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I doubt Bush is playing total annihilation, as he doesn't have enough taste. I think he's faking us out by pretending to play starcraft (Mars anyone?)
He's really playing counterstrike and the warcraft IV alpha.
Let's just hope he's at least playing counterterrorists and not terrorists. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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HEH!

I hope Bush is playing Postal or RedNeck Rampage with the idea of actually taking it to all those whiny, underachieving, lost in the woods Demorats who would rather drown the US in the sex blood and violence of hollywood then stand up for something, ANYTHING!!!

LOL at anyone who actually thinks Demos are interested in protecting free speech, they're only interested in protecting their own speech, no different than the Republicans... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Well someone had to stand up for the GOP, pity its a Libertarian like me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Seriously, I guess people are more against Bush than against GOP in general http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif . Afterall, we own much of our deficit deduction and balance budget ideas from the conservatives.

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People, people, Bush is playing Barbie goes Shopping for the Game Boy Advance.

Dominions has some pretty heavy themes, but you're not put in an everyday situation by playing the game. I'm not about to become a centimeter high tga graphic that has control over thousands of people and can cast spells. I am likely to be in a dangerous city at one time. I'm familiar with cities. In GTA3, I shoot people and they bleed. I see all of this, and it is very visceral. Whether this is a healthy outlet of violent urges or an injection of unhealthy ideas into the subconsious is up for argument. But Dominions doesn't appeal to the carnal. It appeals to the strategic mind. Surely, a lot of the issues dealt with are fairly heavy-duty, and it could be very discouraging for many people I know to kill hundreds of virgin girls in order to summon demons from Hell, or that having a fellow enslave population actually counts as a *good* event. But these are dealt with at a conscious level. We know that we aren't going to kill virgins and enslave our neighbors. A game like Grand Theft Auto 3 plays to our subconcious. We don't deal with it on an entirely conscious level. We, in our in-game avatar, take part in the killing of hookers. Whether this is a beneficial, benign or malignant thing, I do not know. But I do know that a game such as Dominion does not provide that questionable input.

My three cents.