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Controversy: Game asks you to defecate on Thai King

Gamezine: "Insult the Thai monarchy and find yourself being sued, your website blocked, or worse, being sentenced to imprisonment. A new game takes the risk by asking players to defecate on the Thai King.

An Australian writer was sentenced to three years in prison last week for insulting Thailand's royal family his novel. A pretty rare outcome that's been joined by an over-obsessive Thai government crackdown on people and websites that are critical of their monarchy.

Bangkok's Criminal Court sentenced Harry Nicolaides, 41 from Melbourne, to three years behind prison, after he was arrested when trying to leave the country. The passage in his book, which amounted to only a few sentences, talked of a fictional prince with turbulent marital relations and reportedly alluded to an abuse of royal power.

Apparently it'd be an offence to repeat the material, so we wonder what Thai officials think about this new free PC video game."

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Cheeseknight285568d ago

I just played the flash game. Sure it's a blatant ripoff of "You Have to Burn the Rope" but it was still quite amusing and a fairly good way to make a point.

techie5568d ago

lol. Why are you a turnip?!

techie5568d ago

In the game that is...not you, since you are clearly a piece of cheese. And I know the difference between cheese and turnips. :)

Tempist5567d ago

Guys, you have no idea how much the Thai love their Monarchs. Until you have been there, you don't understand how much this is an actual offense.

To put it in a western context, it's the equivalent of having Osama Bin Ladden taking a dump on George W. Bush in the south, or if you were to make a comic about this 60-70 years about the Kizer taking a dump on enlgish monarch at the time.

ar5567d ago

@Tempist
It's not about insulting people. It's about freedom of speech. One of - if not THE most - important cornerstone of democracy.

Tempist5567d ago

Thailand doesn't really have a democracy. It's a two system deal with the King as an absolute ruler still. His word is law, and if his law is against his image or name being defaced or disrespected.

I'll put it this way; if I were to take your image and deficate all over it in public while instulting you and your family name, would you honestly defend my right to do so?

THUNDERMARE5567d ago

Reading all your post made me laugh so hard, well being one of a few Thais here I think I should share a bit of my thought.

I got to say that not all Thais love their king (such as myself for example), it just that living in Thailand is like living in medieval period where criticizing the king is a taboo. Come to that, did anyone expect to hear any other story but that Thais love their king?? ofcause not, since if we dare to say a single bad thing about the guy, we will be put in jial for a good 2 decades and will probably got gang rape in the prison. In the end the Thais that really love the king can go out and do all the publication but the Thais that hate him are too afraid to say anything, so there you have it, the reason why foreigners never heard anything bad about the king.

Anyway, I dont really give a s*** about the king, I really hate him and I wish he die.... soon...

PS.
Oh and, if people from ICT found this post, dont bother looking for me, i'm living in US, so yeah no matter how much the power the blind man (King Rama IX is blind in one eye) got in Thailand, he got no jack here haahaa (sucker)

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techie5567d ago

You think he'll get arrested?

Foxgod5567d ago

The Thai king is a sissy, a butmunch, a buttface and an overblown idiot.

anubis125567d ago

thai king ahahah what a co*kmuncher

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai5h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken5h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye3h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken2h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno35m ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

Chocoburger2m ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Honkai Star Rail's Revival Tendencies Take Away the Seriousness of Character Deaths

While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.

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