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One Woman's Fight to Save P2P
jalefkowit writes "I'm a writer for the Online Community Report, and in our last issue we ran a story I wrote that might be of interest to the Slashdot readership. Slashdot has already mentioned the campaign of Tara Sue Grubb to unseat Howard Coble in North Carolina's 6th congressional district. We thought this story merited some deeper analysis, so I put together a piece entitled "Tara Sue Takes Aim" that ran in the latest issue of OCR. I'd love to hear the community's opinion of our take on the significance of her campaign."
While anticipation is building everyday among mainstream gamers due the imminent release of major upcoming gaming titles, a small but growing number of gamers are disillusioned at the lack of innovation in first person action games. That may be about to change, as the following press release by a new software house illustrates.
Berkeley, CA, September 21, 2002 -- Estrogen Games, an emerging industry leader in the development of computer and video games, announced today the release of a Hung-up Babes, in a new genre of reality-based action game, where first-person action collides head-on with modern warfare as experienced by people worldwide.
"We were concerned that the current saturation of the games market by fantasy-based first person shooters does not accurately reflect the experience of real people," said Lindale Mahrowsky, CEO of Estrogen Games. "Our research showed that young people in particular are no longer impressed by current offerings, being the first generation to be exposed from early childhood to the level and type of violence that games portray today. We are excited to have combined the gripping drama of reality-based entertainment on television with an action-oriented approach to real history. This takes gaming to a challenging new level."
In Hung-up Babes, gamers take the role of either government or rebel soldiers engaging in intra-state warfare. Interacting with civilian populations is a key element to the game, reflecting the reality of modern warfare. Gamers have the opportunity to be exposed to wartime tactics as never before. They can rape women and girls in their own homes while family members watch on. Artificial Intelligence is used to track the undermining of cultural and social norms. Players receive reward if they use everyday household objects in innovative ways, like using an iron as an instrument of torture, so that when the war is finished, civilians will always remember what happened to them. Players compete with each other to attain maximum points for destroying resistance to violence by forcing civilians to drink blood from a bucket containing a man's head. The game takes its title from the practice of slowly killing women by hanging them upside down naked, cutting off their breasts after having peeled the skin of their faces.
Hung-up Babes covers diverse geographic locations, from Asia to Europe, Africa to the Americas, and more. "What excites us most," says Mahrowsky, "is that the game draws links between peacetime and wartime like never before. Gamers will appreciate how everyday attitudes toward women, sex and violence are intertwined with modern warfare. We hope that by being immersed in this interactive environment while playing Hung-up Babes, gamers will come to appreciate the lengths the media to go to present these as perfectly natural cultural norms."
300,000 Peoples fight to get a fast internet connection to use p2p. Please help.
Anna Kournikova is fucking Enrique Iglesias He probably gets to lick her asshole and everything.
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