We gon’ be doing one thang and one thang only - killin’ nazis.
Working towards peace and living some absurd NAP “lifestyle” are two different things. People can take things too far. I respect people who work for peace but I also recognize that video games are not real and harmless entertainment. At the same time I do not “worship” any flag, I respect the U.S. flag because that is the country I live in and it has given me much more freedom than the rest of the world, I also believe in certain ideals of my ancestors like the founding fathers and old parchment’s like the constitution. At the same time I can separate my ideals from the current condition of the government.
Yes but did he have an effect on your NAP “lifestyle” choice? Clearly he is a major proponent of the NAP.
Personally I don’t like to see people who are attempting to practice the NAP making their lives miserable just to “fit in”.
It all began with Wolfenstein 3D. You want to make millions on a game? Have the premise be to kill Nazis. Works every time.
It’s a game, a form of escapism, a tool for the mind to lavish itself, please don’t take it so seriously. I enjoy violence in games. What of it? Oh no, I must be a horrific psychopath bent on deep-seated desires to obliterate and crush anything between my would-be tyrannical heel!
Or… I like blowing up pixels. Preferrably with felfire.
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Even though semtex is a far more practical means.
Ultima && Atma Weapon > all
Yeah, cause everyone but facists hates them, normal people, libertarians, neocons, liberals etc etc. Also, WWII weapons were awesome. Just look at the BAR, or the M1 Garand. But what’s cool about video games is you can be doing anything, you can be guiding petals of a flower (PSN game- Flower) or killing hordes of zombies NAP style with people online (Left 4 Dead 2).
Who told you that? Contrary to what you may think the NAP does not tell you when it is appropriate to cry.
There is no death. Pixels are not alive. Nobody dies in computer games. Do you understand that? You’re going to cry over liquid crystals changing co****lor?!
Wow people. Enjoying violent media does not make you a sociopath. Unless you redefine the word to make it meaningless, or at best unnecessary because you’ve made it roughly synonymous with “male”.
The thrill of predation is real. It’s an emotion. It’s not some imaginary social construct invented by the state. It’s an animal instinct present in any creature equipped to digest muscular tissue, or which evolved in an environment of limited resources whether carnivore or herbivore.
We can advance the philosophy of peace and trade without denying the obvious. Stay in touch with reality, people.
Intriguing. Even though I own nearly all the StarGate DVDs and have always enjoyed watching the show (especially SG1), I’ve recently had second thoughts about some aspects of the story line as well. Just to pick a few aspects:
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Once the Jaffa had been liberated from Goa’uld oppression, why in the world did they make them set up a centralized democracy? That’s just so much against what had been portrayed as the traditional Jaffa way of life that it’s basically neo-con propaganda for sci-fi fans.
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When Carter accidentally enters a parallel reality in which the world has fallen to tyranny, there’s an Ori assault on Earth that can only be prevented by the US president’s decree to switch 70% of all national power to an invisibility shield. How would a free market have dealt with this problem?
There’s more, but I don’t want to derail the thread. Would you be interested in discussing this in a seperate one?
I don’t understand what you’re asking - why would anyone tell me when it is appropriate to cry?
Do I understand that no one dies in video games? Yes.
I did when I saw video from Haiti.
I was asking a question about my experience, as I described it. I played violent games, but once I learned about the non-aggression principle and could no longer justify violence as the state justifies it, I lost my appetite for violent games. I wanted to learn if anyone else has had this experience. So far, the answer seems to be no. If I am correctly gauging the sentiment here, emotional acceptance of the non-aggression principle is irrelevant and subjective.
I was just curious if anyone could expound on this, or had a different experience.
Indeed! Do it, Sphairon!
I have had a pretty similar experience. It hasn’t been a cut and dry thing where I will never play a violent game again, but I get disgusted with the quickly, vary rarely play them, and probably will not buy one again. I imagine in the next few years I will slowly phase it out completely.
I’ve also had a similar but more extreme experience with movies, I cringe at the thought of watching almost any movie now. Give me a good book or at least a good documentary.
I work towards the freedom of Jaffa daily.
Naw, my primary objective is to make money. One of the way to do that is to satisfy unmet market demands.
Now…My expression of freedom comes more from what I do with copyright than the actual theme. I wouldn’t make a game libertarian if it is not appropriate to its genre.
CoD MW2 for the PS3 is the best war game ever, except for when you die even though you shot the other person first.
Well, if you are using an assault rifle while the other player is using a submachine gun, that might occur justly due to the differing rates of fire that the guns have.
True dat. But assault riffles are supposed to be more powerful. I blame the server lag, anyway.
Noob! By the way, I’m up to a lvl 45 major.
Not bad. I’m at lvl 69.