Video games

Video games are the epitome of man's technology, achievement and entertainment. Liberals enjoy them because video games are fun, fantastic, imaginative and varied. Conservatives hate video games because they are evil, neophoic, paranoid and myopic. They fear that because the games are vioent and strange, the techology must not be used by children.

Fairy tales and other allegorical stories were violent, cynical and cruel, yet they were, throughout thousands of years, used to teach children to understand the word and interpret literature. Conservatives say that the violence in these games causes real world violence: they beieve that Doom, a game conservatives think came out some time between last Tuesday and thirty years ago, has caused every act of violece committed since its release. Statistics, however, contradict their claims.

Now the funny thing is conservatives don't seem to mind real violence the way they mind pretend violence. Conservatives started the War in Iraq which caused about a million deaths so far and any number of other wars. Conservatives who want the government to spend money on the military want to cut government spending in other areas.

Western companies had a long history of imaginative games, spanning a variety of genres, one that ended about five years ago. Virtually all of their games released in the last five years were World War II shooters. Japanese games are more varied but suffer from the fact that every Westerner on the Internet considers the Japanese to be retarded faggots. [Source: Every thread on the Something Awful Forums.]

Great Games

 * Anything by Nintendo.
 * Anything by Warren Spector.
 * Almost anything by Capcom.
 * Anything by Irrational Games.
 * Wing Commander.
 * Ultima.
 * Metal Gear.
 * Interstate Seventy Six.
 * Quarantine.
 * Grand Theft Auto franchise
 * ''Doom
 * ''Starcraft
 * ''Unreal Tournament

Not so Great Games

 * Diablo.
 * Anything set in World War II.
 * MMORPGs.
 * Anything with "Terrorist", "Terrorism" or "Freedom" and "Liberty" in the title or tagline.

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