Crave's Baby Pals - "Islam is the Light"

APZonerunner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBjBAhjgA4o

This is so horrifically mind-numbingly dumb and funny I had to post it. What I love is how apparrently an E rating means a game can have no religious references?

Man. People are crazy.

Sterica

I wonder what horrible things the mother does when her daughter gets bad grades?

donhonk

This could get ugly.

Scosglen

Terrorists all up in your casual gamezz.

Seriously though, what is the baby supposed to be saying? Is it supposed to be an incomprehensible gurgle or is it actually saying Islam is the light, or something else entirely?

Crashmo

All I can do is sigh and shake my head. People.

Sam

what's more implausible, that Ubi Soft, a company from a conservative Catholic country put in subliminal Islamofascist messages or that hearing a baby mumble "Islam is the light" is going to turn suburban white bread kids into Muslims?

Radikal_Dreamer

And people wondered why LittleBigPlanet had to be delayed. Shit like this.


And I'm guessing it's the same sound on both those toys. The company that made it just licensed generic baby sound #5 or whatever, the same as what that doll licensed. Who knows if it actually says "Islam is the Light," though or whether that's just what you want it to say/think it's saying.

zanmatto

ISLAM IS THE LIGHT

Sterica

The funny thing is, I doubt the kid even cared. If anything, her mother raising so much shit has increased the child's interest in Islam than some polygonal baby's babbling.

Brym

I'm sure it was meant to be a meaningless gurgle. This is just like the "play the record backwards" hidden message hoaxes that got big in the 60s and 70s. They were almost all complete bullshit.

Einhander

Likely to be a generic gurgle, but it is kinda funny how the physical doll and the baby in the game have a random gurgle that sound almost identical.

A far cry from turrists tryin' to brain wash our kiyids! though.

Sam

Even if it does say "Islam is the light", the mother can remedy this by taking the kids to Starbucks and In'N'out which hide printed bible quotes in their packaging.

xWonderboyx

The fact this is even news is pretty indicative of our alarmist culture.

What's worse, that bitch makes her daughter play on a DSFat. Ugh. Parents.

autono-wally, erotibot300

start a a a b select activates the hidden bomb pack

Frosty

I think its funny that the generation whose parents flipped out over satanic messages hidden in backwards-playing records are now flipping out over islamic messages hidden in low quality gameboy audio clips

Zilla360

Brym wrote: »

I'm sure it was meant to be a meaningless gurgle. This is just like the "play the record backwards" hidden message hoaxes that got big in the 60s and 70s. They were almost all complete bullshit.

Exactly. The human brain loves to find patterns, where in fact there are none.

Ashcroft

It sure sounds like Islam is the Light when they tell you it does.

Also;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5LL9DFnGl0

Kris_xK

autono-wally, erotibot300 wrote: »

start a a a b select activates the hidden bomb pack

Use ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A to transform you DSfat into a mechanical Muhammad.

Now you can piss off alarmist white people AND Islamics without any unnecessary movement!

Ashcroft

Of course, everyone's ignoring the fact that you can use the stylus to rub a naked child.

donhonk

Ashcroft wrote: »

Of course, everyone's ignoring the fact that you can use the stylus to rub a naked terrorist child.

autono-wally, erotibot300

no mic input? disappointing

Couscous

Sam wrote: »

Even if it does say "Islam is the light", the mother can remedy this by taking the kids to Starbucks and In'N'out which hide printed bible quotes in their packaging.

In'N'out probably does it because they need to cover up the fact that their name sounds like a phrase for sex.

Descendant X

I don't see what the issue is here.

Islam is the light.

autono-wally, erotibot300

the question is, what is the nightstand

Klyka

Ashcroft wrote: »

Of course, everyone's ignoring the fact that you can use the stylus to rub a naked child.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

omg you just made me cry from laughter.

You win.

Einhander

Good thin the mother was fairly calm and didn't blow up over the situation.

Figgy

This mom needs to come in here for some DS recommendations. Fucking shovelware, that's her bigger problem.

TheStig

A Louie Louie.
Oh no, Islam is the light.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

autono-wally, erotibot300

Someone should send her one of these

Noahnaut

...that sounds a lot like generic baby gibberish to me. There's probably just a sound effects CD of baby noises that every game/toy/movie that needs baby babble uses.

What would this woman have done if one of her pre-lingual children had goo-goo-gaa-gaa-ed out something that sounded like, "Islam is the light"? Just drowned the kid in a bathtub right then and there?

God, I hate people.

Zoel

Noahnaut wrote: »

...that sounds a lot like generic baby gibberish to me. There's probably just a sound effects CD of baby noises that every game/toy/movie that needs baby babble uses.

What would this woman have done if one of her pre-lingual children had goo-goo-gaa-gaa-ed out something that sounded like, "Islam is the light"? Just drowned the kid in a bathtub right then and there?

God, I hate people.

I think it's pretty great that people are still willing to combat things that are relatively innocuous in and of themselves, and not just because we'd be typing with vi commands right now otherwise.

The clip from the game and the clip from the toy sounded completely identical to me. For a minute I thought woman is makin' this up but the more obvious answer is that yeah they're just using some sort of public domain baby sound or something.

GungHo

You'd figure with it being on the DS it'd say "bomb the harbor."

Leitner

APZonerunner wrote: »

This is so horrifically mind-numbingly dumb and funny I had to post it. What I love is how apparrently an E rating means a game can have no religious references?

Man. People are crazy.

Sure why not, I don't see why it's any less arbitrary then any other number of things that bump up something’s ratings. I mean swearing knocks the ratings up a notch, and that's probably equally as offensive to the average game purchaser as Islam references. The ratings still get vaguely based on what your average person on the street would find offensive right?

I know satanic references have made Nintendo refuse to give seals of quality games before right, and I'm sure they're not the only ones.

Zoel

GungHo wrote: »

You'd figure with it being on the DS it'd say "bomb the harbor."

I have heard "I'm falling for you" in many an rpg.

SkyGheNe

"It makes me feel like I have to pay attention to what she plays now as well as what my son is playing...like, now I have to actually parent instead of sitting them in front of a game for hours."

hacksword

Sure, the doll might say "Islam is the light", but on the plus side it comes with a free Frogurt.

TheStig

I have a new found respect for Imagine Babiez, it did something that this mother would never even think of doing. That is potentially exposing her child to other cultures.

I wonder if Imagine: Burgerz says "Where's your god now?"

urahonky

Guys it's right. Islam is the light.

Why didn't I see it before?!

Zombiemambo

Honestly I don't care if the baby actually says 'Islam is the Light', we need to get over this xenophobic shit. The muslim faith did not fly planes into the Trade Center, people did.

Einhander

Can of worms can of worms lol?

ZackSchilling

I'm more offended by the style of reporting than anything else.

Let's say that clear as day, the baby doll says "Islam is the Light". This is not the case, but let's play pretend.

This is bad because a toy marked as non-religious is now making pointed religious statements. It would be equally as bad if the doll said "Jesus is the savior" or "God is great". Bizarre and off-putting.

But the story is not being presented this way. It is being presented as if the doll were cursing or came with a glorious set of detailed tits. The doll is an attempt to corrupt our children and attack our values!

How disgusting.