If you've been following news about Will Wright's upcoming title, Spore, you've likely already seen a wide variety of NSFW creatures made using the innovative creature creator. Some may scowl over the questionable creations, but that's what happens when you put power in the hands of the internet -- penises and tits get drawn on everything. It's like a taste of life as ruled by 4chan!
Not surprisingly, CNN took notice, as any scrap of negativity about games must be covered by the national news at the speed of light. Next thing you know, there's a new buzzword to describe the phenomenon -- "sporn". CNN spoke to the "spornmaster" , a guy who apparently sits around creating as many versions of ass to mouth as humanly possible with the creator tool. He was quoted as saying:
"I admit it is silly and juvenile, but I don't think there's anything perverted, vile or awful about it. If people find it offensive, they can simply not search for it online. No one is forcing anyone to see this content."
That's true, I can avoid extreme tentacle hentai if I want to (key word there being "if"). A far more interesting comment was made by a Spore fan who spoke to CNN:
"I consider this very similar to child pornography, at least to the extent of distributing the material to children."
Are you at home creating CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, you heathens? I thought children had to be naked for that, but apparently if a child sees sexual content, it becomes child pornography. I'm so behind on the porn times.
[Via Gamepolitics, thanks Joe]
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4:17 PM on 07.31.2008
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Also, does that mean that everything I read on the internet is Black Literature?
>_>
That picture wins so hard.
A 37-year old man who calls himself "Spornmaster".
A spore creature described as a "four-legged phallic fornication machine"
Previously mentioned "Spornmaster" who is archiving his creations on his own website.
The first time ever CNN has made me laugh out loud, for real.
The good people of COCKBALZ will not take this nonsense
This is seriously retarded though... If child pornography = pornography that kids can see, then we're all pedophiles because we've all seen porn on the 'net.
I don't know who that person is, but they need a good rabbit-punching.
I'm going to have nightmares about that picture.
YAY! So if that's child porn, are the people making the creatures going to get a new label, like child porn artists or something? You should all be ashamed, pushing porn of children...that would have to get parents to buy the game...that should be watching what their kids are downloading and playing....yeah....
The pic is of some less-than-bright scammers trying to get someone to give them money. You get into a correspondence with them, and convince them that you'll give them your credit card number, or money, or whatever they're after if they do something like this. They send you a picture, you post it on the intertubes. There are much lulz.
I love the internet.
DeusPayne is right when he says it's a 419 scam baiter. They're Nigerians who will go to great lengths to try and separate you from your money. A scam baiter basically manipulates them to do outrageous things in order to waste as much of their time as possible.