Comments on: Black Ops II comes out tomorrow: here’s why I won’t be buying it http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/2012/11/12/black-ops-ii-comes-out-tomorrow-here%e2%80%99s-why-i-won%e2%80%99t-be-buying-it/ Videogames, criticism, and culture Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rupert Moloch http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/2012/11/12/black-ops-ii-comes-out-tomorrow-here%e2%80%99s-why-i-won%e2%80%99t-be-buying-it/#comment-261 Rupert Moloch Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:49:23 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/?p=736#comment-261 my bad: lost link. Should be http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView2.php?programID=405 my bad: lost link. Should be

http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView2.php?programID=405

]]> By: Rupert Moloch http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/2012/11/12/black-ops-ii-comes-out-tomorrow-here%e2%80%99s-why-i-won%e2%80%99t-be-buying-it/#comment-260 Rupert Moloch Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:48:32 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/?p=736#comment-260 Wikipedia is a useful source, but hardly authoritative. His file at the NSA eschews notional "balance" over elementary material truth. And have a look over the transcript here . The man has been a political operative from wayback... However it might be considered facile to confuse prominent persons with the institutions (of state, business etc) that they serve. Play the ball, not the man. Wikipedia is a useful source, but hardly authoritative. His file at the NSA eschews notional “balance” over elementary material truth. And have a look over the transcript here . The man has been a political operative from wayback…

However it might be considered facile to confuse prominent persons with the institutions (of state, business etc) that they serve. Play the ball, not the man.

]]> By: Ruprecht http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/2012/11/12/black-ops-ii-comes-out-tomorrow-here%e2%80%99s-why-i-won%e2%80%99t-be-buying-it/#comment-248 Ruprecht Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:16:35 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/game-on/?p=736#comment-248 It seems the fiction they are trying to make is based on appearing "authentic" as a simulation of the military experience. CoD's jingoism crosses over into propaganda, which makes it hard for me to shrug it off as "just a game." It seems the fiction they are trying to make is based on appearing “authentic” as a simulation of the military experience.

CoD’s jingoism crosses over into propaganda, which makes it hard for me to shrug it off as “just a game.”

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