The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America has been added as a related post - related requested by chingalera on that post.

Charlotte Iserbyt - Deliberate Dumbing Down of America has been added as a related post - related requested by chingalera.

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Are you admitting there are "Asian-English" but Asia won't allow "English-Asians"?

Good. So you're a nativist.

That's fine, just don't let "Western liberalism" spread in your country, or they'll ruin it the way they dumbed down Western nations.

For God's sake, I wish this guy would stop dumbing down everything. I'm not an idiot!

@Jinx

Finished it at the time, nothing special.

It wasn't just the environment copy pasta. The battle mechanics felt considerably stripped down from DA:O, and the reliance on enemy 'waves' didn't help matters. Really left it dumbed down from a strategic point of view. The lack of an isometric camera angle for PC was just the icing on the cake.

Honestly, my main issue was that none of the companion characters with their back stories and own quests were remotely as well developed as in the original. That's what made DA:O unique and worth playing through for hours on end.

The "silent" war has been a huge success already-

Distracting and dumbing-down an entire nation while toxifying them with food, advertising, punditry, sports diversion, terrorist paranoia, mindless, vapid dialogue of current events designed to disrupt critical thinking and instill a systemic helplessness to recoil or rebel....It's going to take meta-programming on a global scale to correct this fuck-up, or perhaps simply worldwide natural catastrophe or alien invasion. We could start by executing politicians on national television, that'd be the fastest quick-fix...after a speedy series of mock trials of course-

This guy rocks. He shows you the science, doesn't dumb down the initial explanation of it, and *then* explains it so the everyday person can understand it. Bravo, sir. Bravo.

Ugh, I don't like consoles - dumbs down everything.

Ann is just one of the talking heads guarding the inhabitants of Bullsh*t Mountain from rejoining the world of the sane. Fox News is a propaganda machine which dumbs down America by the day through disinformation and their slanted agendas. See their anchors spewing forth feces from their mouths in my visual homage to the network on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-fox-news-scylla-guardian-of-bullsht.html

http://videosift.com/video/Charlotte-Iserbyt-Deliberate-Dumbing-Down-of-America

Let Charlotte Iserbyt tell you all about it. It is intentional and structured. They love monkeys who can't think critically or gather information for themselves.

wasnt there a provision for those who sought to utilize public airwaves that they had to have so much "educational" programming in order to gain and/or retain their broadcasting license?

and isnt PBS only 40% tax-payer backed? i forgot where i read that PBS was ran on 60% donations.that the taxpayers filled in the gap/loss which averaged a 60/40 ratio.

either way you slice it,what we are seeing is political hay and nothing more.making the argument that PBS is some socialists wet dream is just bullshit.i wonder if the irony is lost on these people who wish to shut down an institution to replace it with mind-numbing,vapid staleness.creating a zombified drooling public.

or is that the actual intent? to dumb down the american public?

i would like to subscribe to that conspiracy but these retards cant get out of their own way,nevermind concoct such an elaborate scheme such as i am suggesting.

so all for the sake of political whoring we may lose an institution that has brought some of the best and ground-breaking educational programming since the mid 60's.
and the collective IQ of this country drops.
sad...
so very very sad.

sesame street came out the year i was born.i learned how to read before i hit kindergarten because of that show AND it was one of many shows that got my craving to absorb information and learn.

but i guess "future strippers of america" is more important.
bollocks......

That's it, it cannot be dumbed down anymore. If you don't get it yet you never will.

Still feels a bit dumbed down. Why not allow the player to calculate movement? That was all part of the original strategy. And only four soldiers?

I run 2560x1600 graphics and like to pull as many fps as possible. Also I gotta disagree I have a hellacious goodtime playing todays visceral FPS shooters multiplayer online.>> ^Fletch:

At least the next dumbed-down piece of consolized crapola will look pretty. Unfortunately, it'll still play like a frickin' console port.
@deathcow Why do you need to upgrade anything? Like every other potentially decent PC game in the last 5 years, it's being designed for Xbox and PS3. If you can run other recent FPS's, this should be no problem. I'm still running Core2Duo (oc'd) and a 5870 (also oc'd). I have another, still brand new 5870 sitting on a shelf that I just haven't been bothered to Crossfire yet. Haven't needed it (been sitting there for about two years; but maybe this weekend...). This is a corridor shooter. It has to be in order to run on consoles without choking. Even the outdoor areas are claustrophobic.
It's sad that there is so much emphasis on graphics over substance nowadays. It's the only thing game developers have left to convince PC gamers that they aren't selling the PC version short, even though it isn't the lead platform... better graphics, more graphic options, higher resolutions. I don't give a shit about "Pixel Accurate Displacement Mapping" or "Tessellated Vegetation", and if the game is worth playing as a GAME, you won't even notice it. Doom2 is still more fun today than any of the consolized dross released for PC in the last 6-8 years.