Sir Stewart

And of course there's this hilarity: http://youtu.be/f_tFKa2_YBQ

I think what bothers me is that as quality of the gameplay has improved to the point of near-reality, the advertising has become increasingly glib and willfully ignorant of the responsibility that should come with such technological advances.

Certainly it did. You listed what you heard in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and I replied with what I heard.

Irrelevant.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/yellowcake.asp

Yellowcake Yellowcake Yellow Fucking Cake.

Were you around in early 2003?

Is anybody else as fucking disturbed/annoyed/frustrated by the ignorantly cavalier attitude toward war (and the sacrifice it involves) when they see the goddamned ads for video games these days? Seriously. http://youtu.be/rr5xymYrF20 "The glorious mind-blowing freedom of all-out war" that prick actually says at the end. Here's some more: http://youtu.be/fVruXOewGIA Granted, one of those (the Taco Bell one) involves space aliens as the villains, but the mentality of it is in the same ballpark.

What a shock - Shaughnessy being loud and wrong.

That miserable bastard!

Great thread.

From your computer?

How about you call the Benghazi event "9/11" and call 9/11/01 "mega-9/11"? I'll back you on that.

Oh man he loved stuff. He really did. That's what made him hate stuff so much.

Oh, so his contribution is from a longer version only in the movie's credits?

Thank fucking God there was. I actually fell asleep at a decent hour last night.

'Mini 9/11s' sound tasty.

This isn't the advice thread caliber!

From the band site's feature on Rattle & Hum's anniversary: I never knew about that.

Part of me hopes for a game 7 just to see what Fenway would look like for a WS Game 7 on Halloween. Most of me does not hope for that.

I have a much bigger problem with Angela Merkel's phone been tapped than my own.