The Onion gets it right again.

[Nebu]

If you happen to love the Onion's brand of satire, this commentary on video games hits the mark.

NEW YORK— Electronic-entertainment giant Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Grand Theft Auto series creator Rockstar Games, released Stacker Tuesday, a first-person vertical-crate-arranger guaranteed not to influence young people's behavior in any way.


"With Stacker, the player interacts with an environment full of boxes—lightweight, uniformly brown boxes with rounded corners—and uses diligence and repetitive hard work to complete his mission," said Doug Benzies, Stacker's chief developer. "We're confident that the new 'reluctantly interactive' content engine we designed will prevent any excitement or emotional involvement, inappropriate or otherwise, on the part of the player."

[HaemishM]

Reluctantly interactive.

Le art.

[Margalis]

If you guys like the Onion you should check out ironictimes.com.

[Dren]

But my child may stack the boxes to look like a phallic symbol.

I think they should cap box stacking to only 2 high.

Also, the term box is sometimes used for vagina.  I think they should be called cubes.

[Sky]

Those brown boxes are clearly racist! And you could probably arrange them in the form of a cross, which offends my militant islamic beliefs.

Holiday infant, people, can't you make a game without taking potshots at minorities?!

edit: Oh by the heathen saint nicholas, pagan briber of children with materialistic rewards! The main character is clearly a WHITEY. This offends my multiracial heritage, which I don't exactly know because my parents both left me in a dumpster.

[Sobelius]

Holiday infant, people, can't you make a game without taking potshots at minorities?

Hmmm.. That box is slightly tilted -- not what I would call straight. Is this game a dig at gays??  Furthermore, those little squares look like little cubes of fudge. Is the real name of this game "fudge stacker?" I think I see a homophobe pattern here!

Wait -- of course! -- why didn't I see it before? This game is about *stacking*, which must also be an obvious "coded" reference to *stacked* -- like Pamela Anderson -- which means it's also demeaning to women since not all women are stacked. I'll bet this game's easter egg is Pamela Anderson's censored pole dance from the Elton John's concert!!

[Yegolev]

It would still be more fun than Trespasser.