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Game About Killing Poachers Vies For Top Prize In Microsoft Student Tech Contest
theodp writes: GeekWire reports on a group of students from Nepal who will be competing for the $50K top prize in Microsoft's Imagine Cup student tech contest with a first-person shooter in which players track down and kill poachers. "Until and unless the player kills all the poachers," reads the description for Defend Your Territory, "he/she cannot progress to next level. To make the game more interesting, there will be lots of weapons and vehicles unlock." So, is this the inspiration Google needs to take their anti-poaching drone program to the next level?
I have. It's fun. He was there on his knees in his tattered clothes, all trembling and mumbling and pleading for his life "have mercy have mercy I have a family to feed, I can't find a job, they've all been taken by foreigners, they don't even make me flip burgers because they say I'm too old. I have two little kids! please!". Of course I didn't care: I shot him just under the throat, cut off the head, skinned the body and cut it to pieces for the forest animals, then had the head stuff and mounted. I had it delivered to his family so he could be near them forever. :)
Made a game about genociding all the poachers. That is all.
I like the concept, but it's not politically correct enough to kill people for it to have a chance.
There will be supply . Can't kill all the poachers . Kill the demand .
Including the ones who torture and kill animals, such as Chinese scum who boil dogs alive, Chinese scum who skin animals alive, vivisectionists, slaughter house workers (like Mark Bridger - Google him), etc. They are all automatically and magically better than their animal victims, "because they're human". See how stupid that argument is?
The CHINESE who buy rhino horn, tiger's penis, and all their other insane, stupid, superstitious bullshit are responsible for this disgusting extinction process.
ISIL will be doing this RSN. It will be all the rage in muslim land. A LONG game because infidel translates to everyone but us.
Play as Holly Windstalker?
They're already doing the LARP version of it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I was on a hike in the Virunga mountains, specifically right on the border between Rwanda and Congo. We were on a Mountain Gorilla trek, and after a few hours of hiking our guide pointed out, with the note, "don't be afraid" - a guy in green way up in a tree with an assault rifle.
They're basically campers.
Depending on the animal, much of the poaching is done for traditional Chinese medicine, "alternate" medicine and other superstitions reasons.
So, when we can stop being politically correct and start saying that traditional medicine is complete horseshit - and educate the alternate medicine kooks in the Western World - we can start reducing demand.
I have wondered when will poachers start using drones themselves.
Drones will be much more useful for finding / killing game than for protecting them.
When a serious hunting drone makes it to the market, the rhino etc population will be down within a few months.
If they made living hell for the guy who created the game about punching a feminist, the least thing they can do is ban this.
If 'politically correct' means not wanting to award a prize to a game encouraging vigilante, or state sponsored, murder of low level minor criminals then I suppose that's what you should call it, personally I prefer 'not being a dick'.
That a game depicts (and even glorifies) some kind of evil (or just "being a dick") behavior doesn't mean it "encourages" that behavior in the real world. We know the difference and we don't need you or anyone else to police content for us.
Just because poaching is a major issue doesn't mean that routinely killing poachers is the best answer. We don't encourage people to stalk and kill murderers, rapists etc.
Correct. But we of course do make shitloads of games where such behavior is depicted (and even glorified). Do you get it yet?
Killing poachers should be completely legal. Heck, have safaris where rich guys can hunt them using high-powered elephant rifles.
Could be the new CS! Poachers have to kill off all the animals while the anti-poachers have to kill off all the poachers. Whichever goes extinct first wins.
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Imagine --- FPS on XBox through the Google Drones as a live view. Game play that makes it Real!!!
Bounties could be offered by each country for those extra special poachers.
Oh yeah baby!!
It took all of 5 seconds to load the page and read that:
The game is set in a futuristic world where decades of poaching has knocked Earth’s ecosystem off-kilter and left the planet a barren dessert. The last hope for restoration involves sending a cyborg back in time to hunt the poachers.
Your stopping poachers to save humanity.
And if you can use backstory to allow people kill thousands of demons, zombies, sentient robots, nazis and communists; why the hell are poachers any different? What makes the games you played so magically okay? Did you blow up Megaton in Fallout 3? Because then by your own logic you're now just encouraged nuclear terrorism.
Get off your damn high horses and realize it's not 1995, you're not Jack Thompson, and video games don't encourage people to kill people.
Google is owned and controlled by prominent members of Jewish state, the active partner of Islamic State, and uses the same propaganda METHODS in the West that ISIS uses throughout the Muslim world.
Hence Google promoting a game calling for the MURDER of Humans far less culpable than those running the factory farms that Jewish State shill, Cgris Katko, so fervently supports.
Imagine a game where you carry out terrorist acts against the people running factory farms. It would be BANNED immediately, and the creators subject to immediate police prosecution. Indeed animal rights activists are officially described as 'terrorists' in the UK and USA.
Now notice how JS shill Katko refers to ELECTIVE and NON-Required acts of user choice in Fallout to falsely sell the lie of his 'argument'. In Fallout, players CAN act evilly, but the game positively discourages such options. A better FALLOUT 3 story example in Tenpenny Tower, where the game tries to make all gamer choices end unhappily to show the downside of a gamer playing 'god'.
Jewish State has ALWAYS treated black people in Africa as 'sub-Human'. Only a few months back, the news was full of the revelations that JS officials in Israel were secretly STERILIZING black woman before they were allowed to emigrate to the extremist state. Murdering 'poachers' means MURDERING BLACK PEOPLE, since their lives 'don't matter'. In Europe and North America, vulnerable animal species were happily hunted to extinction, and the 'hunters' are historic ethnic 'heroes' to JS shills like Katko.
That Google, a company that exists to serve the interests of Jewish State, seeks to encourage 'politically correct' murder should come as a surprise to no-one. The same Google has purchased most of the world's major military robot companies, and is engaged in a TRILLION DOLLAR project to provide the US War machine with autonomous murder machines (mostly in the form of self-driving tank drones) so the USA will be more likely to invade JS target states like Iran.
they reinvented Turok.
Terrible Ted is going to find his head up on a wall over this.