As soon as I saw this link

"It's not about graphic material in new
Afghan war game. It's the characters
you can play as that are causing a stir."

I had a feeling I knew why, even before I clicked on it. Electronic Arts new game "Medal of Honor" makes it possible for players to act in the role of an "opposing force", in this game about the war in Afghanistan. While this formula is not unusual for a multi player game, in this instance it becomes possible to simulate the shooting of American and other allied troops. This is why Major General Bruce Casella has pulled it out of stores on military bases and U.K. Defense Secretary Liam Fox is asking stores in the UK not to sell the game. In both situations, the right call was made. Not only could it jeopardize the mental health of some troops, though I'm neither an expert on the military nor mental health, but I see where it could possibly be used as a training and recruiting tool for terrorist groups. Of course it could also be used for good as well, which was probably the intentions of the game developers.

Yet this won't matter to the mothers, fathers, husbands, wives and children of our troops. Though this game is certainly protected by our First Amendment, the economic fallout to this game will probably be so devastating thatmass-marketing it at this time is not what I would advise the boardroom of Electronic Arts. Once the war in Afghanistan becomes a historical war, it may be more acceptable to re-release the game.

Aol's "Daily Finance" Page. Today's Date.

After putting the game aside for a few years to try other games, I finally decided to beatShadow of the Colossus in Hard Time attack mode. I have got almost all the "toys", except for the last one, before I embarked on Wander's real journey though Hard Mode, because I wanted to do more. It was when I got to Kuromori that I said something aloud which changed the perception of this game that I have loved forever. It was three in the morning, I had just woke up, and I had just ate some garlic bread, so my mind wasn't where it should have been. Wander had just been knocked senseless by Kuromori's tail.

I said something to the effect of "Chevy Chase must have written this game".

I don't know what randomly put Chevy Chase in there, as opposed to any other SNL comedian. I could have put Tina Fey in there, or Eddie Murphy or the late, great Richard Pryor. Yet since then I have began to notice "things" about the game, which prove that either confirmation bias is real, or that CC really did write this gamebecauseI see his "signature" all in the game.

Wander get repeatedly knocked around in this game, and his name, Wander. That sounds like something out of the 3 Amigos, or it could have been.

The Dead Girl waking up and it all turns out to be a dream. Wander is sad and this jazzy piano music plays in the background. It reminds me of The Invisible Man (The movie with Chevy Chase, not the book by Ralph Ellison).

The clues to where they are:

"Thy next foe is...
The land where trees nary grow...
It sleeps in a dry lake bed...
A rude awakening."

I still don't know why this reminds me of SNL and National Lampoon's Chevy Chase, but it does.

Argus, Malus and Valus. .. they kind of look like Chevy.

Now I know that the real creator of SOTC isFurnito Ueda, and he's thinking of turning SOTC into a movie. Just wondering if he'll cast Chevy Chase as Dorman.

:DI never thought I'd be too sick to play video games. Yet that's what happened recently. Sure I was well enough to put the disk in the Playstation, but that was it. That was the night before I became nearly completely bedridden. I always imagined myself fifty or sixty years from now in an assisted living community where every patient 's bed was hooked up to a Playstation, just like TV's in the rooms now. However if we are too ill to play, then the only ones who will be enjoying the Playstations in our future will be the Doctors. (I'm joking, Doctors!).

Of course there is that alternate Utopian future I imagine as well, but that's not a pretty future, so I won't describe it here. In that case there will be no one playing video games. They will be in one. :)

I had to go an entire year without a PlayStation, because ours broke. The dogs chewed on the cord. So I had to replay everything, and my skill level has fallen greatly. Yet in some ways that makes it more interesting.