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stefano wrote:To be fair, it's not that different from these football game adverts...
That's true, though. I am amazed sometimes when mates of mine talk about playing PS or whatever, I tend to launch into a rant about how capital creates silly needs and they're victims etc. But then I spend my money on dinners out and booze, so I don't really have a leg to stand on I guess.total accepted devaluation of the very concept of maturity
stefano wrote:I played Cowboys and Crooks as a little kid, shooting at my mates with a plastic pistol, how different is that to shooting someone in Call of Duty?
stefano wrote:That's true, though. I am amazed sometimes when mates of mine talk about playing PS or whatever, I tend to launch into a rant about how capital creates silly needs and they're victims etc. But then I spend my money on dinners out and booze, so I don't really have a leg to stand on I guess.total accepted devaluation of the very concept of maturity
It hadn't occurred to me... actually if I'd seen the advert on TV I probably would have quite liked it. The ones that piss me off are the washing powder adverts, talk about treating people like morons. And the toothpaste ones. And, a more recent development that has me in fucking conniptions, Dettol adverts that basically say you're a bad mother if your kid isn't washing his hands all day long.AhabsOtherLeg wrote:But don't you think the advert itself, regardless of the product it's advertising, is a disgrace - and a new wrinkle in the increasingly disgraceful modern history of gaming? Not just because it's inviting people to vicariously enjoy war, but becauses it presupposes that the target audience are morons, and treats them (us) as such?
I haven't played a game since Doom II... I quite want to give Sim City a go but they're making it annoyingly hard to steal, what with security features and what not.AhabsOtherLeg wrote:Give it a go, if you ever tire of all the bloodshed in your beloved militarist crypto-fascist slaughter-fests!
jam.fuse wrote:The fact that the Roliing Stones' Gimme Shelter is the soundtrack to the commercial is far more disturbing to me than the visual content.
The fact that the Roliing Stones' Gimme Shelter is the soundtrack to the commercial is far more disturbing to me than the visual content.
That bothered me too, and I'm not sure why. Maybe just knowing what that song means to people, and seeing it used for... commerce. I remember reading Greil Marcus' panegyric to that song, many moons ago - how he believed it was one of the only songs that could reliably silence a crowd of drunks, alongside Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone."
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:The original Sim City? The one that looks like this?
If so, here 'tis - all free and legal: http://www.hotud.org/home/46-simulation/24331?lang=en
That's some serious retro gaming, though. That version came out in 1994. You might need all sorts of silly third party programmes to unzip it and run it, depending on your computer, and the version of Windows you're using.
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