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Richard Berg
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Ok, make that sort of talented with way too much free time and an unhealthy affection for Hillary Duff. If you have 40 minutes to spare, are not easily offended by symbolic rape or (horror!) Macromedia Flash, and want to have a few laughs at the world of videogame propaganda, click away.

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Blah, all that and it's just an advertisement for Kerry. I think I'm going to write-in Hulk Hogan instead.

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Lalo
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Truly a sophisticated and thoughtful assessment of the Bush administration's many, many faults and how to solve them.

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I'm rather offended, actually, by your insinuation that disliking Bush for the very many reasons we have to consider him incompetent and corrupt puts me with the same intellectual giant who created this. While I'm proud that this kind of crap -- the "we're real Americans" schtick -- at least isn't the left's mainstream, that doesn't make it any better than the crap thrown around by the far more influential and powerful mudslinging propaganda bases of the right. I've always taken it as a point of pride that the left doesn't have its own versions of Fox or talk radio -- this is the beginning of a trend I don't support, let alone identify with.

But heh. At least it included Transformers.

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Hey, a game! Very retro. I dig the factoids aspect of the game -- nearly makes up for the earlier crap.

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Haven't even looked at the game, but really dig the clothing designs.
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Lalo
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Ha! Okay, it's obscene and vulgar and utterly designed for propaganda -- but it's tapped one hell of an eighties video vibe. Good factoids intermingled with idiotic attacks -- there's so much to complain about, do we really need to draw Bush having babies with his wife? Paris Hilton?

I'm not proud this exists on the left, not at all. It doesn't lower us to the level of the right, but it's a damn shame someone's trying to get rid of the left's moral high ground.

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What song is that? THe Voltron music that plays. what is that?
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Richard Berg
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quote:
I'm rather offended, actually, by your insinuation that disliking Bush for the very many reasons we have to consider him incompetent and corrupt puts me with the same intellectual giant who created this.
Your Bush posts are never vitriolic or over-the-top? [Smile] As for intellectualism, despite my inherent snobbiness I didn't find the game very offensive. All of its "levels" were legitimate talking points; the author kept a reasonable ratio (for election-year demagoguery) of hard facts to loaded words; the idiotic parts that you're not supposed to actually believe are made painfully obvious. Honestly, my only major disappointment was invoking Kerry as Lord and Savior. Oh, and some of the special moves were lame.
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