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I should be appalled, but I'm just more...darkly amused.
In case you missed it, there's a Left Behind videogame now:
The San Francisco Chronicle writes that "players can choose to join the Antichrist's team, but of course they can never win on (that) side. The enemy team includes fictional rock stars and folks with Muslim-sounding names, while the righteous include gospel singers, missionaries, healers and medics."
But then, well, it takes on gender roles, too:
In Left Behind, you recruit followers by talking to people on the street and increasing their spirit levels. When the level is high enough, they become your “friend,” and can be trained to pursue a number of careers, including soldier, medic, musician, builder, or recruiter/evangelist. Unless, of course, you make the mistake of recruiting a woman. Yes, you read that right: women are limited to just two career choices. Welcome to the 1950s, when women could only be singers or nurses. (To be fair, I’m sure if there were teacher and homemaker professions in the game, women could do those, too.) All of the rest of the careers are critical to your success in the game, meaning that if you had a group made up entirely of women you couldn’t succeed, but a group of all men could. Without exception, every female friend I showed these screens to gasped when they saw it. Several used language unbefitting young ladies of stature to describe their feelings toward people who would make a conscious design decision to limit the potential of women and encourage players to pass them over in favor of men. And I have to say, I agree.
Sure, you can see this game as inciting religious violence, promoting intolerance, glorifying racism -- but I have to tell you, I find this hysterical. This is funnier than the "park with the prostitute" feature from GTA that I didn't honestly believe existed until I saw it myself.
I can't wait until these guys release a dating sim....
In case you missed it, there's a Left Behind videogame now:
The San Francisco Chronicle writes that "players can choose to join the Antichrist's team, but of course they can never win on (that) side. The enemy team includes fictional rock stars and folks with Muslim-sounding names, while the righteous include gospel singers, missionaries, healers and medics."
But then, well, it takes on gender roles, too:
In Left Behind, you recruit followers by talking to people on the street and increasing their spirit levels. When the level is high enough, they become your “friend,” and can be trained to pursue a number of careers, including soldier, medic, musician, builder, or recruiter/evangelist. Unless, of course, you make the mistake of recruiting a woman. Yes, you read that right: women are limited to just two career choices. Welcome to the 1950s, when women could only be singers or nurses. (To be fair, I’m sure if there were teacher and homemaker professions in the game, women could do those, too.) All of the rest of the careers are critical to your success in the game, meaning that if you had a group made up entirely of women you couldn’t succeed, but a group of all men could. Without exception, every female friend I showed these screens to gasped when they saw it. Several used language unbefitting young ladies of stature to describe their feelings toward people who would make a conscious design decision to limit the potential of women and encourage players to pass them over in favor of men. And I have to say, I agree.
Sure, you can see this game as inciting religious violence, promoting intolerance, glorifying racism -- but I have to tell you, I find this hysterical. This is funnier than the "park with the prostitute" feature from GTA that I didn't honestly believe existed until I saw it myself.
I can't wait until these guys release a dating sim....
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I had no idea it was so impressively wrong, though. That's excellent. Way to go, guys! Keep on making Christianity look like your own personal psycho cult!
Funny stuff.
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