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dhex

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3166275

saw this up on rps; long story short will wright gave money to the giuliani campaign (now thankfully dead). shock ensues.

duh, people! sim city is a deeply centralized, technocratic wet dream of urban management! of course the guy who wanted to regulate hot dog vendors is going to get mr. wright's cash.

(someone's political leanings and their artistic output are often only vaguely related; and even so, who really cares?)

edit: don't get me wrong, i don't like the idea of anyone giving giuliani money, but...it's also not really my business or concern.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah, I've never had trouble seperating art from artist, otherwise I'd have stopped listening to Thriller.

parkbench · . Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 145

this is disappointing.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject:

spore is a game about top-down biological governance - this is hardly surprising.

as the non-existent saying goes, play in a thomist universe...
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elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

Now that you mention it, this makes an awful lot of sense. You know, central planning.

It's not like SimCity is a libertarian game by any stretch of the imagination, after all.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

I want monorails and skyways and exuberant searchlights, airship docks, domes, etc.

Dammit.

"...they put Ming the Merciless in charge of designing California gas stations. Favoring the architecture of his native Mongo, he cruised up and down the coast erecting raygun emplacements in white stucco. Lots of them featured superfluous central towers ringed with those strange radiator flanges that were a signature motif of the style and which made them look as though they might generate potent bursts of raw technological enthusiasm..."

Technowankery ftw.

But fuck Guiliani.

Buttfuck Guiliani.

:plunger:
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daphaknee · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:30 am Post subject:

oh dude totally, like most of the intenret is pretty conservative and then those nerds grow up and make videogames and become rich republicans pretty much

dude hes will wright he can give his money to whoever

so glad guiliani dropped out though

BALROG FOR PRESIDENT

daphaknee · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:30 am Post subject:

dhex i am sending your money via paypal monday is that okay wat is your paypal address pm me please