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You Say You Want A Revolution?
rafemonkey writes "Looks like the first hard info on a revolution game has hit the internet. The game, from Ubisoft, is called Red Steel. It's a FPS where the Revo's positional controller takes the place of the mouse. And, for those of you that were worried, the graphics look nice." PointlessWasteofTime points out that it doesn't actually look like an FPS, but more of a GunCon title, in a piece called A FanBoy Intervention. Elite Bastards has a brief history of the Revolution console. From the Waste of Time article: "Look at the Red Steel screens again. Never mind that Ubisoft has a habit of publishing concept renders and claiming they're in-game screenshots, and never mind that shots like that in magazines tend to have usually been 'touched up' a bit. Just look at the screens, then look at the inset photos of the people pointing and shooting with their Rev controllers: Guys... it's just a freaking light gun game. Tell me it's not. This isn't a badass 'Halo killer.' It's next-gen Duck Hunt."
Its a shame companies can get away with using the anthem originally made against them and the government abusing power. Silly people, everywhere.
Actually Dick Cheney commissioned a customized version of Duck Hunt from Nintendo to satisfy his hawkish impulses when he's not pre-emptively invading other countries. It's called Lawyer Hunt, and rumors have it that Nintendo is going to release a commercial version of the product next year. It features a customized bird spray controller and decoy pigeons that are supposed to distract the player while Lawyers scurry across the screen. After shooting 10 regular tax attorneys and/or criminal prosecutors, the player enters a special scenario where they get to shoot Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald as he attempts to deliver subpoenas and indictments to the front door of the White House. Using the bird spray rifle and an assortment of assault rifles and pistols, Cheney loves to mess those lawyers up real bad! The credits feature an animation of the injured lawyers apologizing to Cheney for being shot by him.
I mean, like, it is sooo gay to actually point a gun-like device and shoot shit!
Please don't use "gay" as an adjective used to describe something as lame, bad, or otherwise udesireable. It dilutes the true meaning of the word. While I'm not gay, I understand that it hurts their feelings rather deeply to have themselves linked in such a way.
As a form of contrast, let me paraphrase your sentence, but also mis-use other adjectives in a similar way:
That's so gay, why would you do that?
That's so gay, why would you do that?
That's so blonde, why would you do that?
That's so pregnant, why would you do that?
That's so left-handed, why would you do that?
That's so white, why would you do that?
That's so balding, why would you do that?
That's so long-haired, why would you do that?
That's so $Religion, why would you do that?
That's so $Nationality, why would you do that?
All of these represent either choices someone has made, or a state of being which is not always in the majority. Just because it's different, doesn't mean it's bad, and should NOT be used as an adjective.
Astute readers will realize that "sinister" comes from the same roots as "left handed" does, in Latin. In fact, "sinister" just means bad. It used to be that minorities such as left-handed people or redheads were feared and hated. Don't stoop to that level and use "gay" as a negative adjective.
I imagine that this post may upset some people who believe that homosexuality is a bad/immoral/unnatural choice. Regardless of whether it is, it's not the right adjective to use in this case.
Most of us abuse adjectives in this way, without really thinking about it. My mother might claim to have a "blonde moment". All I ask is that we actually think about the meanings of such things, and what they imply we believe, and then re-word accordingly.
To do otherwise would just be left-handed.