Games Are 'Poison,' Says Hugo Chavez

[buzz_n64]

Venezuelan president says games teach people to kill, calls them the 'road to hell.' 1up http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3177641


We have the next Hitler in town!

[kedawa]

Well, dictators do know best.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Suprise.

[FantasiaWHT]

Dude should hire Jack Thompson.

[heybtbm]

Thankfully it'll never happen here.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9946/6a0m.jpg

...oh, wait.

[ooXxXoo]

took him long enough to say it....

[The 1 2 P]

Games Are 'Poison,' Says Hugo Chavez

So what does that make cigarettes?

[Thrashdance]

Thankfully it'll never happen here.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9946/6a0m.jpg

...oh, wait.



+1

...also, dig the boognish signature bro!

[noname11]

dictator? i thought he was elected....

[Gamer__X]

seriously, someone has to shut this guy up

[kedawa]

dictator? i thought he was elected....
Most of them are.

[Press_Start]

http://fourhorsementattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/chavez-300x211.jpg

What a hypocrite... ;)

[Ro-J]

Weren't Obama and Palin playable characters in Mercenaries 2?

http://www.dasgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/obama_mercenaries2.jpg
Oh, the possibilities.....

[Kitsune Sniper]

http://fourhorsementattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/chavez-300x211.jpg

What a hypocrite... ;)

*punches you

[Enigmus]

So what does that make cigarettes?

Video Games are the 3rd layer and Cigs are the 6th, Stalin tells me.

[rpg_lover]

Wow, sounds like my dad.

[diskoboy]

Hugo Chavez can suck a fart out of my hairy asshole.

5 years before he's worm food.

[Press_Start]

*punches you

Ouch! What was that for?!

[GarrettCRW]

We have the next Hitler in town!

Is this in relation to Chavez's completely opposing political ideology or the complete lack of a continent-smashing military machine?

Seriously, Chavez is being a paranoid dick here, but let's keep our facts at least marginally straight here.

[izarate]

http://fourhorsementattoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/chavez-300x211.jpg

What a hypocrite... ;)

Not that Chavez :)

[buzz_n64]

Not that Chavez :)

The guy who fought for the rights of Mexican farm workers? Chavez comes to mind. :evil:

[RASK1904]

If they are, I've built up an imunity by now!

[BHvrd]

calling the PlayStation "poison" and saying that it leads children down the capitalist "road to hell."

I have this sneaking suspicion that he may be just a taaad bit communist.

[LaughingMAN.S9]

stfu and give me my oil venezuela!

[Kitsune Sniper]

I have this sneaking suspicion that he may be just a taaad bit communist.

I'm pretty sure even Communists go "Dude no."

[buzz_n64]

I know. China makes most the stuff, and they're super comi.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Not so much these days...

Looking at the attitudes toward dictatorships in recent television;

House - Dr. Chase smothers a Black African Dictator... with a pillow... O_O
Chuck - The Castle Crew saves the olive skinned South American Dictator many times, finally with a transfusion of CIA American blood...

The possible social percepts/metaphors alone send the mind reeling.

Chavez... You are in bad company on this one. Just because people try to kill you, don't blame video games alright? LOL

[Damaramu]

On a side note, Venezuela's air force is rockin' the Su-30MKV! Only 24 of them at the moment...

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1768/13su30mk2fav1259losproc.th.jpg (http://img193.imageshack.us/i/13su30mk2fav1259losproc.jpg/)

[j_factor]

This reminds me of an Orwell essay: Why Socialists Don't Believe In Fun (http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/fun.html)

[Zap!]

Hugo can go to hell. Loudmouth quasi-dictator.

[The 1 2 P]

calling the PlayStation "poison" and saying that it leads children down the capitalist "road to hell."

Lies. The only people the Playstation brand has led down the road to hell are stock holders over the last year. But even thats improving now thanks to the price drop.

[Enigmus]

Hugo can go to hell. Loudmouth quasi-dictator.

Hugo Chavez- "The world's biggest PSX hating Stalin lover!"

That's his new campaign slogan, Hitler tells me. ROFL

[Mimi Nakamura]

Whilst I don't fully agree with him, Chavez didn't say ALL games are bad! Just the ones promoting war, and particuarly games where you have to attack "enemies of America" such as Venezuela. Can't really blame him for that, can you? If there was a game made about invading America I'm sure most of you would be complaining about it....

[Icarus Moonsight]

Not if the invaders are space aliens or zombies... We love them!

I'm big on non-aggression and firmly in the moralist camp, but I'm still going to gib pixels into tiny bloody nubblets with a flak cannon, without a single gram of guilt or inconsistency, because... *drum roll* It's not real!

[Push Upstairs]

If there was a game made about invading America I'm sure most of you would be complaining about it....

If there was such a game there would have to be three factions

Invaders (possibly from space!)
US Military
Every gun owning citizen within six states itching to blast invaders.

There is *NO WAY* that game could be anyway realistic without that last faction.

[Icarus Moonsight]

A Chinese General (sorry, IDR whom exactly) was asked about their massive (numbers) Army's capability to invade the US... He basically said the very attempt would be foolish (may be paraphrasing a bit), "There would be a gun barrel behind every blade of grass." He was referring to the citizenry, not the US regular military or reserves. It would take them weeks to recall to the homeland in an invasion. They are pretty much all deployed elsewhere. :/

Also, Chavez just said that the Haitian earthquakes were cause by a new weapon the US has developed to destroy Iran... Yeah, sure. Pass the bowl Chavie, don't park on it. :p

[Robocop2]

A Chinese General (sorry, IDR whom exactly) was asked about their massive (numbers) Army's capability to invade the US... He basically said the very attempt would be foolish (may be paraphrasing a bit), "There would be a gun barrel behind every blade of grass." He was referring to the citizenry, not the US regular military or reserves. It would take them weeks to recall to the homeland in an invasion. They are pretty much all deployed elsewhere. :/


I believe it was actually Admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese Navy who made that statement.... Maybe some other guy said it as well but that's who I've always heard that quote attributed to.

And I can't take any dictator seriously who thinks the US has a weather machine that can cause earthquakes.

[kedawa]

Tesla had something similar a century ago, so it's at least 'sci-fi' plausible.

[E Nice]

If there was a game made about invading America I'm sure most of you would be complaining about it....

Well, technically there have been some games of that nature. In the WWII strategy game Iron Storm you were able to invade the US playing as the Japanese or Germans. Battlestations: Pacific had a Japanese campaign mode going up to an invasion of Hawaii. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty was a fictional history setting of the Germans invading New York.

[Push Upstairs]

Also, Chavez just said that the Haitian earthquakes were cause by a new weapon the US has developed to destroy Iran... Yeah, sure. Pass the bowl Chavie, don't park on it. :p

That is beyond propaganda and landing way into "fucking hilarious" territory.

ROFL

[Cobra Commander]

And I can't take any dictator seriously who thinks the US has a weather machine that can cause earthquakes.
Only Cobra and Destro possess that kind of power.

[GarrettCRW]

Or, to be exact, G.I. Joe, since they kind of took care of the Weather Dominator.

[Robocop2]

Or possibly OCP since they "practically are the military"

[Ro-J]

The Red Dawn remake is about China invading the U.S. Undoubtedly there will be a video game tie-in.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Red_dawn_2010_PLA_propaganda_pamphlet.jpg
Propaganda pamphlet from the movie.

[hbkprm]

horseshit on chavez

[Push Upstairs]

The Red Dawn remake is about China invading the U.S. Undoubtedly there will be a video game tie-in.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Red_dawn_2010_PLA_propaganda_pamphlet.jpg
Propaganda pamphlet from the movie.

So there will be another "Red Alert" game?

[Mimi Nakamura]

Well, technically there have been some games of that nature. In the WWII strategy game Iron Storm you were able to invade the US playing as the Japanese or Germans. Battlestations: Pacific had a Japanese campaign mode going up to an invasion of Hawaii. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty was a fictional history setting of the Germans invading New York.

I doubt any of those games are portraying an attack on America as a good thing / the right thing though.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Well, that's the problem. Initiating a war is never the good or right thing. Defending from an invasion is completely different.

China 'liberating' the US... That smacks of irony no? LOL

[Robocop2]

It kind of reminds me of the radio broadcast for the Peoples Republic of America on Fallout3

[Mimi Nakamura]

Well, that's the problem. Initiating a war is never the good or right thing. Defending from an invasion is completely different.

What about defending from an invasion by initiating a war? It's the weak excuse often given in REAL LIFE! Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction!

BTW, I'm not defending Chavez's attack on games, games all too often get the blame for social wrongs. BUT, I can fully understand why he's angry.

I think this blog says it better than I can about the amount of propaganda in war sims:

http://www.gamespot.com/users/Fioth/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25505986

[Push Upstairs]

I honestly always took whatever locations used in games as less of some political statement and more of a "where is someplace besides the standard middle east/eastern Europe stuff that would make a plausible setting?".

And call me "naive" or whatever, but these "war" games pretty much boil down to setting up a basic "vs match" survival game where the enemy is interchangeable. It doesn't matter if the bad guys are terrorists, aliens, or zombie farm animals...the gameplay remains pretty much the same.