van HellSing on 10/9/2008 at 15:01
Straight from the You Can't Make This Shit Up department come the ANGRY CREATIONISTS:
(
http://antispore.com/)
Jusal on 10/9/2008 at 15:16
Hahaha, marvellous! I had already been waiting for a reaction like this from these people for a while.
heretic on 10/9/2008 at 17:04
Quote Posted by Jusal
Hahaha, marvellous! I had already been waiting for a reaction like this from these people for a while.
That has to be a spoof site...please?
Anyways, the user comments are great.
"Apparently Spore has a code embedded into it that once you finish the game MUSLIMS congratulate you. Brown skinned muslims."
june gloom on 10/9/2008 at 18:20
I've been on the internet too fucking long. I refuse to believe that's fake. You can't fake that kind of stupid.
Unfortunately most creationists' idea of how evolution works they got from Pokemon.
heretic on 10/9/2008 at 18:25
"I created this blog to find support for and follow my progress in letting Electronic Arts know that their biggest attack on Christian values to date will not be tolerated.
We can not allow the gaming industry to invade our homes and poison the minds of our children.
After all, their billions in revenue and all the advertising in the world are no match for the power of God.
Please feel free to contact me at [email]antispore@gmail.com[/email]"
-If that isn't fake it sure as shit should be.
Sulphur on 10/9/2008 at 21:12
I'm surprised and amazed that Jack Thompson hasn't tried to sue EA about Spore yet. After all the creature creator chaos of penis monsters, humpasaurs, and alien tit-endowed creatures, it's been rated E by the ESRB.
I think he's completely unable or unwilling to fathom any combination of aliens and sex, also given that he let Mass Effect go with nary a whisper -- or maybe he just can't handle anything that's innately bizarre and related to sex.
I think the only idiots who brought the Mass Effect 'alien lesbian lurve' scene up was Fox with its amazingly inept 'sexbox' story.
Stitch on 10/9/2008 at 23:55
Something I posted in another forum where people are actually, you know, talking about the game:
I'm proceeding through Spore at a snail's pace (I'm probably the only person on the planet who sunk a good four hours into the Creature stage) and while the game has me hooked hard I can't help but feel like the game is a massive missed opportunity. The various stages are disconnected enough to really call into question the basic structure of the entire enterprise. Some of the issues are just weird indications of a lack of communication between the various stage development teams--what's with the different camera controls between Creature and Tribe?--but there's a fundamental question beneath it all of why each stage is treated as a different genre. Far more satisfying, I think, would be if gameplay developed in much the same way as your organism, each successive stage taking a step back and providing a natural progression in gameplay but with added complexity and on a larger stage.
Chade on 11/9/2008 at 00:51
Well, they do that to a certain extent ... why else would you inexplicably spend all your time "making friends" by singing and dancing with other species as a herbivore in the creature stage. The advantage is internal consistency, the disadvantage is you end up with inappropriate mechanics.
You can't do the evolution of life from a single celled creature to a technological powerhouse in a handfull of hours while both accurately representing each stage and making the game mechanics internally consistent.
The question is: where is the appropriate middle ground?
They would have had essentially the same problem with UI controls: external consistency vs internal consistency. In the case of camera angle, they obviously chose to go with external consistency, although I personally agree that this felt like the wrong choice (but then, neither of us have played the game any other way, so unlike the dev team we have nothing to compare it too).
Just imagine the arguments that the team must have had during development ... should the mechanics be like other games vs internally consistent, should the machanics be aesthetically appopriate vs internally consistent, should the art be procedural vs controlled ...
I bet there was a lot of shouting.
RavynousHunter on 11/9/2008 at 12:05
Quote Posted by van HellSing
Straight from the You Can't Make This Shit Up department come the ANGRY CREATIONISTS:
(
http://antispore.com/)
Wow, just... wow. I read a few paragraphs of that tl;dr shitfest, and I have to say, I'm quite curious as to why people like this can't just shut the hell up, sit back, and fuckin read a book or somethin. If ya get twigs up your ass because of a bloody
game, you have officially failed at life.
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I've been on the internet too fucking long. I refuse to believe that's fake. You can't fake that kind of stupid.
Unfortunately most creationists' idea of how evolution works they got from Pokemon.
No truer words have ever been spoken. I think I'm adding that to my Book of Winnage Quotes, "You can't fake that kind of stupid." As for the Pokemon quip, I don't think Christians, hardcore ones like this one, watch anime or much of anything having to do with a foreign nation or people they find "godless," "disturbing," or "not-Jesusy-enough."
june gloom on 11/9/2008 at 19:45
Have a look through (
http://fstdt.com/) Fundies Say the Darnedest Things sometime. You'll see plenty of quotes from fundies talking about Pokemon's evolution and freaking the fuck out about it.
