[81962] in Cypherpunks
The McVeigh Video Game
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan)
Tue Jun 17 15:14:44 1997
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
To: Michael Stutz <stutz@dsl.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.94.970617120207.31850C-100000@seka.nacs.net>
Reply-To: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
> I went out with a nabor last Friday night to get a beer at a local townie
> bar.
Jim Nabor?
> They had a small dance floor with the typical bad music. When the
> deejay put on the Village People's "YMCA" he turned down the volume during
> the "Y - M - C - A" chorus and led the redneck crowd through his own
> version: "Fry Tim McVeigh," which they sang.
I am expecting Tim McVeigh to show up in a video game any day now. Check
out some of the games at the local arcade. See who the villians in the
"shoot-em-up" games are... Used to be "drug dealers". Now it is
"terrorists". And you get to be the one to "blow the badguys away". (In
my more paranoid moments I equate it to a plot to get people to side with
the government on the next televised shoot-the-bad-guys
spectacle/stand-off.) In one, you get to go after them in a hellicopter!
(Painted black, no doubt...)
And you don't see any mothers protesting what this will do to their
kids...
Will the next video game target be evil cryptographers?
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