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another reason to hate people, it stops being funny at murder, oh for god's sake, wtf, wtf?

Who comes up with shit like this?!?!
Apple pulls plug on Baby Shaker game

Apple Inc. pulled a 99-cent iPhone game called "Baby Shaker" from its iTunes store Wednesday after its premise — quiet a crying baby with a vigorous shake — prompted outrage.

According to screen shots posted on several Web sites, "Baby Shaker" displayed black-and-white line drawings of a baby. The iTunes description included the line, "See how long you can endure his or her adorable cries before you just have to find a way to quiet the baby down!"

Maybe I've just lost my sense of humor due to a rash of incidents of guys permanently injuring/killing their girlfriends' babies, mostly by shaking, in Alaska shortly before I left, but seriously, who the hell thought this would be a fun game? I'm appalled, I tell you! Appalled!

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	damnedfallacy 2009-04-23 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	When you've had to be the attorney who gets a court order to take a brain0-dead baby off of life support and to let them be an organ donor because someone shook the baby for doing what babies do, then you want to light things on fire, starting with whoever designed this game. (Reply to this)

	the__ivorytower 2009-04-23 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	...that sounds like a really sick WarioWare minigame. (Reply to this)

	shinga 2009-04-23 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Holy hell this has to be a joke. Oh my GOD. D: (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jkefka 2009-04-23 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	well, the game was kind of intended as a joke, albeit a very sick one. Great thing is, near as I can tell, it took them something like two months to pull it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	undomielregina 2009-04-23 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	I'm going to be honest, I'd rather they were too slow in pulling something than too hasty. As totally icky and appalling as that app is, I'd still rather Apple thought before pulling third party content they host -- which pretty much all the apps in the store are. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jkefka 2009-04-23 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	Personally I'm still vaguely disappointed that they pulled the plug on the boobie shaker app, but that might just be me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	caito 2009-04-24 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Don't worry about it. Shaking boobies IRL is much more fun anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rosehiptea 2009-04-23 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	That's horrific. I have no idea why anyone would find that remotely OK. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ayezur 2009-04-23 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	The same reason dead baby jokes are funny. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	greenling 2009-04-24 01:54 am UTC (link)
	I'm pretty sure this even qualifies as a dead baby joke. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ayezur 2009-04-24 02:16 am UTC (link)
	The theory is the same, they just failed at making it actually, like, funny. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	writinchica2k 2009-04-23 05:06 pm UTC (link)
	If one feels like having their blood pressure raised, comments at places like The Guardian and CNet are good for starters, among the search results. It's all there! "It's not a real baby!" "If you don't like it, don't download it!" "My grandfather was injured in WWII, should we ban Call of Duty?" "Get a life, you moralistic tards!" LE GRAH. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	persona 2009-04-23 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	Urgh, why did I look... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sisterelwood 2009-04-23 05:23 pm UTC (link)
	How... Why? ;_; WHHHHHHHHY??? (Reply to this)

	sneer 2009-04-23 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	I am childfree and have kind of a sick sense of humor. That said: WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THIS GAME WAS EVEN REMOTELY A GOOD IDEA SERIOUSLY, IT IS NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT FUNNY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, MAN (Reply to this)

	wtf 2009-04-23 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	I consider myself fairly open-minded but this still bugs the hell out of me. And this is coming from someone who has a two year old toddler that suddenly throws screaming fits at all hours of the night. (Reply to this)

	vzg 2009-04-24 06:17 am UTC (link)
	Folks at work were talking about this today and apparently found it funny. I very carefully kept my mouth shut, mostly because my supervisor was among them and has a tendency to defend anything he likes like that really adamantly, and I'm not sure I could have handled that. (Reply to this)