Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The Daily Mails remarkably consistent exercise in supreme idiocy has landed itself all over Twitter again. It makes me wonder what qualifications, if any, you need to write for the Daily Mail? A GSCE at grade D in English and a degree in being a cunt?
The British drug advisor, Professor David Nutt, was fired which prompted The Daily Fail to lash out. A lot of things piss the Daily Mail off, such as homosexuals, gamers and now scientists.
The Daily Drivel kindly called scientists arrogant gods of certainty, before reminding readers that Hitler also believed in science as the only answer. The article also, shockingly and without tact, included an image of Hitler before it was removed.
“I am not suggesting that any British scientists are currently conducting experiments comparable to those which were allowed in Nazi Germany or in Soviet Russia. But I see the same habit of mind at work in Professor Nutt and his colleagues as made those mad scientists of the 20th century think they were above the moral law which governs the rest of us mortals.”
It amazes me that The Daily Mail still try to hold the moral ground on national issues and yet still manage to publish tasteless, barbaric and downright moronic material such as this.
Wasn’t Hitler also a christian? Damn them evil christians.
P.S. I noticed the subheading of ‘Irrationality’ on their article, quite ironic.
Tags: Daily Mail, Nazi, News, Politics, Science
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
The Daily Fail (some of you may know it as the ‘Daily Mail’) is again trying to tackle those pesky violent video games by vomiting words without thinking.
Here is a quote from their article (more a jumbled mess of right-wing garbage than an article):
This Christmas’ top selling computer game could be one in which players kill hundreds of civillians in an airport. The sick game, called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, features a level in which players score points by shooting unarmed passengers at an airport terminal, according to a trailer released on the internet.
The footage shows the player entering airport security with a machine gun in hand, before killing every innocent bystander in sight, often while they are crawling away injured or screaming for help. Eventually, the player must shoot the police that come to the public’s aid to progress.
Gamer Alan Burke, 14, said “The game looks like a lot of fun. All my friends at school are getting it for Christmas”. But mum Cathy was outraged; “I can’t believe they thought this was suitable material for such impressionable minds ” she told us, “it’s absolutely sickening”.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sold over 7 million copies, and this new version is predicted to break that record. Market research shows that most of the players are aged between 12 and 18.
PM Gordon Brown condemned the game in a conference call this evening, saying “It’s atrocious that the entertainment industry feels the need to make light of such a serious and grave issue”, and Conservative MP Justin Davis called for the game to be banned from sale. Activation, the company who make the dispicable title, refused to comment.
Damn those video games, coming over here with their violence, poisoning our kids minds, making them go on school shooting rampages. It gets me really angry, it makes me want to actually parent my children, make sure they don’t access 18+ games instead of complaining and whining like an extremist conservative cunt who is taken in by the media bile that spews from within the Daily Mail pages.
Sidenote: If you’re letting your kid play an 18+ game, it isn’t the game at fault, it is the parent. End of. The fact that some ‘sheep’ will follow the Daily Mail’s article is laughable, but another needless blow to gaming. Shooting (FPS) games have been around for a while now, maybe it is time people grew up and accepted the fact that a game is just a game.
My friend, Phil Whittle, a fellow gamer also said in an online discussion:
I really hate how the Daily Mail reports things, and I wouldn’t be suprised if this leaked footage was done by Activision to drum up a bit of free publicity about the game before release. We don’t know the full context of the scene yet, I read that there are two warnings before the scene starts and you can skip it at any time, and it’s actually there to demonstrate how bad the terrorists are, not to reward the player for commiting terrible acts as the article implies.
Since they brought up kids playing the game, it’s rated 18+ by both the BBFC and PEGI so they shouldn’t really be playing it (although that’s a debate for another day).
Tags: Call of Duty, Daily Mail, Game, Politics
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