On this week’s podcast hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about the file-sharing case headed to the Supreme Court, the President’s executive order on cybersecurity (and the re-introduction of the horrible house bill that started it all, and muchmore. Download it now: SuperPAC Episode 41 (1 hour) 55.5 MB.
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The Lizard King: The Shocking Inside Account of Obama’s True Intergalactic Ambitions is a clever novella that combines the most popular conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, the general consensus on the attitudes of highest of high profile characters within the White House in the first few years of his administration and a bit of science fiction. If you’ve ever read a short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. that deals with politics and history (like Slap Stick, Deadeye Dick, Slaughterhouse Five, Jail Bird, etc.), then you’ll likely come to the conclusion that the Lizard King is paying some sort of homage to those ecellent books. The book was supposedly written by a former high ranking White House staff member who left the Administration in the first year, but ultimately that’s just part of the book’s narrative…
Episode #1 of the Super Podcast Action Committee takes on the thorny issue of used games and “Operation Tangled Web,” a series of indictments led by the United States Attorney General’s office against individuals who sell mod chip for video game systems.
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Sex. It’s still a dirty word. Politicians squirm about it in public and fantasize about it in private. Mothers and fathers hedge the subject with their children, and teenagers learn about it from everything – TV, movies, books, and those dirty magazines in their dad’s sock drawer.
Sex is starting to make its way into video games too, but the effort to portray it in a way that is tasteful and useful as a game mechanic is mostly wasted. (more…)
In the inaugural episode of the Super Podcast Action Committee (we like to call it the “Super PAC”), hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight introduce themselves to the world, along with producer James Fudge. The Super PAC discusses EZK’s recent trip to Washington D.C. with the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), two game-related lawsuits, and the media’s fascination with the assertion from Oslo, Norway killer Anders Breivik that he “trained” using Call of Duty.
Yes we were a bit nervous and we have some technical issues, but it’s not a bad effort for our first time out.
Credits: The Super Podcast Action Committee is E. Zachary Knight, Andrew Eisen, and James Fudge. Music in this episode includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko and “Barroom Ballet” by Kevin MacLeod. Both are in the public domain and free to use. A big thank you to Todd Braake for some good advice, moral support and some editing on this episode.
I forgot to mention that on Friday GamePolitics ran a wonderful interview with Tim Schafer about – of all things – cartoons and A Clockwork Orange. You might ask “Why on earth would you run that?” Well, I might retort “because it was one of the best interviews I’ve read this year!” It’s interesting because the Interview doesn’t touch on anything you’d expect it to like Double Fine’s $3 million dollar crowd funding success for an adventure game, or Schafer history as a successful game designer. Instead it focuses on cartoons, those dark live action shows on Adult Swim and how A Clockwork Orange made Schafer scared of his dentist.
But really it gives you a glimpse inside Schafer’s head. As a child of the 70′s I can related to the Saturday morning fall line-up previews, getting up early to watch cartoons and finding that the “Farm Report” was on, etc. Basically the horrors and joys of our youth. Now Saturday morning cartoons on the networks are syndicated from cable channels. Bleck. Mostly it tells me what has – at least in part – influenced Schafer’s games.
If you haven’t read it already you should do it now:
Congressman Frank Wolf, A republican from the Virginia’s 10th congressional district needs to retire this November because he has forgotten what it means to be conservative. He, along with Congressman Joe Baca (D-Ca.), have teamed up to push Bill H.R. 4204, or Violence in Video Games Labeling Act. The bill would put warning labels on all video games warning of the unscientifically proven conclusion that video games cause aggressive behavior.
I wrote a story about it over at GamePolitics if you want to read the language of the bill. Basically it would require the following warning on video games:
“WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior.”
Since the scientific community can’t agree on such a conclusion and the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected much of the evidence they use in formulating this bill, isn’t it about time that Joe Baca and his partners in crime stop pushing wrong-head regulations that are simply meant to scare the shit out of parents?
I thought conservatives believe in less regulation on businesses? Aren’t companies like Activision, EA, Ubisoft, et al businesses?
If you feel as strongly as I do about the government meddling with an entire industry in the name of “protecting the children,” feel free to contact Rep. Wolf by email or by phone or FAX.
Last week Irrational Games’ Ken Levine said that he felt sad about the whole ordeal over Mass Effect 3′s ending.
Paul Barnett, senior creative director at BioWare-Mythic, also weighed in on the issue. Both took part in a panel discussion about the future of video games in front of a live audience at the Smithsonian American Art Museum last week. (more…)
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – President John Adams (Brainy Quotes).
I don’t have a dog in this primary fight, but I think the media’s narrative about Rick Santorum having a chance of winning the Republican Presidential nomination is a major stretch. Rick Santorum doesn’t have a shot at it, and even if Newt Gingrich got out of the race, there’s no real guarantee that all those votes would go to the former Pennsylvania Senator. Chances are that Newt Gingrich will stay in long enough to take Texas. Once that happens it becomes more and more difficult for Santorum to get the number of delegates needed to seal the deal. (more…)
On this week’s podcast hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about the file-sharing case headed to the Supreme Court, the President’s executive order on cybersecurity (and the re-introduction of the horrible house bill that started it all, and muchmore. Download it now: SuperPAC Episode 41 (1 hour) 55.5 MB.
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