naked people to children encourages them to have sex in ways which are not permitted, which will get them sent to the eternal torture chamber.
Does this answer your question?
Re:Human sentimentality. by arth1 · 2012-12-27 19:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

Kids are violent from the moment they are born.
They're also sexual from the moment they are born. Not to the same extent as when hitting puberty, but certainly not asexual cherubs.
Some repress and deny that they themselves were sexual creatures even as children, quite possibly out of guilt, thinking it was themselves there was something wrong with.
But pictures of grown-ups? Largely uninteresting to a five year old boy, I should think. To him, it would be a lemon party - something to say "yuck" at and delete.
Which apparently he tried to do, and it was his father who blew a fuse, not the kid. Sure, the kid is probably traumatized now, by his father's behavior.
And unless he changes his name, likely to be ridiculed in a few years in school, when classmates enter his name in a search engine. All thanks to dad, who wanted his fifteen minutes of fame, but apparently didn't give a flying fuck about causing his kids problems.
Re:My daughter STILL remembers the PC... by isorox · 2012-12-27 22:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

And the fact you didn't check the computer over before giving it to you daughter wasn't a problem?
Re:My daughter STILL remembers the PC... by Opportunist · 2012-12-27 23:57 · Score: 5, Informative

Because the computer replaced TV as the babysitter, and, dammit, I want my computer to be as good as TV, where SOMEONE ELSE takes care that my kids don't get to see stuff.
Shit, really, what's next? Me having to spend time with the brats?

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