Ok, we’re all familiar with video game fun being misinterpreted by the media…like the Grand Theft Auto: San Adreas Hot Coffee mod (Why wouldn’t you want your kids to know how to have good, player-controlled sex?) or the Dante’s Inferno “Bad Nanny” achievement (Sure, you’re killing the souls of unbaptized children…but the operative word here is “unbaptized.”).
So the latest one that ill-informed reporters on Fox news will soon be reporting on is from Red Dead Redemption, where you can get an achievement called “Dastardly” if you tie a nun to a railroad track and watch her get run over by a train, creating a spray of bloody nun-chunks. Now, of course this is just a reference to the classic “Snidely Whiplash” tying-a-lady-to-the-railroad-tracks technique. But, of course the media’s going to read some sort of anti-religion stance behind something that’s really just misogynistic.
Nun-sploding video after the jump:
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This is the first game I’ve bought on release day since Vice City. Its pretty much the greatest thing to grace my TV since HD porn.
This might be the only thing that cheers me up today.
Aww, Dorm, why so sad?
I’m a delicate snowflake.
I’m pretending that this was inspired by Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime.
Running a train on a Jesus’ wife?!
If you want scrambled nuns, you have to break a few habits.
Well shit. Now I know the first thing I’m going to do when I get the lasso.
I guess the whore’s in this game are also Jesus’ wives?
Would have made more sense if they were Jewish. You always wind up fucking your mom.
fail
this has nothing to do with the npc being a nun, it’s for any FEMALE npc
What’s black and white and red dead all over?
Totally agree with failarticleisfail, its ANY female not just the nun. If fox news wanna put a nun on the rails i think it shows more about them than rockstar.
You guys (fail and Rich) didn’t read the last two sentences of the article did you?
The last two sentences? Where it still implies that you must use a nun? Blabbering about anti religious sentiment that will surely be dredged up from running over a nun with a train? Yeah, I think they read them. I think you did, too. I just don’t think we all passed reading comprehension.
lol, +1 to “Ummmm.”
Don’t feel bad RoboPanda, my brother didn’t pass second grade either.
Well, that just sold the game for me. Think I’ll go pick it up after work.
It’s just a video game, and if you knew anything about the actual game you’d realize that you’re better off in the game by not killing innocent people and being a good guy than if you’re a bad guy. You have the choice and people seriously over react in my opinion. These same people will watch a horror movie where they know they’re going to watch numerous people being brutally tortured and murdered, sometimes even raped, but we get a bad rep because we play a “rated R” video game???? Give me a break.
If a person actually goes out and commits such an act of violence in real life then I highly doubt that video games were really their problem don’t you??? If that was the case the entire US would be demolished by now. People have to point their fingers at something or someone other than themselves. If your kid is violent or uses bad language then maybe you need to look at his friends or even yourself. Besides that, maybe you shouldn’t buy the kid video games, movies, and music that plainly states on the front of the label that it’s intended for people over the age of 17 or 18 years old, but does that thought ever cross their minds??? Of course not, because that would place the blame on them rather than someone else.
it doesn’t have to be a nun, it just has to be a woman.
it’s a play on the old western cartoons where the bad guy always ties the female lead to the tracks.
P.S. stop being so up tight it’s a game not real and the only people who are actually influenced by this have severe mental problems