When it comes to the gaming world, I really shouldn’t be surprised by what I find out there. And yet, trolling the internet results in me learning something new and disturbing about gaming. For example, you know Rule 34 of the Internet? It states, “if it exists, there is porn of it.”. There should be a Rule 34 of Gaming that states the same thing. Because this shit is just nonsense.
Earlier this month, during a Dear Prudence advice live chat, an anonymous man asked a disturbing question. Calling himself “Concerned anti-horse man,” he asked about the social ethics of telling a friend who was obsessed with an online horse breeding simulation game, not to use her friends’ names for her horses, and making them screw.
I’m sorry, what?
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Here’s the question. He’s got no beef with her time spent, but that she’s making them all fuck as horses, and sees no problem with it. In fact, she wants them all to join.
Prudence, doesn’t even know where to begin. And this is an advice columnist who’s probably heard it all before.
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Prudence, or in this case someone named Daniel Mallory Ortberg, had some pretty reasonable advice to give. I mean, honesty is great and all, but c’mon, this girl has to know she’s crossing a line.
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A very creepy one, at that.
Thankfully, someone else jumped in with some real-world experience with the games and gamers.
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On one hand, I hope that her assumption about the woman “knowing that treating her friends like dolls in a dollhouse is creepy,” is correct, but then again, there’s something really ‘off’ about this person.
Given the chance to name the horses literally anything you want under the sun, she picks her friends names in some perverted power-play to get them to join and mash their huge horse junk against one another.
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Prudence agrees and was grateful for the save.
Of course, the comments got a little interesting.
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The article was tweeted out by a Cat Manning, an indie game narrative designer and writer, and got some people intrigued.
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It spawned an interesting conversation across Twitter on which exact game was being discussed.
Sufficed to say, there were a lot of, lets say ‘passionate’ fans of the horse breeding sim genre.
Very passionate.
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Most importantly, the question and Twitter thread got the attention of illustrator and animator Lisa Hanawalt, the genius behind BoJack Horseman and Tuca & Bertie.
If she approves, then it must be something. But anyways, I digress…
Take a look at the Twitter thread to check out some of the suggestions, if horse breeding and creeping out your friends is your fetish.
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