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erastesI felt cold last night, so went to bed – soon found out I wasn’t “cold” but I had a chill/water infection/temperature. Not pleasant with your teeth chattering like castanets! Thank goodness for furry moggies.
Better today though, thank you!
Thanks to Gehayi for this link from the wonderful Slap Upside The Head.
“Anti-Gay Lobby gets its knickers in a twist of gay content in video game.”
I find it amazing that “anti-gay lobbies” are allowed to lobby really. They wouldn’t be allowed to do it here, it’s an offence. America should enter the 20th century, let alone the 21st. Why don’t these arseholes move to Uganda?
However, that’s the easiest way to get me to buy a game, even if I know it’s a game I’m going to suck at most royally. I want to be a bisexual elf. And you know what? I think I always HAVE wanted to be a bisexual elf.
And The Sims has had the capacity to have gay couples for years. What’s wrong with these people? It’s ok to stab someone through the face and get their blood all over you, but it’s not ok to kiss someone? I worry, sometimes.
What I found highly amusing was this paragraph about one of these lobbies warning about Army of Two by Electronic Arts::
Although never spoken of, undertones of homosexuality are present. Weaponry in the game can be decorated to be anything from diamond encrusted to gold plated. You share a parachute, and the riot shield system allows one player to use a shield or car door as portable cover while the other cuddles up close behind and dispenses “lead” from his “iron.”
Can we say “Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense” people? No, I didn’t think they could. I’m granting them with far too much intelligence.
Also there's this Dr Who ident on the BBC at the moment which makes me smile every time. Enjoy!
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Date: 2009-12-14 04:15 pm (UTC)Then there's Fable 2 where your character can marry people of the same sex, sleep with them, and all the rest of it. Again, no big deal is made about this: it's just a norm of life in that 'verse.
I think I've seen the article of which you speak. It was what made me buy Army Of Two for myself. I'd never even heard of the game up until then. :)
I'm sad that they left out all the seriously massive subtext in the Phoenix Wright games, though. Paranoid conservatives: UR DOIN IT RONG. (Maybe they weren't playing with DSes.)
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Date: 2009-12-14 04:15 pm (UTC)YES! That was them!
Date: 2009-12-14 04:19 pm (UTC)If you are concerned with the moral issues (abortion, pörnography, anti-family entertainment, non-married lifestyles, alcohol, tobacco and gambling) that are destroying children and families you have come to the right place.
Pro-choice, unmarried mother of two who smokes, drinks, writes smutfic about gay lawyers and watches TV shows that are on when my kids should be in bed. My family ain't destroyed, though, and neither are my kids. Maybe if I took up gambling, then everything would go to shit in my household.
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Date: 2009-12-14 04:57 pm (UTC)I also want the new Doctor to come on...I have decided he is strangely attractive...weird...
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Date: 2009-12-14 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 07:33 pm (UTC)I always knew the lion and unicorn were getting it on, too - far too much aggression for just hate.
But seriously - using a door as a shield is homosexual? Sharing a parachute is homosexual? Next they'll be telling me that Assassin's Creed is one big gay fest because the protagonist goes sticking hard things into men at every opportunity.
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:34 pm (UTC)He is very cute! I am looking forward to the Christmas one, muchly.
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:36 pm (UTC):)
Re: YES! That was them!
Date: 2009-12-14 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 07:38 pm (UTC)There's far too few gay characters in games--as there still are far few people of colour but it seems to be changing slowly slowly...
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:44 pm (UTC)If only we could convince these nutjobs that guns are phallic, shooting them is masturbation, and pointing them at other people is sodomy. Then we could turn them loose on the NRA nutjobs and let them lobby each other into oblivion.
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:47 pm (UTC)Over and over and over.
O Canada...!
Date: 2009-12-14 08:06 pm (UTC)Here, that's known as hate speech and is prohibited by the constitution.
Wow.
How about an anti-fundie-asshole lobby? Losers get set adrift on ice pans to be eaten by polar bears.
Sorry to hear you're poorly! *hugs* :)
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Date: 2009-12-14 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 08:08 pm (UTC)I am bereft.
Re: O Canada...!
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Date: 2009-12-14 11:20 pm (UTC)Sending you virtual hot lemon tea with honey.
Re: O Canada...!
Date: 2009-12-14 11:22 pm (UTC)Canada. It's a strange place, but it seems to work anyways ;p
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Date: 2009-12-14 11:27 pm (UTC)*boggles and giggles at the same time*
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that the people you would use that argument on would actually understand what you were saying. Idiocy precludes a breadth of mind.
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Date: 2009-12-15 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-15 05:47 am (UTC)The whole argument is that religious hatred is part of their "culture." Yeah, right. You can call a petri dish of Staphylococcus aureus a "culture," too, but it still ain't healthy.
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