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The Politics of the Video Game
illuminata writes "Can the video game industry keep its mittens out of the political slugfest? According to Kevin Parker's article Free Play, they sure can't. In it, he cites Dreamcatcher's Gore and Sega's Legacy Online and Jet Set Radio Future as main offenders. He even goes on to point out how some people want video games to convey their favorite political message in the future. Are there any particular titles or game companies that you think lay on the politics too thick, or is it all just a bunch of foof?"
Yeah they should expand America's Army to force you to play for a year and half, can't see your family, cut your pay, and go to war under false pretences.
-Kerry sucks less than Bush
Thinly veiled??? There is no veil, moron. AAO is quite upfront about it's purpose as a marketing tool for the US Army. It's still a great game, however.
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Yes, now that the patriot act is out, I see cops running around and beating people on the streets everyday. Its amazing how ever since they passed the patriot act, cops just storm into my house five times a day seizing stuff, along with the FBI, and John Ashcroft is leading the herd, cackling madly about how he loves his job. Don't forget to mention those terrabytle ram disks that, according to your hero michael, are currently being used for the foreginer fingerprint database, the foreigner tip database, the matrix database, various mad projects at the nsa, and several other projects that may or may not exist (not like truth matters to you guys.)
Its funny how you libs will try taking a potshot at that whatever the topic. "Oh wow, blenders are on sale at K-Mart...I doubt I could buy one without the patriot act letting the man come arrest me for it." Random fact: 60% of the american people not only support the patriot act, they feel it isn't strong enough.
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Yes, I am ignoring a few web sites which posted a tiny amount of evidence which has subsequently proven to be wrong. But that is dwarfed by the overwhelming evidence being ignored by a majority of the American people.
You can thank Fox News and conservative talk radio for propagating this nonsense. The nation's collective IQ is lowered 20 points just by their continued existence.
--R.J.
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Only if we could put your sorry self in the game also.
1. "Had" is the past tense of "have/has". Even Jesus told the President so.
2. "Belief" is necessary but not sufficient for "knowledge". The absence of evidence should be a basis for gathering more evidence, not a rush to war. The evidence-gathering process, which may have demonstrated the falsity of the "conventional wisdom," was interrupted by neoconservative saber-rattling and a general impatience with discourse and reason (something this Adminstration is all to well know for).
3. "We know where the weapons are..." presumes that you can point to the weapons or tell someone where to find them. Perhaps you have pictures of the weapons in the context of their location or independently verifiable accounts of said weapons. Or, perhaps, "know" means "Jesus said so," and that explains the trouble the world is in.
Let's get drunk and delete production data!