A controversial art exhibit on show at this week's Leipzig Games Convention in Germany depicts the World Trade Center towers under attack from Space Invaders characters.
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Just have no taste at all.
but this is completely tasteless. I'm sure they would not so readily have made something like this had they been involved in it. Nothing funny or creative about it. You can't even pass it off as art. Disgusting.
I think it is disrespectful. They should have used a different building out of respect. People do take these things a bit too seriously in general. But if I lost a good person that was close to me in that mess, it might bother me a bit more than it does now. People should have creative freedom, but this is pretty tasteless.
I personally didn't know anybody from the TT, but others might. I can imagine how they would react to something like 9/11 being a comic-pun in video game convention when the reality is nothing to laugh about.
Unless you're me, who had no ****ing clue what was going on until 2 days later.