[exschke]

Further to my Titanic thread I found this while Googling for Titanic images.

It doesn't seem right to me seeing as it's basically emulating a situation where a lot of people died.

[medprof]

No.
1- it was a long time ago
2- it was made to emulate the movie
3- it's not portraying anything that would be specifically distasteful
(like a toy were you have to ensure all the poor people are locked below so the rich have enough lifeboats, or a game where you play as a guy who has to find women to mug/murder and steal their clothes in order to secure a lifeboat, or a game where you have to design the titanic but also have to keep the budget as low as possible so you use shoddy materials and cut back on safety whilst lying about the actual standards of the ship, or a game where you are the captain of the titanic and drive as fast as possible into icebergs trying to raise your bodycount, or a game where you spend time burglarizing people's rooms while they're distracted then have to secure a lifeboat by killing the occupants of one before they escape your reach, or a air-trampoline where the children are jumping on the backs of the drowned victims, or a game where you play a women on a lifeboat who has gone insane and now murderously tries to empty out the lifeboat before ending her own life, or a game where you play a man in the water trying to survive before your succumb to hypothermia).

[nofkayalk]

No.
1- it was a long time ago
2- it was made to emulate the movie
3- it's not portraying anything that would be specifically distasteful (like a toy were you have to ensure all the poor people are locked below so the rich have enough lifeboats, or a game where you play as a guy who has to find women to mug/murder and steal their clothes in order to secure a lifeboat, or a game where you have to design the titanic but also have to keep the budget as low as possible so you use shoddy materials and cut back on safety whilst lying about the actual standards of the ship, or a game where you are the captain of the titanic and drive as fast as possible into icebergs trying to raise your bodycount).

Agree.

[GuitarLoverBe]

Bungle, I think you take life too seriously.

[flueftArete]

It should have a part where you can be a gentlemen and sit a table and smoke while the thing deflates on you!

[pipitous]

It is a little bit, but the americans love laughing at us brits misfortune.

But when the tables are turned and the boot is on the other foot, who laughs then ?

If it was some game that a brit made that made light of the twin towers incident, like in this game below, I can just imagine the uproar then, but most brits would be "hmm! but meh!".

[wsbizwsa]

It is a little bit, but the americans love laughing at us brits misfortune.

But when the tables are turned and the boot is on the other foot, who laughs then ?

If it was some game that a brit made that made light of the twin towers incident, like in this game below, I can just imagine the uproar then, but most brits would be "hmm! but meh!".
http://www.fwworld.com/06_newattractions/GiantTower.jpg

There are plenty of American comedians, people creating internet meme, even those in casual talk that have touched on the subject pertaining to the image in attempt to be humors so I wouldn't say it is a lack of us not being able to have a taste of our own medicine, at all. The common reaction would be to think or react in the sense, "oh lord, this is so distasteful" and feel obligated to react in a way that one should be empathetic and almost in a sense, sulk because most people are conditioned to react in that fashion. You will have the people that feel the need to react based on the principle because "it is morally the right way to feel", similar to this case. Are both the Twin Towers and the Titanic tragedies? Absolutely but in the case of the slide, it can be perceived as distasteful but in a manner it is paying homage to the event and the film, the same could be said about comparing the the Jenga blocks against the World Trade Center, it is all about perspective.