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



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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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