Parent Angry over Adoption Joke in Portal 2

Instead of using the things said in the game to have a honest and open discussion with his daugther, he complains to the local news channel? Really? He seems like a great father and I don't get why he is so freaked out this. I'm sure the kid has already heard worse than "fatty. Adopted fatty. Fatty, fatty no parents" in school.

The game makes it clear that the teasing Chell recives is unjustified and mean. Chell is a hero and the fact that she is adopted just make being adopted cool. I can't wait for someone to take offense at the fat jokes.

It's not rated E, it's rated E10+ 

People who are easily offended, should be, and often.

This father literally doesn't know the meaning of the word literally...

http://www.popularculturegaming.com

So where was he when every single RPG that mentioned orphaned characters came out? And the movie Orphan?

BAN THIS SICK FILTH! 

I'm just going to repost what I said on CVG:

The worst thing is that there's a lot to like about this story, which makes how he screws it at the end all the worse.

What we're looking at here is a parent who is playing games with their children- that never happens in these stories.
Another one, they've actually looked at the ratings. Again, something that never happens.
And, if we can be a bit more subjective about the issue, they're actually playing a good game, rather than going "Ooh, Call of Duty seems popular, let's get that!"

My problems are that he can only have come to the conclusions that he has by failing to understand the story altogether.

Firstly: why that joke and not earlier ones, like the phonecall one referenced upthread?

Secondly: the whole reason Chell's status as an orphan even comes up in dialogue is because a running theme through both Portal games is GLaDOS finding every possible opportunity to denigrate Chell, one thread of which is about how unpleasant and unlovable Chell is- the point here isn't to mock Chell for being an orphan, but to mock her for being so rubbish as a person that even her parents don't want her.

Even though Chell's parentage is never explicitly mentioned in either game beyond GLaDOS' conjecture, and even then there is the implication that her parents are still around, as other test subjects- then it's still a shot at Chell as an individual rather than Chell's status as an orphan.

Thirdly: The reason the insult in the clip is so blunt is because it's coming from Wheatley- a character whose main point is that he's a total moron. The best he's going to come up with, having replaced GLaDOS as the all-seeing AI is going to be "fatty fatty no-parents" because he isn't as erudite or subtle as GLaDOS. Anything he says isn't going to have the depth and subtext of his predecessor and is only capable of superficial imitations thereof- it's about how stupid Wheatley is, not how bad being adopted is.

There are other things that Mr. Stapel and the news programme gets wrong, (for one: if you want to keep a question out of the living room, don't put it on the television) but I'm going to overlook those for the time being, because the meat of what's wrong with this story, or at least what's wrong and relevant to this website, is that above.

What I will do instead, is steal the comment "Hm" made on WBTV's website: In the first game, GLaDOS loved and adored orphans, and she made shoes for them. But then you ripped off that part of her and threw it into a fire. Nice job breaking it, hero.
 

Guy's not angry, he's just unjustifiably scared of talking to his daughter about her being adopted. Or perhaps really, really reaching for something to take offense to, just to get his name in the news.

It's like Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight: being that good just makes some people try extra hard to find your flaws. Portal 2 is so well done - my opinion, of course, but one I think most people share - that for someone to be offended by anything in the game requires a sensitivity so incredibly specific as to be just insane.

Oh, and nice research by this news station. "WBTV contacted Sony, who distributes the game. They told us to contact Valve, the company that actually created the game. We did, and have not heard back from them."

Really? Besides it being the PS3 version of the game, who would possibly think that Sony is distributing it? They should have contacted Microsoft, obviously! 

I applaud the guy for adopting, and for being so engaged in his kid's life and interactions with video games.... but I think wanting to insulate the child from the meme is not a good idea.  The taunting in the game is not presented as a positive thing.... removing such content would essentially involve removing teasing from games and other media as a character trait entirely... which goes down a nasty slope since it could be extended to removing characters with bad traits in general, or simply remove evil from media... which I really do not think is good for anyone.