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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on April 10, 2010, 05:52:51 PM
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Seems like a lot of gamers are stuck in their mom's basement. Just look at the comments for the articles.
urbanledge
9/11 was 9 years ago.get over it
You get the **** out of your mom's basement and stop being on the computer 24/7! There is the real world outside :bird:
adbueno18
wow people are still butthurt over something 9 years ago that the people in charge most likely deserved. ******* politically correct assholes.
You're the PC thugs, you moron! :bird:
Mauller
I agree with urbanledge. Get over it already.
Hive mentality right there!
SweetSolace
I'm from New York and I got over 9/11 in 2001.
I guess you are still bitter about the Kent State Massacre in 1970?
mattrodroid
The real story of 9/11 is that it was an INSIDE JOB. People with brain cells figure this out with minimal research and discernment.
A 9/11 Truther. :bird:
Korolev
Can we stop stepping on Eggshells around 9/11? Yes it was a tragic event, and yes it was terrible to see all those lives lost. But if you let it haunt you forever if controls you.
Believe it or not, most people are not American. And even more are not New Yorkers. I wasn't around when the towers got hit. Expecting me to have the same level of reverence as US citizens is a bit much. Do Americans have the same level of reverence for the Boxing Day Tsunami that killed over 200,000 people? I don't think so.
I went through Crysis WarHead again recently (to test out some new hardware), and all I could really think when I played it was "Maximum Racism". The game is very racist towards Koreans (no I am not Korean by the way, but you don't have to hold a degree in social sciences to notice the level of racism in both Crysis and Crysis Warhead).
So seeing New York in flames doesn't really make me uncomfortable. Sorry, but I ain't American. I do feel sorry for the lives lost on 9/11, but it does seem a bit much for SOME (not all) americans to cry foul over 9/11 depictions, but to raise NO FUSS AT ALL when their games showcase Arabs being blown to all hell. You know, some Iraqis might find MW2 a bit distasteful. You since... they got invaded and HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THEM DIED due to the invasion. Just saying.
But I wouldn't expect the media to make much of a fuss. They didn't make a fuss over Prototype did they? And that game had you KILLING new yorkers and army personnel and EATING THEM FOR HEALTH.
The Indian Ocean Tsunami and 9/11 are the same thing. Two different things!
The rest
http://www.destructoid.com/crysis-2-doesn-t-intentionally-evoke-9-11-170471.phtml
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I was going to reply that the tsunami and 9/11 are different because of the nature of the disaster, nature vs terrorism --- I mean 'man caused disaster'. -- And then I remembered that most troofers also believe the tsunami was because of HAARP.
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Gamers usually aren't long on creativity, or abstract thinking, said another way, they are generally narrow-minded. Twitch shooter gamers like Crysis mostly are the worst of the lot. A gamer has a set of rules that he is required to act within and may not act outside of, unless there is a flaw in the game. Some strategic games do a decent job, but with the same limitations. It also seems like some gamers are inured to the violence. They don't seem to realize that a war on a computer, where nothing but electrons are even inconvenienced, and a real war. The latter meaning your neighbors house is a burning ruin, you just saw part of your family crushed by an upended SUV, and the liquid in the gutter is red instead of clear.
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mattrodroid
The real story of 9/11 is that it was an INSIDE JOB. People with brain cells figure this out with minimal research and discernment.
I have to agree with him there. Most people who have "figured that out" have done minimal research and are quite minimally discerning. In fact, I'm surprised they can discern between inhaling and exhaling without prompts.
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Gamers usually aren't long on creativity, or abstract thinking, said another way, they are generally narrow-minded. Twitch shooter gamers like Crysis mostly are the worst of the lot. A gamer has a set of rules that he is required to act within and may not act outside of, unless there is a flaw in the game. Some strategic games do a decent job, but with the same limitations. It also seems like some gamers are inured to the violence. They don't seem to realize that a war on a computer, where nothing but electrons are even inconvenienced, and a real war. The latter meaning your neighbors house is a burning ruin, you just saw part of your family crushed by an upended SUV, and the liquid in the gutter is red instead of clear.
They are reality challenged. Eating those Cheetos and playing in their mom's basement.
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And they're 40!!
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And they're 40!!
Aren't most older than that?
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Aren't most older than that?
I know 40 YO potheads who play games all the time when they're not out at the skate park on bikes making friends with the young kids. Its their IQ level afer all.
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urbanledge
9/11 was 9 years ago.get over it
**** you and the camel you rode into town on asshole. For many people 9/11 changed life as we knew it forever. On 9/10 I was a Patriot. On 9/11 I became a gun & Bible clinging Fanatic.
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I will never forget I will also never allow my children to forget either