[ExI] 'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Wed Mar 31 23:03:43 UTC 2010


--- On Wed, 3/31/10, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Ja.  The trick then would be to create a subroutine
> game that is the
> counterpart to this one.  In the RapeLay genre the
> point of view is the
> groper/rapist, so we create an embedded virus which
> launches automatically
> and causes the point of view to shift pi radians, turning
> the hunter into
> the hunted.

Counterproductive.  The player, upon discovering this is
anything other than what was promised, stops playing the
"broken" version and reverts to searching for the real one.
Such an attempt can reinforce the desire to prove that
outside forces - like whoever tried to propagate the
counterpart game - have no ability to control the player's
behavior, leading in some cases to actions that ignore the
desire to not harm anyone.

In other words, something like that could cause someone to
rape, who otherwise wouldn't.




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