FC: Panty-clad models in video game draw outraged cries of disgust

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Wired coverage:
  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,36144,00.html

With this telling quote:
   Although Kelly has not seen the
   game, his organization launched an
   online campaign after reading a
   Simon & Schuster press release
   describing it.

Snapshots:
  http://headline.gamespot.com/news/00_02/10_pc_panty/screens.html?1

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> Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:13:42 -0700
> From: Lizard <lizard () dnai com>
> Subject: If you have to say you're not a prude or a censor...
>
> ...chances are, you're a prude and a censor.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Sex-Aliens-Video.html
>
> While this version of the article lacks the 'I'm not a censor, BUT...'
> quotes that inspired this messages title, the essence remains -- some
> people are terminally clueless goobers who desperately need to get a
> life, and probably laid. (Earlier versions of the article had several
> people assuring us they loved a good joke or a good shag as much as
> the next fellow, BUT, you know, THIS just went too far...)
>
> I think that in abscence of real threats -- communism, nuclear war,
> the impending return of some deity or another -- humans need to devote
> their' worry energy' to absolute trivia, and it doesn't get much more
> trivial than this.

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