My OperaWhy.... Should I Laugh or Cry?
Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:27:33 AM
Recently in the media (read CNN), they're brought up Rapelay and... well, I'll just quote the article from CNN, "In the two days since CNN.com posted the story on hentai games (specifically, the "RapeLay" video game), there have been thousands of comments, more than a million page views and many questions about how a culture can produce this genre of games and then quietly allow the industry to thrive."
This would be fine, except that now thousands of people that didn't know about this game will be curious and download it. It is already banned, it never got released outside of Japan, AND it is a year old story! Come on, why bring it up again? The only way you can get a hold of this game is through downloading and the only thing they're doing right now is promoting the game!
To quote a counter-article, "Just why CNN would think it is appropriate to have a feminist adulterer and Korean nationalist engage in a smear campaign against Japanese culture on its network, all by way of a resurrecting a year-old story whose main effect seems to have been encourage illegal downloads of a game now pulled due to feminist pressure and in any case never released outside Japan, is an interesting question."
This would be fine, except that now thousands of people that didn't know about this game will be curious and download it. It is already banned, it never got released outside of Japan, AND it is a year old story! Come on, why bring it up again? The only way you can get a hold of this game is through downloading and the only thing they're doing right now is promoting the game!
To quote a counter-article, "Just why CNN would think it is appropriate to have a feminist adulterer and Korean nationalist engage in a smear campaign against Japanese culture on its network, all by way of a resurrecting a year-old story whose main effect seems to have been encourage illegal downloads of a game now pulled due to feminist pressure and in any case never released outside Japan, is an interesting question."
