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Post number 8494

twistedonion — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:12:09 -0800

Minesweeper - It offends me so ban it!

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:15:24 -0800

I have no friends. Solitare is offensive to me. Please ban it. Pollitical Correctness has offically gotten out of hand.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:20:36 -0800

I am poor. Monopoly is offensive to me. Please ban it.

By: chrish

chrish — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:21:31 -0800

But Minesweeper is an interactive tale of skill and courage. You, the brave mine sweeper, risk your life discovering (and I assume, deactivating) deadly mines so others will not be met will harm.

By: twistedonion

twistedonion — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:23:47 -0800

Thats what I couldn't understand - How is it offensive when the aim is to clear the area, not plant mines to blow people up?

By: RylandDotNet

RylandDotNet — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:27:41 -0800

All they have to do is change every instance of "mine" to "bug". Microsoft Bugsweeper! Change the little icon of a mine to a little icon of a bug. Of course, that wouldn't be respectful of all the programmers out there who put their lives on the line debugging Microsoft software...

By: briank

briank — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:40:21 -0800

I liked the part about how the writer's mother is addicted to it and it's the only thing she knows how to do on her PC. Just makes you wonder how many home computers are out there sucking up electricity, taking up space in dens, costing hundreds of dollars, so little old ladies can play a game.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:43:02 -0800

I have a migraine. "Headache" is offensive to me. Please ban it.

By: BT

BT — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:44:58 -0800

I know, this is just piling on...but that's just about the dumbest instance of sensitivity-mongering I've heard recently.

By: BT

BT — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:45:20 -0800

Wait...are we sure this isn't a hoax?

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:59:46 -0800

This sniffs of hoax to me as well; even most leftists aren't so brainwashed as to make statements THIS idiotic. But if it is real, I'd like to see someone plant some mines in the creator's backyard. Then maybe they'll figure out the difference between games and reality.

By: machaus

machaus — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:13:21 -0800

Stranger things have happened.

By: DiplomaticImmunity

DiplomaticImmunity — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:30:03 -0800

I think they should just do the right thing and have the little icons that come up over the potential mines be little heads of Princess Diana...

By: claxton6

claxton6 — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:50:32 -0800

Come on people, settle down, and play a nice game of WinFlower.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:53:25 -0800

Winflower instead of Winmine? Reminds me of that ridiculous art project/game where the bullets resurrect corpses.

By: mw

mw — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:00:58 -0800

The Register lost all credibility for me with their response to a false story they wrote about MSNBC supposedly altering a news item to be more favorable to Microsoft.

By: Sellersburg/Speed

Sellersburg/Speed — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:37:26 -0800

Why should you be punished for finding a flower in WinFlower? I could maybe forsee a change to WinBadAcid...

By: solistrato

solistrato — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:53:38 -0800

How about WinRabidWeevil?

By: chrisege

chrisege — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:40:20 -0800

but.... but... if they banned minesweeper, what good would all this minesweeper fan fiction be?!

By: solistrato

solistrato — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:35:32 -0800

Chrisege, don't ever frighten me like that again.

By: DyRE

DyRE — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:25:55 -0800

This must be a hoax. No one would want to ban Minesweeper. Minesweeper is the best thing Microsoft has ever produced. EVER.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 23 Jun 2001 03:46:57 -0800

I beg to differ, DyRE...