Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Calls PlayStation Games 'Poison'

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:popcorn:

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'Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him'.

I'm not sure which game or user mod he's referring to, assuming there actually is one. Perhaps he means Mercenaries 2: World in Flames? You know, Pandemic's "explosive open-world action game," in which "a power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela's oil supply, sparking an invasion that turns the country into a war zone"? Pandemic denied the game was meant as a political statement (or an attempt to drum up support for a US invasion of Venezuela) but the developer admitted wanting "to have a rip from the headlines."

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Games, said Chavez, "promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol," adding "That's capitalism, the road to hell."

Not all games are bad, however, according to Chavez, who said his country ought to be making "educational games" and designing "little indigenous dolls" to replace dolls "like Barbie, that have nothing to do with our culture."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/187114/venezuelas_hugo_chavez_calls_playstation_games_poison.html/

[ChangoLoa]

1. "These kids worry me with their violent video games"

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2. I like his sense of humor.

He clearly enjoys jerking his enemies chain(s) and puncturing sacred cows.

[ChangoLoa]

4. :)

Old caricature, not him represented but the "adults" in general.

[EFerrari]

7. I like that part, too.

lol

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3. "Games, said Chavez, "promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol,"

adding "That's capitalism, the road to hell."

[ChangoLoa]

5. ?

a) Misquoted
b) Absurd amalgamation
c) Correct consequentiality

[bemildred]

6. d) jerking your chain nt

[Downwinder]

8. I seem to remember a case on the East Coast, back before there

was a Play Station, before Doom, where the papers insisted the reason the kid killed his parents was because he played Dungeons and Dragons.

How come Football never gets blamed if something goes wrong. It's as violent and more physical than a computer game.

[ChangoLoa]

9. And before that

they use to say it was because of some novels that the youth was becoming perverted. Now, it's the PlayStation and Marilyn Manson...

[Downwinder]

10. Don't forget ROCK music, the root of all evil. And dancing. n/t

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11. Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll. All very bad for young people.

:-)

[Downwinder]

12. Mexican musicians face jail for songs glorifying drug trafficking

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/mexico-drug-ballads-jail-threat