Paintball + Presidents = Assassination Waiting to Happen!
Some how, I did not see this coming. Like many office workers, I'm a fan of casual flash games. I brought my Wii to work only once, and it was a bit of a stretch to say that it looked like I was working. Anyway, popular casual web-arcade Miniclip.com recently posted a game, Presidential Paintball, involving presidential candidates shooting each other with paint ball guns. Innocent enough, right?
That's right, it is training our children to become presidential assassins. The blatantly cartoonish graphics are aparently not enough to dissuade people from taking their aggressions out on our wonderful democratic candidates. Several news outlets have been noted with various disparaging remarks regarding this game.
The Smoking Gun was quoted as saying:
For the aspiring young assassin, a popular online games site offers kids the opportunity to assume the identity of a leading presidential contender and then shoot their political opponents in a series of armed confrontations in the White House.When a candidate gets blown away, bloodlessly, a screen appears noting that they have been "eliminated," not killed. To better direct a fusillade, young gunmen can use their computer's mouse to place a crosshairs on a candidate's head or body. Of course, the imagery of Obama and Clinton, both of whom have been the target of threats and receive Secret Service protection, being targeted in such a manner--by children, no less--might be seen as troubling in some quarters.
Even ABC-7 in Florida has some things to say (video in link).
Ok, so it's not quite as sensational as it could be. It's certainly no full digital nude sex simulation or anything. I understand the comments to a degree, but getting alarmed over this might be a bit on the extreme side.
Presidential Paintball Game Causes Alarm [GamePolitics]
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 23 January 2008
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Dibs on Dick cheney!... wait candidates? oh nevermind. Sigh... well Kucinich then...
Christ. How sensationalists can they get? Have they never heard of Paintball?
If they can get so worked up over crudely rendered presidential candidates shooting paintballs at each other, I hate to think of what they'd do if they saw Faith Fighters.