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> Or rearranged their "room" with decoration that spelt out letters, or simply drew cock and balls, etc. A whole Lego MMO was once cancelled because they could
by alpaca128 7y ago
> Or rearranged their "room" with decoration that spelt out letters, or simply drew cock and balls, etc.
A whole Lego MMO was once cancelled because they couldn't come up with an automated way to detect such things in virtual Lego buildings and using employees to filter the content became too expensive.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI don't understand that at all. Just have a "warning to parents: this is a sandbox game and may feature any shape - including body parts - built from Lego". 99% of parents wouldn't be bothered, surely? Every kid who has two opposite sex parents knows from toddler-hood what a penis and vulva look like, why is it such a problem??
- plttn 7y agoBut imagine telling your licensor "hey we had to put a warning that says players may see inappropriate body parts made out of Lego brand bricks". That would go over like a lead ballon.
- mrguyorama 7y ago>Every kid who has two opposite sex parents knows from toddler-hood what a penis and vulva look like I don't think this is true.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI was speaking loosely, Western socio-cultural background, ignoring edge cases (body image problems like 'never nudes' and such) .. maybe you're right .. I found it interesting at c.5-6 yo that our kids brought home school slang (new words to me!) for genitalia: showing they were talking about it in a non-scientific context, strongly suggesting they were talking in some way about opposite-sex genitalia with peers.