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    Capcom's Secret Dark Void Event Is Secret

    Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief

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    Image of Ackers thanks Brian Ashcraft Ackers thanks Brian Ashcraft
    10/08/09

    In reply to Capcom's Secret Dark Void Event Is Secret
    Did anyone read this as if Fahey was whispering..... as soon as i hear secret, the next words I read automatically turn into a whisper.
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    Image of QualityJeverage QualityJeverage
    10/08/09

    In reply to Capcom's Secret Dark Void Event Is Secret
    Adjective noun is adjective!
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    Image of Sirazz Sirazz
    10/08/09

    In reply to Capcom's Secret Dark Void Event Is Secret
    They probably have that thing that sends people up into the sky, that thingy they had in GamesCom I think.
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    Image of shaunmcilroy shaunmcilroy
    10/08/09

    @Sirazz: It'll be that jetpack trooper man. something to do with him. and my ears popped for him at Gamescom
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    Image of Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
    06/28/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    On another note, does it look like she's wearing some sort of weird starfleet uniform?
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    Image of Chriky Chriky
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    Eurgh Schlafly is a complete ass.


    Here's is an awesome email exchange he had with a scientist who had run a 20 year experiment in which bateria evolved a resistance to citrate.


    Obviously as Evolution is a lie put in people's heads by the devil, ol' Andy had to put the silly Man of Science right...


    [www.badscience.net]

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    Image of Phronima Phronima
    06/27/09

    @Chriky: Wonderful. That made me feel quite good inside. It gets pretty tiring having to read so much ridiculous crap from people in this country about evolution.
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    Image of Ben Larkins Ben Larkins
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    Brian
    Please get your writers under control. This post is ignorant. Obviously Owen has some sort of spite for anyone who thinks differently than him, and if he wants to further promote discord among the those who seek an intelligent conversation then so be it. Please just don't let it happen on Kotaku where it does not belong. I've been reading Kotaku for years now, and I can't believe that this post was allowed on the site. You need to watch your staff.
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    Image of dozerking dozerking
    06/27/09

    @Ben Larkins:


    looks like you got their feelings hurt. Deal with it. It's just so happens to be a right wing lunatic group, too bad.

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    Image of tsathoggua tsathoggua
    06/27/09

    @dozerking: Which part of it is ignorant?
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    Image of Lyme Lyme
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    SWEET!! With this kind of evidence we can make the post office illegal too!! [articles.latimes.com] (Postal Worker Kills Self After Fatal Rampage)
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    Image of bobtheduck in Korea bobtheduck in Korea
    06/27/09

    @Lyme: Don't, someone will take it seriously, and the gov't is already trying to reduce working days in the PO to 4... Don't give them any more fuel...
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    Image of (Human) Gyaruson (Human) Gyaruson
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    When did this turn into a political forum?
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    06/27/09

    @Gyaruson: When Phyllis Schlafly formed the Eagle Forum after getting seeing the murder simulators move from the arcades and into her grandchildren's homes.
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    06/27/09

    @Kobun: Ug, I pine for you, edit button, and can't wait to get see your return.
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    Image of Erwin Erwin
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    So... he was Goin' Berserk?...


    I think I'm going berserk!

    I think I'm losing my mind!

    I think I'm getting lost in the SHUH-ful

    It happens every time...


    I think I'm going berserk!

    Would you like to come too?

    I can't stop now I'm addicted!

    I'm berserk over you!


    Oh, damn you Buckner and Garcia. Still, it's the best piano ballad/new wave/love song featuring the words "Evil Otto" I've ever heard.

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    Image of Michael Dukakis Michael Dukakis
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    *cough* BULLSHIT *cough*
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    06/27/09

    @Michael Dukakis the worried Mets fan: You got a cold there? I'll say it for you, its BULLSHIT!
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    Man, sometimes I just want to kill the humanoids so bad, but then I think about how Jeff Dailey died, and I turn off my murder simulator.
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    06/27/09

    @Kobun: That whole thing about the heart attack is very bizarre. Can't seem to find any other info about them beside that
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    06/27/09

    @excel_excel: According to Classic Gaming, both Jeff Dailey and Peter Burkowski suffered heart attacks shortly after playing Berserk, and, as you note, that's basically all that's said of the matter. I gotta wonder if there was some pre-existing condition because as stressful as Berserk and other old arcade games can be, I have trouble believing they can cause a heart attack in a healthy adult.
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    06/27/09

    @Kobun: Very strange. I can imagine it would put them under pressure but I've never heard of this happening with any other high score arcade games. Confusing.
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    Oh god thats just ridiculous.


    The First Amendment does not render our nation's youth defenseless against the predatory, billion-dollar video game industry that churns out increasingly graphic blood and gore for impressionable minds to imbibe...


    .....

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    Image of Sakurafire Sakurafire
    06/27/09

    @excel_excel: Shit. Guess I should have taken Madworld out of the Wii before letting my son play.


    I'm sorry, but isn't the first line of defense against destroying the fabric of small children's minds the parents? Where does the fault really lie?

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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    06/27/09

    @Sakurafire: With the parents of course, but only we know that.
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    Image of Megamoppy Megamoppy
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    Hurrm may go check out this "Conservapedia" maybe.... interesting
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    Image of Đipic Đipic
    06/27/09

    @Megamoppy: Ugh, I couldn't view more than a couple articles without already feeling utterly nauseous.
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    Image of slyeye slyeye
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    Dammit people! this bird will never fly if we can't have an agreement between the left and right wings.
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    06/27/09

    @slyeye: Post of the day right there! Very true and it applies to every issue facing us today. Good job!
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    Image of bobtheduck in Korea bobtheduck in Korea
    06/27/09

    In reply to Right-Wingers Cite 1982 Arcade Death in Legal Brief
    Videogame hate is bi-partisan. Please just call it what it is "Anti-videogame group" rather than "Right-wing group" because there are plenty of "left-wing" politicians against videogames too. Anything people can blame society's problems on but themselves.
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    Image of (Human) Gyaruson (Human) Gyaruson
    06/27/09

    @bobtheduck:

    Because no one wants to see liberals look bad. Especially Owen.
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    Image of Kenny: Mmmmm, I love colons! Kenny: Mmmmm, I love colons!
    06/27/09

    @bobtheduck: Edit the article Owen.


    Kotaku has dissed on anti-game crazies a million times, but has never brought partisanship into it. Pretty damn unprofessional man.

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    Image of Veit Veit
    06/27/09

    @Kenny: The comment that this is a right-wing organization isn't the least bit partisan, it's factual. Not all nutjob organizations are conservative, but this one is. What's the struggle here?
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    Image of Kenny: Mmmmm, I love colons! Kenny: Mmmmm, I love colons!
    06/27/09

    @Veit: Just because its factual doesn't mean its a necessary detail for comprehension of the article. As I said, Kotaku has dissed on anti-game politicians a million times before, but this is the first time they've felt the need to label parties.


    From now on, I FULLY expect Kotaku to label the party affiliation of any and all politicians or lobby groups mentioned.

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    Image of spiderweb1986 spiderweb1986
    06/27/09

    @Kenny: "As I said, Kotaku has dissed on anti-game politicians a million times before, but this is the first time they've felt the need to label parties."


    WRONG.


    [kotaku.com]

    [kotaku.com]

    [kotaku.com]

    [kotaku.com]

    [kotaku.com]


    Those are five results I pulled from Google; if you'd like, I can provide more. I'm not sure what kind of rose-colored blinders you have on, but this is definitely not the first time Kotaku has mentioned party affiliation, and won't be the last.


    @logikil: The group refers to themselves as conservative on their website, as evidenced by the quotes posted by a few of the commenters in this chain. Given that they're using the term, I don't think Owen is radically out of place in using it here. What are you suggesting as an alternative?

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    06/27/09

    @Kenny:


    ...this is the first time they've felt the need to label parties. -Kenny


    'Right-wing' is not a political party; nor is 'conservative; it's an ideology. There are conservative Democrats just as there are (few and far between) liberal Republicans. Both major parties in the US are conservative when compared to the the world stage.


    So take your seat on the fainting couch and stow the victim act. No one slighted any party; it's a fact that this group is conservative and they are proud to identify themselves that way. One wonders why, in that light, you're taking such offense.

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    Image of svetlana svetlana
    06/28/09

    @Kenny: It's a bit unrealistic to expect to be able to vacate politics from any discussion or dissemination of information, on any topic. Hell, even the knitting website community Ravelry.com was a warzone during the election last year. I don't know that spewing accusations at commenters, writers or the world at large will make politics go away, even from areas where divers and sundry folks wish they wouldn't come into play. In fact, I know it won't. Parties--mere formalities that they are--aside, politics is how people feel about shit, and if you go to the trouble of seeking out this or any community, you probably feel shit, too. About games--and about whether you should or shouldn't be able to own firearms/smoke pot/set your school on fire when you get a bad test score. So I'd bite the bullet on this one.
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    06/28/09

    @spiderweb1986: Facts and evidence? Bah! People want to bash Owen, and they don't want to be bothered by petty little things like the facts and evidence that prove their criticisms wrong.
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