A Political Flash Game?
<div class="IPBDescription">Warning: Controversy ahoy!</div> O.k, after playing this to completion, I still don't know what to think of it. I can only conclude that John Kerry asked for this to be made in order to appeal to "our" generation and you know what? It just might have worked.
This clearly isn't meant to be a game so much as a piece of Anti-Bush propaganda (well it IS called the anti-Bush game), due to both the shoddy control scheme (friction anyone?) and the regular breaks from playing to brainwash you.
The "brainwashing" segments are actually quite interesting (to a point) if you read them, and although they contain some very biased opinions, they make a lot of good points, i.e, Bush sucks.
Yes, this is truly a piece of internet wierdness. It is at the same time very rude, quite funny in places, and yet carries a serious message.
I have no idea how people are going to react when I finally get on with it and post the bloody link, but I can tell a lot of people are going to simply say "crap" within the first 30 seconds and close the game, while others are going to play it to completion and then say "crap". For this reason, I have compiled the following list of reasons I was strangely compelled to finish this game:
-It's anti-Bush
-The story, y'know? I wanted to see how it ended!
-Darth Rumsfeld. Come on, you've got to find that at least remotely funny.
-The bizarre end-of-level-bosses
-**** CHENEY ROBOBEAST, ENGAGE! (you'll see)
<i>WHAT? The forum censor's the D-word? But it's his NAME!</i>
-Teletubbies try to blow up Washington
So to conclude; I found it funny in a retarded sort of way, you'll probably hate it, just click the damn link.
<span style='color:red'>WARNING, CONTAINS EXTREME BAD LANGUAGE, ANIMATED VIOLENCE, AND SOME ADULT MATERIAL. CONSIDERABLY NOT WORK-SAFE, AND REALLY REALLY CONTROVERSIAL. <i>i think that covers it</i></span>
<a href='http://www.emogame.com/bushgame.html' target='_blank'>The Anti-Bush game</a>
(this will take you a good 15 minutes to complete, set some time aside)
Feel free to move this to the discussion forum if you consider it too controversial for off-topic.
I feel a sense of dread as I click the "post new topic" button.....
*edit* Initial reactions from IRC are not as bad as feared...
This clearly isn't meant to be a game so much as a piece of Anti-Bush propaganda (well it IS called the anti-Bush game), due to both the shoddy control scheme (friction anyone?) and the regular breaks from playing to brainwash you.
The "brainwashing" segments are actually quite interesting (to a point) if you read them, and although they contain some very biased opinions, they make a lot of good points, i.e, Bush sucks.
Yes, this is truly a piece of internet wierdness. It is at the same time very rude, quite funny in places, and yet carries a serious message.
I have no idea how people are going to react when I finally get on with it and post the bloody link, but I can tell a lot of people are going to simply say "crap" within the first 30 seconds and close the game, while others are going to play it to completion and then say "crap". For this reason, I have compiled the following list of reasons I was strangely compelled to finish this game:
-It's anti-Bush
-The story, y'know? I wanted to see how it ended!
-Darth Rumsfeld. Come on, you've got to find that at least remotely funny.
-The bizarre end-of-level-bosses
-**** CHENEY ROBOBEAST, ENGAGE! (you'll see)
<i>WHAT? The forum censor's the D-word? But it's his NAME!</i>
-Teletubbies try to blow up Washington
So to conclude; I found it funny in a retarded sort of way, you'll probably hate it, just click the damn link.
<span style='color:red'>WARNING, CONTAINS EXTREME BAD LANGUAGE, ANIMATED VIOLENCE, AND SOME ADULT MATERIAL. CONSIDERABLY NOT WORK-SAFE, AND REALLY REALLY CONTROVERSIAL. <i>i think that covers it</i></span>
<a href='http://www.emogame.com/bushgame.html' target='_blank'>The Anti-Bush game</a>
(this will take you a good 15 minutes to complete, set some time aside)
Feel free to move this to the discussion forum if you consider it too controversial for off-topic.
I feel a sense of dread as I click the "post new topic" button.....
*edit* Initial reactions from IRC are not as bad as feared...
Comments
Most of it is good stuff, yer.
teenangst at its worst.
Voltron analy violating the statue of liberty is not funny.
its stupid.
combine that with having seen what lse these idiots have put out (the emo game), I just want to have some one invent said device that will let me stab people in the face over the internet.
The part about America's national debt is rather sobering, however. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
SNL was right for making fun of his lockbox.
That's maybe the silliest word I've ever seen
Lighten up?
Love the LTTP sounds.
"Teenangst is railing against the president just cause you're a teenager and you think everything's going to **** and you have a really idealistic pov. Also your daddy didn't hug you or something like that.
EDIT: Just completed it. What an epic game! I loved all the non-sequitur boss fights, the rocking music and those little political fact-notes that actual kept my interest. Bravo!
its not funny in the sense of it not being amusing.
I find nothing humourus about voltron sodomising the statue of liberty.
and seeing how as these people constantly use some one analy mastering some one else for 'humour', I tihnk I will pass this time.
Its not a political comentary, it is not political humour, it is not political at all.
its just 'omg bush sux, lets throw in voltron b/c that wuld make it funy'
Im pretty damn sure it doesnt take itself seriously, I dont really see how it can and I think its only mildly amusing so its borderline "different" <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
So I rather enjoyed this game.
its not funny in the sense of it not being amusing.
I find nothing humourus about voltron sodomising the statue of liberty.
and seeing how as these people constantly use some one analy mastering some one else for 'humour', I tihnk I will pass this time.
Its not a political comentary, it is not political humour, it is not political at all.
its just 'omg bush sux, lets throw in voltron b/c that wuld make it funy' <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't think the people that made the game think that Bush's policies ****ing freedom in the *** is funny either.
The statue of liberty is just that. A statue.
The idea of someone actually violating people's rights is a little more disturbing.
It's a bit like the difference between burning a flag and actually shelling towns in Iraq.
Oh, and the game is incredibly stupid.
Probably best I didn't see what he originally posted.
its not funny in the sense of it not being amusing.
I find nothing humourus about voltron sodomising the statue of liberty.
and seeing how as these people constantly use some one analy mastering some one else for 'humour', I tihnk I will pass this time.
Its not a political comentary, it is not political humour, it is not political at all.
its just 'omg bush sux, lets throw in voltron b/c that wuld make it funy' <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't think the people that made the game think that Bush's policies ****ing freedom in the *** is funny either.
The statue of liberty is just that. A statue.
The idea of someone actually violating people's rights is a little more disturbing.
It's a bit like the difference between burning a flag and actually shelling towns in Iraq. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
yarrrrr
misunderstanding me!
It is not the fact that it is the statue of liberty.
it is their constant use of analy mastering people for humour.... it just aint funny (in the sense of.... was that suposed to be funny? did I miss something here? or the ever clasic: WOW that was stupid!)
I have no problem with anti patriotisim (flag burning, desecrating national monuments, mocking our stupid prez... its all part of freedome of speach)
I have problems with people that use ANYTHING for a cheap laugh (and especialy when they can't do it well).
again, I got that far into the opening and killed the window b/c I could see where it was going from there (I have played the first emo game)
its not funny in the sense of it not being amusing.
I find nothing humourus about voltron sodomising the statue of liberty.
and seeing how as these people constantly use some one analy mastering some one else for 'humour', I tihnk I will pass this time.
Its not a political comentary, it is not political humour, it is not political at all.
its just 'omg bush sux, lets throw in voltron b/c that wuld make it funy' <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't think the people that made the game think that Bush's policies ****ing freedom in the *** is funny either.
The statue of liberty is just that. A statue.
The idea of someone actually violating people's rights is a little more disturbing.
It's a bit like the difference between burning a flag and actually shelling towns in Iraq. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
yarrrrr
misunderstanding me!
It is not the fact that it is the statue of liberty.
it is their constant use of analy mastering people for humour.... it just aint funny (in the sense of.... was that suposed to be funny? did I miss something here? or the ever clasic: WOW that was stupid!)
I have no problem with anti patriotisim (flag burning, desecrating national monuments, mocking our stupid prez... its all part of freedome of speach)
I have problems with people that use ANYTHING for a cheap laugh (and especialy when they can't do it well).
again, I got that far into the opening and killed the window b/c I could see where it was going from there (I have played the first emo game) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It acctually became quite intelligeble and resorted to presious few wild bush flames, as well as going deeply into the actual financial goings on of bushes term in the office and ramifications of his tax cuts. I can see how the statue rape could be deceptive though <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
In the end though, it is probably because I am as void of political gusto as the bottom of the Marianas trench is void of light.
You guys should simply take this game at face value, as a <i>game</i>. Have fun with it, enjoy the creator's use of flash (which was <b>very good</b> might I add) and leave it at that.
If you don't take this flash game with a grain of salt, you are going to end up seeing it as yet another marketing strategy for some faction's campaign. Another attempt to control your vote.
Personally I think that when it comes to voting, we are ants, and as such I find it pointless. But if somehow you find politics to be that incredibly important to you, or more to the point, you believe your point of view to be infinitely superior, maybe this thread is something you should avoid.
Because in 2 years I'm likely to be looking for a job.
omg align, j00r sig, its alpha centauri, that game rocked
Uh... have you actually PLAYED the game? All the way through?
Yeah, that pretty much says it all- you'll never find a more "the system sucks" "corporate america sucks" "america sucks" "bush killed my dog" group of people in America.
Some people need to just stop crying and do something with life, it's never going to be easy, and blaming poeple for it won't help, either.
Because in 2 years I'm likely to be looking for a job. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Rawr! stupid emo kids making people think MY America is a jobless hellhole make 404 angry!!!