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Im concerned that myadventuregame.com would allow something as ridiculous and insulting as "insult Eminem" to remain on thier web site. I find nothing funny about Osama bin Ladin or his activities. And if you knew anyone killed by his organization you wouldnt either. Im sure who ever uses that screen name thinks themselves quite funny. Let me take you to the world trade center and we can have a nice long laugh.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you Mr. Skelington. I don't see how making fun of Osama bin Laden (and Eminem in this case) is offensive, and that's all the user "binladen" is doing with his games ...

hey Skellington,
good to see you back at the site! After Jack at the Tracks we thought you disappeared. As you can see the site's doing really well since that time. Well you post an interesting thought, and one that I hadn't really thought about at the time that the games were made by BinLaden. Unfortunately I think I'm going to need to defend BinLaden here for the following reasons.
First Bin Laden is truly poking fun. He portrays this unlucky pitiful individual who is hell bent at bringing down Eminem, and is ultimately unsuccessful in his attempts. His other game, Mail Box Bomb is a similar game, though a little better written, that once again shows this character who is obsessed with bringing down someone else and is ultimately unsuccessful. It's a farce, and it shows what a pitiful life this individual must live if he has nothing better to do than what he does in the games.
Second, well the games aren't exactly offensive. If Binladen were to make a game like "Destroy the Twin Towers" well obviously that game wouldn't be allowed on the website, and in fact we would consider stopping Binladen from making future games.
Third, though we reserve the right to delete or edit any games as we see fit, this is something that we truly DO NOT want to do. We're not here to censor people or to stifle creativity, but to create a sense of gaming colaboration where thoughts and ideas can be freely expressed. We won't let people get away with insulting others, or acting in a way that's inconsistant with the goal of the website, but since this game and the other BinLaden games don't directly or indirectly poke fun at the suffering of others, don't allow this terrorist to be successful, and ultimately are simply humerous depictions of a pitiful human being, we see no reason to censor this person's games.
Finally, I just wish to say that I also was affected by the tragedy caused by this individual, I also lost a friend, and had several others that watched everything happen from a distance in pure shock and fear. Yet I didn't consider those games to be an insult, and furthermore neither did any of the other thousands of people who have come to our website. Though the tragedy is itself a horrible one, we need to try not to take offense to every mention of his name in a comical or other light. Otherwise he's won hasn't he?
march5th00

Good words in times where the world turns to a very strange - and, in my eyes at least, very alarmin - approach towards censorship.

I think it was Oscar Wilde who wrote - and if he did not, I am sure he would have signed it: "If you cannot laugh about something, you cannot weep about it either."

Karacan

Thanks for the reply, I probobly was a little harsh on the user(binladin). After I played his game I was just a little unnerved by it. The other people that responded made good points also. I suppose I failed to see the levity in his games as im a little closer to the situation than most. Ill try not to be so judgemental in the future lest others be so judgemental of me. Again, many thanks.

Its no problem at all.

also im working on a new game. I should be finished in a day or two.

Well I for one must say I'm glad to see you back at MyAdventureGame.com. Just to let you know, you were THE first person to create an account other than the creators of the site and our dear friend, John Videc! You also get the title of having the first game!

I can tell you how thrilled we (the creators) were to see someone we didn't know make an account and make a game at the same time!

If you need me to update your email address in the event that it doesn't work after 1.5 years or so, I'd be happy to do that for you, just email [email protected]!

Thanks for coming back, and glad to see you!

Im the first account and the first game? I dont know what to say. John was the one who told me about the site, he was stationed with me in okinawa. He was one of my best friends over here. Ill be sure to get cracking on some new games now that I got a title and all.

Im sorry that you lost someone you knew or loved, same with you march. But hes making fun of him.

(Binladen)