# We need a scapegoat... Jews? Nope. Arabs? Hmmmm. Gays? Maybe. Video games? BINGO!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-scapegoat-jews-nope-arabs-hmmmm-gays-maybe-video-games-bingo/137823 "2002-11-20T23:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-scapegoat-jews-nope-arabs-hmmmm-gays-maybe-video-games-bingo/137823/21 "2002-11-21T19:09:30Z")
God knows they could probably use the stress release. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-scapegoat-jews-nope-arabs-hmmmm-gays-maybe-video-games-bingo/137823/22 "2002-11-22T08:06:08Z")
Wait, does this mean I should be inspired by GTA4 to pick up a shot gun and start shooting at passersby? I don’t know, there’s this part of my brain that says, yeah the game is fun and some times funny, but in reality there’d be a lot of blood and I’d probably slip in it, fall down, and instanteously be arrested before I even shot 3 people. And hell, I don’t think that I’d fair much better if I tried jumping on people’s cars so they could ferry my lazy ass around while I shot at people. Not even if I stretched first. \ Speaking of jews, why is there a smilie of a Hasidic jew? ;j I find it a little odd. \ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-scapegoat-jews-nope-arabs-hmmmm-gays-maybe-video-games-bingo/137823/23 "2002-11-22T08:35:31Z")
Actually, it’s a gay jew that’s been corrupted by the evil of _Pac Man_. Get that little yellow bastard before he reaches a power-pill and finishes us _all!_ ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-scapegoat-jews-nope-arabs-hmmmm-gays-maybe-video-games-bingo/137823/24 "2002-11-22T08:47:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\* I don’t know, there’s this part of my brain that says, yeah the game is fun and some times funny, but in reality there’d be a lot of blood and I’d probably slip in it, fall down, and instanteously be arrested before I even shot 3 people. And hell, I don’t think that I’d fair much better if I tried jumping on people’s cars so they could ferry my lazy ass around while I shot at people. Not even if I stretched first. > \*\* Not to mention the fact that after getting shot/arrested, you’re unlikely to recover/make parole in the order of a few seconds. I woudn’t have the attention span for that. I’d be sitting in court with the judge going bla bla bla thinking “skip the damn cut scene, I wanna try the rocket launcher out again!” 'scuse me, the phone is ringing. Might be a mission! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-scapegoat-jews-nope-arabs-hmmmm-gays-maybe-video-games-bingo/137823/25 "2002-11-22T12:28:09Z")
Maybe those teens who are suing McDonald’s should actually sue the makers of Pac Man. Hell, that little yellow bastard ate everything that got in his way - dots, cherries, evil blue monsters… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-scapegoat-jews-nope-arabs-hmmmm-gays-maybe-video-games-bingo/137823.md?page=1)