Our premiere inductee to our page dedicated to people we believe to be twits, is… Peter Molyneux! As you will soon come to know, our reasoning for declaring someone a twit is complicated and often biased; but ultimately we feel we represent the correct opinion.

We have inducted Peter Molyneux for single-handedly creating a suspect piece of software known tentatively as Milo.

For those currently not in-the-know ‘Milo’ is a ‘game’ wherein the main objective is simply to ‘interact’ with a small boy (Milo). Of course, Milo isn’t a real child but is, as the video games industry calls it, ‘Artificially Alive’ (AA for short). So alive infact that, according to Peter Molyneux, he can ‘recognise us, he can recognise our faces, he can recognise our voices, he can recognise emotions in us’. This may sound like something out of a science fiction film, like Westworld or Demon Seed, but apparently the technology for ‘interacting’ with virtual boys in any room of your house is just around the corner.

Milo utilises a new type of technology codenamed ‘Project Natal’; it’s a type of camera that scans your body and it’s movements and turns them into virtual reality. This allows for you to physically interact with a virtual environment and it’s inhabitants in the most engaging and realistic way to date.

That’s right, you heard us correctly, they’ve finally made something worse than Grand Theft Auto. We all knew it was coming, myself and many likeminded individuals have been prophesising this for years. A game that actively promotes ‘hands on’ ‘interaction’ with a young boy. The Child Predator Sim.

Sure, on the surface it may just appear to be a tech demo designed to illustrate the potential and future possibilities of Microsoft’s technological foray into the ‘casual’ market. And sure the developers have stated that Milo has been specifically designed not to respond to any ‘negative’ actions. Which, if anything, merely highlights how jaded/paranoid we have become; for our minds to instantly leap to the conclusion that anything for/related to/about children will, for some reason, be savaged by paedophiles.  But in reality we all know what’s really going on, Milo has been created purely to cater to and indulge the lucrative Child Predator market; how people can believe this to be acceptable is beyond me!

At the end of the day one could argue that while this wary approach is often initiated with the best intentions, it usually degenerates into pointing the finger at any target to satisfy some odd self-perpetuated sense of justice. Whilst ultimately failing to acknowledge any of the real problems, mostly because the factors which culminate to create them are too far reaching and too weighty to generate the instant satisfaction of perpetrating unjustified blame. But that argument would be wrong.

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