Venezuela claims game is prelude to invasion

[shiney]

It is ridiculous how horrifically gullible some people think young game players are. Some of them, certainly, but i mean seriously.

[Dark Seraphim]

Originally Posted by Lockeownzj00

"Why aren't kids allowed to dream about being war heroes?" Jesus. Because glorifying war is the most dangerous thing you can do to brainwash a person. It dehumanises you.

Yeah, what about the good old days when a kid dreamnt he was an old western vigilanti? Or a member of a militarized lawkeeping force? And certainly there were no writing that glorified war or warriors until recent times...

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Rhetoric aside, I'm entirely 'meh' on this game and the original.

[EVILNess]

I have one thing to say to Chavez.

Besides, everyone knows that Canada is first on our hit list.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Toastburner B

For those who don't know, the current president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, spends his free time bashing Bush. He has also stated several times that he believes that the U.S. is gearing up for an invasion to attempt to topple the Chavez adminstration.

Can't imagine where he could have gotten that idea, I mean it's not like the US ever backed an attempted coup to topple the Chavez administration or anything crazy like that.

But no, I mean after all it's not like anyone could ever have any kind of legitimate reason to bash George W. Bush, Philosopher-King and warrior-poet that the man has proved himself time and again to be.

[Satan's Onion]

Originally Posted by Althane

Use Latveria: Dr. Doom comes and gets pissed at us, that's -really- bad.
Use Metropolis: Superman comes and gets REALLY pissed at us.
Use Discworld: Terry Prattchet sues. ...

Tho', even if Pterry did approve, it wouldn't be worth playing. You just know Vetinari, Sam Vimes and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch would pwn the whole game.

and fifth, I understand the point you're making, but I still doubt Dubya would try to soften up U.S. youth for a Venezuelan campaign with a videogame. Hell, knowing him, Bush'd probably wait until his poll numbers are lowest and just pour a bunch of soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan into the place one day, and announce the move a couple of days after.

[Krylo]

Guys, this is a thread about a video game and a country's reaction to it.

It is not a thread on the validity of war.

Nor is it a thread on the idiocy of Bush.

Stop discussing those things.

K'thnx bai!

[Mirai Gen]

Well said.

I don't see why it is that people get so inherently up-in-arms about such ludicrous things.

Did any of the Tom Clancy novels/movies/games get shit for featuring in real third-world countries?

Well, there's this thing called 'storytelling'. It's when you make shit up, and show people how good it is that you made it up. Tom Clancy tells people exactly how a bomb is made, what components it is, and how it works, and people get all antsy because analog sticks are now pointing guns in VENEZUELA! OMG TRAINING PROGRAMS!

It's more propaganda BS.

[Satan's Onion]

sorry krylo. Must've been the glass of chardonnay talking. :o

But I stand by my Discworld-related comments. Vetinari/Vimes/the Watch FTW everytime .

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

Did any of the Tom Clancy novels/movies/games get shit for featuring in real third-world countries?

Well, Jack Thompson's still got a few years left in him, so don't rule it out. Remember, the videogames brainwash our poor, deluded, impressionable children, so of course if you show them a combat game set in Venezuela, they'll go; y'know, for the same reason we've been seeing all those kids eating flowers and then trying to shoot fireballs out of their hands.

[Fifthfiend]

Guys, this is a thread about a video game and a country's reaction to it.

Originally Posted by krylo

It is not a thread on the validity of war.

Nor is it a thread on the idiocy of Bush.

Well then it's good that nobody mentioned either of those things thus far, isn't it?

If you'd care to read the first post of the thread, it's pretty clear that what this thread is about is calling a particular country's leader a "loon," a judgement rendered largely for his being insufficiently enamored of George W. Bush. I'm not exactly seeing how it isn't germane to that subject to consider that perhaps there might actually be reasonable, non-loony grounds for holding that view of the President.

But all right, if you want to demand that this thread be restricted to "Haw haw, lookit them stoopid ignint Venezuelans, over there in Venezuela! They shore are ignint and stoopid, them Venezuelans, haw!" then fine and well, I suppose.

I mean really, foreign lawmakers taking issue with unflattering portrayals of their nation's government in the media of a nation whose leadership has expressed outright hostility towards them on not-infrequent occasion? Really, of all the nutty things.

[Lockeownzj00]

The entire time fifthfiend was making that post, I was underneath the desk giving him a blowjob. I'm his personal Lewinsky, except, I wanted it.

PS: I personally love those veridical nations like "Zanzibar Land." Come on, man. Zanzibar Land! Maybe we should just change the beginning letter of the offended parties in all alternate-history entertainment. Consider this fictional example:

The President of Benezuela spoke of his concern for the unkind comments of Dritain's prime minister, Zony Clair. The Enited States launched an offensive on the Benezuelan capital, Paracas, for no discernable reason at all. Bavid Ketterman made a bunch of jokes about it afterwards. A secret US police force detained him for the critical commentary, at which point W descended upon the crew and saved his ass, muttering a string of words that all started with 'W.'