I generally try and stay away from commenting on other people's/site's articles. It's a slippery slope you see. What starts off as a humorous poke or civil disagreement quickly degenerates into hissy fits and articles with titles like 'NEWS JUST IN: <Insert Hack's name here> is a douchebag', then it's pink slips all round and no one is happy. Occasionally however someone says something so inherently... wrong, I just have to buckle up, say goodbye to the wife and kids, grab my keyboard and defend the Internet from the ravaging hordes of people with opinions that differ from mine.
The most important part of Remembrance Day is not, as previously believed, stopping for a moment and reflecting on the impact WW2 and the men who died during it had on your life, but is instead the act of finding anyone or anything that isn't showing enough respect, be it someone not wearing a poppy or a baby who won't stay quiet during the two minute silence (He's at least three months old. He should know better) and then you disapprove of them like a ************. That's correct, our grandfathers and great grandfathers died like dogs in some shit hole in the middle of France so we could enjoy some good old fashioned righteous indignation.
Kotaku's little piece of righteous indignation comes in the form of an extended whine about the new trailer for Call of Duty: World at War [http://kotaku.com/5080808/where-was-the-editor-on-this-one](video after the link)
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The most important part of Remembrance Day is not, as previously believed, stopping for a moment and reflecting on the impact WW2 and the men who died during it had on your life, but is instead the act of finding anyone or anything that isn't showing enough respect, be it someone not wearing a poppy or a baby who won't stay quiet during the two minute silence (He's at least three months old. He should know better) and then you disapprove of them like a ************. That's correct, our grandfathers and great grandfathers died like dogs in some shit hole in the middle of France so we could enjoy some good old fashioned righteous indignation.
Kotaku's little piece of righteous indignation comes in the form of an extended whine about the new trailer for Call of Duty: World at War [http://kotaku.com/5080808/where-was-the-editor-on-this-one](video after the link)
The main thrust of the article appears to be that rock music and World War 2 don't exactly go together. Apparently scenes of horrific violence are made worse by terrible heavy metal. He also claims the game's tag lines are inappropriate. Personally I think any WW2 game that has a trailer that doesn't feature the word 'honour' at least once deserves some kind of medal.
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Just in case the bullshit doesn't literally leap from the screen and attack your eyes I've added a little highlight there. Seriously. If you wanted to 'learn about their courage' you wouldn't be playing a game where death is treated as a minor inconvenience and you're rewarded for killing other human beings, you'd be watching the discovery channel or helping out a veteran at an old folks home. We play video games because they're fun, and because we enjoy them. The fact of the matter is the second we started taking a situation where actual people lived, killed and died and turned it into a form of digital entertainment we lost any moral high ground we ever might have had. No game can show us the horrific realities of warfare and, let's honest here, no game has ever tried. The idea that a product that takes the most traumatic event in human history and turns it into a form of entertainment can be done tastefully providing you use a trite soundtrack and throw in the word 'honour' every 15 seconds is fucking ludicrous.
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