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"My four-year-old son plays GTA"...now in China

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Congrats to Bitmob community writer Matthew Orona. Not only is his My four-year-old-son plays Grand Theft Auto article the number-one trafficked post on our site (by a huge margin, by the way), but now, gamers in China know what an awful, awful father he is. (Just kidding -- read the story to see what happens.)

I&U Game Magazine (that's supposed to be "I heart you," but they refer to it as "I&U" in our email exchange), which is published by GameSpot China, reached out to us a few weeks ago to see if they could reprint Matthew's story in their premiere issue. We said that was cool, as long as they don't forget to credit him for the piece.

See below for the cover, plus the first two pages of Matthew's article...in Chinese!

 

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Dan "Shoe" Hsu
May 10, 2011

Congrats, Matthew. I hope you think this is as cool as we do. :)

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Randy Snow
May 10, 2011

How did it translate into Chinese?

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Dan "Shoe" Hsu
May 10, 2011

What, you asking me because I'm Chinese, and you expect that we can all read that? Racist!

I'm just kidding. If I were a better Chinese person, I would be able to read that. But alas, I'm not and I can't. So I don't know. :)

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Randy Snow
May 10, 2011

Ah, well I was just wondering "from a personal standpoint" how well it translated. Wondering if the context was still the same, or if it would be full of oddness.

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Dan "Shoe" Hsu
May 11, 2011

Yeah, I totally know what you mean. No idea. Maybe we should have someone translate it *back* into English and see how it reads. ;)

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Matthew Orona
May 10, 2011

Heck yea! That's awesome! I just want to know how to get a copy of that.

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Dan "Shoe" Hsu
May 10, 2011

Matthew, I think they intend to send me a copy. If I do, I'll get in touch with you and send it your way. You deserve it more than I do!

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Matthew Orona
May 10, 2011

Wow, thank you Dan. I would truly appreciated that. You are a gentleman and a scholar. I don't care what Randy Snow says about you. Just kidding. :)

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Jay Henningsen
May 10, 2011
Wow, this story just keeps on spreading. Congrats, Matthew.
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Matthew Orona
May 10, 2011

Thank you for picking it up and editing it.

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Tom Heistuman
May 10, 2011

This is fantastic! Truly a testament to what is possible if you completely disregard the ESRB and use common sense parenting skills. And then write about it. On Bitmob. With skill.

 

Congrats, Matthew!

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Chris Winters
May 11, 2011

Awesome news! Big congrats, Matthew! :)

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Arnar Levi
May 11, 2011

Congrats Matthew!

It's an awesome article. I can relate to it because the first video game I ever played was Leisure Suit Larry. My father introduced me to it, he sat with me and taught me how to spell the words to get from place to place (this was the original monochrome version). The experience simultaneously spurred my interest in video games,  learning english and learning how to write in general. 

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Andrés González
May 11, 2011

Congratulations, man.

BTW: What's up with that Assassin's Creed chick?

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Alejandro Quan-Madrid
May 15, 2011

Why do they have a picture of what looks like Sunset Blvd. in L.A.? I guess that's kind of Grand Theft Auto-esque.

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