>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.


You will love Mafia 2.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.


Wow. Did you even play the game?? The story is phenomenal (practically the entire internet agrees, even Yahtzee), the cutscenes are solid, and the list of films you cited is pretty much the exact list that they DID crib from.

I really like this game, but the story and cut scenes are terrible. It's the same kind of story telling Rockstar was doing in the 90's, which wasn't really even that good back then, but it feels really dated to me in the present. A couple hours into the game I just started skipping the lengthy cut scenes altogether with no regrets (except for not getting to seeing Icarus meet his doom off the edge of a cliff). I like digs at Bush and Blackwater as much as the next guy, but not so much in my western. If you are going to make a digital homage to the western, then crib from The Good, The Bad The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent 7, The Unforgiven, etc. Still a great game, but it would have been better with characters and a story that I cared about.

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>> ^TheFreak:
>> ^Yogi:
Probably the greatest way to control people is to focus their attention elsewhere, such as huge sports spectacles and events like American Idol. In order to prevent a free society from being to democratic you have to make sure to neutralize the public, it's distraction...down to a science.

Yeah, American Idol is obviously a conspiracy. It's not a goofy show designed to appeal to the widest audience possible in order to make piles of money...it's a tool of the goverment to distract us while they...I don't know...do something...obviously something insidious...
Or maybe it IS just a TV show. I guess that makes more sense.

Hence why the brainwashing is so effective. Because people like you and her think it's just a tv show.
No harm could come to our society by becoming emotionally involved in manufactured "reality" show like this woman, right?
Meanwhile, on the rest of the planet.. Tim Geithner's shovelin' into money into the bank accounts of his friends at GoldmanSachs. BP & Haliburton are covering up all their crimes. and Blackwater's still murdering civilians and raping girls in cargo containers.
Tho you're right. It's probably just a tv show.


Oh, please. "People like you"? What a complete misrepresentation of what he said. You're free to provide evidence that this in is fact NOT just a TV show and that the only reason it exists in the first place is because it's what the viewers want to watch, however stupid it and they may be for doing so.

How people react and hinge their lives on it, and how the powers that be benefit/profit from these distractions is a completely different story. Again, unless you have evidence that these mind numbing excuses for entertainment are just a big conspiracy, in the way people on planet Earth normally define it. You might be engaging in intentional hyperbole (if so, then I apologize) but the whole situation is far more complex than the simple-minded conspiratorial ejaculate that some have left here. I see where you guys are going with this line of thought, but it's far too simplified to be taken seriously.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think Heinlein's Razor also might be useful here.

If American Idol didn't exist, this obese woman in her trailer would definitely be watching the latest news about Geitner, BP and Blackwater. Most assuredly. It's too bad she's brainwashed or she'd do something about the travesties affecting the world.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Hence why the brainwashing is so effective. Because people like you and her think it's just a tv show.
No harm could come to our society by becoming emotionally involved in manufactured "reality" show like this woman, right?
Meanwhile, on the rest of the planet.. Tim Geithner's shovelin' into money into the bank accounts of his friends at GoldmanSachs. BP & Haliburton are covering up all their crimes. and Blackwater's still murdering civilians and raping girls in cargo containers.
Tho you're right. It's probably just a tv show.

>> ^TheFreak:

>> ^Yogi:
Probably the greatest way to control people is to focus their attention elsewhere, such as huge sports spectacles and events like American Idol. In order to prevent a free society from being to democratic you have to make sure to neutralize the public, it's distraction...down to a science.

Yeah, American Idol is obviously a conspiracy. It's not a goofy show designed to appeal to the widest audience possible in order to make piles of money...it's a tool of the goverment to distract us while they...I don't know...do something...obviously something insidious...
Or maybe it IS just a TV show. I guess that makes more sense.


Hence why the brainwashing is so effective. Because people like you and her think it's just a tv show.

No harm could come to our society by becoming emotionally involved in manufactured "reality" show like this woman, right?

Meanwhile, on the rest of the planet.. Tim Geithner's shovelin' into money into the bank accounts of his friends at GoldmanSachs. BP & Haliburton are covering up all their crimes. and Blackwater's still murdering civilians and raping girls in cargo containers.

Tho you're right. It's probably just a tv show.

I heard from another news source (NY times I think), That blackwater did get the new contracts. It was mentioned in a story about Obama's strategy in Afganistan. I would be surprised if the administation dosen't back down after the revelations in the Blackwater hearings: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0210/022410rb1.htm

>> ^billpayer:
Blaming the Muslim religion exclusively for violence is rubbish, eg... The crusdae, Blackwater (christan killer crusaders in the middle east right now), Orthodox Israeli Zionist etc. etc.

Nice try. Should I try to correct you or would you like to proclaim ignorance and go read some history now yourself? I'll give you a hint, out of the three major world religions which two have had reformations and which one hasn't?

Blaming the Muslim religion exclusively for violence is rubbish, eg... The crusdae, Blackwater (christan killer crusaders in the middle east right now), Orthodox Israeli Zionist etc. etc.

Religion can play an indirect role in causing wars. Since it's only an idea though, it can never be said to be directly responsible for a war...

Religion can help solidify a "Us vs Them" mentality. Take Blackwater killing innocents because their head guy felt he was on a crusade. From what it sounds like, he felt all muslims where worth exterminating. If there was no religion perhaps he wouldn't have been brought up to feel that way about other humans.

Everything comes down to the individual. How was that person raised? One can be a bigot without religion, but yet with religion out of the way I think more doors open for people to be taught and raised in a more open way of thinking, both about the world and others.

You can blame those who start the war, how did the leader of whatever force is attacking think? What was their justification? I think one of the biggest brain damages religion causes is an elevated since of self. As in; if God is on your side, then you can get away with what you need to because obviously God's got your back. You're no longer equal with the rest of humanity, you're part of a chosen (gang mentality, basically) That's how a person may -think- because of a religious upbringing. It still comes down to the person.

I can go into soldiers flocking under a religious banner, and wars started because one faith insults another too, but you get the idea.

This kid really has it out for Blackwater. And rightfully so, but still, I hope he's taking some security measures himself.

>> ^bmacs27:
Ummm... what? Why isn't anyone in jail yet?

Because Blackwater no longer exists, they changed their name to XE. This Brand Purge makes them all clean again.

>> ^Stormsinger:
Fictitious? What fuckin' world have -you- been living in?
Union Carbide, Blackwater, Monsanto, Big Tobacco, Enron, Worldcom...just to name a few of the bigger evildoers out there. There are, of course, literally thousands of other examples.

I was referring to Google. That list is insignificant compared to the sheer amount of evildoing big governments have perpetrated throughout human history.

And please don't conveniently forget to mention which of these companies had ties to government.

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>> ^gtjwkq:
I guess social liberals are more likely to fear the ficticious evil of big companies than the actual evil of big governments.


Fictitious? What fuckin' world have -you- been living in?

Union Carbide, Blackwater, Monsanto, Big Tobacco, Enron, Worldcom...just to name a few of the bigger evildoers out there. There are, of course, literally thousands of other examples.