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don't anybody look into the flash games I played in the early 2000's.
Newgrounds had some great flash games back in the day.
Ahh Stick Death...
What was that virtual buddy game where it has basic rag doll effects and you tortured/exploded/shot a little guy in a square room?
I always preferred the one with the girl falling rag doll and hitting a bunch of bubbles on the way
Meet n' Fuck Kingdom, Steve.
LOL, don't anybody look at the Atari 2600 games I played in the early 1980s
“I hadn’t had the conversation with him yet, or talked to him about situations like that yet,” she told the network. “It absolutely disgusts me and breaks my heart that our children are subject to this, especially in this day and age.”
Well, at least the game was teaching him to avoid pedophiles, you know, since you weren't.
I can guarantee you when I was a kid we’d have been doing the same thing with a much more primitive internet.
You think kids don’t know about a guy all over the news for years? You think they don’t know what pedophiles are?
Your kids go through shooting drills for fucks sake.
Shit my 15 year old showed me and we both thought it was fucking hilarious in a dark humor sort of way. Honestly this is how you protect children. Fucking take an interest and talk about stuff with them. Trust me your kid knows a fuckload more about stuff than you think. And if they don’t that’s on you not the fucking govt.
Mocking horrible shit is largely how boys learn what horrible shit actually is.
see 'diddying'
Michelle Martinez told ABC 4 that she first heard about the game when her son mentioned it. According to her, he had accessed the game while at school.
Martinez said that she avoided asking her son further questions about Five Nights at Epstein’s because she had yet to have a discussion with him about the sex offender.
“I hadn’t had the conversation with him yet, or talked to him about situations like that yet,” she told the network. “It absolutely disgusts me and breaks my heart that our children are subject to this, especially in this day and age.”
“What did you do at school today, Bobby?”
“I played a funny game called Five Nights at Epstein’s. See the joke is that, as everyone including me is well aware, Epstein—“
“They let you do what? Well, say no more. Rather than have a conversation with you, I’m going straight to the press and am telling them that I, Michelle Martinez, am personally offended about this game I haven’t asked you a single question about.
“Don’t worry, Bobby! I won’t stop until all your friends, your friends’ parents, their neighbors, hairdressers, and strangers around the world all know that the son of Michelle Martinez got confused and couldn’t stop crying over a game they found at school.“
A boy being edgy on the internet
I just can’t believe it
These parents genuinely seem more upset about the game than the very real monsters it depicts. What is happening to the human race?
how could they be upset about it without knowing the monsters it depicts? if a hypothetical kid was playing gaza clicker you couldn't take offence without knowing the real life counterpart
I don’t understand. I didn’t say that they don’t know about it.
right, sorry, i took know about to also be upset about as a given
edit: no, hold on i think i get it. how do you do strikeout? what i mean is you must already think something is bad in general, in abstract, before you think it's bad that your kid is exposed to it. you are probab;y allowed to find the immediate issue (your kid enjoying epstein jokes) worse than the wider issue (epstein etc etc) when raising your own kids
i also just played five nights at epstein's. for a couple of minutes anyway, i couldn't be arsed to figure it out but the instructions are funny at least. excerpt:
Night 3 – Stephen Hawking
He remains stationary at Camera 6 and is immune to all audio lures
Task: You must electrocute him
anyway there might have been a crumb of something in this beyond think-of-the-children, as we expect parents to monitor their kids internet use at home, so it's reasonable to expect access from school computers to be monitored similarly. but the school did that, they've blocked it now, what else do you want from them? it will get hosted elsewhere, they'll add that to the blocklist too, life will go on and there'll be some other thing to be pointlessly outraged about
Exactly. Didn't anybody read Ender's Game ? The kids who can circumvent the password/VPN/nannnyware are the ones you want to recruit for leadership positions
oh shit, some kid playing club penguin: execute bin laden edition is really controlling a neuralink marine
The article doesn’t even mention if it’s on Steam or where to get it. This is probably the best publicity an indie dev can get. The game sounds fun.
Where's the evidence he accessed it on a school PC? I assume he's lying to avoid telling her where he did, because he knows she'll cause trouble for whichever friend is the source. This is such a nothing problem. He'll be an excellent liar by the time he hits high school and she won't have any idea what he's up to anymore.
Shooting drills
Wish the article had said anything at all about what the game is actually like, otherwise it sounds like they're clutching pearls at the title. Is it cheap shock value, or serious social commentary?