July 16, 2007 -
It's not often that Nintendo's cuddly Kirby gets mentioned in the same breath with swastikas.But according to the Second Life News Network, an under-construction store designed to cater to "all of your cell-shaded Kirby needs" was vandalized on Saturday. Swastikas and the words "Kirby hates our troops" were used to deface the site.
Okay, vandalism and griefing goes on all the time in SL. What's unique about this case is SLNN's claim that the defacing was done using the account of an intern for an unnamed U.S. senator:
A campaign manager for the senator, who asked SLNN not to associate the "intolerant acts" with the senator or his campaign, offered an explanation about how the graffiti got there.
"When the incident took place, the intern was en route to the senator's national office in Washington, and had a house guest... his house guest utilized his account to explore Second Life, as it were..."
The campaign manager said the incident would not hurt the senator's campaign. "As the staffer was not in charge of his avatar whilst the intolerant acts were committed, I see little reason for him to start anew with a new avatar..."
SLNN also reports that the owner of the Kirby Emporium, who goes by Intlibber Brautigan, in-game was annoyed:
One has to wonder in this age of Homeland Security, that a congressional staffer, who may have highly sensitive information on his PC, leaves his password on a post-it on his desk.
GP: SLNN needs to do a much better job of explaining this story. Why not name the senator? And what is Nintendo's relationship - if any - to the defaced Kirby Emporium?
Comments
correcting something like this is as easyas deletign and re rezzing the item, not really a scandal.
Neither.
Greens are probably the most commonly used camouflage color for ground based troops for forest and jungle operations, while pink has been scientifically proven to be an effective camouflage color for jets in flight.
There you have it - the Army and Air Force need each for their needs.
...of course, I'm kidding
But then who should we do away with? Pink or Green?
You mean the attack on Edwards?
That was Anon and /B/tards or one of them atleast.
Oldest excuse in the book.
I'm not sure how SL works, but my guess is that the kirby story owner wanted people to show off their stuff in their store tahts kirby. If those creators made something Kirby-esque, then the store could buy it from them. It's that simple. That's probably why they wanted it set up like that. Creativity spawns anywhere, they just weren't expecting such vandalism like that, much like in real life when that happens.
(jk...for those that can't take a joke)
That's such an immature (and albeit, stupid) joke
The person who did this is a lamer to the noobish degree. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
"Actually about the password note. Was the computer a personal one? or was it a government one?"
I was wondering that too, mostly because I pictured an intern goofing off at work (like I'm doing right now!). Considering the avatar is used to campaign (the quote suggests), and therefore probably only used at the office, I'm thinking the intern is full of it.
I doubt Nintendo has any connection, seems like a Kirby fan who wanted to show a little love for the "troop-hating" puffball.
Because if what they say is true it will only give the senator unfair bad press.
Oh and "kirby hates our troops" . . . what a really bad joke.
To this i pose this simple question.... What the hell?
Also how did this person manage to vandalize the Kirby store was the land owner that stupid to allow people to make items on his land... If you ask me the owner was asking for it if he allowed people to create items.
And I don't put my passwords on post-its. ;)