So I guess I'm a pedophile because I like Animal Crossing (read inside + link)

RuNa

http://www.kmiz.com/news/story.php?id=13725

From MY OWN STATE:

If your kids play interactive video games, like the Nintendo Wii, be on the lookout. The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force is warning of predators using games like, "Animal Crossing- City Folk," to target kids.

Using the game you create a character and create your own town and house. When hooked up to the internet you can talk to anyone across the country. Kids playing the game have no control over what other players might be saying. For example, the character we ran across could be the man in California police are warning about.

"There is no reason an adult should have this game," says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.

Anderson says adults playing "animal crossing" and similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons.

You probably have told your kids never to talk to strangers, but when playing, the heart of the game is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as other players. To really reach the next level, the game urges you to exchange letters, gifts, and favors.

Anderson says it is going to take parents paying attention to keep this problem from exploding.

"The equipment is real expensive and we cannot afford to buy all of the systems and do not have the resources either to examine all of the possibilities," Anderson explains.

Right now, we only know of the three Missouri children who have been contacted. Anderson says this is not something to be paranoid about, but to be aware.

This warning includes any web-based game that allows instant messaging or voice-over IP.

…wow. FIRST OFF, YOU CAN'T PLAY ONLINE WITH RANDOM PEOPLE (FRIEND CODES ANYONE?!).

Second off, I'm a pedophile and shouldn't play this game because KIDS PLAY IT TOO?! What kind of logic is that? This isn't the first time I've seen them say such things as this. I almost cringe every time I watch the news and hear them bring up video games (like how I'm a pedophile for using pictochat on my DS IN MY OWN HOME because I could "possibly" be sending images (impossible) and other dirty info while luring a child that has to be within 30 FEET of me. No, but of course I only like cartoons and video game because I can't wait to get little children :getlost:

This is pretty stupid. Actually, things like these may have helped be the deciding factor in me only ordering games online ("EW! PRINCESS PEACH! *** HOW COULD YOU PLAY THAT YOU HOMO ****? ANIMAL CROSSING? TOTAL PEDO!).

Oh, and if after I'm done and this rant doesn't make too much sense, I'm kinda tired but angry so...XD

*Meh*

And here I thought Missouri had a reputation for skepticism.

"The equipment is real expensive and we cannot afford to buy all of the systems and do not have the resources either to examine all of the possibilities," Anderson explains.

I must admit though, if three kids have already been contacted by a pedophile, then he/she must have gotten their friend codes from somewhere, if not from the kids themselves.

@RuNa:

Second off, I'm a pedophile and shouldn't play this game because KIDS PLAY IT TOO?! What kind of logic is that?

I know you said you're tired, but did you really intend to phrase it like that?

CosmicDebris

I don't play Animal Crossing, but that's just lame. I suppose there's no reason why an adult should be reading manga or watching cartoons either. They must be doing it for the wrong reasons. It couldn't be for ENTERTAINMENT.

Greg

Uneducated adults overacting about video games they never played?

Well I never!

*Meh*

Well, I guess creeps like me need a theme song:

That guy is readin' mangaa~
That guy's a SuperCreep
The kinda guy you read ab~oout
In "Pervert Magazine".

He ain't right
He ain't right
That dude just isn't riii~ght
Yee~ah

He' a SuperCreep! SuperCreep!
He's SuperCreepy!

captain usopp

Runa, you dirty old man. next you'll be telling me you like to play pokemon.

NuFiasco

This is pretty funny. Just the media overreacting over nothing as usual.

meowR___

lolz, how can they say all that and claim they're not being paranoid, not to mention narrow-minded?

choperman

@NuFiasco:

This is pretty funny. Just the media overreacting over nothing as usual.

Your 100% right we always overact over things that have almost no meaning or little influnce in or life yet some how they get on the news

Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan anyone?

Moria

what the fuck? what kind of corrupt society would go this far?

Missouri

oh nevermind.

Yoska

So the cat is finally out the bag. I always highly suspected RuNa anyway.

Wagomu

Ever since they lost their superstar, Jack Thompson, it seems the anti-gaming people have either been policing games that don't need it (like this Animal Crossing case) or games that are already banned here, anyways (like the recent RapeLay case). Is their some physical need for them to be annoying?

Hakuro de Killer

Yeah. Someone needs to at least give the poor anti-video game people a few techies. That way they can actually open up a window into the minds (or lack thereof) of these people. How the hell do they think a game that requires both people to exchange a twelve digit code assigned to themselves specifically to allow for pedophiles to access. The only way I could see this happening is if they had already exchanged friend codes.

I mean, you'd have a better chance of having one of these pedophile scandals on XBox Live than on the Nintendo Wii and that is a downright fact.

Finally, I am just going to end all of these kinds of rants with two words that a lot of these idiots need to remember before making such stupid comments.

"Natural Selection".

Have a nice day.

captain usopp

well i supose some kids could post their codes on web pages like this, and then the code get picked up by unwanted people.

Wagomu

Though friend code systems are two way and there's only a limited number you can have. Not to mention the Wii's limited communication ability, with which it's hard to express anything quickly, like the desire, location and time to meet up. Oh, and there's the fact that if there's a good portion of adults on the game, too, it decreases the risk that pedophiles would run into their targets.

Tsukento

Same media that claims Grand Theft Auto encourages you to kill hookers, that the Nintendo DS' PictoChat (a feature NO ONE ever uses) is capable of allowing pedophiles to speak with children, and that Nintendo allowing MadWorld to be placed on the Wii "destroys the family image" they've established.

GEPPETTOSMONSTER

that's just…..stupid

Ao Kiji

Yeah, you make a good point with your fancy words but in the end, this is all I heard:

Second off, I'm a pedophile

Neuro

Thanx for the new sig.

Ao Kiji

^ I laughed at this for 40 seconds straight. XDD
oh wait here it comes again…BAwhahahaha!

Hey, I use pictochat with friends!

Gravy-Kun

This is why our society would be better off if parents introduced their kids to the dangers of life and desensitize them.

Or we could stop watching the news… Lord knows the media has been manipulating us like puppets for the past 20 years plus. Maybe then people would be maybe, smarter?