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January 25, 2007
Buck Hunt 
I've been a fan of Buck Hunt for too long. Somehow MSNBC thought it newsworthy today - http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14030610/ - and even went to my favorite watering hole and gaming arena, Ace Bar, for some interviews.
Buck Hunt speaks for itself - you have a light gun and you shoot things like animals and targets. Its fun.
Three things in the article troubled me though:
(i) The 'PC Platform' spoken of is Linux (or perhaps BSD). whatever it is, it boots into X. i know that for a fact, as it once rebooted 2 'frames' into a 4 person full trek. few people know the disappointment of 4 drunken people kissing a rounds worth of drinks in buck hunt goodbye.
(ii) The writer assumes that liberals and urbanites wouldn't like games about guns or hunting. Thats insane. Its a game. Its PRETEND. By the same logic, only mythical elven people would be play role playing games, and everyone who played GTA should be profiled for being a car-jacking gun-running coke addict. its a game. its pretend.
(iii) The writer, and an interviewee, alluded to concerns by people who like animals. Well, I like animals. I've been a vegetarian for 10years. I don't buy leather goods. I don't even buy gelcaps for tylenol when i need it. And I play Buck Hunt , a lot. Once a Vegan came up to some friends and I complaining how barbaric and evil the game was. She shuddered when I said "um, they're not real deer. they're PRETEND". She also didn't like my argument when I asked her if she complained like that to people who play fighting games, war games, plane-shooting games, ms pac man (she eats ghosts , etc ). Then she made some comment about us being meat eaters. My response : "I've been a vegetarian for 9 years". I was also playing with 2 other vegetarians and one of those fake-vegetarians (he only eats fish). She was dumbfouned and said "I bet you're one of those vegetarians who wears leather, " to which I replied "nope. new balance -- all synthetic and made in the USA by workers with benefits and fair compensation". Suffice to say, i shut her up.
People need to stop jumping to conclusions. Especially about things like games. They're games. They're pretend. THEY ARE NOT REAL.
Posted by Jonathan at January 25, 2007 2:55 PM
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