http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/08/about-haze.html Games & interactive entertainment: design, production, industry and related topics Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/08/about-haze.html/comment-page-1#comment-1351 The Plush Apocalypse » Blog Archive » War. Huh, what *is* it good for? Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:16:22 +0000 http://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2007/08/about-haze.html#comment-1351 [...] Jurie Horneman describes it in more detail from Leipzig: People’s bodies disappear after you kill them per normal shooters, but not because they actually disappear - it’s the drug the government is shooting you full of to keep fighting (and then people can play dead to fuck with you). Using cheesy video game mechanics to make a point about how we ignore violence and many other aspects of the war while at the same time making fun of those game mechanics? Sign me up! (Even if it means - gah - buying a PS3). [...] [...] Jurie Horneman describes it in more detail from Leipzig: People’s bodies disappear after you kill them per normal shooters, but not because they actually disappear – it’s the drug the government is shooting you full of to keep fighting (and then people can play dead to fuck with you). Using cheesy video game mechanics to make a point about how we ignore violence and many other aspects of the war while at the same time making fun of those game mechanics? Sign me up! (Even if it means – gah – buying a PS3). [...]

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