re: Nintendo Scrabble Game Drops the F-Bomb

bill mogus — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:55:02 GMT

I have this to say:

Screenshots, or it did not happen.

I have a hard time believing this, to be honest.

re: Nintendo Scrabble Game Drops the F-Bomb

beverins — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:10:19 GMT

I'm the father of a young daughter, and this doesn't concern me in the slightest. ESRB ratings are tosh anyway.

re: Nintendo Scrabble Game Drops the F-Bomb

Conrad Zimmerman — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:32:39 GMT

Am I to take this to mean that we should be banning dictionaries as well?

I want to say that I agree with the practice of protecting children from "coarse" language because it is supposedly the responsible thing to do but I simply cannot. There is no such thing as a "bad" word, merely words that have been deemed unacceptable in polite society. If we spent more time communicating with our children, teaching them the meaning and basis of these words instead of waiting for them to discover them on their own, we have the opportunity to exert some influence over how and why (if ever) they choose to use them.

That said, the Daily Mail lives to create controversy about games and this is as silly as most of them. If anybody needs to be taken to task for this, it's the ratings board and not the developer. Even then, it isn't as though this sort of thing could be unexpected by anyone. It's a Scrabble game. If you aren't familiar with the basic concept and armed with the knowledge that it uses a rather complete dictionary of English terms, why are you buying it in the first place?