Kinect sex game scares (ignorant) parents
Great investigative journalism can be truly amazing. But not as amazing as really bad investigative journalism where ignorant comments are quoted as fact.
It was inevitable that someone, somewhere was going to work out a way to bastardize Kinect so that it could be used for porn. And as sure as day follows night, it happened, with an adult entertainment company called ThriXXX doing just that, developing a game which allows people to fondle images of naked women using the motion control system.
For those who don’t know, Kinect is Microsoft’s full-body motion-control system available on the Xbox 360 games console. In essence, the company saw how much success Nintendo was having with the Wii and decided it wanted a piece of the action. Sony did the same with Move for the PS3. However, Kinect was hacked very quickly, and the technology is now being exploited in a multitude of different ways.
ThriXXX is one company doing so, and it teased a new Kinect sex game on YouTube a couple of weeks ago. Microsoft quickly issued a statement reassuring anyone who was concerned that this game, and any others like it, would never be allowed on the Xbox 360. But that didn’t stop the KFOX14 news channel in El Paso, Texas from broadcasting a report into the game which seemed to be light on facts and heavy on ignorance.
The games console is referred to as an “xBox360″ and an “XBOX360,” but it gets much worse when the parents of five-year-old Edwin Valverde voice their concerns over the new Kinect sex game.
Quotes such as, “It’s inappropriate, especially when these games are geared towards younger children. You see the commercials on the Disney channel on Nickelodeon of course they’re going to want them,” and, “Anybody can get on-line with the XBOX360. It’s a possibility he could be able to buy it without me actually knowing,” demonstrate how utterly ignorant these people are of the technology they are letting their young child use. Which is, quite frankly, scary.
The Kinect sex game from ThriXXX will never appear on the Xbox 360, but may instead end up being a download for PC that will require technical skills well beyond that of a five-year-old to install and play. And it would never be advertised on children’s television anyway.
This is scaremongering of the highest order, and I was actually rather surprised to learn the news channel responsible is a CNN rather than a FOX News affiliate. After all, the latter specializes in scaremongering. The former, not so much. Or so I thought.
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December 29th, 2010
You’re a fool Parrack if you don’t think CNN is just as guilty of scaremongering as FOX. Just because your political persuasion is in line with CNN’s socialist agenda and thus you BELIEVE the garbage they spew about conservatives, doesn’t mean they aren’t just as guilty as any other media outlet these days. They ALL do it, and there are FAR more liberal media outlets than conservative so there is in all honesty FAR more scaremongering going on from the left than there is from the right.
OK, that said, how about PLEASE keep politics out of postings on a blog that’s SUPPOSED to be “WINDOWS.BLORGE”? We come here for news and opinion about WINDOWS stuff, NOT your political views.
Thanks.
December 29th, 2010
Easy there David. Why so uptight? Nobody mentioned politics at all. Rather the author pointed out contrasting journalistic styles. And since when did CNN become “socialist”? I believe it is actually you who is blathering on about political views on a tech blog.
December 30th, 2010
Nice over-reaction there.
Everyone has an opinion. So I don’t see a problem in someone expressing them in a blog.
December 30th, 2010
@DavidB
Chill out a little bit would ya?
I think this is an excellent article that exploses some blatant ignorance against video games.
I can understand Dave’s comment “I was actually rather surprised to learn the news channel responsible is a CNN rather than a FOX News affiliate.” because this type of BS tends to come from FOX more often than any other network I have ever seen. FOX is well known for it.
January 11th, 2011
Interesting, five sentences, four of which mean nothing, and the fifth seeming to self-incriminate the poster – unless he feels his opinions are more valid or welcome than the blog author’s. So, let’s look at this sentence-by-sentence:
DavidB: “You’re a fool Parrack if you don’t think CNN is just as guilty of scaremongering as FOX.”
Dave Parrack: “This is scaremongering of the highest order, and I was actually rather surprised to learn the news channel responsible is a CNN rather than a FOX News affiliate. After all, the latter specializes in scaremongering. The former, not so much. Or so I thought.”
- Apparently you didn’t get the point of the paragraph, it’s ok, the subtilities of language escape many people . I’ll explain it for you: He said he didn’t realize that CNN was as bad as FOX in the scaremongering department … until he had the revelation that it was CNN that was pushing this piece. So, in other words, your first sentence is a non sequitur, as it’s basis is that Dave P. thinks CNN is not as bad as FOX (with respect to “scaremongering”), a point which is clearly stated is no longer the fact.
DavidB: “Just because your political persuasion is in line with CNN’s socialist agenda and thus you BELIEVE the garbage they spew about conservatives, doesn’t mean they aren’t just as guilty as any other media outlet these days.”
- The article provides no facts or even implications and you provide no external evidence to support your assertions. The logical predicate is unfounded. Dave P. never actually states his political views in the article and never states he agrees with (or disagreees with) CNN’s political agenda. This is your second non-statement.
DavidB: “They ALL do it, and there are FAR more liberal media outlets than conservative so there is in all honesty FAR more scaremongering going on from the left than there is from the right.”
- The biases and agendas of the media reporting entities at large are irrelevant to the discussion. There were only two outlets mentioned, CNN and FOX. Dave P. clearly states he has observed that both have engaged in “scaremongering” activities, therefore the only relevant assertion your statement, “They ALL do it,…”, makes is that both CNN and FOX ‘do it’, which Dave P. has already stated. This is a redundant statement on your part.
DavidB: “OK, that said, how about PLEASE keep politics out of postings on a blog that’s SUPPOSED to be “WINDOWS.BLORGE”?”
- Again, Dave P. never, explicitly or implicitly, presents any mention of politics in this article, so you’ve requested a cessation to an activity that is non-existant. So again, non-sequitur.
DavidB: “We come here for news and opinion about WINDOWS stuff, NOT your political views.”
- I’m sure the reading community here agrees with you. Although since Dave P. never makes mention of politics, would it not be more accurate to say “…, NOT political views.”? One has to wonder, since you’re the only one mentioning politics, what justification do you have for introducing politics to a discussion in a fourm where you yourself assert that the matter of politics is unwelcome?