"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
You can argue all day and night on why the use of scantily clad females is 'beneath' the dignity of our gaming culture and about how we should be above it. However, you all need to remember that this is capitalism, if it makes money, it stays, if it doesn't, it goes...simple. So however you as an individual may feel about the issue, this tactic must be working.
P.S. Don't get me wrong, I am just as tired as most of you of having my male instincts tapped to stimulate an interest in a product I probably don't need.
review Audio pronunciation of "review" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-vy) v. reviewed, reviewing, reviews v. tr.
1. To look over, study, or examine again.
2. To consider retrospectively; look back on.
3. To examine with an eye to criticism or correction: reviewed the research findings.
4. To write or give a critical report on (a new work or performance, for example).
5. Law. To reexamine (an action or determination) judicially, especially in a higher court, in order to correct possible errors.
6. To subject to a formal inspection, especially a military inspection.
Where I live, Indiana, they recently began an sign campaign for our mandatory seatbelt law - "A Law we can live with." Sure its an impingement on my basic freedom to do to my own body what I wish, but its so minor that I won't bother to protest it. This IS the boiling frog - since the founding of America, its citizens have been slowly succombing to the raping of their fundamental freedoms with this very attitude. If you beLIEve that these mikes won't be abused by those in power, you live in a fantasy world. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The end.
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"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
~ Howard Zinn, 'Declarations of Independence'
You can argue all day and night on why the use of scantily clad females is 'beneath' the dignity of our gaming culture and about how we should be above it. However, you all need to remember that this is capitalism, if it makes money, it stays, if it doesn't, it goes...simple. So however you as an individual may feel about the issue, this tactic must be working. P.S. Don't get me wrong, I am just as tired as most of you of having my male instincts tapped to stimulate an interest in a product I probably don't need.
review Audio pronunciation of "review" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-vy)
v. reviewed, reviewing, reviews
v. tr.
1. To look over, study, or examine again.
2. To consider retrospectively; look back on.
3. To examine with an eye to criticism or correction: reviewed the research findings.
4. To write or give a critical report on (a new work or performance, for example).
5. Law. To reexamine (an action or determination) judicially, especially in a higher court, in order to correct possible errors.
6. To subject to a formal inspection, especially a military inspection.
Where I live, Indiana, they recently began an sign campaign for our mandatory seatbelt law - "A Law we can live with." Sure its an impingement on my basic freedom to do to my own body what I wish, but its so minor that I won't bother to protest it. This IS the boiling frog - since the founding of America, its citizens have been slowly succombing to the raping of their fundamental freedoms with this very attitude. If you beLIEve that these mikes won't be abused by those in power, you live in a fantasy world. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The end.