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Wafaa Balil, an artist in residence at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, said in a speech on Monday that his controversial video game, “The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi,” was designed to highlight the suffering of Iraqis and to expose racism, violence, and propaganda. The game casts Mr. Balil, a former Iraqi citizen, as a suicide bomber and shows players trying to kill President Bush. It is a takeoff of an Al Qaeda video game with a similar name.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject:

i've had this game sitting on my desktop for a year. i havn't played it.

i'm glad that someone made a response to the "kill saddam" game though.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

when indie message games collide...
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

eyes rolling almost too hard to contain ... the silliness ... too .... much
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daphaknee · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 2:55 am Post subject:

its great that things like these can be made and he isnt shot for it

dhex · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

ryan, be careful, you'll get stuck that way. or you'll be like that small percentage of unfortunate americans who swear they don't know when they're rolling their eyes.

more seriously, however, i don't think you could call either of these message games, unless HEY LOOK AT ME is a message.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

oh ho ho, the world knows when I roll my eyes! that shit gets down with authority, friend.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

When ryan rolls his eyes in the opposite direction, that's how earthquakes occur.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

It must be great being so much smarter than everyone else :ROLLSEYES

dhex · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:36 am Post subject:

i'm not joking about the eyerolling thing, however. i know people who say they don't know when they're rolling their eyes. which is, as you might guess, disastrous for interpersonal conflict.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

In an effort to decrease man's suffering due to the quaking of the earth, I will see what I can do.

Now, if you will excuse me, Leprechaun 4: Leprechaun in Space is on.
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Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart.