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New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination
theodp writes "Lee Harvey Oswald-wannabes will be able to simulate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy when Traffic Games releases the $9.99 JFK Reloaded on Monday to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's murder in Dallas. 'It is despicable,' said a spokesman for Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother."
HA!
I wont be buying it untill the Bush version comes out.
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, sue.
1) disrespectful to the family of the victim.
Are reenactments of historical events disrespectful to those involved? How is this form of reenactment any more disrespectful than a TV show that does all the work of the recreation for you?
2) morbid
So? Plenty of historically important events can easily be called morbid. As such, recreations of said events are bound to be morbid.
3) a cheap ploy to get attention for a mediocre effort.
I don't know that I'd call it "a cheap ploy", or even "mediocre". Personally, I wish there were more "games" that let people recreate historical events for themselves, and scored them on how accurately they recreated the event. Imagine that...learning history while playing a game. Personally I like the idea of using games for something more than just passing the time.
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I just wish our current president would be satisfied by getting his dick sucked in the white house. It would not have cost us 200 billion that's for sure.
Maybe that's the thing. Maybe people who are happy getting their dicks sucked are not going around starting wars.
Where is Monica when we need her. Monica your nation needs you, please give bush blowjobs so he wont' start another war.
evil is as evil does
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
Whereas an armed man can replicate the evil.