Playstation 2 is responsible for African Wars

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[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.ONLYDOD

You have no soul. They put their lives on the line because theyre forced to.

I don't care.

Dude wow. I thought you were being sarcastic at first but you must have not been.

Not cool.

lol, blood ps2. starring digimon or however you spell his nameredmetal86

Dicaprio?

[QUOTE="redmetal86"]lol, blood ps2. starring digimon or however you spell his namecarljohnson3456

Dicaprio?

not him, the guy with the bald head

[QUOTE="carljohnson3456"]

[QUOTE="redmetal86"]lol, blood ps2. starring digimon or however you spell his nameredmetal86

Dicaprio?

not him, the guy with the bald head

lol I have no idea, I never saw the movie, didnt care to really.

PS2 Conquering Gaming was only the first plan

Next the world

Starting with Africa cause they're the weakest

I for one welcome our new Sony overlords

Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.ONLYDOD

Wow.. there has been millins of people slaughterd in the hunt for natural resources.. Who knew this earlier...

Freakin king Leopold let 20 million people in Kongo die in the hunt for resources..

Anything containing resources from africa is more or less responsible for the conflicts there....

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.nervmeister

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"][QUOTE="taj7575"]

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.carljohnson3456

You have no soul. They put their lives on the line because theyre forced to.

I don't care.

Dude wow. I thought you were being sarcastic at first but you must have not been.

Not cool.

Okay I was joking about the first message, im so tired of people posting topics to this, being proven that the PS2 isn't the only culprit only to have another repeat it all. I decided to say because I knew that was the complete oposite of what everyone was expecting.

But I don't actually care about it, people die every day for multiple reasons but I don't care, I can't do anything significant about it so why should I care about it?

What's funny is didn't the Xbox use the exact same metal? But because it completely sucked in sales, no one is going to mention it.

News flash to everyone, you probably don't want to know where your shoes, clothes, toys, ect... were made if you think this story is bad.

darthogre

[QUOTE="nervmeister"][QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.ONLYDOD

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"][QUOTE="taj7575"]

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.carljohnson3456

You have no soul. They put their lives on the line because theyre forced to.

I don't care.

Dude wow. I thought you were being sarcastic at first but you must have not been.

Not cool.

Okay I was joking about the first message, im so tired of people posting topics to this, being proven that the PS2 isn't the only culprit only to have another repeat it all. I decided to say because I knew that was the complete oposite of what everyone was expecting.

But I don't actually care about it, people die every day for multiple reasons but I don't care, I can't do anything significant about it so why should I care about it?

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.nervmeister

Like, how could you possibly think he was serious?

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"][QUOTE="nervmeister"][QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.nervmeister

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"][QUOTE="taj7575"]

[QUOTE="ONLYDOD"]Good, im glad people are putting their lives on the line to give us games consoles.carljohnson3456

You have no soul. They put their lives on the line because theyre forced to.

I don't care.

Dude wow. I thought you were being sarcastic at first but you must have not been.

Not cool.

Okay I was joking about the first message, im so tired of people posting topics to this, being proven that the PS2 isn't the only culprit only to have another repeat it all. I decided to say because I knew that was the complete oposite of what everyone was expecting.

But I don't actually care about it, people die every day for multiple reasons but I don't care, I can't do anything significant about it so why should I care about it?

Phew.

Playstation 2 is responsible for African Wars jazreal

lol, talk about a title that puts the absolute most negative spin you can on a subject.....MikeE21286

and Donkey Kong 64 caused 9/11air_wolf_cubed

Source

Playstation 2 component incites African war
Console war reaches past the couch and into the Congo, claims report.



Has the video game industry dug up its very own blood diamond?

According to a report by activist site Toward Freedom, for the past decade the search for a rare metal necessary in the manufacturing of Sony's Playstation 2 game console has fueled a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the center of the conflict is the unrefined metallic ore, coltan. After processing, coltan turns into a powder called tantalum, which is used extensively in a wealth of western electronic devices including cell phones, computers and, of course, game consoles.

Allegedly, the demand for coltan prompted Rwandan military groups and western mining companies to plunder hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the rare metal, often by forcing prisoners-of-war and even children to work in the country's coltan mines.

"Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms," said Ex-British Parliament Member Oona King.

So where's the connection to Sony? According to Toward Freedom, during the 2000 launch of the PS2, the electronics giant was having trouble meeting consumer demand. To pump out more units, Sony required a significant increase in the production of electric capacitors, which are primarily made with tantalum. This helped drive the world price of the powder from $49/pound to a whopping $275/pound, resulting in the frenzied scouring of the Congolese hills known for being ripe with coltan.

Sony has since sworn off using tantalum acquired from the Congo, claiming that current builds of the PS2, PSP and PS3 consoles are sourced from a variety of mines in several different countries.

But according to researcher David Barouski, they're hardly off the hook.

"SONY's PlayStation 2 launch...was a big part of the huge increase in demand for coltan that began in early 1999," he explained. "SONY and other companies like it, have the benefit of plausible deniability, because the coltan ore trades hands so many times from when it is mined to when SONY gets a processed product, that a company often has no idea where the original coltan ore came from, and frankly don't care to know. But statistical analysis shows it to be nearly inconceivable that SONY made all its PlayStations without using Congolese coltan."jazreal

How can so many people be taking this seriously. I mean are SW forums your only source for news.

I suggest some of y'all read this article here.

And if that isn't enough, I suggest you read this one here.

Fact is that most of you guys are being duped by an angry fanboy looking for some dirt on Sony.

And jazreal, did you type that on a computer? Do you own a cell phone? There is an off chance that some of the 1% of the world's colton that comes out of the DRC could be in one of those gadgets. Or even, dare I say it, in your 360.

[QUOTE="air_wolf_cubed"]and Donkey Kong 64 caused 9/11ChrisSpartan117

[QUOTE="ice144"]people are really trying too hard to instigate stuff that doesnt need it on this board...jazreal