OK... that's just vulgar...

[Lonely Tylenol]

You're putting motives on me that I don't have. I'm with you, on a personal level; I have to make myself see it (though I can if I try). I had no care at all if she saw it or not.

But my point is, that (obviously) doesn't mean that other people aren't seeing it. And in her case, it wasn't staring a few moments and then saying "Yeah, I suppose I can kinda see it." She got in front of the monitor and immediately cracked up.

You misunderstood me. You don't need motives. You just need to tell her that she's supposed to be looking for something, and she'll find it. Further, everyone's first guess is something dirty, so that's what she was looking for.

It looks more like girl-crotch than boy-crotch, certainly. But I also look more like Brad Pitt than Angelina Jolie, and I hesitate to claim that when people look at me they see Brad Pitt. Just because it looks more like girl-crotch than like an airplane doesn't mean you don't need to add a lot with your imagination to get crotch out of it, or that it was intended (subconsciously or otherwise) to suggest anything crotch-like.

 

[Henry]

Again, I think it's worth pointing out that the probable reason so many people are seeing it, and reporting it in this thread, is because they were directed to look for something "vulgar" in the picture, and were given progressively more detailed hints over the course of the thread concerning what they were supposed to be "finding" in it.

And as I said, for WotC it's irrelevant, because they don't want scores of people pointing at their first Dragon preview article and yelling, "HEY! IT'S A..."

Whether the dog's wagging the tail or vice versa, I suspect that pic is coming down.

 

[sdtigerlily]

Yep....that's a cha cha.

My husband's the gamer, but I had to respond to this thread after seeing the

 

[kiznit]

Whether the dog's wagging the tail or vice versa, I suspect that pic is coming down.

Saved for posterity, then.

 

[GreatLemur]

Good lord, people.

There are indeed hidden images in the glow around the sword. But not the ones you lot are thinking of.

 

[helium3]

Good lord, people.

There are indeed hidden images in the glow around the sword. But not the ones you lot are thinking of.

Heh. That's funny. So they mucked around with the original and inadvertently turned it into a big floating vagina?

 

[RPG_Tweaker]

I know what I'm looking for, understand what other people are putting together to get it, and I still have to force myself to see it in order to see it. I'd suggest that perhaps people find what they're looking for.

Being a bonafide internet perv myself, I really ought to have no problem seeing the sailboat here. But it's just a boring old sword floating in a red glow that if I really try hard I can make look kind of sort of maybe a bit like a sailboat.

Perhaps the Women in Gaming thread has oversensitized some people's sensibilities.

Agreed on all counts.

 

[Testament]

I see it, but I still think it looks more like Soul Edge than anything else

 

[babomb]

It is like the contraversy in which one scene in The Lion King, people claimed to see a dust cloud form the word SEX, which outraged many parents. Despite knowing where the supposedly offense scene was and looking for it over and over - it is just a dust cloud.... to me.

That cloud actually DOES say something: "SFX"

 

[jasin]

So what's the naughty part of the picture?

The rosy glow around the sword? Or the eye? Or both?

In any case, Scott saying they'll "fix" it turned this thread from funny to sad for me.

I guess I can see his concern, especially what with this being the first online Dragon article and all, but I hope this isn't indicative of how online Dragon is to work. If fifty people on the Internet saying something looks funny, or like a pussy, is enough to make you reconsider the design... well, then moving Dragon and Dungeon online truly was a mistake.