Originally posted by Abystus
What is our standing on a game artist wanting something removed from the site which was found in an arcade chd file of a game he worked on 15 years ago? Said artist was contacted in light of the discovery to see if he would provide more info (which he did) on the content found, but said that one of the images was an in-house joke that was not meant to be public (as most if not all of the content found on this site is), and he preferred it wasn't made public. The game in question would be CarnEvil, and the image would be the last (I love Italian). I don't see anything wrong with the image itself (maybe I'm missing the point), and it doesn't exactly single out anyone specifically by name (I'm sure this guy made it picking on another member of the team, or something to that effect), so I would assume this is fair game correct?
The way I look at it, if you didn't want it made public, then why release it to the public (on several hard drives throughout the USA)? It seems that we shouldn't have to censor the site at the request of someone that knowingly left offensive/personal material in the game (that they had to know would be uncovered by someone eventually). Let me know your thoughts and what action (if any) should be taken.
No one who played the game would ever see it, so he felt it was safe to use it as padding.
As for the picture... that's Jeffrey Dahmer. See here. I have no idea who the head in the bag is supposed to be. Never mind, I figured it out - that's Neil Nicastro. He was an executive producer for the game, and was the CEO of WMS and Midway until 2003. He resigned in 2004 after Sumner Redstone became a majority stockholder of the company.(Source)
... no wonder he's a little bit... uh, uncomfortable about the photo. 
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