Stupid Kid Seeks attention - Claims Nintendo Game Swore at her

LewieP

Even stupider publication believes her.

[url=http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=48579&in_page_id=34&ito=newsnow]The Metro[/url] wrote:

Schoolgirl Khloe Leslie was horrified when her favourite computer game took her to a vulgar new level – and called her a 'f****** cow'.



The 11-year-old was playing Animal Crossing on her Nintendo DS when one of the colourful animal characters swore at her.

Her mother Leeanne, 28, of Inverbervie, Angus, has now banned her from playing the game, which is branded suitable for children aged three and upwards.

A Nintendo UK spokesman insisted none of its children's games contained offensive content. He added: 'It is either a pirate copy or it is user-inputted text.'

So, I guess mainstream media enjoys witch hunts. Just incase anyone wasn't sure, that's user inputted text. In other news, THPS called me a "Dick" and there's a pokémon called pedobear in the new Pokémon game.

Edit: here's the kid -


If anyone ever see's here, give her a slap for me.

Einhander

I couldn't connect to the Nintendo WFC with CastleVania: Portrait of Ruin because my profile name was FuckFace. I had to change it to Jeff.

I think calling someone a fucking cow is PRET-ty hilarious.

JJ

What a stupid fucking cow.

Renzo

what a little douche

Trevor

If it's anything like the Gamecube version then the animals ask you for new catchphrases sometimes. I had some pretty vulgar animals running around my town by the time I lost interest. That being said, I'll never get tired of a robotic frog saying "shitfuck" after every sentence.

Couscous

I think it is obvious that the animal learned it from either her or a friend.

Death of Rats

What a horrible cunt-faced cock gobbler.

Einhander

Isn't there supposed to be something on that top screen? I'm assuming that's Animal Crossing, right?

edit: I mean, I'm assuming AC has something going on in the top screen normally.

Samphis

Einhander wrote: »

Isn't there supposed to be something on that top screen? I'm assuming that's Animal Crossing, right?

edit: I mean, I'm assuming AC has something going on in the top screen normally.

Only when you aren't inside a building.

DarkPrimus

So, when do we find out that the game was pre-owned, or she has an older sibling who played the game?

Elendil

I didn't know Animal Crossing allowed swear words.

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I have work to do.

Trevor

Can you transfer characters from one game to another if you play with the person online? As in, could I create some hateful potty-mouthed animal and then go to the Gamefaqs board and get a friend code and then maybe have that animal move to the other person's town? That's beyond sadistic, but if it's possible I wouldn't put it past some people.

DarkPrimus

Elendil wrote: »

I didn't know Animal Crossing allowed swear words.

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I have work to do.

Get to it, sweet pea

TheCrumblyCracker

I think the DS was referring to her mother. Olol Teen pregnancy

Evander

This is why online games come with the ESRB warning that content and experience in relation to rating is subject to change with online stuff.

Couscous

Trevor wrote: »

Can you transfer characters from one game to another if you play with the person online? As in, could I create some hateful potty-mouthed animal and then go to the Gamefaqs board and get a friend code and then maybe have that animal move to the other person's town? That's beyond sadistic, but if it's possible I wouldn't put it past some people.

You can, however that would require her to trade friend codes online. That would make it her fault.

JJ

TheCrumblyCracker wrote: »

I think the DS was referring to her mother. Olol Teen pregnancy

I haet teen pregnancy like I hate Illinois nazis.

Seta 3000

TheCrumblyCracker wrote: »

I think the DS was referring to her mother. Olol Teen pregnancy

I bet she got knocked up at prom

Axen

Oh man! I spit my pop all over my keyboard! Oh I laughed so freaking hard when I looked at the actual screen shot. My space bar is all sticky. Man alive! This has made my day. Which was a so-so day to begin with.

Yes, what a fucking cow.

Invisible

I forget is The Metro one of the really shitty British tabloids or it just a standard British newspaper?

Also, what a fucking cow.

UndefinedMonkey

I remember back on the GC version, I traded some furniture with a random GameStop employee; I mentioned that I needed part of a certain set, and he said he'd hook me up. When I got home, I noticed that I had a new friend in the neighborhood. She showed me a letter he'd written to her... I'm guessing he was just goofing around at 3AM thinking that no one would ever read it; it was all about how he wanted to fuck her. It was actually kind of funny in a creepy sort of way.

I'll bet her big brother or someone at school changed it (or traded with her not knowing that catch phrases, mail, and other things get transferred as well.)

LewieP

Invisible wrote: »

I forget is The Metro one of the really shitty British tabloids or it just a standard British newspaper?

Also, what a fucking cow.

It's a free, at least in Manchester, paper, that no one would read it if they weren't given out everywhere around town (train stations and such)

Hevach

LewieP wrote: »

Just incase anyone wasn't sure, that's user inputted text. In other news, THPS called me a "Dick" and there's a pokémon called pedobear in the new Pokémon game.

I was in the process of asking exactly how the text got there when I noticed this part...

Anyway, anybody remember that news bit a couple years ago about the GBA game (Disney game, no less) that had all sorts of profanity in it? Turned out to be the added intro on a pirate cart. He tried to blame Disney, pulled up all those debunked things about penises and sexual dialog hidden in disney movies (Somehow missed the one that actually did have a naked woman in it). When that didn't work out, he tried to blame Nintendo, then the store where he supposedly bought the game, then the Chinese eBay seller he actually bought it from. I'm pretty sure that was also in England, since most of the source links I saw were the Sun or Metro.

At least that guy was just an idiot. This reeks of intentional slander, IMO.

Evander

UndefinedMonkey wrote: »

I remember back on the GC version, I traded some furniture with a random GameStop employee; I mentioned that I needed part of a certain set, and he said he'd hook me up. When I got home, I noticed that I had a new friend in the neighborhood. She showed me a letter he'd written to her... I'm guessing he was just goofing around at 3AM thinking that no one would ever read it; it was all about how he wanted to fuck her. It was actually kind of funny in a creepy sort of way.

I'll bet her big brother or someone at school changed it (or traded with her not knowing that catch phrases, mail, and other things get transferred as well.)

I used to write creepy letters like that (and other creepy subjects) hoping that it would weird some one out when I traded with them.

LewieP

Hevach wrote: »

LewieP wrote: »

Just incase anyone wasn't sure, that's user inputted text. In other news, THPS called me a "Dick" and there's a pokémon called pedobear in the new Pokémon game.

I was in the process of asking exactly how the text got there when I noticed this part...

Anyway, anybody remember that news bit a couple years ago about the GBA game (Disney game, no less) that had all sorts of profanity in it? Turned out to be the added intro on a pirate cart. He tried to blame Disney, pulled up all those debunked things about penises and sexual dialog hidden in disney movies (Somehow missed the one that actually did have a naked woman in it). When that didn't work out, he tried to blame Nintendo, then the store where he supposedly bought the game, then the Chinese eBay seller he actually bought it from. I'm pretty sure that was also in England, since most of the source links I saw were the Sun or Metro.

At least that guy was just an idiot. This reeks of intentional slander, IMO.

I remember that too, that worked out as good promotion for Nintendo in a "only buy genuine products, and avoid pirates" way. I agree, this one sounds much more deceitful.

SirToasty

Funny.

My copy and my friends will not allow the word fuck to be put in. It just blanks it out.

It would look like "A cow."

edit: There should be a large gap in between A and cow. It won't keep it there for some reason.

DarkPrimus

Talking about letters and such makes me curious as to how the envelopes in Pokemon D/P actually work.

homeobocks

Separated at birth?

Einhander

homeobocks wrote: »

Separated at birth?

Is that Sgt. Cortez MC or some other dumbass kid in the news that I missed?

Rhesus Positive

I have a sudden urge to rename all my Pokémon random foreign swear words and shove them on the Global Trade Centre, just on the offchance they get traded with or battle somebody who knows that language.

"Chiavare, I choose you!"

Elendil

Oh man, I played AC for a minute after being reminded of it by this thread.

Got a ship cannon from Pascal. Sweet.

Echo

I keep imagining that my village, unplayed for six months, has resorted to cannibalism to survive.

Htown

This kind of stuff RIGHT HERE is EXACTLY why Nintendo is stuck with friend codes, and why that dumb health and safety warning is on every game. They keep getting crap like this.

Dritz

Htown wrote: »

This kind of stuff RIGHT HERE is EXACTLY why Nintendo is stuck with friend codes, and why that dumb health and safety warning is on every game. They keep getting crap like this.

Fucking cow...

On a more serious note she managed to get the words on there even with the super protection power of friend codes.

polaris314

Einhander wrote: »

homeobocks wrote: »

Separated at birth?

Is that Sgt. Cortez MC or some other dumbass kid in the news that I missed?

I think that's the kid that had an adult dvd in his copy of Madden. I can't remember the exact details, but the reaction by the media was hilarious nonetheless.

Gorilla Salad

polaris314 wrote: »

Einhander wrote: »

homeobocks wrote: »

Separated at birth?

Is that Sgt. Cortez MC or some other dumbass kid in the news that I missed?

I think that's the kid that had an adult dvd in his copy of Madden. I can't remember the exact details, but the reaction by the media was hilarious nonetheless.

I know that there was a kid who got porn in a PSP game case. I just can't remember where I saw it.

SkyGheNe

Since when has anyone read the metro as a publication to be respected?

And there you have it.

Hevach

Senior Fish wrote: »

polaris314 wrote: »

Einhander wrote: »

homeobocks wrote: »

Separated at birth?

Is that Sgt. Cortez MC or some other dumbass kid in the news that I missed?

I think that's the kid that had an adult dvd in his copy of Madden. I can't remember the exact details, but the reaction by the media was hilarious nonetheless.

I know that there was a kid who got porn in a PSP game case. I just can't remember where I saw it.

If I remember right, both cases were buying used games.

I think this is why places like EBStop don't usually keep the disks for used games in the cases (or is this just the locations around here?), and only load them in when you buy a copy. Basically forces them to validate that the disk matches the package twice.

Trevor

You really can't put curse words in some versions of Animal Crossing? That bothers me much more than some little kid being called a fucking cow.

Grizzly_Addams

I followed the link to the web site, and as there were yet no comments posted to the article, I took the liberty:

Since the media is so eager to eat up anything of this sort, I really hope someone points out that it is definitely user-inputted text. Hence why it's highlighted in blue. This game in particular, Animal Crossing, will occasionally ask the user to enter phrases that it will then repeat throughout the game, such as nicknames and witty phrases. The Metro should print a retraction and the girl should be largely disciplined. It's just too bad that Nintendo isn't petty enough to bring legal action over this kind of stupidity, because I'm very tired of video games automatically being pegged as the bad guy, especially for a wholesome, family fun game, ruined by some little brat looking for attention.

Hevach

Grizzly_Addams wrote: »

I followed the link to the web site, and as there were yet no comments posted to the article, I took the liberty:

Since the media is so eager to eat up anything of this sort, I really hope someone points out that it is definitely user-inputted text. Hence why it's highlighted in blue. This game in particular, Animal Crossing, will occasionally ask the user to enter phrases that it will then repeat throughout the game, such as nicknames and witty phrases. The Metro should print a retraction and the girl should be largely disciplined. It's just too bad that Nintendo isn't petty enough to bring legal action over this kind of stupidity, because I'm very tired of video games automatically being pegged as the bad guy, especially for a wholesome, family fun game, ruined by some little brat looking for attention.

I submitted one as well, pointing out the user entered text bit.

There were a LOT of submitted comments, I bet. The article seems to be making its rounds. I'm willing to bet they're not going to let any of them through the moderation process.