Alright ... I would like to ask you for a few allowances before you read this.
1a) Allow me to preface this longwinded negative rant by first saying thank you to everyone that made me feel welcome back to the site. I love you all.
And a big welcome back to babygirl. My god how I missed her. I highly suggest you go say hello to her and welcome here back as nicely as you did me.
Oh - and congratulation to Fenchurch for her set going up today. Isn't she puuuuuurty?
Anyways ... here goes nuffin ... on with my allowances.
1b) Allow me to apologize. What I say here might piss some of you off ... you might not think the same way, or you might think that some of my words of choice aren't proper ... and if this is the case, I sincerely do apologize ... but it leads me to my second allowance that I ask for.
2) Allow me to have my opinion. Really ... I don't care if it goes against yours or if yours is the same ... this is MY opinion and I am entitled to it. I am not saying that my way is the right way and I am not saying everyone elses is wrong ... I am just saying what is on my mind - please ... let me have that - it is all I ask for in life.
3) Allow me to rant my fucking face off ... 'cause that is what this is all about here.
WHAT THE MOTHERFUCKING HELL is wrong with videogame makers? Why does every real life situation have to become a video game?
Is it just me, or is "Mercenaries" a complete load of bullshit?
If you haven't seen the commercial for this game ... lemme paraphrase it for you.
"Hey - I'm a mercenary. My job is to blow random shit up. And then blow it up some more. And then some more. And more and more and more and more and who gives a fuck what I'm blowing up - it's motherfucking fun!!!!"
Actually ... scratch that ... it isn't a load of bullshit. It's a cash cow and another marketing device to show that this whole "war" wasn't all that bad afterall. I mean ... hell ... look at how fun it is to blow shit up. If it isn't fun, hell ... it wouldn't be a video game.
It really sickens me that mere months ago the general US population was glued to their television sets watching the armed forces enter Iraq in search of WMD's.
And what did these people watch? They saw missiles and bombs and artillery fly through the Iraqi sky and hit buildings and houses and schools and shops and literally EVERYTHING in their path.
And now that the majority of the war is over and we realize that there aren't any WMD's to be found ... we aren't chastising these idiots for blowing up civilization ... for killing countless INNOCENT lives ... we aren't trying to teach the ills of their ways ... nope ....
WE'RE WATCHING A FUCKING COMMERCIAL HYPE A VIDEO GAME THAT MAKES ALL THAT SHIT LOOK FUN.
Although the placement of the video game isn't in Iraq ... the objective to the game sure sounds ... oh ... familiar: "The targets are identified in a "most wanted" list in the form of a 52-card deck of playing cards. As one of the top operatives for a private mercenaries company called Executive Operations, you have been called in to collect on these bounties."
It also bothers me that on-line review sites are promoting the game as such:
- Use your weapons and your imagination to figure out how to lay waste to anything in sight.
- If you can see it, you can blow it up.
- Some of the best graphics seen on the consoles - great weather and realistic explosion/destruction effects.
Wouldn't the best "realistic effect" be pictures of the dying and dead bodies of the innocent people you just killed be burnt into your retinas so you never thought this was cool EVER AGAIN??
I dunno ... maybe I'm taking this too strongly, but each time I see the commercial, I shake my head in disgust. This is only another way that the US media is brainwashing their citizens into thinking everything is a-otay. It's alright to blow shit up ... in fact ... it's fun.
Thank the god I don't believe in that I live just a few hours north of the border. I'd prolly be in jail for murder by now if I was close enough to find any of the people responsible for making this game. Or Dubya for that matter.
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1a) Allow me to preface this longwinded negative rant by first saying thank you to everyone that made me feel welcome back to the site. I love you all.
And a big welcome back to babygirl. My god how I missed her. I highly suggest you go say hello to her and welcome here back as nicely as you did me.
Oh - and congratulation to Fenchurch for her set going up today. Isn't she puuuuuurty?
Anyways ... here goes nuffin ... on with my allowances.
1b) Allow me to apologize. What I say here might piss some of you off ... you might not think the same way, or you might think that some of my words of choice aren't proper ... and if this is the case, I sincerely do apologize ... but it leads me to my second allowance that I ask for.
2) Allow me to have my opinion. Really ... I don't care if it goes against yours or if yours is the same ... this is MY opinion and I am entitled to it. I am not saying that my way is the right way and I am not saying everyone elses is wrong ... I am just saying what is on my mind - please ... let me have that - it is all I ask for in life.
3) Allow me to rant my fucking face off ... 'cause that is what this is all about here.
WHAT THE MOTHERFUCKING HELL is wrong with videogame makers? Why does every real life situation have to become a video game?
Is it just me, or is "Mercenaries" a complete load of bullshit?
If you haven't seen the commercial for this game ... lemme paraphrase it for you.
"Hey - I'm a mercenary. My job is to blow random shit up. And then blow it up some more. And then some more. And more and more and more and more and who gives a fuck what I'm blowing up - it's motherfucking fun!!!!"
Actually ... scratch that ... it isn't a load of bullshit. It's a cash cow and another marketing device to show that this whole "war" wasn't all that bad afterall. I mean ... hell ... look at how fun it is to blow shit up. If it isn't fun, hell ... it wouldn't be a video game.
It really sickens me that mere months ago the general US population was glued to their television sets watching the armed forces enter Iraq in search of WMD's.
And what did these people watch? They saw missiles and bombs and artillery fly through the Iraqi sky and hit buildings and houses and schools and shops and literally EVERYTHING in their path.
And now that the majority of the war is over and we realize that there aren't any WMD's to be found ... we aren't chastising these idiots for blowing up civilization ... for killing countless INNOCENT lives ... we aren't trying to teach the ills of their ways ... nope ....
WE'RE WATCHING A FUCKING COMMERCIAL HYPE A VIDEO GAME THAT MAKES ALL THAT SHIT LOOK FUN.
Although the placement of the video game isn't in Iraq ... the objective to the game sure sounds ... oh ... familiar: "The targets are identified in a "most wanted" list in the form of a 52-card deck of playing cards. As one of the top operatives for a private mercenaries company called Executive Operations, you have been called in to collect on these bounties."
It also bothers me that on-line review sites are promoting the game as such:
- Use your weapons and your imagination to figure out how to lay waste to anything in sight.
- If you can see it, you can blow it up.
- Some of the best graphics seen on the consoles - great weather and realistic explosion/destruction effects.
Wouldn't the best "realistic effect" be pictures of the dying and dead bodies of the innocent people you just killed be burnt into your retinas so you never thought this was cool EVER AGAIN??
I dunno ... maybe I'm taking this too strongly, but each time I see the commercial, I shake my head in disgust. This is only another way that the US media is brainwashing their citizens into thinking everything is a-otay. It's alright to blow shit up ... in fact ... it's fun.
Thank the god I don't believe in that I live just a few hours north of the border. I'd prolly be in jail for murder by now if I was close enough to find any of the people responsible for making this game. Or Dubya for that matter.
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She's a little slice of alright, isn't she?
Good luck with that one, you'll need it.
-Josh
-Josh