Well, the point of the dickwolves comic was to bring attention to how games tend to leave NPCs to horrible fates–calling attention to game designers always throwing NPCs in the refrigerator, not trivializing rape. And yet, that’s how it was seen. I agree that it was their response to the controversy that made it a big deal.
It reminds me of an incident when I was in college when the local newspaper decided to do a profile on a law student named Matt Hale. You probably saw this idiot on national TV or the Internet. I saw him walking by my dorm nearly every morning. I saw the 2edgy4me punk kids wearing their World Church of the Creator shirts. They ran the piece in February, which is of course Black History Month. The whole point of the piece was to call unwelcome attention to a white supremacist group operating right there on campus. The black student body responded by getting angry at the newspaper for running racist crap during Black History Month. Publicly, the newspaper fell all over itself to apologize. More privately, the staff was left asking, “What the actual fuck just happened here?”
