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Iraq War Veterans Protest America's Army Title
Via GamePolitics, a story reported by the St. Lois Post-Dispatch of frustrated war veterans protesting America's Army . Roughly 100 veterans of the Iraq war marched near an elaborate demonstration of the military-funded game, outside of an expo center in Missouri. Their shouts of 'war is not a game' must have contrasted sharply with the elaborate simulator the Army had set up to publicize their (already very popular) FPS title.
Yeah, but it's just a free game. If they added robot then they could probably get money for it.
Never underestimate the selling power of Nazi robots, guys. That's the first thing they taught me in business school.
After all, as the Commandant of the great military academy Rommelwood told his graduating class: The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Yeah, but we can download it with BitTorrent. That makes it feel like stealing. Comcast will still screw with our connection.
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That comment was very cromulent!
And Zombies. And Ninjas. And of course Pirates!
Just think of the possibilities!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"America's Zombie Ninja Pirate Army?"
Oh, man. I'd buy two copies of that and throw one of them at Jack Thompson.
...And ask for his comments, Florida anti-gaming lawyer Jack Thompson took a moment to share his views with us:
"This is not a situation in where the ESRB will be blind-sided by hidden or embedded content. This game promotes the killing of innocent people.
The goal is to make it such a negative thing that the retailers won't carry it. This thing hasn't really reached critical mass as a public relations problem yet; that's what I'm trying to do.
Towards that goal, I have half a mind to sue the Department of Defense and get this whole thing scrapped."
On a related note, 96% of the 1081 people polled agreed with Mr. Thompson. As one person stated: "Of course it's obvious, Jack Thompson has half a mind."
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