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Ya-ta Boy
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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: French 9/11 game on the internet |
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Yahoo is running a video of a news broadcast reporting that some French company has marketed a game using 9/11. The player is supposed to shoot down the planes before they fly into the WTC. A couple of family members of victims are complaining. (I don't know how to link to a video.)
This is about as low as it gets. You just don't make a game out of the deaths of 2,700 people. |
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huffdaddy
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: French 9/11 game on the internet |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
This is about as low as it gets. You just don't make a game out of the deaths of 2,700 people. |
Really?
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JMO
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Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: Re: French 9/11 game on the internet |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
This is about as low as it gets. You just don't make a game out of the deaths of 2,700 people. |
Really?
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lol exactly what I was thinking. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: French 9/11 game on the internet |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| This is about as low as it gets. You just don't make a game out of the deaths of 2,700 people. |
Huffdaddy has already made the point, but you could google up a variety of games based on historical battles/military incidents.
Example: http://videogames.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?z=y&ean=2000003122929
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| Immerse yourself in the intensity, carnage, and chaos of the war that divided a nation! The Civil War was a defining moment in our Nation's history where 3 million fought and over 600,000 died. Now you can experience history brought to life in the first ever first-person shooter Civil War game for videogame consoles. Play as a Confederate or Union Solider in America's most historic battles including Gettysburg, Bull Run and Antietam. Use authentic firearms, fight in intense hand-to-hand combat, place explosives, sabotage enemy artillery, destroy buildings and more! |
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loose_ends
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: French 9/11 game on the internet |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Yahoo is running a video of a news broadcast reporting that some French company has marketed a game using 9/11. The player is supposed to shoot down the planes before they fly into the WTC. A couple of family members of victims are complaining. (I don't know how to link to a video.)
This is about as low as it gets. You just don't make a game out of the deaths of 2,700 people. |
um......
this has been done to almost all major wars....including pearl harbor
ever heard of playstation? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm...point being: There are more tasteless people in the world than I thought. 
My view: a battle is one thing; mass murder is another. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| If anything goes, then how about a game where kids try to shoot Charley Manson's gang before they cut Sharon Tate's baby out of her stomach? That could be fun and educational. If a kid loses the game he could watch the Sharon character scream and beg for mercy for her baby while they are cutting it out. Kind of a do-it-yourself abortion lesson for kids. |
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loose_ends
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| If anything goes, then how about a game where kids try to shoot Charley Manson's gang before they cut Sharon Tate's baby out of her stomach? That could be fun and educational. If a kid loses the game he could watch the Sharon character scream and beg for mercy for her baby while they are cutting it out. Kind of a do-it-yourself abortion lesson for kids. |
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| There are more tasteless people in the world than I thought |
add one more to that list. |
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cazador83
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:47 am Post subject: |
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yeah, there's definitely a difference imo.
these games are all about wars, battles, and sometimes there are games where there are hostage/terrorist situations...but i've never seen a game based off of a real terrorist situation like 911.
also, games are ww2 are alright bc its been so long. 911 was not that long ago....i think it's too soon. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| loose_ends wrote: |
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| There are more tasteless people in the world than I thought |
add one more to that list. |
 Well observed. |
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riverboy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| I wonder how all those victims of carjacking feel about Grand Theft Auto. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| If anything goes, then how about a game where kids try to shoot Charley Manson's gang before they cut Sharon Tate's baby out of her stomach? That could be fun and educational. If a kid loses the game he could watch the Sharon character scream and beg for mercy for her baby while they are cutting it out. Kind of a do-it-yourself abortion lesson for kids. |
You were around the USA early to mid 90s, right Yata? You should remember that the whole "serial killer chic" thing was in full swing around that time.
I remember a t-shirt with Fish's picture on it that said "Albert Fish, Ass Man". Anyone who knows about what Albert Fish did to that little girl would understand why that shirt makes the French 9-11 game look like the epitome of genteel tastefulness. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:20 am Post subject: |
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One could argue that 9-11 wasn't mass murder, it was a new breed of warfare. Horrible, but the people who did it had reasons that made sense to them.
Our generation (speaking for most ESL teachers in Korea) hasn't seen or been threatened by a REAL war. Iraq doesn't count, either, since it wasn't a physical threat to western nations. 9-11 was awful, but considering the thousands of lives lost everyday around the world that are ignored by the American government and people, 2,900 doesn't even start to compare. Start comparing after Pearl Harbor for lives lost on a country's soil, then see where America sits in numbers. This is a devil's advocate argument, but you have to take away subjectivity as much as possible and look at stats sometimes.
Where's bin Laden, anyways? I guess the American government doesn't care much about him anymore since they don't seem to be focusing on him now. |
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ernie
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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no, i think the lowest it gets is making a phony WAR out of the deaths of 2700 people! it's a frickin VIDEO GAME, people! lighten up!
how do you distinguish a 'battle' from 'mass murder'? are atomic attacks on civilian areas considered 'battle' or 'mass murder'? what about firebombing?
wait, i get it! it's only ok to make video games about OTHER people dying... |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| ernie wrote: |
no, i think the lowest it gets is making a phony WAR out of the deaths of 2700 people! it's a frickin VIDEO GAME, people! lighten up!
how do you distinguish a 'battle' from 'mass murder'? are atomic attacks on civilian areas considered 'battle' or 'mass murder'? what about firebombing?
wait, i get it! it's only ok to make video games about OTHER people dying... |
Exactly. |
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