Oh Jesus, how can I not comment on this? Joystiq just pointed out a left wing poster on some site called Alternet.org who not only called RE5 'racist' but also claimed the entire series of Resident Evil games was racist. Mind you, he apparenly thinks the entire series consists of RE4 and 5, since he never goes into the first 3 zombie fests. 4 is lambasted for stereotypical Mexican accents (for the uninitiated, this game takes place in Spain) and 5, well, you know, black people. He goes on to say this little gem:
[RE5] "could be a training video for a white supremacist race war or another US Military adventure in one of the increasing numbers of deserts on this planet."
Wow, I don't think I've seen this much condensed liberlism in a while. Let's break the subtle messages down:
"could be a training video for a white supremacist race war"- HEY GUYS VIDEO GAMES TRAIN KIDS TO KILL! (I like how he called it a video and not a videogame.)
"or another US military adventure" - ZOMG THE AMERIKKKAN GOVT IS GOING TO INVADE IRAN LEAVE IRAQ NOW BLARGHBLARGH
"in one of the increasing numbers of deserts on this planet" - SAVE THE TREES! SAVE THE TREES!
Now mind you, rasicm's not something we in the biz would call 'morally good', the Iraq war was a pretty bad investment, hitting Iran probably isn't a good idea right now either and environmentalism really isn't a bad idea. But trying to inject it into commentary the way this guy does, it makes me wonder if this guy is one of those kinds of dudes that just likes to slip these kinds of memes into everyday conversation.
"Yeah, this veggie burger tastes pretty good. It'd be better if the bun wasn't concocted by imperialist corporations using the Muslim slaves they got from their oil war in Iraq. Hey, I'm gonna go to Blockbuster, wanna come?"
They say clever people see subtlety where there is none. This guy don't seem too durn clever.
Oh yeah, World in Conflict is totally awesome, I love it, it's the best and most innovative(in terms of control schemes) RTS I've played since Starcraft (yeah, okay, SC wasn't so much innovative as it was just refined. Shut up.) and the blister I got from burning my hand on an M16 shell apparently IS filled with pus because it broke open. Why a burn wound would have pus in it, I don't know. Have to talk to a biolologist about that one.