Fox News: Environmental games A SECRET LIBERAL PLOT!!!!!!!!!

America has only itself to blame, really; Fox only does what fuels the ratings. It's the support of the viewers that allows them to get away with their tabloid style news.

Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.

Oh, you poor naive person. Ask people in the UK about Fox News' activity. Just so you know, huge corporations know no borders. That's why they're MULTINATIONAL.

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My biggest issue with this is honestly the "Parents don't know what's in these games" after the comparison to film. Because you know exactly what's in a movie if you don't watch it with your kid, too.

So all in all, Fox News is promoting the fact that good parents should not do stuff with their kids.

edited 8th Sep '11 8:27:01 AM by ch00beh

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Remember when everyone said comic books would turn your children into monsters and kill everyone you ever loved?

What I'm saying is I really don't give any fuck either way. Give it a couple dozen years and the next big entertainment advancement will be said to be enslaving our sons and raping our dogs.

Well, close. If I recall correctly, they push nonsensical controversy such as this piece because they've realized sensationalism draws viewers.

Fox is for entertaining, not informing.

For some value of "entertaining".

Those damn virtual polar bears.

Then they censored them, thereby saving civilization. Perhaps the same should be done with murder simulators like Sim City! It could be our only hope!

Except [condescending response follows]. Because [sarcasm here]. You do understand [snark], right? POTHOLE TO SARCASM MODE

Eco-games tend to suck balls in that they smash you over the head with A Message every five seconds. I've played a few of them.

Really, I think the better way to teach A Message would be to tone it down in terms of delivery so it only hits you after sinking a few hours of yoru life into it do you have a sudden realization that you've been learning something while having a lot of fun.

^ ... Sim City is a Murder Simulator...?

edited 8th Sep '11 10:56:36 AM by pvtnum11

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

From what I gather, Sim City Societies isn't actually preaching A Message. It just happens to have windmills and junk.

I mean the film industry also got hit by heavy censoring back in the day.

The more I think about it, the more I figure that all forms of media are going to go through a censoring phase at one point or another.

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Very true.

I wonder what that guy's opinion of Minecraft would be, seeing as there are no explicit conservation mechanics, except for "you cannot build more stuff unless you plant more trees or cut down another forest"

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Simcity Societies was fun - I liked the Orwellian architecture and stooped postures of my subjects as I went full-on Authoritarian on them. The music rocked, too.

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

Green Aesop is something I loathe in media.

TU NE CEDE MALIS CLASS OF 1971

To be fair: any heavy handed aesop is awful.

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First, I wanted to bomb Fox Kids for airing ten-year-old series and some crap with production values lower than a sack of potatoes. Then, I wanted to bomb Fox the movie-producing company for what they did to the Hitman movie. Now, Fox News. This company has to violently die in a fire.

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You forgot about them cancelling Firefly.

That should've been the deal breaker years ago.

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I wonder if we could perform some sort of revenge for this insult to one of our favourite hobbies. (and pretty much all other times they made us look like anti-social outcasts about to shoot everyone in sight)

Not a bomb or something, but some harmless prank that makes them loose face in front of the people that watch them without irony.

edited 8th Sep '11 11:50:41 AM by Kayeka

And you guys sound like every single other gaming forum in existence. Like The Escapist. They have that reaction every single time.

Speaking of The Escapist, have you listened to this very convincing asshole?

The emotions of others can seem like such well guarded mysteries, people 8egin to 8elieve that's how their own emotions should 8e treated.

Hacktavists?

edited 8th Sep '11 11:53:22 AM by TheProffesor

I was convinced that Fox was run by dumbasses since I was 10.

My views have not changed ten years later

edited 8th Sep '11 11:53:21 AM by Metaflare

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Nah, that would make us look like the bad guys. Perhaps feeding them a fake story, and later reveal the gig to show just how good their fact-checking is.

^^^^actually, we sound like every other liberal group!

please, if you are going to lump us all into a group, go for the broadest and most insulting.

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The story makes a lot more sense to me now. The first time I heard about it it said that indie games like Flower and Sim City were ruining America. Now that I see it's supposed to be environmental it makes sense. Not really agreable, but not Insane Troll Logic.