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Where a Puff of Marijuana Is the Ultimate Power-Up
New York Times ^ | March 17, 2005 | Steven Totilo

Posted on 03/17/2005 8:08:47 AM PST by billorites

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I'm not sure this is such a step forward.
1 posted on 03/17/2005 8:08:47 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

What ever happened to letting your kids play checkers, Operation and monopoly?


2 posted on 03/17/2005 8:12:13 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: billorites

Friggin' sick. How the hell...? What the...? I can't believe this!


3 posted on 03/17/2005 8:12:23 AM PST by Mathews (Shot... Splash... Out!)
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To: billorites

It isn't.


4 posted on 03/17/2005 8:13:26 AM PST by The Grammarian ("Preaching is in the shadows. The world does not believe in it." --W.E. Sangster)
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To: billorites

I cannot wait for the Madden version where we get to choose the drugs that geek the players out. What is the slogan "Its in the ....."


5 posted on 03/17/2005 8:13:44 AM PST by Paulus
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To: billorites

Calling all drug warriors... Calling all drug warriors


6 posted on 03/17/2005 8:13:48 AM PST by rhombus
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Glamorize murder and mayhem.... you get a more violent society. Now lets glamorize drug dealing and drug trafficking. Hmmmmm whats the logical conclusion....
And the Liberals wonder why this country is the way it is.....


7 posted on 03/17/2005 8:13:53 AM PST by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: billorites

Next think you know, there will be a game out there simulating pedophile stalking.

I'll leave it to your imaginations to come up with a sufficiently evocative title.


8 posted on 03/17/2005 8:14:03 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Tibikak ishkwata!)
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No, Madden 2006, and MLB 2006 will come with Steroids...lol


9 posted on 03/17/2005 8:14:54 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "For your AMUSEMENT..." ; ))
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To: billorites
"I'm not sure this is such a step forward."


It's not. I used to play a game called Metal Gear solid. In that game a cigarette was smoked to use the smoke to find laser sensors. However during the time the character holds the cigarette his life points decrease. This is even worse because it doesn't even promote a realistic application of the drug. In reality it should cause the player to have a harder time.
10 posted on 03/17/2005 8:15:17 AM PST by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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To: SouthernBoyupNorth

So Letting my 6 YO play GTA Vice City, is a bad thing ?


11 posted on 03/17/2005 8:15:22 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "For your AMUSEMENT..." ; ))
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Hmm IIRC, in the old NES game called Narc the marijuana could kill you.
12 posted on 03/17/2005 8:16:19 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: billorites
I bet 1,000,000 copies of this game that this thread gets hijacked by the FR anti-drug law cotillion before post 45.
13 posted on 03/17/2005 8:16:29 AM PST by Skooz (Host organism for the State parasite)
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That was sarcasm right?
14 posted on 03/17/2005 8:16:51 AM PST by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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no bet


15 posted on 03/17/2005 8:17:44 AM PST by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: Skooz

I don't like to dance.


16 posted on 03/17/2005 8:18:12 AM PST by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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What ever happened to letting your kids play checkers, Operation and monopoly?

Most video games are geared more towards adults then kids. It's been that way for quite awhile now.

17 posted on 03/17/2005 8:18:38 AM PST by gdani
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To: hobbes1

Bad is relative... All that matters is that your 6YO has fun.


18 posted on 03/17/2005 8:18:55 AM PST by Paulus
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To: gdani
Most video games are geared more towards adults then kids. It's been that way for quite awhile now.

Still, kids seem to be the driving force behind the industry.

19 posted on 03/17/2005 8:20:49 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: billorites

It's not the first though..

I recall playing a game called Fallout years ago where various drugs were used as powerups. They had negative effects though, the more you used them and you could even become addicted..

Still the setting was not "real world", it was set in a post nuclear war type setting.. radiation mutants and what-not.


20 posted on 03/17/2005 8:21:35 AM PST by Trampled by Lambs ("Making Al Gore regret inventing the internet, one post at a time")
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