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[lbd_nytetrayn]

Sony does it again.

Lisa: I can't believe you're not still popular.
Bart: What'd you do? Screw up like the Beatles and say you were bigger than Jesus?
Homer: All the time! That was the title of our second album.
-- They meant "more popular", not "bigger", "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"

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Comments

[zk273.livejournal.com]

"Mmm... sacrelicious..."

[gelgameth.livejournal.com]

...So uh. I'm having trouble seeing the forums at all. Can someone tell me what exactly happened?

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2005/news/09/30/vatican_screen001.jpg

"In the console wars raging between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, taking aim at a competitor not only makes for good gossip and quotes, it's expected. No one will blink an eye if Microsoft irks Sony, or Nintendo brushes off Microsoft. But regardless of one's religious preferences, it's probably not a good idea to incense the big man upstairs or the house He built.

An ad campaign from Sony in Italy has just done that, Rueters is reporting. Full-page ads celebrating the PlayStation's tenth anniversary recently ran in the country's newspapers and magazines, and feature a young man, smiling sheepishly and wearing a crown of thorns. If that already sounds touchy, it gets worse.

The thorns are contorted into the X's, O's, triangles, and squares--the symbols on the faces of the PlayStation's four main buttons. A phrase at the bottom of the ad reads: "Dieci anni di passione," which translates to "Ten years of passion," an obvious reference to Mel Gibson's controversial Jesus biopic The Passion of the Christ.

"This time they've gone too far," Antonio Sciortino, editor of the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana (Christian Family), told a local newspaper, according to Reuters. "If this had concerned Islam there would have been a really strong reaction."

Sony has reportedly since apologized and pulled the advertisement from circulation."

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