Xbox Kinect: Video Game or Terrorist Training Tool
Ladies and Gentleman, we’re dealing with a crisis of unimaginable proportions. I seriously cannot even imagine it. Microsoft, the ones who brought us such fantastic products like the Zune, and Microsoft Flight Simulator, have now just come out with a doozy that threatens the safety of all Americans. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the Xbox Kinect. I know it seems harmless, but having used it I know that our entire way of life is now in trouble.
This seemingly joyful device gives a full body work out to anyone that uses it, and is perfect in training one to run, shoot, and destroy. What first got me terrified is that most gamers don’t want to get exercise and move around. They’re perfectly content on sitting on their lazy boy gaming chairs and playing Call of Duty: Black Ops without having to move anything but their thumbs and eyes. This is why it’s so popular. But now, in the hands of our enemies, it becomes a tool to bring America down.
My sources in the Middle East tell me that Xbox Kinects have been purchased by the truck loads, but cannot be tracked because the Middle East doesn’t have the internet yet. The terrorists are now geared to train in cave to kill us instead of running outside which is a prime spot for our drones to wipe them out.
Now, inside their cave living rooms they can train for hours. Day and night they will train using horrifying games such as, “Fantastic Pets” and “Get Fit with Mel B.” This will not stand. I will never use an Xbox 360 ever again because of this treasonous action by one of America’s biggest corporations.
Just look at how you start using the Kinect:
Is this how we want to start playing games, or is this how we want to celebrate after blowing something up?
The moment the Middle East gets internet is when the hell storm will really come down on us all. Terrorists will be able to train across the Xbox Live network. Imagine it: Al Qaeda training happening simultaneously over the internet, taunting regular players with their extremist views, and teabagging my character as practice for the real thing.
What can you do? There is nothing you can do. This is happening. Kinect is giving our greatest enemy one of their most useful tools. Soon their experience points will be the evidence of how hard they’re working at destroying all that we hold dear. Rise up to your local stores and protest these machines of Jihad. Refuse to have anything to do with stores that carry the Xbox Kinect. Go and buy a Wii, because it’s the only safe alternative.
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Author: Michael Travis Williams
Michael, Or Mickey, was born below his means, but due to his bafflingly good looks and absurd talent became your favorite person.
1:45 pm
My question is why not just cut off their electricity and water over there. I’ve given this some extensive thought and think it could really work.
In every Middle East country we need to liberate and secure, we should simply cut off their water towers and electric grids. This would make all people, including their terrorists, have to rough it and that is nearly impossible to do in their harsh climate.
Next, we build secure compounds. They would be large and resemble apartments, like a very large, secure military base. We could budget to surround the outer parts of it with turrets, towers, multiple fences and such. We would barricade these mini-cities, just sort of like an expanded and stronger Green Zone.
Then from there, we build the water towers and electric facilities inside the Green Zone. We airlift food and supplies into these areas and then let citizens move into the housing we provide. It would be pretty neat because the people would be safe in whatever area we were securing.
We have the families and trusted people meet at rally points and bring them into these new Green Zone cities. There they could trade and it would only be temporary. We could check them when they entered and make sure they have no weapons, so the city is safe from the inside.
On the outside, is left the terrorists. We can then go through and freely clean the cities where they used to try to hide among the women and children. They would have no reprieve, for all the water and electricity would be cut off.
When all was secure and clear, we could then rebuild the original city in secure fashion. We could install cameras on the lights and other things that will help the government monitor its citizens. At this point the Green Zone city could be dismantled and we could move all the supplies to the next terror town and clean it all the same. It would be a new form of ‘siege’ but made for the urban desert combat environment.
In our wake, we would also leave new apartments for each city we’ve liberated and also new water and electric facilities, that could be hooked back up to the main grid.
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2:31 pm
Are you really that sick in the head that you would advocate such a grotesque invasion?
For one, there is internet in the Middle East. I know you’d all like to go around with your continued assumptions that people in the Middle East are primitive and live horrible lives, but it’s the 21st century. You need to grow up and learn that you aren’t the best people in the world.
Two, why do we need to “liberate and secure” every Middle Eastern country, as you suggest? Many of them have adequate, stable governments [aside from the ones we've ALREADY invaded and all but destroyed], and don’t need our “liberation”. Do you know the quality of life in Saudi Arabia? Jordan? I doubt it.
As for your grotesque plan for these “Green Zones”… are you that dense? The American government can’t afford its current occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, let alone of EVERY Middle Eastern country. Who died and gave YOU the right to install your government system everywhere you go? Your little “plan” sounds more like terrorism, frankly. You’d punish an entire populace just to make yourself look like a “good guy”? You know what would happen if you ATTEMPTED to do that, right? The other countries of the world would turn on you and kick your pathetic little ass so hard that you’d be without any power for DECADES.
Most nations don’t take kindly to neo-colonialism, Adam. Get that through your racist, xenophobic, white-American-Christian-males-only head, will you?
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2:38 pm
//My question is why not just cut off their electricity and water over there. I’ve given this some extensive thought and think it could really work.//
You mean you questioned destroying their utilities that are across their nation in an act of terrorism, since any sane person would realize that every country contains their own utilities and only their utilities and in order to ‘cut off’ their access, the only sure-fire way would be to destroy them.
//In every Middle East country we need to liberate and secure, we should simply cut off their water towers and electric grids. This would make all people, including their terrorists, have to rough it and that is nearly impossible to do in their harsh climate.//
You don’t ever listen to yourself, do you?
//Next, we build secure compounds. They would be large and resemble apartments, like a very large, secure military base. We could budget to surround the outer parts of it with turrets, towers, multiple fences and such. We would barricade these mini-cities, just sort of like an expanded and stronger Green Zone.//
Wow, for someone who really hates Hitler, you sure do love his ideas for containing ‘the enemy’.
//Then from there, we build the water towers and electric facilities inside the Green Zone. We airlift food and supplies into these areas and then let citizens move into the housing we provide. It would be pretty neat because the people would be safe in whatever area we were securing.//
Yes, because everyone who isn’t Christian is nothing more than little toys for you to play God with, right? You determine their lives, safety, and such at your own whim, surely there’s nothing monstrous about that!
//We have the families and trusted people meet at rally points and bring them into these new Green Zone cities. There they could trade and it would only be temporary. We could check them when they entered and make sure they have no weapons, so the city is safe from the inside.//
Hey genius, you don’t know what reality is, do you?
//On the outside, is left the terrorists. We can then go through and freely clean the cities where they used to try to hide among the women and children. They would have no reprieve, for all the water and electricity would be cut off.//
Ya know, for being bomb-happy, you’re surprisingly wanting to keep causalities to a minimum. Makes me wonder if this is worse than your original ideas though, considering how you’d want to continue torturing innocents rather than kill them and end it all in one fell swoop.
//When all was secure and clear, we could then rebuild the original city in secure fashion. We could install cameras on the lights and other things that will help the government monitor its citizens. At this point the Green Zone city could be dismantled and we could move all the supplies to the next terror town and clean it all the same. It would be a new form of ‘siege’ but made for the urban desert combat environment.//
Yes, denying citizens basic privacy is always a good thing. Surely we wouldn’t be violating any laws through these measures, it’s not like there’s an actual list of guidelines to prevent people from doing whatever the fuck they want to the people on the other side of the war, right? Wait, there are? And this would? Who knew?
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9:25 pm
It’s nice to know that people like you can stereotype christianity into being world-hating “demonic” people. For someone who clearly is taking what this man is saying, analyzing every word he says in order to make it a negative. So I shall now assume you are some sort of liberal, since you like to assume too. Shouldn’t you be a little more open-minded for a liberal? it’s an idea. Who cares if it is a bad one, if you don’t like then don’t vote him for president. It’s that simple. You have to start somewhere right? Coming up with an extraneous idea like this can be modified to eventually be a pretty good plan. I don’t see you sharing any ideas. Why is that? And for everyone else commenting against this article, there is obviously no sense of humor. You would have to be a maniac to believe this rubbish, that’s why I can tell from the way he wrote this it is meant to be parody of what I have seen before; where people “claim” video games are used to train terrorists. I listen to people like you and I realize that if America got off their lazy asses and went out and made something for itself, we wouldn’t have problems like dickhead politicians on BOTH parties making fools out of themselves and thinking that the only way to get out of a hole is with a bigger damn hole.
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2:30 am
the funny thing is that you wonder why muslims would want to kill you.
yeah it’s senseless murder they have no reason at all to hate you. i mean all you wanna do is cut them off from their water and put them in camps in their own country.
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1:44 pm
your right, the person that published this stupid article is probably racist or just wierd. All he wants to do is kill the arabs.
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9:05 pm
all i have to say is GENIOUS!!!
maybe we should go show this idea of yours to the terrorists!!!! THEY WILL POINT THERE GUNS AT YOU IN APPROVAL!!!!!
you can go show it to them!!!!
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2:23 pm
errr did I see 2 stupid people or what ?
I will start witht he article first
1st : why you said that it’s a terrorist toys because we see a Man raising his arms How many people do that in sport television on everyday life even when we wake up from bed ? it’s a Natural Move
2nd can you define what is Terrorist ?
Is it someone who don’t agree with the americanization of the world ?? in this case the entire world is a Terrorist ?
now my second part is for Mister adam
1. how can You cut off their water and electricity supplies since they are Either underground or very deep into the territory and it’s will cause Much More harm than you thought
2. who said these country want your “help” anyway you said it so many time you hate muslims so how is your Point valid, actually middle east see you as a Threat to Mankind after 2003
3. how can you recognize Trusted family and people ?? because they will convert to christianity ???
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1:48 pm
your right, they are humans if white people can use why cant arabs. It is racist saying just arabs are terrorists. The IRA are terrorists, they might use kinect, you should kill them too then. the publisher of this article is completely racist
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2:27 pm
Michael,
I have no idea what this article is about. I’ve read it several times and still I am lost to the evangelical value add you are trying to convey.
I hope you are aware this is a Christian website dedicated to the concerns of Christians, yet I read your jibber jabber (with a touch of pencil and paper Dungeons and Dragons).
Ask yourself, “How is this relevant to Christ?” before putting your thoughts on the internets.
I look forward to your next article.
BB
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2:32 pm
Michael,
This by far is a dangerous threat to our children. My niece has been begging for this Nintendo system and now I know NOT to get her one.
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2:34 pm
Dumbass, the XBox and XBox 360 are Microsoft consoles.
The Nintendo Wii is, surprise, a Nintendo console.
The Playstation 3 is Sony’s console.
Oh, and, by the way? The Middle East HAS internet. Get out of the closet for once.
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7:33 pm
All are made from the communist japs
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12:34 am
The Japanese never been communist to begin with they were imperialist and now are a constitutional monarchy ( like britain )
second Xbox 360 from MICROSOFT is from USA so if you said these console are created from communism you will be wrong or maybe you Intend to said USA are also communist ?
oh and another note if they were communist they would not create these consoles and SELLING it to make BIG profit (capitalist ideology)
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12:38 am
Millennium,
Now you just look ignorant. Try quoting scripture if you want to be respected in today’s techno world.
Judges 3:21-22
And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.
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3:01 pm
sorry I’m not fond of a Book written 300 years after Jesus death
and I’m not fond of a Book that murderer millions of people In history
I’m not fond of a Fairy tales book neither
No I’m not fond of a Book that Lie to you and many people continue to believe this shit
is just not me you see and by the way I know Much more to Techno that you will ever know anything about bible
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9:34 pm
Okay okay, I don’t usually get angry, but FUCK you. This is a christian website! If you and your liberal buddies wish so much peace and prosperity among diversity, and you want equal rights for gays and all of this other crap, then why would you be so hypocritical and insult the christian religion saying we read a book of fairy tales? The bible did not cause war and violence, idiots who misinterpreted it caused war and violence. Idiots like you, who say that everyone should have equal rights, but you really just believe that the lazy people should be taken care of by the government, and the people who have worked their asses off to live their American dream should be forced to give to those who’s dreams are to bring world peace and smoke pot. You, sir, are no better than racists, sexists, or anyone with a prejudice for that matter. Consider how much you really listen to yourself.
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9:09 pm
dude, did you drop out of highschool? or was high school a place ‘to get high’.
Are all of you constantally high? I WANT IN@
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7:45 pm
There RD goes typing D***ass again. So degrading to women.
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7:57 pm
There you go, showing your ignorance again, Tyson. Japan is a constitutional monarchy, NOT communist.
That would be the Chinese, thanks. Completely different languages, cultures, and countries.
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2:37 pm
It’s relevant to Christ because the terrorists are trying to attack our belief system with our own technology as a way to destroy us with our own creations.
A terrorist is one that does exactly what the word means, they bring terror to calm. Many hate my Christian America, but some go through the process of actually using that hate in a physically destructive manner.
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2:47 pm
It’s not relevant to anything, other than that you’re scared that someone might beat you at some ridiculous game like Call of Duty. Idiot.
The Middle East has internet. It’s had internet for quite some time, believe it or not.
Your “Christian America” is nothing but a bunch of hateful, fearmongering bigots who think Jesus told them to go kill and destroy anything that isn’t white, American, Christian, and heterosexual. You don’t bring ANY calm.
Tell you what, though. I’ll battle you over Xbox Live sometime on Call of Duty, or whatever awful game you want, and I’ll kick your ass. Surely you can take being throttled over wireless by an American lesbian, right?
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2:49 pm
You’re on!
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3:19 pm
RD found a nice young man to play with.
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3:32 pm
I hope it works out. They would make a cute couple.
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3:34 pm
Except that, you know, I’m a lesbian, and he isn’t a girl.
Not to mention he sounds so bigoted and close-minded from this article that, even if he was a girl, I wouldn’t date him.
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4:42 pm
Think of them as inverted vaginae. Uber-vags
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5:04 pm
I’ve seen a penis. Believe it or not, I HAVE had boyfriends before. My last boyfriend was very sweet, but it just didn’t work out. He was quite fine when I came out as a lesbian, and even encouraged me to seek out my preferred romantic partner, regardless of gender.
Penises are NOT “inverted vaginae”. They’re completely different, thanks.
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1:52 pm
your gay
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9:11 pm
thanks captain obvious
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4:28 pm
I have to say but are u a fucking idiot my fuck u are a dum poes thats trying to be cool so do urself a favor fat fuck go talk shit somewhere else!!!!! CUNT
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8:11 pm
I would just like to say that according to our President, Barrack Obama, America is not a Christian country. In fact America was “discovered” by Europeans who were escaping the church.
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2:52 pm
I will definitley not be allowing my kids to let their unamerican schoolmates play their atari playboy portables.
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2:52 pm
You’re not being fair here RD and Comic at all and you just ignore the proposal. Why is it that you would not want to consider something to save these people’s lives.
Obama has created a massacre zone over there. The people are suffering. The terrorists hide among them and are using Vietnam tactics. Are you too daft to not see that they are hiding among the innocent and using them as human shields?
This is evil and we cannot stand for it. We cannot stand for this. How dare you make petty accusations when we’re talking about a big issue here and it needs an immediate solution. Obama has our troops over there getting killed and these innocent Iraq and Afghani people are caught in the fray.
If we can put them in some temporary homes and have them documented, we can assure who the good ones are. It will be a census for them and we keep them archived in a database. These are people, they have names. They deserve to be treated as humans, with a name. What you see as the terrorist on the news, I see as a potential loving mother or father. Someone’s son or daughter. These people have names.
We organize their names and move them into their family units, then liberate their cities from being suffocated by the sandy grips of terrorism. Then we move the people back and move on. It will be a firewall of liberation, as we burn terrorists out of these cities. We could just start in one side of the country we’re freeing, the East, and then work our way across. A second group of soldiers can do what we’re trying to do now, and that’s teach the liberated cities to work for themselves. To have police and civilization. We cleanse and then we teach. I really think this would work out well.
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3:01 pm
“You’re not being fair here at all and you just ignore the proposal. Why is it that you would not want to consider something to save these people’s lives.”
Because it infringes on, I don’t know, BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS? Not to mention it’s a just a proposal to conquer nations that are JUST FINE without us.
“Obama has created a massacre zone over there. The people are suffering. The terrorists hide among them and are using Vietnam tactics. Are you too daft to not see that they are hiding among the innocent and using them as human shields?”
Obama didn’t start the wars in the Middle East, moron. That was your precious Bush. I had a cousin who served in the Marines and was, at one point, deployed to Iraq. You know what? It’s the AMERICAN military causing the most harm over there, not their own people.
“This is evil and we cannot stand for it. We cannot stand for this. How dare you make petty accusations when we’re talking about a big issue here and it needs an immediate solution. Obama has our troops over there getting killed and these innocent Iraq and Afghani people are caught in the fray.”
Again, it was Bush who started the war, not Obama. Most of us would rather that we WEREN’T at war, thanks.
“If we can put them in some temporary homes and have them documented, we can assure who the good ones are. It will be a census for them and we keep them archived in a database. These are people, they have names. They deserve to be treated as humans, with a name. What you see as the terrorist on the news, I see as a potential loving mother or father. Someone’s son or daughter. These people have names.”
How will you “assure who the good ones are”? Sounds like you’ll be playing god and judging them. I don’t see terrorists on the news, other than humans who would kill innocents to prove a point. Which, looking at this, would make you a terrorist, Adam.
“We organize their names and move them into their family units, then liberate their cities from being suffocated by the sandy grips of terrorism. Then we move the people back and move on. It will be a firewall of liberation, as we burn terrorists out of these cities. We could just start in one side of the country we’re freeing, the East, and then work our way across. A second group of soldiers can do what we’re trying to do now, and that’s teach the liberated cities to work for themselves. To have police and civilization. We cleanse and then we teach. I really think this would work out well.”
And I think you’re an ass.
These countries HAVE those systems in place. You would rip those apart just so you could have your xenophobic bloodbath? Please. Get a life.
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3:08 pm
Actually, Adam’s proposal is radical if not sound. One of the main problems with Iraq is the lack of infrastructure.
Cursory review of their smaller cities reveal the same problem over and over again: underdevelopment. One of the biggest obstacles we face in Iraq is building proper cities for these people and training them to maintain a working, modern city from region to region.
Terrorists do hide within the cities. They have underground camps with minimal energy supplies. They obtain water from terror loyalists, who live in the cities. By monitoring a power grid and assuring water only goes to those who want a safe and secure nation, we could greatly weaken the resolve and ability of the terrorists. We will disable them.
I like the idea of building a database to document the Iraqi and Afghani people. We should create a national ID for these people and keep in line their family ties and also their trade, their profession. It would give an easy way to know what people we can use when rebuilding their cities and creating new sources of enterprise. It will also show which ones should raise a ‘red flag’.
Strong work, Adam. I really think your idea is novel and will mention it to a few people in DC, to see what they think. With new Congressional leadership we’re lobbying for a few changes in how overseas enterprise and wars are handled, in this region especially. We will see how this idea flies and if we can get Obama to bite on at least the concept of it.
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3:26 pm
RD,
Anyone who follows the news knows that this is not Bushes WAR. Bush clearly finished his involvment and all was well. Perhaps you do not recall the “Mission Accomplished” banner.
Adam, your ideas gave me concern at first, but after deep meditation I see some wisdom in it. Please continue to elaborate on your thoughts. Have you thought about politics?
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4:08 pm
I do recall the “Mission Accomplished” proclamation from Bush, back in May 2003. It was supposed to signal the end of major combat operations.
Yet, nearly eight years later, our military is still in Iraq, and a vast majority of the casualties in the war, both military and civilian, have occurred AFTER Bush’s speech.
He’s the one who put us IN this war. He never ENDED it. If he had, then our military wouldn’t still be in Iraq. His involvement has yet to end.
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4:42 pm
Wow I cant believe that you think his involvement isnt over. There was an election in 2008 and Bush left office in 2009. Unless I am terribly mistaken, only our New president is Commander in Chief. Bush had Accomplished the Mission he had from God and our troops were then humanitarians similar to civial war reconstruction, or post nazi Germany. THe new commander in cheif ownes this current mess.
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5:02 pm
The mess that Bush left for him when he left office and Obama took office. It was a mess that would have been left to whoever had been elected.
“Our troops were then humanitarians”? They still sort of are, but have you read about the high number of rapes that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan, from military men to civilian girls and women? And in the military itself, women serving in the military often suffer rape or sexual harassment from men serving in the military. We’re as “humanitarian” as ANY OTHER MILITARY.
Oh, except that we don’t like the idea of homosexuals or transgendered individuals serving openly in our military. Or you lot don’t. Which is rather hilarious, considering that Canada, Israel, the UK, and many other nations have had a policy of allowing anyone to serve openly [regardless of gender or sexual attractions] for YEARS.
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5:14 pm
Those peoples were raped because they were using facebooks and wikileaks. Todays sexual predators are more likeley to have used a computer than not.
I read that obama sued to stop the repeal of dont ask dont tell.
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5:21 pm
You…
…Please tell me you aren’t that dense?
There is NO correlation between incidents of rape and Facebook or Wikileaks in these cases. These are cases of civilians being raped by OUR military, and of female soldiers being raped by their male counterparts. How DARE you try and blame the victims, or the sites they peruse, for the tragedies they have suffered.
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6:05 pm
Do you or do you not think that most sexual predators and prey have used a computer?
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6:42 pm
That isn’t relevant to this conversation. MOST PEOPLE have used computers. Why you feel that you must make rape the fault of the victim and their computer use is preposterous.
I myself use the computer on a DAILY BASIS. I am a computer science major with an emphasis in web development. MOST PEOPLE use computers on a daily or weekly basis. Does that make everyone a sexual predator or rape victim, then? Because I have never been raped or approached on Facebook regarding sexual relations, nor have I used the internet for sexual matters.
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6:58 pm
I don’t feel like it’s their fault at all. I’m just showing a cause and effect. A lot of people say people propose cause and effect. “Like you’re more likely to get in a car accident while driving in snow” Or “owning a gun makes you more likely to have a gun accident”
I personally have been abused due to the internets. And that was my fault. I keep saying I won’t let it happen again, but too much communion wine is too much communion wine… I’m glad you have avoided such problems.
A facebook predator cannot use facebook to get to you if you are not on the internets.
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12:49 am
errr I missed something do I the 2003 banner was for the IRAQ war ( well saddam being killed and all )
but the actual massacre never ended ( actually the casualities until around 2009 was very high on the opposite sides mainly the civilian )
now the casualities after Obama took office lowered a lot and you dare said that it’s obama’s wars ?
You killed the Iraqui leader lets the countries in turmoil but you don,t expect people in there to be what we call again oh yeah taking care of themselve seriously Open your eyes Bush was the real Terrorist Out there if God exist he is surely not on bush side
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12:58 am
Wow, did you go to state college or are you just ignorant of history? Muslims attacked America. Bush attacked back and was victorious. Obama is fighting some weird unholy war.
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3:07 pm
I actually pretty damn succesful in european history and american history in general
and saddam Hussein was NOT with ALQUAEDA
also lets me help you ben laden and Bush have very strong Tie between their families commercials and privately
also AL-QUaeda is from SAUDI ARABIA not afghanistan or whatever the place
also in 2003 the US army found Ben laden they could reach him but why did they let’s him go ?? to continue this war ?
I agree on one point this war was not Holy and NEVER been Holy
it’s also weird that most americans never heard of alquaeda muslim or Ben laden before 2001 ?
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9:32 pm
Ben who? Again you don’t make much sense.
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8:56 pm
//You’re not being fair here RD and Comic at all and you just ignore the proposal. Why is it that you would not want to consider something to save these people’s lives.//
Because you don’t want to save their lives, you want to monitor them and put them under constant surveillance and remove what we consider to be basic rights. Once there, you’re not going to stop, you’d force them to change their lives, culture, religion, everything, simply because you’re not happy with it.
//Obama has created a massacre zone over there. The people are suffering. The terrorists hide among them and are using Vietnam tactics. Are you too daft to not see that they are hiding among the innocent and using them as human shields?//
Who sent troops there, who wanted their oil, who was in charge of the whole shit-fest, and who was at the beginning of it all? Bush. Obama stepped into a room filled with shit that Bush left behind. He didn’t make the mess, and it was his job to clean it. How effectively he’s done that is the real question.
//This is evil and we cannot stand for it. We cannot stand for this. How dare you make petty accusations when we’re talking about a big issue here and it needs an immediate solution. Obama has our troops over there getting killed and these innocent Iraq and Afghani people are caught in the fray.//
Obama’s pulling the troops that Bush sent there in the first place. Your blame is misplaced.
//If we can put them in some temporary homes and have them documented, we can assure who the good ones are. It will be a census for them and we keep them archived in a database. These are people, they have names. They deserve to be treated as humans, with a name. What you see as the terrorist on the news, I see as a potential loving mother or father. Someone’s son or daughter. These people have names.//
No, you see a dirty heathen who needs to die. You see a ‘towel-head’ or a ‘sand nigger’. You don’t see a person, you see someone you call an enemy. Stop lying to everyone, you’ve already admitted that you want to drop a nuke on them.
//We organize their names and move them into their family units, then liberate their cities from being suffocated by the sandy grips of terrorism. Then we move the people back and move on. It will be a firewall of liberation, as we burn terrorists out of these cities. We could just start in one side of the country we’re freeing, the East, and then work our way across. A second group of soldiers can do what we’re trying to do now, and that’s teach the liberated cities to work for themselves. To have police and civilization. We cleanse and then we teach. I really think this would work out well.//
Again, like you’d stop there. You’d change their lives radically, nor would you accept their feelings. You just said you see them as people, and you’ve said how you hate Hitler for all he’s done, yet you seem hellbent on treating these people much like what Hitler treated the Jewish people who were rounded up. You say you’re wanting to make their lives better, but we all know you want to put death chambers all over and just take the place over.
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3:42 pm
uhh… meant to be posted on another site
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4:20 pm
Thank you for this warning, Mickey. As the mother of two children it is good to be warned about all of these games that are harmful. How scary to know the terrorists are using this to train their troops. Let’s hope our kids are not drafted and have to fight these sophisticated hordes of scary men.
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7:13 pm
Flight simulators are used by terrorists to train for hijacking American airlines. It sounds like the Black Ops game is following the same playbook. After 9;11 we should know better than to let this technology out of America. I guess Czar Obama is asleep at the wheel again.
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7:54 pm
Are you really, truly that dense?
Flight simulators are made partly for entertainment (as my parents bought my younger brother Microsoft Flight Simulator this year for Christmas) and partly for ACTUAL TRAINING for pilots.
Black Ops, on the other hand, was made PURELY for entertainment.
Did you forget that we live in a democracy, Stephenson? If Obama were to do as you seem to be suggesting, and prevent companies from exporting their products (such as video games), and thereby making a profit, there would be RIOTS. Not to mention that it’d infringe on their rights to sell their products wherever they want.
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7:57 pm
We prohibit things all the time. San Francisco banned Mcdonalds Happy meal Toys. How many towns keep walmart out? Whats wrong with keeping terorrist training aids like Black ops, pac-man and Flight Similator away from foreigners?
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12:57 am
pac-man ?? wow what a BIG threat to the AMERICAN FREEDOM … no seriously you were actually serious about pac-man ?? because you really need a Go psychological check up ?
Oh and also Most “terrorist” doesn’t play those games (like flight simulator and black ops)
simply because poor countries don’t go buying games while they could Buy foods but I guess you know that already do you ?
also if video game is a real threat to “american freedom” try banning them just Try if the people heard that christian is Behind this banning watch out you never see a church Burning or any other vandalism do you ?
on a final Note tell me : what is Freedom ?? is it to remove all other countries of FREEDOM because you are scared ??
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12:20 pm
Yes terrorist in the northern parts of Afghanistan use games like Pac-Man and missile command to train for bunker and tunnel warfare. Just like Mexicans use Frogger to train for border crossings. Its proven that these games build some kind of hand eye coordination as proved in the 9/11 attacks.
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12:54 am
How is that comment dense? The 9/11 hijackers trained on flight simulators! Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan regularly use computer games in their training. If our enemies got a hold of this technology, would they not be better prepared to attack us? Why should we let them? You are the one who needs to take a good hard look at himself and ask where his priorities are. Crazy!
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1:07 am
“How is that comment dense?”
Because it makes you look as ignorant and bigoted as you truly are.
“The 9/11 hijackers trained on flight simulators! Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan regularly use computer games in their training. If our enemies got a hold of this technology, would they not be better prepared to attack us?”
Ahah. Excuse me, please.
I consider myself to be an avid player of video games. I have a strict exercise regimen to keep myself in shape, and I perform wonderfully in my classes here at university, lest you think I am letting my enjoyment of video and computer games get in the way of my health and studies. The Kinect is considered by many gamers to be cute and kitschy, much in the way that the Nintendo Wii’s software is cute and kitschy. There is nothing to fear by letting people play using the Kinect, let alone individuals in the Middle East. Goodness, they might play with an adorable animated tiger! They might become reasonably skilled at baseball or bowling! What terror that would cause!
…Really, Billings. People in foreign nations across the GLOBE can purchase Xbox 360s and play all sorts of games on it. Clicking a button on a controller does NOT ready one for using an actual handgun, or any sort of weaponry. Any moron could tell you that.
“You are the one who needs to take a good hard look at himself and ask where his priorities are. Crazy!”
…How many times have I mentioned to you that I am a GIRL, Stevie? I have stated countless times that I am a girl and a proud lesbian as well. Can you get that through your thick skull, or is that too difficult to comprehend?
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1:16 am
Two wrongs DO NOT make a right!
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1:20 am
I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you mean by your statement. Would you mind clarifying, like an ACTUAL adult? Or are you going to continue to act in a manner that better describes that of a petulant child?
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1:08 am
//How is that comment dense? The 9/11 hijackers trained on flight simulators! Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan regularly use computer games in their training.//
Uh, no they don’t, and I highly doubt they did. A flight simulator game will only show so many details. The whole idea of ‘games leading to excelling in this area’ is a completely ludicrous one.
//If our enemies got a hold of this technology, would they not be better prepared to attack us?//
Even if you COULD argue the flight simulator game bit, there’s no way in hell you could argue any other point. No game has the kind of details that ANYONE could use to ‘train’ on. Then there’s the fact that the actions in a game are VASTLY different to anything in real life. In a game, I could shoot the wings off a fly from a hundred yards away; in real life, I could barely hit the broad side of a barn.
//Why should we let them? You are the one who needs to take a good hard look at himself and ask where his priorities are. Crazy!//
You do realize that 1. RD is a girl, and 2. that you’re the one who’s fucking crazy.
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1:21 am
“The first was a warning from another agency to the FBI that a Middle Eastern country was seeking to buy commercial flight simulators.”
“The FBI disclosed two other clues Wednesday that it said might be relevant to the investigation into the September hijackings. A Middle Eastern country where U.S. shipments are restricted sought unsuccessfully before Sept. 11 to buy a commercial flight simulator, and an FBI pilot in 1998 expressed concerns to a supervisor in Oklahoma City about a number of Arab men seeking flight training”
FBI Chief Acknowledges 9/11 Errors
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/30/national/main510607.shtml
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1:11 am
Red Chineese pronounce it “fright Simrurator”. That should tell you something.
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1:03 am
hmmm why are they red ??? is it Like the republican aprty of USA they have red colors too no ?
also a fright if my memory is correct is a ship ( maybe misspelled )
but you just showed how racist you are and how stupid you are I guess
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1:19 am
Wow it sounds like you want terrorist to crash boats into our buildings as well. Amazing!!
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3:10 pm
you will see the boat from far away mostly these sjhip since they are Cargo
ship
but you sound either satirical and sarcastical or you are either paranoid I vote for the earlier
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8:41 pm
//Flight simulators are used by terrorists to train for hijacking American airlines.//
Yes, because hitting the space bar is SOOOO much alike to driving an actual plane.
//It sounds like the Black Ops game is following the same playbook.//
Stevie, do me a favor and click the button on your mouse, either one. Then take a handgun and pull the trigger. Tell me how vastly different those experiences are.
//After 9;11 we should know better than to let this technology out of America. I guess Czar Obama is asleep at the wheel again.//
This is the statement of an old man who’s out of touch with society and technology today.
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9:06 pm
Why would anyone want HIM of all people to have a gun? Is there a desire for another Arizona-style shooting?
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7:23 pm
Stephenson, i really appreciate your god given writing skills. It has come to my attention that a new game called “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm” has come out, and i really want you to write a review on it. I have heard scary things about it, and would be glad if an atheist liberal saying i should buy it for my kids wasn’t the only review on the internet.
Thank you in advance,
Rev. Jason Tesith
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9:13 pm
It looks like you’re all as terrified as I am.
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5:05 am
World of Warcraft Cataclysm is as follows, a game where you take a fantasy character and go die. ALOT.
In the previus game related articles here, people stated that you use dark magic and such to further your own goals, wich is true in some small part, BUT, if using black magic was a good thing according to Blizzard (the creators) why would they force their buyers to die so excruciuatingly much?.
I hope that clears your doubts of getting this game, if you want to make your kid hate magic, buy it NOW mr rev. Jason
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8:35 am
This is response to Adam nelsons first comment
That would be effective way to invade any country including USA but rest of your idea is completely stupid you have no rigth to say anything like that about Afganistan you act like you know what you’re doing there well i know because I’VE BEEN THERE DIPSHIT you however are not.
And about this article
Kinect is accesory not a video game some games however require kinect thats all also i own Xbox 360 and CoD Black Ops and its good way to pass time.
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9:59 am
Well considering that we still have troops and terrorists there, looks like you missed a spot. Or two. Or three. Get it, Cochise? The strategy we’re using does not work. My strategy will bring a pretty sure end to the strongholds of terrorism, save lives, build infrastructure and in the long run, save money.
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10:38 am
Many people in the mountains do not have electricity and in case you dont know what will usually happen in camps like that:diseases,shortage of food,shortage of water,filth and the list goes on.terrorists get their water from ponds in the desert just like many other people in there so yeah your strategy is stupid also you’l make civilians suffer just like terrorists.
And Adam if you would be my leader in there i would never obey you.
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4:21 pm
And then I would gladly toss you into Gitmo with every other disobedient terrorists. You either follow your orders who you burn with the rest during a time of war, soldier. Similar setups to my proposal have also worked time and again through history. We can modify it for these nations and it would work.
Thanks, Chuck. Please let me know if you need my contact information to get more details on my theory. I would be happy to go over it in detail and present it to whoever necessary if possible.
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1:08 am
Like 90% of the people in Gitmo who are not actually terrorist ??? yeah just because some soldier still have conscience and know the reality you will just said to them : shut up or die ?
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4:27 pm
There are lots of different ideas here and I think a national discourse is in order. One thing I’m sure we can all agree on is its same for another Crusade.
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7:29 pm
Sometimes its needed to keep peoples in check.
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4:27 pm
There are lots of different ideas here and I think a national discourse is in order. One thing I’m sure we can all agree on is its time for another Crusade.
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7:24 pm
Why? So you can have an excuse for unnecessary carnage and the attempted extermination of an entire culture?
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1:25 pm
i agree
it’s time for the crusade of reason. we should murder everyone who stands against reason. let’s start by murdering the CW people they are clearly a blight upon the earth thay touch.
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9:43 am
I first want to apologize incase this article was a joke. It is funny to think that dance dance revolution is ironically a tool to start a “dance dance revolution”.
The notion of Kinect as a tool to train terrorists is about as credible as saying that camoflaged snuggies are being sold in bulk as Ghuile suits for Al’Queda snipers. I mean seriously, do you all eat paint chips as opposed to bread and wine? “Body of christ’s” door frame?
I seriously doubt that Kinectimals, a game about petting animals and teaching them to jump through hoops and balance on beams is sufficient enough to train a person to launch a full scale assault on the US.
Flight simulator is a game that teaches people to fly a plane. It also includes manuals on how to read instruments and actually perform real life actions inside of an aircraft. Hence why it is referred to as a “simulator”.
The games developed for Kinect are tailored towards kids 4+ and are by no means complex enough to train anyone about anything. If the criteria for becoming a terrorist is to “run and jump and walk like a chicken”, then I think all of us have a little Al’Queda inside of us, without Microsoft’s help.
Furthermore, they cannot “track” kinect and would not see this as an important initiative. By they I mean people who are important as opposed to the broke jesus-goth child who wrote this article…..in the matrix? What is with the sunglasses? Does it hurt to see the sun or are you really constantly surrounded by the light of heaven? Seriously though, if the burning bush is getting too bright, I am sure there is a fire extinguisher close by to put it out.
So to conclude my rant. First, the “middle-east” has internet. For starters, how do you think our troops have it there? We took over the networks and exisitng systems to provide ourselves with the necessary tools to communicate. Plus we also use carrier piggeons. It is a good way to save on utility bills.
Second, Kinect is just a toy. If anything, Wii has more violent titles and controllers that look like guns. If anything I would have flipped the argument around, but both are bogus (sorry nintendo if i inadvertantly incurred the wrath of jesus and a fat neo from the matrix).
And my third and final comment. Stop. For the sake of sanity and ensuring that the populace doesnt get any more retarded from what you are saying, stop. For people who seek to be like Jesus, you really are setting a poor example. nowhere in the bible does it say “fear thy neighbor”; but quite the opposite. On a serious note, you are hurting America, your religion and your reader base by misrepresenting the truth. If you are bored and cannot think of anything better to do, read the bible. I know it is a big book and you have been meaning to get around to it, but this is something important to your faith. Read it, understand it and then live it. Instead of hating so many people, start loving. It may be too late for some of you, but for the rest, dont buy into this. Life is great, the world is great and we are living in a very good time.
Sincerely
Adam
P.s Ditch the glasses….seriously. You look like you are going to shoot up a school.
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6:20 pm
Head note one; Lesbian chick, you rock. Thank you for keeping this post at least somewhat sane. And Millennium, even through your broken English and slow read, you can jump in on the rock card too.
Head note the second; MeAwesome, your trolling is grade A.
Head note three (to you little fifty-something sponges); Do some fact checking on this site before you end up bloated. “Try to be a filter, not a sponge” -The Perks of Being a Wallflower (but you haven’t read that book because you ran for the hills as soon as someone told you it would pollute the mind of your children).
I came to this site by accident, stumbling head first into the post about hippies. I was so drawn in by the complete lunacy of this site that here I am, four hours later, still scratching my head. The worst part is that you folks and your loyal followers honestly believe that you are the voice of reason. This is sick. My stomach twists as I sift through all the bs. I want to have a nice little lol moment, but I genuinely can’t. I am mortified to realize that people like you exist. This is what we call “delusional”, boys and girls.
I hail from the era of murder. My game of choice; FPS (that’s first person shooter, for all you older chaps). With games like Metal Gear Solid 2 (which is more like a third person shooter, but still, M.D.K. is a M.D.K.), Halo 2, Counterstrike 1.6, and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, I didn’t need to go outside. The amount of time I have spent in game rather than out would be embarrassing if I didn’t enjoy it so much. I fell so deep into Counterstrike that I was at one point on a team playing competitively in a league. A couple years pass by and now here I am; roaring through my early twenties and raging in the military. If your video game training were possible, I would be shooting expert at every range. But I’m not. No video game can properly take into account wind condition, recoil, the effect of breath on aim.. the physics of the real world just simply cannot be taken accurately with our current level of technology.
Oh, and I have died in every room clearing training we have ever done.
During my deployment, I felt honored being able to have the first hand experience of meeting the people of Iraq and its neighboring countries, these people that you generalize as the enemy. They were the first people to smile during the day and the last to complain. Their work ethic, their optimism, and their kindness creeps fathoms deeper than any person I have ever met back home.
I am a vegan loving (but not even remotely ovo-lacto vegetarian), pro-choice, masturbating atheist. I do not believe in fate or the after life. I don’t know what will happen to me when I die nor how the universe came into existence. I’m scared of the world and I am a firm supporter of escapism, especially when it involves marijuana. And, when I face a problem, it is not gods will whether or not I push forward and succeed, it is what I put into life that I take away from it. Failure is my responsibility, not a chance to pawn off any sense of remorse onto a higher power. But I still live. I am happy. I am honest. I fight for what is right because I define it as such. I don’t cheat and I am not a promiscuous person. I don’t need a higher power to tell me that blindly taking the life of another is disgusting. That people like Adam suggesting a modern day concentration camp is ignorant and the work of a true heretic.
But anyway, kudos on the addictive power of these pages. I’ll be back.
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9:02 pm
“My sources in the Middle East tell me that Xbox Kinects have been purchased by the truck loads, but cannot be tracked because the Middle East doesn’t have the internet yet. The terrorists are now geared to train in cave to kill us instead of running outside which is a prime spot for our drones to wipe them out.”
1: They do have the internet. As long as we don’t bomb it arbitrarily.
2: The only games for Kinect are relatively non-violent.
2.5: I seriously doubt anyone in the Middle East would make and/or distribute hacked firmware.
3: Caves are a prime spot. Google the fuel-air bomb.
“What can you do? There is nothing you can do. This is happening. Kinect is giving our greatest enemy one of their most useful tools. Soon their experience points will be the evidence of how hard they’re working at destroying all that we hold dear. Rise up to your local stores and protest these machines of Jihad. Refuse to have anything to do with stores that carry the Xbox Kinect. Go and buy a Wii, because it’s the only safe alternative.”
1: It is not happening.
2: Experience points? Last time I checked, there aren’t any MMOs for XBOX. Yet.
3: Why would you boycott a store for something it sells based on unintended consequences?
4: The Wii has (arguably) more violent games, such as Red Steel 2, Far Cry: Vengeance, Metroid Primes 1, 2, and 3, as well as many others such as Manhunt, and soon, Goldeneye.
5: PS3 FTW!
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9:16 pm
Captain Obvious
1, yes there are experience points http://forums.xbox.com/34909675/PrintPost.aspx
2, There may be limited internets at US bases in the middle east, but not in Terrorist caves. Where would they get an internets address?
3, Kinect games nonviolent? The most popular game is “fighters uncaged”. People kill each other not with a joystick but with their real fists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfKgY2WZy5s this is what terrorists do.
#Four My local Wal-Mart has no protesters and they have removed all the kinects, there are only bare shelves where they used to be. There is a sign that says “this product is temporarily unavailable for purchase”
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8:53 pm
I thought it was common knowledge that the Middle East has had internet service for some time. I would also love to see Islamic extremists training on a device that is marketed towards children and teens. Most of the games are childish and are used to entertain people, NOT to shape terrorists out of them. This article is nothing more than a moronic cry for attention from a community that is entirely too right-wing.
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3:12 am
Ha. So. If you actually google Christwire, you feel like an idiot.
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12:28 am
Who are your “sources”? They do have internet in the middle east, just as much as we do. And the Xbox Kinect is a child’s toy. Do your research. The reason for your “celebration” is for accurate body reading. I mean, it doesn’t make you heil, does it? The majority of the games are things that, if you were in the right place with the right equipment, could do in real life, such as snowboarding, white water rafting or playing beach volleyball. It is not a threat at all. And the Wii has had similar technology for a long time, but they have never helped terrorist societies. Please, be rational.
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12:39 am
Austin,
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12:41 am
Austin,
You said: “And the Xbox Kinect is a child’s toy”
Facts show that over 90% of the Kinects sold are to people above the age of 18.
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12:43 am
Okay, that’s fine. But the point is that it is not a radical terrorist training device.
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12:46 am
Yeah sure, next you will tell us is that mexicans dont’t use frogger to train for border crossings.
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10:47 am
As a terrorist in training, I would like to applaud you for the accuracy of this article. Every day, I rise from my morning prayers and practice on my xbox for the glory of Allah. I hope to someday pursue the holy jihad in praise of the prophet Muhammad.
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5:29 am
thats funny, but very true
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2:13 pm
someone is bitter they can’t find a girlfriend
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9:16 pm
wait… do they or do they not have internet?
“My sources in the Middle East tell me that Xbox Kinects have been purchased by the truck loads, but cannot be tracked because the Middle East doesn’t have the internet yet.”
“Al Qaeda training happening simultaneously over the internet, taunting regular players with their extremist views, and teabagging my character as practice for the real thing.”
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