Crave responds to Baby Pals controversy

That's all well and good but I'm still trying to figure out if Paul is dead?

Religious paranoia at it's worst? Or best?

Just another shining example of why I feel vexed at my species.

What's more interesting is that, as Joystiq noted in an earlier post, the same mother who found this in the DS game found the original sound-alike phrase in the Fisher-Price doll... And this sort of vindicates her: If she's nuts she was only nuts once, since it is indeed the same licensed sound file in the game as in the doll. She wasn't necessarily just fabricating the whole thing to renew her 15 minutes. Although it wouldn't surprise me if someone tipped her off.

All this is hilarious. Same deal when I was a kid, with devil worship. Play this backward, play that backward. Hell, play an Iron Maiden record FORWARD -- why didn't people care as much about THAT.

They are trying to cover up the fact that they used ZOMBIES for voice over work!

The governments and corporations are trying to cover up the conspiracy! They've unleashed a plague of brain hungry zombies through scientific experiments and if not for brave consumers like the woman who found these messages they would be infiltrating our society waiting to strike us when least expected.

Don't be fooled the Zombies are coming!

It is a well known fact that infants under the age of one year do not have the ability to lie. I think it is great that these companies are spreading Islam and teaching everyone that Islam is the light.

Anyone know where I can get some fresh kitten bread? I'm dying for some right now! *




*No kittens were harmed in the making of this comment.

Wait, does converting Islam give you the ability to fly? What the *#$!@ is the baby doing at that altitude?!

It's call auditory pareidolia. Pareidolia can happen to anyone, you're not crazy if you hear or see patterns where none exist. Our brains are built that way. You are however many steps towards crazy if you let false pattern recognition rule your life.

The sad part is the fact that it got out of hand enough that Crave had to issue a response.

I guarantee that if an Islamic customer heard the baby say "Jesus is the light", they would either not say a damn word about it, or if they did complain, they would be ignored.

We must find this baby, who is clearly a prophet of God.

And what if it did really say "Islam is the light"?

I don't think as many people would actually care. You could bloody read Nietzsche to children and they wouldn't care. Do it in a cute voice and they'd be entertained, but still wouldn't have a bloody will to power or whatever he was on about.

Who's fucking hardcore now, bitches?

I like that they only QA tested the game for 200 hours. That's probably what happened to Gears of War 2's online, as well.

This does nothing. Rational folks would have guessed as much. Irrational folks...will act irrationally. Still, at least now we know these are prelicenced baby clips.

Muslims, Christians you both suck, now shut up!

i could imagine cartman buying this for kyle just to piss him off and his mother

200 hours of testing. Wow. That means five people for one week.

Dude what if Islam IS the light?

Okay. I hate the whole conspirancy theorist idea, but I'm looking at this from a business perspective with the aid of an analytical mind (even if I can't spell it right).

Statement 1. The same sound microclip was in Baby Pals and whatever Fisher Price wanted to name their doll.

Statement 2 / Logical Assumption 1. Crave said that they licensed the audio, so, Fisher Price probably did as well.

Now, most of the time I would just ignore this stuff, but this is the part that I'm guessing nobody else has mentioned. If you listen to the full audio clip from the Fisher Price doll, the sounds in question are put at the extreme end of the clip, with a noticeable pause separating them from the rest of the baby sounds. Could we call it a disgruntled or joking employee situation, where a sound tech from the company made is own recording of "Islam is the light", did the proper sound editing to make it blend with the rest, and spliced it at the end of what was actually recorded?
In either case, the owner of the sound clip simply needs to cut out the last 2.5 seconds of the clip in order to keep other companies from dealing with this same mess.
Should this be getting as much attention as it has? Not a chance. Should people stop jumping the gun on every little thing? Most definitely. I'm just trying to make things easier so I don't need to have my news defiled by this garbage again.