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SPORNOGRAPHY?
Video game's user content spawns naughty
critters
Video game's user content spawns naughty
critters
cnn.com
When makers of one of the most anticipated video
games of the year invited users to help design part of
the game, the gamers jumped at the chance to create
animated characters.
Users will have the option to incorporate other
people's "Spore" designs or choose to block them all.
But some took it upon themselves to create
something entirely different: a new kind of Internet
porn.
When makers of one of the most anticipated video
games of the year invited users to help design part of
the game, the gamers jumped at the chance to create
animated characters.
Users will have the option to incorporate other
people's "Spore" designs or choose to block them all.
But some took it upon themselves to create
something entirely different: a new kind of Internet
porn.
It started when the makers of "Spore" released a Creature Creator program that allowed
users to develop their own characters to drum up hype before the game's scheduled release
in September.
The game, a joint venture from "Sims" creator Will Wright and Electronic Arts, allows users to
create a unique creature and then control its evolution from a single cell into a complex
cultural civilization.
Within 24 hours of the Creature Creator's release, gamers had gone creature-crazy,
designing millions of critters that were all thrown into a database and shown on a YouTube
channel for the public to see.
But scrolling through the database -- past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed
wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig -- revealed something many users didn't expect.
Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant
breast monster" and a four-legged "phallic fornication machine," for starters.
These naughty -- some would say obscene -- creations have spawned an Internet hype
nicknamed "Sporn," short for "Spore" porn.
users to develop their own characters to drum up hype before the game's scheduled release
in September.
The game, a joint venture from "Sims" creator Will Wright and Electronic Arts, allows users to
create a unique creature and then control its evolution from a single cell into a complex
cultural civilization.
Within 24 hours of the Creature Creator's release, gamers had gone creature-crazy,
designing millions of critters that were all thrown into a database and shown on a YouTube
channel for the public to see.
But scrolling through the database -- past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed
wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig -- revealed something many users didn't expect.
Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant
breast monster" and a four-legged "phallic fornication machine," for starters.
These naughty -- some would say obscene -- creations have spawned an Internet hype
nicknamed "Sporn," short for "Spore" porn.
A U.S. House of Representatives committee advanced a bill to prohibit
passengers from making mobile phone calls during flights.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed
Thursday the Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (Hang Up) Act,
which would ban voice communication during scheduled flights.
passengers from making mobile phone calls during flights.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed
Thursday the Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (Hang Up) Act,
which would ban voice communication during scheduled flights.
HANG UP! New cell phone bill in the works