Just when you thought the RapeLay mini-scandal was over...
Kevin McCullough, the conservative blogger who in 2008 lit the fuse that would eventually detonate as pop psychologist Cooper Lawrence's misguided attack on Xbox 360 hit Mass Effect, is back.
In a piece for the conservative Townhall blog, McCullough draws similarities between the despicable RapeLay PC game and President Obama's just-signed stimulus package.
You can't make this stuff up. Here's what McCullough, who eventually backed off of his incorrect allegations against Mass Effect, wrote regarding RapeLay and the stimulus package:
This week Amazon.com after many complaints finally decided to ban a virtual reality game called "Rapelay." Defenders of the game say it's not real rape because it only occurs between computer animations. There are no genuine side effects. And it won't impact reality.
Sort of like what liberals sound like when it comes to our money. The money we work increasingly harder to earn. And with one uber-partisan vote they take away. Taken faster than the speed of light or at least in shorter than being allowed to read the legislation that does so.
In the game Rapelay, reviewers have stated that the player must first sexually assault a mother character and her two daughters before being allowed to then "pick" their next series of victims.
In the Congress of Washington DC liberals have seen to it that our mothers and daughters will have less money in the home budget working for their protection and welfare.
In the game Rapelay the reviews indicate that the rapist can even convince one of the animated computer characters that they like what's happening to them.
In Washington DC liberals in Congress sent their lapdog "Mr. President" out to the masses to do the same thing...
I've tried to be as tasteful as possible in explaining this comparison, and due to the passion of the natural man that was not an easy thing to do!
Class act, that Kevin McCullough...
Via: N'Gai Croal
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The answer of course is yes, they should be allowed to say the things that they say. It's called the first Ammendment. Kind of the keystone of the American ideal set. Just because you don't like what she says doesn't mean she doesn't have the right to say it.
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www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/14/ (second one)
Don't pay attention to that idiot. He doesn't deserve it.
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Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
There's a part of this that's had me baffled since Obama was elected and the Republicans began fighting his stimulus bill, which doesn't actually have anything to do with the game, sorry to say: Didn't this massive, multi-hundred-billion dollar stimulus bill idea originate with the Republicans, in the dying days of the Bush administration? Or am I misreading/misunderstand things entirely?
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bah, as if it matters... the moment the Obama won the election many conservatives were determined to fight him every step of the way, they will try to fish for any possible fault they could see even if it is in a sense a contradiction in that they would probably make similar mistakes (only in a slightly different way... Grant it, Liberals would be doing the same thing had McCain wonl... its just part of how the two party system works...
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Eh, I'm libertarian, and I know that many of the kids in my school aren't siding specifically with Republican/Democrat but will still generally pick one of those two. However, I think we are starting to lean more towards becoming multi-party, as I know several kids that are joining the libertarian party at 18, and others that will vote for the candidate they want, not along party lines.
-If an apple a day keeps the doctor away....what happens when a doctor eats an apple?-
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Yeah, they were kind of already doing that for the past 8 years while bush was in office. Though it's good to know that despite all the bickering, they continue to keep up with their duties and set the standard for ....aww hell, I can't keep that up, even if it was supposed to be massive sarcasm.
Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
No what passed was not the stimulus package that the Bush administration drafted. The original stimulus used tax cuts to try and allow people and businesses running through these times to expand. While the current bill just gives out money to people and companies claiming that it will create jobs by expanding social programs and government.
Neither of these do I agree with because I do not agree with bail outs due to my belief in "No free money for idiots".
~Weatherlight~
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Go back to only spending money we have and better regulate the futures market. That is how we got into this to begin with.
~Weatherlight~
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PROTIP: It isn't the government's job to make sure that you're successful even if you fuck up or if no one wants to buy your product.
-If an apple a day keeps the doctor away....what happens when a doctor eats an apple?-
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Not spend nearly a trillion dollars, most of which goes towards projects that'll take at least 5 years to even become apparent to the public.
Make smart investments which will pay out in both the short term and the long term, such as improving infrastructure and power generation. The stimulus package has some decent bits about infrastructure, but anything it has to do about power is absolutely horrible.
Reduce spending by eliminating programs that have shown not to work (the government has a lot of these), and trimming much of the fat in the bureaucracy. The stimulus package currently does the opposite of this.
Stop trying to play god with the economy, cause as the last bailout showed, the government can't really pull that one off. Who's to say that it wasn't government intervention that caused the recession anyways?
Yeah, I think those 4 things would do much better at "stimulating" the economy far better than this waste of money that's been passed.
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I think facts and common sense would say that the government didn't cause the recession. Or you could say that they absolutely did cause it through inaction.
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Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect ...
Through inaction? Their hands were all over the mess, long before it started to manifest itself. First with a poor sense of fiscal responsibility and then later with measures that encouraged banks to get into the position that caused them to fail, along with coddling the weak ones with handouts until they imploded upon themselves when all shit went south. Facts and common sense would show that the government shares half the blame, while the other half lies on us.
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How did the government encourage banks to take up so many toxic assets?
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Hint: they didn't.
What we're seeing here, is a fucking testament as to why leaving the market unregulated is bad.
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Well we're probably fucked either way but i think that this plan is our best shot at recovery. If we don't do anything we are definently fucked, if we give more tax breaks for the rich then they will fuck us and if we give money to the rich they'll throw a big fucking party and buy a big ass-fucking boat.
There have always been motherf*ckers, there will always be motherf*ckers, but what we can't do is let them control our motherf*cking lives. -John Oliver, December 1st, 2008
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The rich don't take everything from you, you give them everything when you spend money you don't have. The idea with tax breaks is a rather old thought, where businesses expand and people invest more when they have the capitol to do so. Spending the money they make on a big boat and party employs the people who make the boat and those that work at the party. Tax breaks don't work when everyone stashes their money in their pocket/bank because annalists scare them into thinking the economy is going to tank and they will have no money if they spend/invest.
What we have now is people getting "free" handouts from government programs, and capitalism is going by the wayside. If people only spent the money they actually had we would not be in this situation and the government is making it worse by spending money they don't have on programs, while tax cuts just decrease revenue.
~Weatherlight~
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You can say "if the people did this" or "if the people did that" until you're blue in the face, but the people don't. Sometimes the government has to get involved and use people's money how it should be used.
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"Sometimes the government has to get involved and use people's money how it should be used."
The last group I would trust to spend money how it should be spent is the government. They waste more money than I can even fathom with unnecessary pork barrel project, inefficient bureaucracies, and shady politicians. When was the last time the govenrment actually did something that made fiscal sense? The only people who know how to spend their money is the people, and if they fuck up then so be it. That only prooves that they're free, which is a hell of a lot better of an idea then what you're proposing.
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I'd rather be financially secure than "free", as you put it. I might be responsible enough to not live way beyond my means, but most people aren't. And when so many people are living so far beyond their means and taking out so many loans they can't possibly pay off, banks begin to fail. And then it starts to affect me and other fiscally responsible people, and I can't have that happening. And frankly, I don't give a shit about most pork barrel projects. The ones that the Republicans are bitching about don't mean a thing. A couple million hear or there is nothing in the big picture, so if polititions try to slip in funding for useless things, just let them. And 300 mil to upgrade the computer systems at the fucking state department is not pork. I have no idea why this is the most popular example. And even some projects that seem like they are useless at first may have the side affect of simply creating more jobs.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
I had my thoughts on this, but this post confirmed it. You're a jackass. In order to ensure your own sense of safety and self worth, you'd deny hundreds of millions their freedom. You'd rather be financially secure than free? That is the most incompetent thing I have ever heard, and I've heard a lot of them. You'd willing be a pet to the powers that be so long as you were financially secure? You'd be willing to spit in the face of millions that have died just so they and everyone around them could taste freedom just for your own comfort? What is all the wealth in the world without being free?
Your statement there confuses me to no end. I have so many different thoughts flowing through my head that I can't make up from down. The one thing I can be certain of though, is anger. I have never said this to anyone before, but if you honestly believe what you just said, then you may live in this country, but you're no countryman of mine.
I was going to try to end on something else to drive the point home, but really, I don't think I need to. Realize you're not the center of the fucking world, and that you've been given the gift of liberty freely, something many would and have died to gain. You would gladly trade this away for comfort. You are a pet and a fool, and you don't deserve what has been given to you.
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"I'd rather be financially secure than 'free' "
Get out of my country
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The republicans have been trying to draft their own version of a stimulus bill in order to compete with the Democratic one. It was mostly done to save face and/or bring another side of the arguemnt to light, seeing how the Dem's bill would have passed no matter what. Sure enough, the democratic one passed just a few days ago.
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great job attracting attention from every butthurt christfag in america
If my hentai gets banned, I know who to go after
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Anon's going to start a shitstorm if that happens.
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And then I'll get charged with conflicting interests. *sigh*
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Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
'' a virtual reality game called "Rapelay." '
what... ?
since when was it virtual reality?
So much for learning lessons about spouting BS.
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I do believe he just described Congress.
"That's not ironic. That's justice."
Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect ...
I described politics once before on this site;
Definition, Politics;
Poli: Poly - meaning "many".
tics: ticks - blood sucking creatures.
Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
"This week Amazon.com after many complaints finally decided to ban a virtual reality game called "Rapelay.""
*facepalm* How many times must it be said? There are zero video games in the commercial market that utilize virtual reality technology. THE END.
"I've tried to be as tasteful as possible in explaining this comparison, and due to the passion of the natural man that was not an easy thing to do!"
Oh nice, we got the funny asshat, HAHAHAHAHA.
What kind of sick joke is that? We already had people comparing Obama to Hitler less than a week after the election, now we have him being compared to the stereotypical rapist/pedophile? What's next??
Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
...I can see some pretty big simularities between Hitler and Obama, the fact that millions of people love him, and there is a fair amount of people that really believe he is the save-all of America. Hell, much of the rest of the world loves him too. Plus, both come into power in a time of economic need, and both were forceful/powerful speakers.
While I personally don't like Obama's policies, I highly doubt he would try to seize power like Hitler, or could even succeed if he tried. But I do believe the Hitler/Obama comparisons are fairly good arguments.
Just because you compare doesn't mean you really think that they are similar in the more extreme ways. (Though he might kill Pakistan if we don't watch him...)
-If an apple a day keeps the doctor away....what happens when a doctor eats an apple?-
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Dude, you can draw similiarities between any two things. Doesn't mean you should.
Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
Um... is it just me, or does he seem A LOT more informed about this game then he was Mass Effect?
Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
lol.. apart from the 'virtual reality' claims
Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
That could be explained more by his lack of understanding what virtual reality is. He just see,ed a lot more familiar with the game, even detailing what happens in the game more completely then anyone on here did.
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Good question is how did he come across this in the first place?
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Or he bought it and wasn't satisfied with that game :P
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I'm at a loss for words. I think I'll just walk away from GP for a while, need some fresh air.
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Well, at least, he didn't go too far about video games. He just described the content of "RapeLay", without slamming the "gamer-nerd universe", like he did for Mass Effect.
For the rest of his, um, "argument", and his comparison with Barack Obama's current policy... I wish I cared.
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He again?
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Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
Oh yes, the whole "liberals are taking your money, gun, Bible, livelihood etc. etc. etc." fear ploy from right ring extremists. Always fun. I'm surprised he didn't refer to the game as socialist propaganda. Of course, the one thing they won't divulge is a reason.
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Re: Conservative Blogger Who Triggered 2008 Mass Effect Debacle
Sorry, but the dems also use the exact same fear tactics. It wasn't even a week ago that I was hearing speaches from Obama about how this stimulus package had to be passed immediately and without further review or else the country would collapse, the appocolypse would rain down upon us, and all the little lol-cats in the world would die. Or at least it was something along those lines. He's shown he's not above using fear to get what he wants passed.
One month in to the Obama administration, and he's already outspent the entire Iraq War.
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He's right though, if we don't do something then we're fucked.
There have always been motherf*ckers, there will always be motherf*ckers, but what we can't do is let them control our motherf*cking lives. -John Oliver, December 1st, 2008
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But spending 800 Billion in pork barrel projects isn't really 'doing something', its more 'growing government while fucking the people who actually work over'.
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First off: Have you reviewed in detail where all the money is going?
Second: While The conservative hardliners may be incensed at the thought of "big goverment", I don't think allowing the united states to descend to 2nd or 3rd world status as buisnesses and industry collapse is a particularly smart move either.
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Actually, I have. Any other moronic questions?
Neither is wasting nearly a trillion dollars on pork. The money being spent won't save industry, it'll sabotage the country, instill a larger government, and encourage companies to send more people overseas.
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Spending all this money will insure that we do infact decend to the 2nd or 3rd world status...
Since from now on, every business knows that managing itself responsibly will only hurt it in the long run... why not get the increased profits now and a bailout later rather than acting responsibly only to have competitors bailed out later?
These bailouts/stimulus things only serve to further destroy our economy...
It is a fact that the government is too big for its own good and most of the things it does are to make itself bigger rather than anything resembling assistance to those who the government is supposed to help...
I had a part time job at a government agency once, we did our stated goal thing with about a third of the budget and spent the rest on anything imaginable so that funding wouldn't get cut the next year... every government agency acts like this...
At some point we will either need to suspend most of it to pay debts for a few years or default on debts or create a new better government from scratch...
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And here I was talking about fear tactics. Thanks for helping to prove my point. A bit less hyperbole in your argument though will make it seem much more realistic and less "OMG WERE DOOMED."
Also, less government intervention and taxes would actually encourage buisnesses to stay and thrive here rather than break down into nothingness, so your argument fails on all but the pure knee-jerk, fear point.