I’m not much of a gamer, nor a violent person at all IRL, but I’ve played some of these types of games and, yeah, they’re fun. I particularly remember “Manhunt” from 2003, a stealth survival/murder sort of game with really fucked-up execution scenes. I was always into the stealth killing games vs the run and gun types.
As my dad said “if violent stories made you a mass murderer, my brothers and I would have razed the country. Aunt Matilde would put us to bed and read from the Lifes of Martyrs until we fell asleep. And she was a good reader, she did the voices and everything.”
Ahh, remember the salad days of debating the reasons why Trump seemed so kiss-assy to Russia?
I posted this on page 5 (#245) of this thread back in December of 2016. I tried to post something like a left wing version of a far out Breibart article.
Some posters were like this is just so preposterously over the top.
Russian mobsters, please!
Now, it almost seems like it’s not that far off. Today, I’m going to use it as my 2018 conspiracy theory of why Manafort won’t plead guilty and cooperate with Mueller–he gets dead.
Isn’t Putin basically the capo de tutti capi of everything in Russia?
I like how Fallout 4’s clip includes a guy having to shoot a dude like half a dozen times with a desert eagle before the mob falls over.
I also can’t help laughing about how the clips don’t include any of the really nutty Japanese rape simulators. The rest of the world plays games that would make Donald’s hair flee the room, but somehow, it’s only America that’s awash in mass shootings. Go figure. It is a mystery.
“They’re not blonde? Sad. Not my first choice. 4/10. The Asians are great people, in our opinion. We had some tremendous chocolate cake with the Emperor of Asia last week. Very tremendous. OK? Believe me. And I’ve been getting calls from all of them, and they’re saying, Mr. Trump, Kim Jong-Un has much smaller hands than you do, and he’s begging to meet with you. We’ll have to let you know about it.”
Oh, and reading the comments on Penny Arcade’s comicabout this video game meeting - I’m reminded that Donald’s younger brother, Robert, sits on the board of Zenimax, which is the owner and publishing arm of Bethesda, which makes *Doom *& Fallout, and the Elder Scrolls, and Wolfenstein and a bunch of other games you’ve all probably played.
I think it is sad that people are attacking this administration’s video game diversion. What are they supposed to do? Thoughtfully examine and study the real reasons behind, and factors involved in enabling gun violence in this country? Why can’t we give them credit for spinning their wheels and making a genuine effort to pretend to address this issue while deflecting attention from a solution?
