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Redpyramidhead · Oct 7th, 2004, 06:55 AM

My mind is too tired for this subject. I'm just going to say thank god they turned down that bill.

And about Vietnam games coming out... I can't even imagine playing them. It was such a horrible war and the atrocities resulting on both sides... well, this is nothing new, but even a game like GTA is based mostly on fantasy and movies. Yes it's glorifying violence, but to me it seems almost innocent compared to simulating the Vietnam war and in anyway glorifying that. I admit that I enjoy playing many realistic FPS's, but these new games coming out make me stop and take a look at who we are and what we call entertainment. Developers certainly have the right to make these games and we certainly have the right to play them. I am merely expressing the discomfort in the amount of enjoyment one might find in doing so without feeling much guilt in helping to glorify such a thing. Of course, that raises other questions about other war games in the past, but I am just saying that this sort of opens my eyes more a little bit as to what we are emulating in order to entertain ourselves. Should we so arrogantly take something so lightly that we can only imagine understanding that soldiers in Vietnam actually had to go through? Hmmmm... just something I've been thinking about. Not like I'm for censorship or anything

PEACE everyone

_RED_ stuff

Oct 7th, 2004, 06:55 AM	#13
Redpyramidhead pazparacolombia Joined: Sep 2002 Location: Restless dreams... Age: 45 Posts: 2,002	My mind is too tired for this subject. I'm just going to say thank god they turned down that bill. And about Vietnam games coming out... I can't even imagine playing them. It was such a horrible war and the atrocities resulting on both sides... well, this is nothing new, but even a game like GTA is based mostly on fantasy and movies. Yes it's glorifying violence, but to me it seems almost innocent compared to simulating the Vietnam war and in anyway glorifying that. I admit that I enjoy playing many realistic FPS's, but these new games coming out make me stop and take a look at who we are and what we call entertainment. Developers certainly have the right to make these games and we certainly have the right to play them. I am merely expressing the discomfort in the amount of enjoyment one might find in doing so without feeling much guilt in helping to glorify such a thing. Of course, that raises other questions about other war games in the past, but I am just saying that this sort of opens my eyes more a little bit as to what we are emulating in order to entertain ourselves. Should we so arrogantly take something so lightly that we can only imagine understanding that soldiers in Vietnam actually had to go through? Hmmmm... just something I've been thinking about. Not like I'm for censorship or anything PEACE everyone _RED_ stuff __________________ "..loathsome laughing, mixed with such a cry as no man has heard save for in the phlegathon of unrelatable nightmares; a cry wherein reverberated the horror and anguish of a haunted lifetime packed into one atrocious moment..."