The Lazy Storytelling of Modern Games of Warfare

[mrdude2010]

What's really stupid about the anti-immigration movement is that new immigrants are what drive growing economies. If your population stagnates, growth does too.

Not when you set up an expansive social safety net. In which case, poor immigrants that will immediately fall into the net are a major net drain.

That's the thing though, illegal immigrants can't obtain benefits because they're, well, illegal, and most legal immigrants have some sort of relevant skill to bring to the job market. There are both drains and boosts, but overall it's either net neutral or positive, aside from Germany, which has a lot of foreign born pensioners who came over decades ago from Turkey and the USSR. It's certainly not overwhelmingly positive, but remember that current economic impact also isn't the only think we're looking at. A country's populace has to grow to support the older population, and if the birthrate in a given country isn't high enough, those people have to come from outside.

sources:
http://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/fiscal-impact-immigration-uk
http://immigration.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000788
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579482-new-study-shows-fiscal-impact-migration-broadly-neutral-boon-or

 

[CaitSeith]

Oh, man! I wish for the decline of the spunkgargleweewees to be true. But I won't be certain until I see the next CoD release reviewed.

 

[CaitSeith]

(e.g. the Confederacy wins their independence and right to keep owning slaves; .

off topic but how would have gone? I can't imagine slave ownership remaining an acceptied practice into 2014

Well, maybe something like this:


or this:

Spoiler: Warning: Don't click here if you hate talking about slavery

PS: These are just satires. Please take them with a grain of salt.

 

[tdylan]

you might as well be trying to recut Aliens to make the humans look like the bad guys

Hey! It worked for "Maleficent," didn't it?

We'll see how well Advanced Warfare sells, and whether or not Hardline is the sign of things to come, or just EA trying to pass of an expansion pack as a full game, before the success of Advanced Warfare makes them abandon cops and robbers in a hurried attempt to cash in by puking out "Battlefield 2142: More Advanced Than The Other Guy - Warfare."

 

[CaitSeith]

I thought it odd Yahtzee didn't spend much time on his E3 review ripping into CoD and Battlefield's next installments.

Pretty much because there was not enough single-player gameplay for ripping them properly.