18th April 2007, 12:26 PM
http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/maddencurse.asp
So apparently this has been making the rounds. It's all good amusement, but more than a few gaming sites seem to be accepting it in that wishy washy "ya never know, better not risk it" way, as though there's any reason at all to think there IS a risk. More than that, there's a frickin' petition. The game company should have responded by saying "what are you people stupid?", but of course that would alienate some of their potential audience so they sorta said it in a politically correct style.
Seriously, I thought we'd evolved past this sort of superstitious thinking. Let's all start avoiding step ladders again too! Or, maybe it's just sports fan mentality, the same sort that convinces people that their cheers (from the couch) literally have an effect on the success or failure of "their team".
So apparently this has been making the rounds. It's all good amusement, but more than a few gaming sites seem to be accepting it in that wishy washy "ya never know, better not risk it" way, as though there's any reason at all to think there IS a risk. More than that, there's a frickin' petition. The game company should have responded by saying "what are you people stupid?", but of course that would alienate some of their potential audience so they sorta said it in a politically correct style.
Seriously, I thought we'd evolved past this sort of superstitious thinking. Let's all start avoiding step ladders again too! Or, maybe it's just sports fan mentality, the same sort that convinces people that their cheers (from the couch) literally have an effect on the success or failure of "their team".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)