Apple Bans "Hot Dog Down a Hallway" Game
Apple Bans "Hot Dog Down a Hallway" Game
May 21, 2009
Inexplicable content decisions continue to be made by the people running the iTunes AppStore.
In the latest example, Apple has banned a new version of Metaversal Studio's Hot Dog Down a Hallway game due to sexual innuendo. However, an earlier version was previously approved and remains available - double entendres included - for $0.99.
As reported by the Boston Globe:
In the game, players try to launch a hot dog down a corridor lined with various hazards. Players earn "achievement" awards, which are described using suggestive slang terms.
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Valdearg: @DS: Lol, I see we were thinking the same thing in the Stabbing article..
Posted 03/22/10 at 09:45am
Valdearg: Forgive me, Zip, for saying this, but I highly doubt your ability to read and comprehend the legalese they use in the HCR bill. The meaning and effect of the various sections is hard to understand for college educated Americans, let alone anyone else.
Valdearg: Forgive me, Zip, for saying this, but I highly doubt your ability to read and comprehend the legalese they use in the HCR bill. The meaning and effect of the various sections is hard to understand for college educated Americans, let alone anyone else.
Posted 03/22/10 at 09:39am
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:I been reading it on and off..its a half assed feel good bill....they may be able to fix it in time but good lord its a mess but I guess thats reflected in the government itself....
ZippyDSMlee: Vlag:I been reading it on and off..its a half assed feel good bill....they may be able to fix it in time but good lord its a mess but I guess thats reflected in the government itself....
Posted 03/22/10 at 09:18am
DarkSaber: So your whole objection is based around "I don't want my free handouts to be affected"
DarkSaber: So your whole objection is based around "I don't want my free handouts to be affected"
Posted 03/22/10 at 09:18am
Valdearg: @Zip: I think you probably should understand what's in the bill before you pass judgement on it..
Valdearg: @Zip: I think you probably should understand what's in the bill before you pass judgement on it..
Posted 03/22/10 at 07:37am
ZippyDSMlee: ds:ha! BY THE TIME THEY GET THIER BENFITS i WONT HAVE ANY LEFT!! :p
ZippyDSMlee: ds:ha! BY THE TIME THEY GET THIER BENFITS i WONT HAVE ANY LEFT!! :p
Posted 03/22/10 at 07:02am
DarkSaber: for it to cost YOU personally zippy, you'd have to actually be paying taxes instead of sponging benefits.
DarkSaber: for it to cost YOU personally zippy, you'd have to actually be paying taxes instead of sponging benefits.
Posted 03/22/10 at 02:42am
ZippyDSMlee: Like most train wrecks it wont help people much and cost us more in the end than what we would benefit from it.....
ZippyDSMlee: Like most train wrecks it wont help people much and cost us more in the end than what we would benefit from it.....
Posted 03/22/10 at 02:37am
TBoneTony: Great to see MA go to the back bench in SA, hope that new AG is more ballanced
TBoneTony: Great to see MA go to the back bench in SA, hope that new AG is more ballanced
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Posted 03/22/10 at 02:34am
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Posted 03/21/10 at 10:12pm
Valdearg: They beat the parliamentary trick. The senate bill is officially law, pending the President's signature. Now they vote on the fixes to that bill, in the next 15 minutes or so.
Valdearg: They beat the parliamentary trick. The senate bill is officially law, pending the President's signature. Now they vote on the fixes to that bill, in the next 15 minutes or so.
Posted 03/21/10 at 10:04pm
gellymatos: Vald: No worries. I do it all the time. Trying to break the habit.
gellymatos: Vald: No worries. I do it all the time. Trying to break the habit.
Posted 03/21/10 at 10:01pm
Valdearg: @Gelly: Sorry for jumping to conclusions, LOL.. I guess I read your text in a depressed voice in my head. :D
Valdearg: @Gelly: Sorry for jumping to conclusions, LOL.. I guess I read your text in a depressed voice in my head. :D
Posted 03/21/10 at 10:00pm
Valdearg: I'm staying up late, watching CSPAN and MSNBC, and cheering each and every democrat victory.
Valdearg: I'm staying up late, watching CSPAN and MSNBC, and cheering each and every democrat victory.
Posted 03/21/10 at 10:00pm
Valdearg: Yes indeedy. Even Abortion rights got gutted. Obama's going to pass an EO ensuring no federal funds are used for abortions.
Valdearg: Yes indeedy. Even Abortion rights got gutted. Obama's going to pass an EO ensuring no federal funds are used for abortions.
Posted 03/21/10 at 09:59pm
gellymatos: Vald: Who said I didn't like it? I'd get a drink out if there wasn't anything where I am at.
gellymatos: Vald: Who said I didn't like it? I'd get a drink out if there wasn't anything where I am at.
Posted 03/21/10 at 09:59pm
gellymatos: Vald:Well, pretty good day, wouldn't you say?
gellymatos: Vald:Well, pretty good day, wouldn't you say?
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This is happening and will continue to happen until they can admit the need for a content rating system, hell, any "system" at all would help them to look less like mindless idiots.
The reason this probably happened is because when the 2nd version was banned, there was no call to review the system to see if other games under the same title were available.
I'm not in any way saying the 2nd game deserved it's ban, i'm just offering suggestions. The Apple store looks more every day like a comunity driven website, with tonnes of opinionated moderators and no administrators keeping them on the same path.
NO! No content rating system! If there's a content rating system, then there's a clearly defined set of rules. If there are rules, someone will bend them without breaking them. If that happens, then the same things that are happening to games will happen to iPhone apps.
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people should know by now if you go with apple you will be beholden to arbitary restrictions on what you can do as determined by apple and how it currently feels now.
When was the last time microsoft, nokia, google or anyone like that told you what you can and can't do with your product?
apple is the nanny state of technology companies.
They're only doing this for people with no sense of humor.
Onec again the Bipolar process of iTunes App store approval. They need to stop all this. First it was the on again off again baby shaker and now the denial of the sequal for issues present in the first.
What the crap?
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Here's a more "What the crap?"
Ebook application rejected because it can download the Kama Sutra off of Gutenburg.
As can several others that have been approved, as well as Safari itself.
Link about the EBook application, Eucalyputus, being rejected because it can read the Karma Sutra:
http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus
Here's an idea Apple, create a policy on content, and stick with it. If you want, you can come right out and say you won't have 'adult' themed content on your system. But to just randomly ban certain apps that happen to catch your eye is only going to encourage more 'hidden' content and more user backlash.
If my ex had any money to buy an iPod touch, I'd send this to her as she could relate to the game no problem. Hmmm... maybe have the dirty old man she shacked up with buy it perhaps?
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I guess the popular Apple phrase "It just works" does not apply to the app store's content approval system.
I don't think there is an "approval system", just a complaint based afterthought moderation system.
There is.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/218213&art_pos=2
Hold the man-ase!! -- ZippyDMSlee
Oh my dog! Sexual innuendo! What are we gonna do?
Does this trend ever stop? It's like this is a race to beome the worlds most prudish bunch. And everyone's a winner untill they all have blue tennisballs or tingly tummies.
Seriously, this overly prudish act is not healthy.
Why did someone not stop them and say "At least it's not about shooting people"? Or better question...what would be the average response to that statement, when said in the context of being offended by sexual material? We should carry out this experiment.
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*snicker*
Blue tennisballs...
kinda remins me of Dungeon Keeper, most creatures shot a screaming red suage looking thing in FP mode.
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