Fox News Attacks Environmentally Conscious Games
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That population, anyone with a thought process, is sadly underserved by FOX News. When I saw "FOX" and "The Sims" and "Liberal Agenda" mentioned in the same story, I thought they were going to be blowing their gasket over how the Sims allows you to "whoopee" with anyone, male or female, and to have kids with anyone (admittedly, in the case of two males/two females, you have to adopt, but still... and Sims 2 allows you to have alien babies.... although that's drifting into Weekly World News territory there...Zachary Amaranth said:
"Keep your politics out of our video games" may seem like a reasonable stance at first glance, but where exactly does a video game start to convey a political message? By the 'logic' of FOX News (now that's an oxymoron...) you could argue that Modern Warfare takes a political stance and is pro military interventions, even though a political agenda most certainly was never on the developers minds. In the same vein, making 'liberal propaganda' was probably not the intention behind Fate of the World and the other games with an enviromental message. The problem here is that Fox News believes an enviromental message alone constitutes a political, 'pro-liberal' agenda.Heeman89 said:
(By the way, you Americans have really messed up political terminology compared to the rest of the world, what's up with 'liberal' being almost an insult, only surpassed by 'socialist' and *gasp* 'communist'?
)It's because games don't have an special interest party to throw money into elections. Also, MANY gamers are not conservative voters. So it's one of the few things they can openly attack without any repercussions. On top of that... Old, white, men, their core voters, are frightened and confused by anything new and different and video games are both of those things.Prince Regent said:
Video games are the PERFECT target for Fox News.
What I'm baffled by is that there are any minorities or women in their party at all. Are they really so stupid and blind that they don't see that Conservatives HATE them and would strip away all their rights if they were given the chance?
And I thought Simcity handled the situation quite well. The power plants which created less pollution were also more expensive to run if you wanted to generate the same amount of electricity, meaning that in quite a lot of cases a coal power plant would be better.
These days, I'm actually rather used to the kind of mindless crap spewing from Fox News, but I'm genuinely baffled that they believe that five year olds play Fate of the World.Logan Westbrook said:
Hell, I'm 22 and I still can't figure out that fucking game. "Tutorial" my arse.
Ha ha. Indeed. I remember a report they did on Halo 3, while "playing" it on a PS3.Outlaw Torn said:
Disclaimer: I am not a US citizen nor do I live in the US.futahorse said:
Your argument would be fine if it was just one commenter or reporter. The problem is these segments keep cropping up and it's not the same people. This means that either the hiring process at FOX has some bizarre skew and people with the same ideas keep getting the jobs or there is some editorial pressure higher up telling a lot of their reporters to create these bafflingly close-minded "news" reports. Either way, there is recurring problem along the different shows at FOX News to put out unfounded, ill-informed and sometimes downright false material in the public's eye.
Waaaaaaaait a minute. So, according to Fox News, video games are either:
a) full of graphic sex and violence, and must therefore be kept away from children or;
b) full of eeeeeevil left-wing propaganda, and must therefore be kept away from children.
Huh-wha-zuh? I'm now convinced that it's impossible to make a video game that these fucknuggets won't find objectionable.
a) full of graphic sex and violence, and must therefore be kept away from children or;
b) full of eeeeeevil left-wing propaganda, and must therefore be kept away from children.
Huh-wha-zuh? I'm now convinced that it's impossible to make a video game that these fucknuggets won't find objectionable.
Jim Sterling pointed out that it's better to be a dick when defending games in one of his videos.
In that respect... Fuck you TJ McCormack, who ever the fuck you are. Oh and also, fuck you Fox News, but that's just being repetitive.
In that respect... Fuck you TJ McCormack, who ever the fuck you are. Oh and also, fuck you Fox News, but that's just being repetitive.
I'm tremendously surprised they didn't point to Bioshock, considering the entire game is taking the piss out of Rand who is the conservatives favorite philosopher(I use that term loosely).
"scare tactics, the guilt involved..." ehm sorry what?
"nuclear power is the safest form of energy out there" ehm did you miss Fukushima (or whats the name, and yea a gigantic earthquake and tsunami but still..)
"the parents does not know whats in these games" i.e. bad parents? look it up before you give it to the kid...
"slaughter is int the first page of McDonald's the game..." really is "slaughter" a new dangerous word?
(sorry for no literal quotes, I laugh to hard when I hear them...)
who the F**** would build a game like Sims or fate of the world on anything else than don't over use junk and throw it away i.e. DON'T LITTER THE PLANET. just because you throw it in a bin does not mean it some magical way is going to disappear and not cause any more problems... And renewable energy <- yes RENEWABLE what is so hard in those words?
"Liberal agenda" my butt! Well anyone trusting Fox news for actual trustworthy news sure is having a funny look on the world
"nuclear power is the safest form of energy out there" ehm did you miss Fukushima (or whats the name, and yea a gigantic earthquake and tsunami but still..)
"the parents does not know whats in these games" i.e. bad parents? look it up before you give it to the kid...
"slaughter is int the first page of McDonald's the game..." really is "slaughter" a new dangerous word?
(sorry for no literal quotes, I laugh to hard when I hear them...)
who the F**** would build a game like Sims or fate of the world on anything else than don't over use junk and throw it away i.e. DON'T LITTER THE PLANET. just because you throw it in a bin does not mean it some magical way is going to disappear and not cause any more problems... And renewable energy <- yes RENEWABLE what is so hard in those words?
"Liberal agenda" my butt! Well anyone trusting Fox news for actual trustworthy news sure is having a funny look on the world
