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What happened to all my loyal bloggers?
I have made several blogs in the past and hardly anyone comments on them anymore. I used to have between 17-30 comments and now I have hardly anybody commenting anymore.
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Oct. 19, 2008 - 10:44 a.m.Why_So_Serious just commented on Why_So_Serious's Blog post - Little Big Planet gets a Little Big Delay
I'm only mad because I have a week off this week and no LBP. I was planning on playing all week long. I called my local Target though and they knew nothing of delay so if I'm lucky I may be able to get it early.
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Hey fellow Giantbomber"s! I am probably like most of you. I came from gamespot.com. My username there is Game__Raider. Anyways I am a huge video game fan. I own a Wii, Xbox 360, N64, PC, and PS2. I love sports including Cross-Country, Football, Basketball, and Baseball. My favorite game series of all-time has to be the Kingdom Hearts series. I love Batman as you can tell. I grew up watching the tv show and movies. The Dark Knight was amazing! Now that I have joined this site from day one I hope to be more recognized here than on gamespot. See you guys around!
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I have made several blogs in the past and hardly anyone comments on them anymore. I used to have between 17-30 comments and now I have hardly anybody commenting anymore.
Before I go on I must address this...WARNING: All views in here are expressly opinions. You may disagree and you may agree on some. If you can't stand to listen to views that are different than yours or you get offended easily than don't read any further.
People are going to disagree with me. Well, let me know what you think. I would consequently like to recommend travelling the world, to everyone. It really does broaden the mind. If you believe that Islam is wrong on this issue then I suggest you travel a long way away, immerse yourself in a different culture and get some perspective. 3 years ago I travelled to Thailand, a country where they have infinite respect and loyalty to their royal family - to the extent that even saying insulting things about them is considered almost blasphemous. So you don’t walk into Bangkok and start shouting shit just because you are from somewhere else and you think these rules don’t apply to you. You shut the fuck up, nod, smile, and eat your fucking rice just like everyone else. You dont have to do it when you are at home but at least it would teach you respect for other peoples cultures.
Two days ago, Little Big Planet was delayed due to two lines of the Qur'an in the background as music, a islamic citizen received a copy of this game early and complained to Sony about this "offensive" language. Sony recalled over 750,000 discs(estimate) to remove on song from the game. After giving this a few days of thought I have a few opinions I would like to discuss. In this day in time I can see where Sony comes from in delaying the game. Anything is taken as offensive and people fear being sued due to the obsessive amount of it going on. The tiniest things around can become the largest of court cases. Thus, Sony has good reason to delay the game so that there won't be any consequences. I understand the whole thing on freedom of religion, but that's just it. Gamers are blaming the Islamic community for the delay and that if they "weren't so offended" we would have the game in two days. I was furious when I found this out too, but it's not their fault entirely. Sony and Media Molecule put the soundtrack in the game so they know what they are releasing. Why in the first place would you release something like that. As sensitive as America is today and the diverse cultures we have they had to have at least thought something might have happened. The song wasn't put in the game on accident.
But that leads me to another thought. Why recall all the discs instead of just making a tiny update to pull out one song. Is it really that difficult? Epic games added a whole new online game mode to Gears of War through a patch so why can't Sony remove one song. Then this whole thing wouldn't be such a huge outcry. It's not the quotations that is making this a huge deal, it's the fact that it was delayed. This leads me to some excellent points made in Sweep's blog about this same topic:
Sweep:
A large group of people believe this Islamic interference is unjustified. Someone pointed out that people should be allowed to say what they want without fear of persecution - essentially presenting the notion of "Freedom Of Speech". Fine, you can say whatever the hell you want and you don’t have to care what people think about you. But you DO have to deal with the consequences. If what you are doing is fundamentally insulting to a culture or religion, then that’s just wrong. Sony seems to have realised it's mistake and is obviously trying to remedy it - hence the 1 week delay. There should be a level of respect for people everywhere, and that involves a level of tolerance. This is about what they think is important, not what you think is important.I would like to point out to everyone that Freedom Of Speech is a western luxury, and that many cultures have strict social restrictions. We do as well, we just dont realise it because they are intergrated into our culture. Using this freedom to insult people just because they are so far away in another country is both cruel and unfair. I appreciate that no individial has been directly targeted, but supporting the "Who gives a fuck what Islam thinks!" ideology just proves how ignorant you really are. (Nobody said this, but it reflects the mentality).
The idea that we have become restricted by Political Correctness was also presented - and that people now live in fear of offending alternative cultures. Political correctness is there exactly for this reason - to avoid insulting people. I will agree that some aspects of political correctness are unnecessary but this is one of the cases where you should be paying attention because you are going to fuck off a lot of people if you screw this up, as Sony has just discovered. Criticising the concept of Political Correctness is understandable in terms of saying "Trial and improvement" over "trial and error", but if Sony had been more politically correct then this entire issue would have been avoided and their game would be released on time. Do you really think they care if a ten second cut of their soundtrack has the Qur'an in it? Of course not, they will have no issues with removing it - its just unfortunate that the problem was only spotted so close to release.
People are going to disagree with me. Well, let me know what you think. I would consequently like to recommend travelling the world, to everyone. It really does broaden the mind. If you believe that Islam is wrong on this issue then I suggest you travel a long way away, immerse yourself in a different culture and get some perspective. 3 years ago I travelled to Thailand, a country where they have infinite respect and loyalty to their royal family - to the extent that even saying insulting things about them is considered almost blasphemous. So you don’t walk into Bangkok and start shouting shit just because you are from somewhere else and you think these rules don’t apply to you. You shut the fuck up, nod, smile, and eat your fucking rice just like everyone else. You dont have to do it when you are at home but at least it would teach you respect for other peoples cultures.
Sweep makes an excellent point when he says traveling the world to immerse yourself in others cultures. While this is America we should probably respect others views more than most people actually do. We are very narrow minded sometimes when it comes to judging others. The "all muslims are terrorists" thing is very harsh. Although shamefully I have sometimes feared them and made extreme comments to other Muslims on this same point.
We live in a country right now overcome by fear IMO which is the reason people blame the Bush administration for our debt problems. But no one as taken time to look at why we are there. People just blame others when they don't understand why something has happened. Bush never had a chance. He was hit by one of the biggest tragedies in a long time in America not even 7 months into his 4 year presidency. He had to clean-up this mess and thus never had the chance to do what he planned to do. So don't blame anyone on this. We can blame the Islamic's for complaining, Sony for recalling, and media molecule for putting it in the game. So instead of putting the blame on others...such as I have in the past few days...get over it. I know it will be tough for me do to this being my one week off and I wanted to play the game all week, but it isn't as if it was cancelled or delayed for a month.
Till next Time,
Why So Serious?
So first I'll start off with why you don't see me around the boards much here anymore. The game specific boards here aren't near as active as Gamespt's. If I need a quick question answered then this isn't the place. I know this site is still growing but I basically only come here to blog with you guys, check reivews and post everyonce and awhile.
Since I have done so great this year in cross-country and my parents owe me some money, in 2 weeks I am getting a PS3. Yesterday we had our City Championship race. I finished 17th overall and ran a 17:36 5k. Next year I am definately shotting for sub-17.For those of you who own a PS3, does anyone have suggestions for new PS3 owners?
The week I get the PS3 Little Big Planet comes out but I don't know much about it. So please just make suggestions that are PS3 exclusives(so no GTA IV or Assassin's Creed). Thus also cuts me down to only having $250 instead if $570 due to me using my money my parents owe me and my performances to get the PS3. So....I am not getting Far Cry 2 for sure and possibly Fallout 3 when it comes out. I am still definately getting Fable 2 and Gears 2 when they come out. I have to save enough money for a few PS3 game.
Till Next Time,
Why So Serious?
Hey guys how have you been. For me its been pretty busy lately. I ran a 17:55 2 weeks ago so FINALLY I broke 18:00. THen yesterday we ran a really hilly course and I ran 18:35 so not bad for the extremely slow course. Our football team is 4-0 now and no close games. All blowouts. I keep saying I'll write a review for Viva Pinata but I keep forgetting. I promise a review of at least something. Anyway's 2 blogs ago you guys were wanting some drama back. Well here is a little. SO there is this pretty hot girl on the Cross-Country team(I know coincidence right but not the same girl) and she is a huge Alabama fan. Well I live in Knoxville and I have tickets to the Tennessee vs. Alabama game and I am thinking about asking her. Now the game isn't for a few more weeks though so I have plenty of time. I just probably will get nervous before I do it so I really hope I don't pussy out.
Well...Out of time im in a hurry,
See Ya
So hopefully my loyal bloggers haven't left me but here I am. It's been awhile and I have been very busy lately. School has been a swamper and I have had a ton of homework lately. Also, I have cross-country practice after school everyday so I don't get home till like 5:30 or 6. Yesterday I went to the Tennessee vs. UAB game and it was pretty sweet. Also Friday night our High School beat or rival 48-10. It was amazing. We rushed the field and we were going crazy the whole game in the stands. Zombie Nation was playing(for those who know what that is) and it was overall just amazing.
So VIva Pinata: TIP has gotten to be so addicting. I can't put it down hardly. I have a really good garden going on and I have helped out a ton of people. I still haven't tamed every pinata though but I'm working on it. I will have a review up soon so please read it whenever I have the chance to write it.
No drama over here sorry. Please tell me what to write about in my next blog if you know anything you really want to here.
Till next time,
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Grand Theft Auto is back with its latest installment. You return to a new Liberty CIty as Niko Bellic, a russian who has come to America to start anew. When he arrives in the "land of oppurtunity" he is greeted by his cousin Roman Bellic who has offered to let him stay and work for him to earn some cash. Niko, hoping to settle down and find a girl, soon finds out that his past in Russia has followed him to America. He soon is betrayed by a group of people he thinks is his friends. The person who betrays him turn out to be a Russian who is friends with the person Niko had been trying to escape from.
The gameplay in GTA IV is very good. You can hold the left-trigger half way down for free zoom or hold it all the way down for lock-on. You can carry as many weapons as you can find. There is anything from a sub-machine gun, shotguns, to sniper rifles. Each weapon is good for certain tasks such as being in a massive gun fight or for stealth. The AI in the game is much improved. Civilians will fight back if you steal their car and they react to if you pull out a gun and shoot it. The enviroments are wonderful. The city is huge and has no load times during the game. You can go from building to building with no loading. The graphics are beautiful for such a large area to cover and it has almost no framerate issues. SOmetimes I notice minor slow down but nothing to interupt your gameplay. Don't get me wrong the game is not perfect by any means. Sometimes I have trouble getting in to games online. I will enter a deathmatch and I will be kicked out for no reason. Also I will sometimes notice my people I am escorting or teamed with stop shooting or stand still for a second as if frozen. The little details is what makes this game amazing. You can go into your apartment and turn on your TV. There are several different stations that have new shows on pretty often. Also going to a comedy club is hilarious. The jokes are funny, and you can sit there and watch several shows of comedy or hang at the strip club for hours. The thing about this game is it provides hardcore and casual gamers with several things to do. Also it is nice to be able to feel a connection with a character for once. You can almost feel sorry for Niko because he deals with problems in life a lot of people face. Maybe not to the extent of feeling like killing someone, and actually doing it, but you really can connect with him. The game is not perfect by any means, but if you don't own this game and can't decide what to get next then I strongly suggest looking at this game.
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