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What if the profits from the game went to homeless shelters? Wouldn't that make their lives Les Misérables?
I don't think the concern is so much about homeless people becoming offended by this as it is about an idea that a game like this seems to be promoting that encourages us to view the homeless as alien (and, consequentially, less valuable) people.
i think the game is from germany, it's called pennergame over here. i was working at a youth radioproject and the game seems to be really big with trhe 12 to 14 year olds
Jim, Jim, Jim. Call me a crotchety old bore, but I gotta say I'm with Jean-François on this one ... at least for the time being. From the information in this post, the game's exploitation of highly vulnerable individuals for entertainment's sake just seems pointless. Sort of reminds me of Bumfights.
I'm usually against knee-jerk censorship, and I'm all for parody and satire if there's a genuine, well-considered message behind the mocking. When satire is done right (see: Brasseye), it can be bloody brilliant. But heck, Clodogame seems like controversy for controversy's sake. Picking on the homeless for novelty value is plain stupid.
THAT SAID, I'll freely admit that I've yet to try Clodogame out myself, so I'll reserve my final verdict for now. If I play Clodogame and find a cutting, multi-faceted piece of social satire, I reserve the right to change my mind.
Here endeth the rant.
I'm usually against knee-jerk censorship, and I'm all for parody and satire if there's a genuine, well-considered message behind the mocking. When satire is done right (see: Brasseye), it can be bloody brilliant. But heck, Clodogame seems like controversy for controversy's sake. Picking on the homeless for novelty value is plain stupid.
THAT SAID, I'll freely admit that I've yet to try Clodogame out myself, so I'll reserve my final verdict for now. If I play Clodogame and find a cutting, multi-faceted piece of social satire, I reserve the right to change my mind.
Here endeth the rant.
There was something like this in English, at least a while ago. I distinctly remember playing a browser based mmo game that let me play as a hobo. It was free to play but you could pay a subscription to unlock different hobo clothes and more action points to do more things in a day (you only got a certain number of hobo moves you could do in a single real-time day, and there was some sort of pvp element).
You know, this post has actually gotten me kind of nostalgic for those browser based MMOs I used to play as a teenager. I remember one let you run your own fiefdom, join or run "kingdoms" with one player being the king or queen, go to war against other people, etc. At one point I was actually the king of my group and came in like 3 on the leaderboards at the end of a round (the game would constantly restart itself every 2 months or so and everyone restarted their warring and building up from scratch). I can't for the life of me remember the game's name, though. :(
You know, this post has actually gotten me kind of nostalgic for those browser based MMOs I used to play as a teenager. I remember one let you run your own fiefdom, join or run "kingdoms" with one player being the king or queen, go to war against other people, etc. At one point I was actually the king of my group and came in like 3 on the leaderboards at the end of a round (the game would constantly restart itself every 2 months or so and everyone restarted their warring and building up from scratch). I can't for the life of me remember the game's name, though. :(
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