Nintendo only lets users choose from a limited number of preset profile pictures (or custom-made Miis) for their online avatar on the Switch network. So at least one Reddit user was quite surprised to see pornographic profile pictures showing up on the user-placed balloons in Super Mario Odyssey's online "Balloon World" mode.
"The picture was changed several times over the course of my time patrolling, each picture being pornographic content," Redditor ewaison writes, including links to (censored) screenshots of the offending profile pictures in their post. "There are multiple [sic] of these balloons all being made by the same user. This is obviously intentional, and made to upset children."
With the menu installed, users can load an arbitrary 256 x 256 resolution JPG onto their SD card and use a "Change Avatar" menu option to upload that file as their profile picture. Nintendo apparently stores (and then distributes) whatever gets uploaded directly on its servers rather than using some sort of internal ID tag to denote which preset profile picture should be used.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday June 25 2018, @02:02PM
Disagree. As a parent I find there is vanishingly little interesting content I can play/watch around my kids anymore.
When things didn't have to be M/R-rated to be taken seriously, we had lots of great movies and games that were safe for kids to experience. They don't have to like Street Fighter as much as the grown ups did, but at least it wouldn't lead to difficult questions like Mortal Kombat or DOA Beach Volleyball.
And no, I don't have a problem answering difficult questions. But when I sit down to play a game, I'd rather not have to stop playing for a half an hour while I answer them.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?