Pretty close to my statements that turned into an insult fest towards me when I commented on Bob's rant. Albiet I think it's also important to note that "Black" Ops. are called that for a reason. Law is pretty much an illusion, countries that survive do whatever it takes to stay on top, those that don't wind up eventually be taken down. It sucks, but that's the way it is. Allowing yourself to be taken down due to rules or some agreement that involves you giving everything to someone else because of a loophole, or them not following the rules where you insist on doing so, is just plain stupid. Black Ops. exists by it's nature in the reality of people pretending laws matter, but in actuality the cold reality is that the most brutal bastards dominate, and everyone else gets exploited. You try and be nice, you get exploited by the bastards. Speak softly and carry a big stick, the Spec. Ops. community is the stck we hold behind our back, people know it's there, but we don't acknowlege that we whack people with it. Of course modern liberalism and detachment from reality has caused problems, leading to all the garbage we're seeing over Oliver North.
I will say that I can understand the point to an extent. With the left wing dominating the media, it does seem like most people hate everything Oli North stands for. That's not the truth, it's just a matter of who gets the platform. In general you don't hear anything nice about Fox news, unless it comes from Fox News, or another conservative platform. Polarization means that of course the left wing platforms, which are more numerous shout down the left wing, and with more of them they tend to mostly drown it out. The real numbers tend to come out around election times, where things are resolved by a few scant percentage points. Both sides would like to claim they have a majority, the left wing claims vocally that they have a clear majority, where the right wing on merits of controlling less media and having less platforms maintains claims of a "silent majority". In the end we pretty much have parity, with that tiny percentage which gives a lead (which can manifest as a bigger control in the actual goverment than it should have in absolute terms, due to our system being pretty much 'all or nothing' in many regards) waffling back and forth. Bush wins by a hair, Obama comesin and wins by a hair (reported at the best as 7% but some critics of the media have said it could have been as low as .5% as the other extreme, ignoring wingnuts who claim doubt digit differances in either direction, like the whole right wing "Obama stole the country by cheating" crowd which is just as crazy as the left wing guys who claimed it of Bush).
To get to the point before people pig pile on me and start screaming how ignorant I am and all that jazx, but bottom line is that while the media is the wrong arena to actually argue the point, Oliver north is polarizing. A clear majority of gamers don't oppose the guy or even really hate Fox News, or any of that other garbage, it's just that those who are vocal on specialized message boards and such do. Gaming isn't really a hobbby dominated by one side or the other at the user level, and Oli is a good spokesman to a lot of people given the subject. Activision seems to know that, but also knows it needs damage control in the left wing dominated media.
I will say that I think game DEVELOPMENT is dominated by the left wing though, I don't think I've ever seen a decent AAA game made that actually promoted a more right wing morality and philsophy. Or at least not one from the US. I've seen criticisms of games being that, for not being quite left wing enough, but none that I considered to actually be on the right wing. For all of the comments about "American Military Porn" pretty much every game of the sort has elements that I think derail it from actually being right wing. The whole "nuke death" scene in modern warfare, and even the infamous "No Russian" mission , not to mention the little girl dying in a bomb, all sort contribute to games about the military and warfare actually conveying very strong anti right wing, anti-militant messages. While sometimes it falls flat half of these games nowadays seem to be intended to get you to think about what your actually doing (or have done up until that point) as opposed to a straightforward "America is good, we are destroying the bad guys, and the military is how we get the job done". While rarely discussed the left wing gets that, and it's how it's believers justify to themselves playing these games doubtlessly. Someone like Oliver North gives more of a "this is for the greater good, and how it's done" vibe to a game, as his biggest real "crime" was being caught, and nearly everyone involved in that was vindicated to an extent through pardons and the like, and that small differance in tone is enough to cause left wing outrage. I mean how dare the US promote it's personal interests through violence, and in any way act like it might be justified at least internally?
