Lots of games give the player the ability to not just adjust the race of the protagonist, but micro-adjust his/her features. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion gives you so much fine tuned control over your characters features that it borders on the fetishistic.
Which makes games where you don't get to choose and are just stuck in a white body gunning down dark-skinned folks all the more bizarre.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that game devs see latinos and think "target"?
I played the demo of the new 360 shooter "Crackdown" on the weekend. From a race relations perspective, on the plus side you get to pick the race of your character and have a fairly wide range of options.
On the negative side, you then spend the next hour of the demo killing latinos. Lots of them.
One example does not an argument make, you say? Arguing from analogy is bad logic, you postulate?
Well, take a look at the Saint's Row demo, also available to you from the kind folks at XBox Live. Load it up, sit back and.... kill some latinos.
Coincidence, you sputter?
Okay, sit down, relax and pop in the disc for a little GRAW. The great thing about this game is that you have HUGE range of guns available... for killing latinos. Sure, there are some asians to kill as well, and I'm admittedly not that far along in the single player campaign (can ANYONE get used to the squad command d-pad stuff?), but so far it's pretty much been a latino shooting spree.
Now I'm a white guy, and a bit dense when it comes to the social niceties. I'm the kind of guy that forgets valentines day despite the fact that the secretaries in my office had hearts pasted on everything that wasn't self-mobile for days in the lead-up.
So when I tell you that I notice this stuff, it's rampant.
Uhh - apparently you wandered in from an alternate universe. The RIM case has been debated ad nauseum on/. but one thing is clear - Campana's "heirs" (which in bizarro universe apparently is the word for lawyers) got a payout that is in no way proportionate to Campana's contributions to the world. No one believes that Campana's inventions added one iota of knowledge to the process that ended up with RIM selling Blackberries. Campana's attorn"heir"s just got incredibly lucky that Campana won the race to file in a moronic patent system.
And that is a bizarre thing to be trumpeting as a laudable achievement.... oh yeah... bizarro world.. backwards is forwards... I get it now... you were just exhibiting a sly and subtle wit. Well played my friend, well played indeed.
Yeah - winning a race through a 4" long cesium filled chamber is impressive. Woohoo!
Once you've got your cesium tube to Alpha Proxima built, I'll be impressed. Until then... meh.
On the one hand we have a climatologist (a real live PHD) saying that people who try to pass off political controveries as science should not be doing so while enjoying the certification of a scientific organization. Seems reasonable.
On the other hand, a guy described by slashdot as a scientist but who is really a conservative attack dog slagging the climatologist by making all sorts of unjustified remarks about censorship. This guy used to work for Rush Limbaugh as his Washington Correspondent. This guy was one of the first to break the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" story. Now he is a climate expert?
Hmmmm. Which person should I trust on climate.... hmmmm.... tough one... weasel vs. expert.... hmmmm....
Exactly. Taco is missing the point by comparing Firefox to IE7. When you use your OS monopoly to distribute a browser and barely get away with it, then you can't turn around and up the ante by tying more non-monopoly services to your monopoly distribution without legitimate questions being asked of whether you have finally crossed the line.
Firefox has no monopoly. What they do or don't do has no bearing on Google's complaint.
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But did they find videogames when they checked the laser's apartment?
Lots of games give the player the ability to not just adjust the race of the protagonist, but micro-adjust his/her features. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion gives you so much fine tuned control over your characters features that it borders on the fetishistic.
Which makes games where you don't get to choose and are just stuck in a white body gunning down dark-skinned folks all the more bizarre.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that game devs see latinos and think "target"?
.... kill some latinos.
... for killing latinos. Sure, there are some asians to kill as well, and I'm admittedly not that far along in the single player campaign (can ANYONE get used to the squad command d-pad stuff?), but so far it's pretty much been a latino shooting spree.
I played the demo of the new 360 shooter "Crackdown" on the weekend. From a race relations perspective, on the plus side you get to pick the race of your character and have a fairly wide range of options.
On the negative side, you then spend the next hour of the demo killing latinos. Lots of them.
One example does not an argument make, you say? Arguing from analogy is bad logic, you postulate?
Well, take a look at the Saint's Row demo, also available to you from the kind folks at XBox Live. Load it up, sit back and
Coincidence, you sputter?
Okay, sit down, relax and pop in the disc for a little GRAW. The great thing about this game is that you have HUGE range of guns available
Now I'm a white guy, and a bit dense when it comes to the social niceties. I'm the kind of guy that forgets valentines day despite the fact that the secretaries in my office had hearts pasted on everything that wasn't self-mobile for days in the lead-up.
So when I tell you that I notice this stuff, it's rampant.
Uhh - apparently you wandered in from an alternate universe. The RIM case has been debated ad nauseum on /. but one thing is clear - Campana's "heirs" (which in bizarro universe apparently is the word for lawyers) got a payout that is in no way proportionate to Campana's contributions to the world. No one believes that Campana's inventions added one iota of knowledge to the process that ended up with RIM selling Blackberries. Campana's attorn"heir"s just got incredibly lucky that Campana won the race to file in a moronic patent system.
... oh yeah ... bizarro world .. backwards is forwards ... I get it now ... you were just exhibiting a sly and subtle wit. Well played my friend, well played indeed.
And that is a bizarre thing to be trumpeting as a laudable achievement.
Yeah - winning a race through a 4" long cesium filled chamber is impressive. Woohoo! Once you've got your cesium tube to Alpha Proxima built, I'll be impressed. Until then ... meh.
Know your sources:
.... hmmmm .... tough one ... weasel vs. expert .... hmmmm ....
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On the one hand we have a climatologist (a real live PHD) saying that people who try to pass off political controveries as science should not be doing so while enjoying the certification of a scientific organization. Seems reasonable.
On the other hand, a guy described by slashdot as a scientist but who is really a conservative attack dog slagging the climatologist by making all sorts of unjustified remarks about censorship. This guy used to work for Rush Limbaugh as his Washington Correspondent. This guy was one of the first to break the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" story. Now he is a climate expert?
Hmmmm. Which person should I trust on climate
Sources:
http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=senator_inh
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marc_M
Exactly. Taco is missing the point by comparing Firefox to IE7. When you use your OS monopoly to distribute a browser and barely get away with it, then you can't turn around and up the ante by tying more non-monopoly services to your monopoly distribution without legitimate questions being asked of whether you have finally crossed the line. Firefox has no monopoly. What they do or don't do has no bearing on Google's complaint.