MechaCrash: Thank you for confirming you want games to remain the playthings of children and not art of any kind, Wonderkarp, and good riddance.02/03/2015 - 12:23am
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Goth_Skunk: The tropes that bother me the most don't appear in video games: Dumb/Jerk Jock trope, Narcissitic Psycopath (when male), and Dad Is A Homophobe But Unaware Child is Homosexual.02/02/2015 - 10:22pm
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prh99: They can make zombie games all they want, I just wish they mix it up a bit. My use vampires etc or some Lovecraftian horrors.02/02/2015 - 10:09pm
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Matthew Wilson: I tend to be on the side of free markets. if you do not like a trope, do not buy a game that uses that trope.02/02/2015 - 9:59pm
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prh99: MechaTama: Yeah, the zombie apocalypse stuff is just getting old, and infestation scenarios aren't much better.02/02/2015 - 9:57pm
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MechaTama31: I just catch a whiff of zombie and my eyes just sort of glaze over and my attention drifts elsewhere.02/02/2015 - 9:52pm
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Wonderkarp: I'm going to live it like 1995 before I logged on, only with magazine subscriptions and newsletters telling me whats being made and whats coming out. rest can suck it. peace out.02/02/2015 - 9:52pm
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MechaTama31: prh: seriously. I think that's why I hadn't heard of this game.02/02/2015 - 9:52pm
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Andrew Eisen: Karp - Best to you.02/02/2015 - 9:49pm
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prh99: I can think of another trope that is over used, zombies02/02/2015 - 9:49pm
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Wonderkarp: GP. its been a fun ride. but I'm out. I'm done with all of this. the fighting, hell even the news. Its made me a very unhappy person. all of it. Andrew, its been real.02/02/2015 - 9:46pm
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Andrew Eisen: prh99 - As the overarching narrative of the game? Sure but then again, no one said it was. Plus, I don't think the guy you're going after is in distress. I think you're going in to stop him. Could be wrong though. Haven't played it.02/02/2015 - 9:44pm
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Andrew Eisen: Goth - Ah, you caught me before the edit! Not just my opinion (and also not the sole reason) but if you don't have a problem with the trope and you don't think it's overused, that's fine! You're not a bad person!02/02/2015 - 9:42pm
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prh99: Well that kinda rules out Damsel in Distress. So I mockingly suggested dude in disarray.02/02/2015 - 9:42pm
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Goth_Skunk: Your opinion, AE. My opinion? Bovine excrement.02/02/2015 - 9:41pm
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Andrew Eisen: Goth - Watch the TvW videos. Your answers lie within!02/02/2015 - 9:40pm
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Wonderkarp: battlecrys and their madeup bs that things harm people when they dont. and the gamergaters who I really really want to like but they constantly trip over every attempt to legitimize themselves and focus always on the criticism. I'm guilty of that myself02/02/2015 - 9:39pm
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Goth_Skunk: If there IS a DiD sidequest or story-advancing main quest, why is it deserving of negative criticism? Why is that one quest singled out amidst the others in the game? Why is it worthy of "embarrassment?"02/02/2015 - 9:38pm
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Wonderkarp: in journalism. people wanting to criticize games. people who want to ban games. people who are wrong, people who are right. all it is is just one giant pissfight. between a bunch of idiots, and a bunch of idiots. I see the antigamers, rallying their02/02/2015 - 9:38pm
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Andrew Eisen: And apparently the woman who saves your butt when you first land gets damseled at some point.02/02/2015 - 9:38pm
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Comments
@JustChris There's nowhere
@JustChris
There's nowhere else to come up with that funding, right? There's no ridiculous programs spending 12 million dollars on doing nothing, right?
PS:
The state gas tax is 25 cents average.
"You know, oddly enough,
"You know, oddly enough, money for the roads doesn't come from state governments, it comes from FEDERAL funding"
The gas tax in question is a federal tax as well, which is why Hillary and McCain can affect it through the congress. What, you think they can just clap their hands and change state level affairs such as state taxation?
Also, many states pay for roads via toll booths.
And 'many states', in fact every single one of them, also adds some taxation to gas prices. That's just how it is.
So, those construction workers would still be working, because they still have money to maintain roads and bridges, as well as build new ones.
Let's just try to do this by common sense. We have an area that receives X amount of funding from toll booths AND taxation. Now you cut away the taxation part. The funding goes down. Which means that regardless of what you've said, there _will_ be construction issues, which in turn means less employed construction workers, people that aren't typically incredibly well off, which means even more depression in the US economy.
As well as this:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-24679953.htm
Seems like that commission didn't quite agree with your notion that those extra cents a gallon are expendable.
Ya, electing people with experience has been workign well so far..... oh, wait.
Yeah! Ummm...sorry, we're all SOL if you mean pick one of the other two candidates.
dude...you give gamers a bad name with your baseless hatin, just because you didnt bother looking at Obama's ideas...there all over his debates, his own website, and his last book. Of course they not be the best of ideas to some..but still turning a blind eye and covering your ears and saying he is devoid is dumb.
Anyway..this article is about creativity meshing two icons, not political opinion highhorsing.
Don't you mean the other THREE candidates? You seem to forget that Ron Paul is still in the running.
Ron Paul is still very much in the running with a little over 1 million people supporting him. McCain support is diminshing very quickly simply because he is a war monger.
@Arion
Obama's ideas are....extremely lacking in most areas. As you said though, this isn't a political highhorsing article.
I will admit that the artwork is very creative.
"to keep Jack Thompson from forcing him off the ballot"
As if JT had that kind of power...
Personally, I would have gone with "Grand Theft George McGovern Platform 72" or something for the poster. But I guess that doesn't really roll off the tongue as easily..
I don't believe Obama's done any bashing of GTA4. I'm sure he doesn't know who Jack Thompson is. Video games are simply not an issue for his campaign one way or another.
George McGovern (who incidentally just switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama, for whatever that's worth), like John Kerry, ran against a Republican incumbent who at the time still maintained a certain level of popularity with the public. Obama, by contrast, is running for an open seat following the least popular president in recorded history, as a Democrat in a time when Bush and the neocons have dragged the entire Republican brand into the trash.
As for Obama himself, his ideas are perhaps only marginally better than Hillary's, but at least he seems sincere about wanting to improve the country. Hillary still strikes me as horribly inauthentic - she'll say whatever it takes for a vote just so she can move into a bigger office, not because she actually cares about this country. Yeah, it's kind of shallow basing a preference on oratory skills, but there's not enough policy differences between the two to make for much of an intelligent decision.
Not once in his comments did Sen. Obama "dis" GTA IV. People saying that he "bashed" GTA IV need to get a clue.
I personally thought his comments about video games and entertainment as a whole and parents' responsibility were well-reasoned and rational.
That's considered "bashing" and "dissing" now? Really?
I mean, I like this site and I'm a huge gamer (30 years old, college graduate, married, relatively successful), and I love GTA IV, but there's sometimes that we can be a little too sensitive any time a politician mentions a video game.
Not every poltician is Jack Thompson.
Grand Theft America's taken. See Ultimates Vol.1 prt 2.
As it shouldn't be.
In the grand scheme of things, the violent video game issue really means nothing. There are bigger fish to fry.
You say that like we have any good candidates.
I didn't mean to imply that we did. I'm so unenthusiastic about this race it's become "Who will screw up the country the least?"
Pretty much.
If you really believe a damn word of what Barack says about 'change', then I have some property I'd like to sell you in Florida.
I think the best hope for us would be John McCain; he doesn't seem so enthusiastic about videogame legislation. Sure, he pays lipservice, but he won't turn us into a communist nation like Hitlery, and his promises aren't hollow like Barack's.
Plus, my guess is that the Obama camp didn't actually make this poster.
I second that. Obama seems to have more of a problem with the fact that kids are couch potatoes than any moral danger that violent games like GTA IV pose.
If you believe that John McCain represents change, I got bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. A man who is running on a platform that could only be descibed as a 3rd Bush term is not considered change.
And you showed your hand when you called Sen. Clinton "Hitlery." Dazzling insight.
LOLOLOL
There is no such thing as the anti-christ. Just as there is no such thing as Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, etc.
If people worried more about the well being of their fellow man than appeasing the mythical, magic man who lives in the sky this world would be a much better place.
Quoted again for truth.
He didn't hop on the "violent games are evil!" bandwagon like, oh say, Hillary did.
He just said kids need to be more active. Which they do.
Yeah.
Retarded.
This is how you know when originality is dead, and political issues have become irrelevant. This is less about the issues at hand (which most people seem not to be able to figure out) and more about image.
yea, "God Bless America". we're gonna need it if he gets elected.
Obama '08