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Victims' kin blast WTC video game
New York Daily News ^
| 12/05/03
| TRACY CONNOR
Posted on 12/05/2003 1:13:15 AM PST by kattracks
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posted on
12/05/2003 1:13:15 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
"We wanted to show there isn't any way to win against terrorism..." Spoken like a true Frenchman.
What a pathetic excuse for a human being.
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posted on
12/05/2003 1:21:50 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Conservative: One who doesn't believe that turning the U.S. into a third-world nation is 'progress'.)
To: kattracks
there isn't any way to win against terrorism. Because it doesn't matter how many planes you shoot. There are always new planesI guess the French way of fighting terrorism would be shooting the planes the terrorsts hijack. The American way is to shoot the terrorists before they get near any planes. There may always be new planes, but there is a finite number of terrorists.
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posted on
12/05/2003 2:26:47 AM PST
by
jaykay
(It'll always be Operation Infinite Justice to me.)
To: kattracks
"After the attacks, we felt there was nothing we could do. But with the game, you could pretend to defend the World Trade Center," he said.
Yet he also said the game represented another philosophy - which would seem to undercut that stated purpose.
"We wanted to show there isn't any way to win against terrorism. Because it doesn't matter how many planes you shoot. There are always new planes," he said.I hope you die alone in an unairconditioned room.
To: kattracks
They just showed the game on WPIX. I'm disgusted.
Supposedly they will be getting local opinions about it later in the program. I guess I'll have to prepare myself to hear that it sends a powerful message about the futility of the war on terrorist...
To: kattracks
I love how a Flash video game - in a foreign language, available for free in seconds to anyone with an Internet connection - is so coldly used by these freedom-bashing politicians for their own ends even though their bills wouldn't stop such an online game from being available at all. What they're doing is almost as crass as the actions of the video game makes themselves.
Whatever happened to PARENTS deciding what their kids should play with, anyway?
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posted on
12/05/2003 3:17:54 AM PST
by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: hellinahandcart
I just tried to play the game. It isn't even any good. It's just a Flash version of the ancient Atari game Missile Command (aim sight at incoming target, push button), except the graphics are too jumpy and the planes are moving too fast so it's hard to even aim properly in the first place. I bet the programmer is around 16 and just did it because he thought it was "cool and hip" to make fun of something he knew was sacred to a lot of people, thus pissing them off.
The best way to fight back against this is to ignore it, IMHO. They want attention, so not giving them any is the ultimate defense.
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posted on
12/05/2003 3:27:04 AM PST
by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: kattracks
The game, New York Defender, was launched on the French Web site...
What a surprise
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posted on
12/05/2003 7:09:49 AM PST
by
D1X1E
(Liberal...someone so open-minded that their brains have fallen out.)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
12/05/2003 8:34:48 AM PST
by
mhking
To: kattracks
oh. "missile defense" with planes instead of incoming MIRVs.
*yawn*
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posted on
12/05/2003 8:39:30 AM PST
by
King Prout
(...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
To: lonestar; FreeTheHostages; jwfiv; Billie; Pippin; Libertina; JohnHuang2; Aquamarine; ST.LOUIE1; ...
I am sitting here trying to remember if I cried during 9/11. I can't remember. I was numb and my memories were numb. I don't remember crying during the memorials either. I mostly remember a numb, tingly, surreal feeling emcompassing me. I know I didn't cry when I had John's daughter on my lap trying to answer the hardest questions I've ever heard.
This article, though, has made me cry. I am crying now.
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posted on
12/05/2003 8:40:47 AM PST
by
Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: kattracks
"Is that an outrage, or what?" said Assemblyman Robert Straniere (R-S.I.). "What warped mind would want to create such a video?" A Frenchman. Should we be surprised?
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posted on
12/05/2003 8:42:12 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion." - Self)
To: kattracks
New York Defender / French
...oxymoron
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posted on
12/05/2003 8:42:31 AM PST
by
grumple
(I'm too old to worry about whether or not I'm a pain in your ass...)
To: kattracks
wait til they get wind of Michael Moore's new movie...
To: Calpernia
"We wanted to show there isn't any way to win against terrorism. Because it doesn't matter how many planes you shoot. There are always new planes," he said. I'm so glad people of this ilk are no longer in charge of the US.
To: Timesink
Timesink,
This is an online game, so now a kid needs only internet access to play this game. He/she can sit in a school library and play it from a site like the following:
http://www.jaythegreek.com/games/nyd.shtml
To: Freemeorkillme
This is an online game, so now a kid needs only internet access to play this game.I'm not sure what you're getting at; that's what I said in my post above.
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posted on
12/05/2003 9:33:59 AM PST
by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: kattracks
French'nuff said French
'nuff saidFrench
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'nuff saidFrench
Irony of ironies: hard to believe this is the same people who gave us the Statue of Liberty, isn't it?
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posted on
12/05/2003 9:34:58 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: jaykay
there isn't any way to win against terrorism. Because it doesn't matter how many planes you shoot. There are always new planes The official French strategy is to lay down and die. My God, surrender truely is ingrained in their culture.
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posted on
12/05/2003 10:30:59 AM PST
by
mylife
To: Timesink
Sorry. Wasn't very clear. Parents cannot always watch their kids on the internet 100% of the time. In fact, many parent do very little monitoring of the child's activities on the internet at all.
That being said. This game is a live streaming game. Meaning, it is free. You don't have to download or buy anything to be able to play it online.
A parent monitoring sites visited by the minor after the fact would only see an unrecognized web address not indicative of the content, that is, New York Defender. Unless, parent visits every single URL(not too likely).
So, this would not be a case where it would be useful to think it wholly a matter of parental choice whether the child was exposed to this filth or not. There are quite of few of these nasty little online games out there and mom and dad can't sit next to son/daughter 24-7 while on the computer.
There are software alternatives to having to be present during a child's online activities, though, requiring quite of bit of techie knowledge on the part of the parent in order to fully "insulate" the child.
Sad, but some parents may need to stay one step ahead of a child's technical know-how at all times. Don't want them feds knocking on your door, if you know what I mean.
Hope that helps,
FMOKM
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