Issue 26
Note: First off, I'd like to apologise for not updating in a while. With the Holidays, and getting sick on new Year's eve, who has time?
News: Jack Thompson.
Normally, I wouldn't make video games a more or less focal topic of an article, but today I will. Jack Thompson is a lawyer from Florida. Recently, he got nationwide attention for exploiting a new mod in the New Grand Theft Auto game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which allows the protagonist to have sex with a woman. In a game which is built around stealing a car and killing hundreds of innocent people, he is worried about an addition that allows sex. I don't play video games at all, but I do know there is something very wrong about a society up in arms about sexual content in a video game and almost silent about the violence that outnumbers the sex greatly. He once asked the makers on San Andreas to create a game in which a father of a murder victim goes on a rampage against the gaming industry. Oddly enough, He claims that video games are not the only reason for violence. He also blames the Quran, which he claims to have a lot of references that tell the reader to kill innocent people, which may be true, but not as much as the Bible, which frequently has God telling his chosen people to sack entire towns and leave nothing alive. Another Video Game that has attracted his ire is The Sims 2. He is angry because of the fact that it shows characters nude, albeit blurred, and that a mod removes the blur, which reveals... Nothing. For more on him read his wikipedia article.
Band NAme of the Day: Self-Brainwashed. Recently, when watching the film Raisin in the Sun, I saw one character being referred to by her mother as "The only person to successfully brainwash herself."
Film Idea of the Day: Subplot to the film in Issue 24: As he puts the writer of the letter under his wing, he ends up revealing that he once "got a girl in trouble" and the parents killed her because of that, so he is implicated in a murder trial.
Review of the Day: The Second Graphic Novel to be reviewed by this blog: St. Swithin's Day. It is out of print, so it may not be available in many places. Grant Morrison spins this tale of a boy trying to shoot then-PM Margaret Thatcher. It starts off as he shoplifts a Copy of Catcher in the Rye and the Complete Rimbaud. After doing this, he decides to go to London to Shoot Thatcher. After visiting a Cathedral, having Lunch with his girlfriend, who is all too enthusiastic about the idea, Dancing in front of Karl Marx's Grave, he decides to do it, but ultimately does it with his finger. He believes it was worth it just to see her scared. The Story closes as he goes back on a train.
Quote of the Day: "I'd like to call him a sadistic, necrophiliac hippophile, but that'd be like beating a dead horse"
____________Woody Allen
New Tract: The Chaplain- A Soldier manages to Save another soldier spiritually and physically. An Army Chaplain tries to dissuade him and after both ride on a land mine, they are judged. The Chaplian is damned, the other soldier is not.
Link of the Day: THe New link for Animutation Wiki: http://wiki.animutationportal.com/index.php/Animutations_List
News: Jack Thompson.
Normally, I wouldn't make video games a more or less focal topic of an article, but today I will. Jack Thompson is a lawyer from Florida. Recently, he got nationwide attention for exploiting a new mod in the New Grand Theft Auto game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which allows the protagonist to have sex with a woman. In a game which is built around stealing a car and killing hundreds of innocent people, he is worried about an addition that allows sex. I don't play video games at all, but I do know there is something very wrong about a society up in arms about sexual content in a video game and almost silent about the violence that outnumbers the sex greatly. He once asked the makers on San Andreas to create a game in which a father of a murder victim goes on a rampage against the gaming industry. Oddly enough, He claims that video games are not the only reason for violence. He also blames the Quran, which he claims to have a lot of references that tell the reader to kill innocent people, which may be true, but not as much as the Bible, which frequently has God telling his chosen people to sack entire towns and leave nothing alive. Another Video Game that has attracted his ire is The Sims 2. He is angry because of the fact that it shows characters nude, albeit blurred, and that a mod removes the blur, which reveals... Nothing. For more on him read his wikipedia article.
Band NAme of the Day: Self-Brainwashed. Recently, when watching the film Raisin in the Sun, I saw one character being referred to by her mother as "The only person to successfully brainwash herself."
Film Idea of the Day: Subplot to the film in Issue 24: As he puts the writer of the letter under his wing, he ends up revealing that he once "got a girl in trouble" and the parents killed her because of that, so he is implicated in a murder trial.
Review of the Day: The Second Graphic Novel to be reviewed by this blog: St. Swithin's Day. It is out of print, so it may not be available in many places. Grant Morrison spins this tale of a boy trying to shoot then-PM Margaret Thatcher. It starts off as he shoplifts a Copy of Catcher in the Rye and the Complete Rimbaud. After doing this, he decides to go to London to Shoot Thatcher. After visiting a Cathedral, having Lunch with his girlfriend, who is all too enthusiastic about the idea, Dancing in front of Karl Marx's Grave, he decides to do it, but ultimately does it with his finger. He believes it was worth it just to see her scared. The Story closes as he goes back on a train.
Quote of the Day: "I'd like to call him a sadistic, necrophiliac hippophile, but that'd be like beating a dead horse"
____________Woody Allen
New Tract: The Chaplain- A Soldier manages to Save another soldier spiritually and physically. An Army Chaplain tries to dissuade him and after both ride on a land mine, they are judged. The Chaplian is damned, the other soldier is not.
Link of the Day: THe New link for Animutation Wiki: http://wiki.animutationportal.com/index.php/Animutations_List
Labels: Figures, Tract Reviews, Video Games
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