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FEMA and DHS Fund Disaster Hero Game

Posted by Soulskill on from the fifty-bonus-points-for-each-liquor-store-you-loot dept.

eldavojohn writes "The United States government has decided that children need a video game to learn about what to do before, during, and after an emergency or hazardous event. Collect an emergency kit! Create an emergency plan! Be informed of what to do! Suffer from heat exhaustion inside the Superdome! ... Wait, what? Oh, I guess FEMA omitted that last one. Disaster Hero is coming in 2011 — plenty of time before 2012."

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  1. Good Job FEMA by interval1066 · · Score: 0, Troll

    A video game. Way to actually accomplish something. Here's a little tale about FEMA I heard on the regular news outlets during the Katrina debacle; During the aftermath of the Katrina flooding the sheriff's deputies of hard-hit township located near the gulf went riding around looking for gasoline they could take back to a hospital so they could get its generators started. After collecting a small but useful amount they started back to the hospital. Along the way they met up with some FEMA agents who, under the color of the authority of the Federal Government, commandeered the gas. The one thing they did say was that there were taking all the gas they could find... for...? Who knows. Nothing really rational, I would venture to guess. The deputies went back and found another hoard of gas, but this time swore they wouldn't stop for anyone and would start shooting if they were bothered, by anyone. Good for them. But this item simply illustrates the point.

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    1. Re:Good Job FEMA by interval1066 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Go back to sleep, father.

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      Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'