Adoptive Parents Call Portal 2 Jokes Offensive to Orphans

[Jeff Loper]

Send a copy of the turret song.

 

[grimangel53]

i showed this article to friends of mine in class, and they thought it was hysterical. one of them said, "i'm adopted, and i found those sections hilarious! I wonder what'll happen when they get to the part when GLaDOS calls Chell's parents!" She then fell off her chair in a fit of giggles, while i was wheezing and gasping for air. this article allowed a class to pass time, and have a good time doing it.
Personally, i find this article kind of redundant. These sections are offensive, yet the offended people are going to continue playing it...That's kind of odd. I also love the dialogue and writing of the portal game series. It's hysterical! i usually cant stop laughing when a good joke comes around.
All in all, this article, while providing a laugh, kind of rebukes its own argument.

 

[Lunar Templar]

THAT'S the worst he could have heard?
Yeah...I'm pretty sure humanity could think of some more pretty heinous things to say.

I'd been fired LONG ago if the costumers knew what i really thought of them, trust me, its worse

but more stupid parents getting bent out a shape over, what amounts to nothing, yay!!

in other news, the sky is blue and the world didn't end

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

It's rated E10, not E, E10 is where the hard crap comes in, like all those offencive jokes, y'know? N00by parents.

But really- They should blame the ESRB if they don't like the rating. It was just a joke. People make fun off me all the time, and Like Wilford Brimley says- (Other than do you have diabitus?) You have to laugh at yourself sometimes...

 

[Austin Ashe]

Well I'm fat and I was totally offended by GLaDOS's constant insults.

When I said "totally", the "totally" was in massive sarcasm quotes. I could listen to it all day, wake up to it in the morning, use it as background music for a date. It isn't offensive at all.

TO ME.

The foster parents, on the other hand, are going to find GLaDOS's offensiveness a lot less funny.

 

[Hatter]

*snip*

I honestly believe that about 99% of all the "anti videogame" mumbojumbo is completely irrational. "video games train murderers to shoot" Tell that to anybody in the military. "gta 4 should be rated -what ever porn games are rated- because it lets you drive drunk" Lets ignore the fact that you can burn everyone you see alive. "7 days in fallujah turns death into entertainment" Despite the fact that survivors of the battle of fallujah helped with the making of the game. Seriously, the list goes on and on.

But what really bothers me about this is the fact that people were "offended". I can't stand people who get offended over pretty much anything. Not 3 months ago a good friend of mine committed suicide pvt. pyle style. That didn't stop me from laughing at suicide jokes, and I didn't hesitate to enjoy gory films. Maybe I am just overly insensitive, I don't know, it's just a real big pet peeve for me when people complain about stupid things like being offended.

 

[Solid Reece]

But using "fatty" as an insult is perfectly okay with these people.

Thats because the kid is not fat. If the kid was they would complain about that to.

To me the lemon speach was funnyer and worse for kids.

 

[Nouw]

I may late to the party but I hope the father and family learnt their lesson and realized how they utterly missed the point.Having said that! He had a rather natural reaction which may or may not be the parental norm; not sure if it's the whole 'subscribing to a vocal minority instead of silent majority' thing. He should have sent an e-mail or letter to Valve and I'm sure they would have quietly told the family about the intent of the quote and given them a mature apology.

At the end of the day, it's just light-hearted humour with blunt truth! Blunt, but still truth!

They should probably build a bridge and get the fuck over it. That's what they should probably do.

A Light Bridge perhaps?

Oh snap man! *Internet Hi-Fives.

 

[X3N0N]

Hmm, a BAD GUY saying a BAD THING. Someone needs to explain to this man how antagonists work.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

For the record, yes, parts of Portal 2 humor are crap and the whole adoption thing is quite low.

I was replaying P2 recently and was thinking exactly the same thing. Making adoption jokes is a sensitive issue, because it CAN hurt people really unexpectedly.

Seriously, making a funny game is one thing, but they could really avoid this. And rather replace it with something ya know, more fun.

To be fair, I'm adopted, other people are fat, short, spotty, bald, ginger, skinny, wear glasses, have a funny walk, big noses, etc. etc.

What should a character who's a psychologically manipulative bully going all out to mentally destroy people say?

'you're a lovely person, have some cake!'

I think it's a tricky issue, don't get me wrong, why is it ok to mock short people, but not gay people, neither had a choice. In an ideal world we'd not be abusing people based on anything out of their control.

also it was rated E10+

At the age of ten, a Chinese kid with caucasian parents MUST have had a few questions asked of her in the playground by now. Kids are generally much more forthcoming with obvious questions than adults are.

 

[Eveonline100]

I cannot believe this. Can you actually make humour - proper humour - that does not, somewhere, offend somebody? And why is it that one family, and one orphan, are upset over a few lines of dialogue in a freaking video game? What on earth is going to happen if he sends her to school?

Oh, so I guess Pokemon is 'E' for everybody except people who think that putting animals in cages is cruel. And Minecraft is 'E' for everybody except people who are easily reminded of the suicide bomber that killed their friend/relative/etc. Mario Kart is 'E' for everybody except people who became paraplegics in go-karting accidents.

Come to think of this, how did it even make the news?

true matey

 

[numbersix1979]

I literally can't think of any sort of reply to this topic. Thinking about it literally shuts my brain down. I mean, has this Neal guy ever, like . . . Ugh. It's something the antagonist of the game says to the protagonist, in an attempt to get under their skin by issuing a childlike insult that any rational adult would block out on the basis of its infantile nature, right? Or am I reading this wrong? So what does this say about you, Neal?

 

[Vuljatar]

Oh my god... is this for real?

People are such fucking crybabies.

 

[ineedscissors]

"...and I'm thinking maybe it's rated 'E' for everybody except for orphans."

Don't know why, but for some reason this line made me laugh so hard.