The federal government is spending approximately $434,000 to develop a video game aimed at helping pre-teen girls resist peer pressure to have sex. The avatar based game/social-simulator doesn't have a title yet, but it's being developed by The University of Central Florida and is expected to be complete by 2011.
The idea is to give you points for certain social skills in a virtual world populated by avatars, but you won't just be staring at a screen; you'll be wearing a full motion-capture suit to really put you in the skin of a pre-teen girl at a party or a malt shop or something. Then, boys will approach you and try to get the goods.
Professor Anne Norris of the University of Central Florida describes an interaction in the game like this: "A boy similar in age might approach the person playing the game and ask her to make out or there might be some sexual innuendo."
This will certainly be effective: Once this game becomes wildly popular all over the world, pre-teen girls will finally have the skills they need to resist peer pressure and stop having sex... But what if it works too well? What if the anti-sex messages carry over into her later life, and grown women all over the world won't git down due to the insidious influence of anti-sex mo-cap suit gaming? Society will descend into chaos, just like in Children of Men, and within a single generation, all human life will be extinguished. Good job, University of Florida Professor Anne Norris, you've doomed all of humanity!
Also: Our government seriously spent nearly half a million bucks developing this dumb crap. I could have used that money to buy at least 45 hamburgers, or, if I wanted to promote abstinence, I could have used that money to develop my one-man show. It's geared at stopping teenagers from having sexy-times, and it mostly consists of a slide-show of the inside of Jake "Killer" Gaskill's mouth. I call it "The Canker-Story."
Source: My Fox Orlando
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Kerbe360
Gone are the days where parents are responsible for raising their kids to do the right thing. I'm sorry but this is a waste of taxpayers money and would be better spent on sex education. I guess if you think a game will make a teen not want to have sex.. then its possible to make a game that will make a teen shoot people. Another example of passing the buck instead of dealing with the real issue.
Kerbe360
Gone are the days where parents are responsible for raising their kids to do the right thing. I'm sorry but this is a waste of taxpayers money and would be better spent on sex education. I guess if you think a game will make a teen not want to have sex.. then its possible to make a game that will make a teen shoot people. Another example of passing the buck instead of dealing with the real issue.
JDarkley
You want teen girls to not have sex? Here's a tip, get rid of all these trashy magazines with glamorous older women on the cover and headlines that promise tips for a better, sexier lifestyle. Next, make sure girls aren't seeing the same thing on TV and in movies. This has little to do with peer pressure and more to do with our consumer culture. Stop having the media give us a constant image of ideal "sexy" women. It traps the entire female gender into the same, banal, image type of what a woman should be instead of allowing them to mature as they naturally are. Spend my tax dollars on that, why don't ya!
no_more_good_names
Hey, do you want to have sex...No...50 POINTS!!LEVEL UP :D
Squigglebeth
This is just another way for our society and government to avoid giving comprehensive sex education to our youth. What a waste of money... no teen is going to want to play this game. EVER. The money would have been better spent on education programs for schools, free clinics for teens, and programs that reach out to the under-served/undereducated population who are most at risk. Way to side step the real problem America. Bravo.
lightningsabre
They're making a pre-teen equivalent of WoW?
Bambam1225
easy way to promote this game? Put people like justin bieber, hannah montana and other disney stars to promote said game, then all the teen girls will flock to these games just to see Justin Bieber and Hannah Montana in a game together....but then would try to actually do it with Justin bieber, or hanna montana if they're trying to explore
antonio1295
this might not work so well cuz there arent that many female gamers
AntiquesRoadwarrior
Join the Junior Anti-Sex League! Praise Big Brother! I'm off to drink some Victory Gin and massacre some proles.
Mr.Rager
I can't wait for the Mods for this game.
JustTheBeginning
So if you can resist having sex, does that mean I CAN have sex in the game.
Well spent Mr. Obama, well spent...
*Just kidding*
WiseGuy0
just put salt peter in the school food.
Blue_Vortex
So this is the grand scheme to control population levels.
Ikarus
But how exactly is it going to fight sexual urges that are infused into the human brain, male or female 0_o. Maybe it's a game with only female avatars. Oh, wait, that'll just arouse lesbians. Ok, how about a game with only dog avatars. Oh, wait, bestiality. Yeah we can't have that. Maybe robot avatars? Oh wait...I remember Futurama saying something about "Electro-gonorrhea".
Well thanks to the internets"Rule 34" I'm pretty sure it's just going to be an Avatar in a completely gray world staring at the gray.
BoydofZINJ
There is a waste of $434,000 of my tax payer dollars. Why did YOU PEOPLE vote Obama in? I voted for the other loser and I would vote BUSH in, if I could replace Obama. BUSH may not have been a great intellect or speaker, but he was no Obama. I would even take a Clinton over Obama any day of the week. Who does not like women with meat on their bones?
squarewannabe
They should have used that 434 grand to something more useful like building a better 4G infrastructure, or expand more cable or FioS services to people who still cant get it.
And this is why I hate government and politics so much.
fghjkl
Will there be heavy petting DLC?
xxxblindxxx
i could of bought a lot of condoms and ky with that money
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