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“I raped you.” If words could lynch someone, then this was the moment for it. The post-game scoreboard said I had technically won, so I’d shown them all, right? No, no I hadn’t. The avalanche of trash talk was one thing — you play online enough, you come to expect it — but the laughter, the laughter stripped meaning from my victory. The laughter made me feel like I was shrinking, like I was in danger of disappearing at any moment.
Satire is a tricky thing — if your goal is to mock something by embracing it, how far can you go until the mockery takes a backseat to the embracing? That’s the current question facing Tentacle Bento, a card game focusing on Japanese tentacle rape fantasies which raised a lot of money on Kickstarter (and a lot of ire on the internet) earlier this week before Kickstarter cancelled its funding.
Detectives in Seattle look to Dungeons and Dragons Online for answers to why, according to police, an 18-year-old high school student choked a 16-year-old developmentally disabled teen girl to death last Tuesday. Warning, the details of the crime are disturbing.
