Lionhead Revolutionizes Teasers with Che Quote
The image of Guevara (shown left) is accompanied by a quote and two thumbs--one up, one down. Clicking on the positive thumb makes you a "follower," while clicking on the thumbs-down results in a "subject."
Lionhead is set to make an announcement at next week's Gamescom, so stay tuned.
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uranium232
replyWow, Molyneux must be creating a new game based on murder and repression! Thumbs up!
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unlike you he probably doesn't get his info from one single book published by a conservative think thank in oakland or in your case more likely from conservative talking points.
also you might want to read up on batista. his victims were tortured, murdered and thrown out of moving cars at strategic places to remind people to stfu and know their place.
btw guevarra was no saint but the redneck rage and foam involved when his name drops is a bit silly.
think of him as your own ronald r. which if we are honest was quite the retard but hey you guys love him don't cha? melt thats how you do it right-
I went through a brief communist period in middle school. Now I'm a conservative leaning libertarian. I can tell you it wasn't the wiles of Fox News or Rush Limbaugh who put me there. In fact I had to google the latter to make sure it was the person I was talking about. I resent your implication that ECMIM is some how a hardcore neocon with an axe to grind over communism. Che Guevara wasn't a saint, books of all political and international origins will tell you that. The same of all revolutionary leaders.
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So, just a few top level points. ECMIM didn't clarify, provide any details, he just did an ad hominem attack on Node. Node, similarly, has a point of view that he is certain is correct. Overall, your points are pretty valid. Che, like most politicians actually, not just revolutionary leaders, was not a saint. He was a very hardended, cynical yet idealistic man. Like most military leaders, he was not afraid of death nor of the perceived necessity of killing.
Some facts, for people who care:
- Baptista and his collaborators were responsible for the death of about 20,000 cubans during his regime. He was installed by the US to be what was viewed as another central American puppet dictator.
- Guevara was not afraid of using the firing squad, there is a fair amount of evidence that if he hadn't on the people he did (mostly those collaborators mentioned above), the populace would have taken the violence into their own hands. Hard to know for sure, but the national temper in Cuba was pretty high during that time. What we'll probably never know is how much personal joy, if any, he took in the killings.
- Guevara was a revolutionary and strongly believed that revolution typically required violent means to bring it about, getting involved not only in Cuba, but in the Congo, and Bolivia, where ultimately he was murdered by a drunk sergeant in the Bolivian army by order of their presence, but made to look like he had died in action.
He was not a good or just man, but he was not necessarily an evil or despotic man. He believed what he believed, and fought for it. Most people who "adore" him these days think of him as some angelic saint sent to free the masses, just as most people who demonize him think he was some mass murdering pinko commie war monger.
The truth, as always, is usually in the middle.
As for using him for marketing? Pretty dumb, but they can run their marketing however they want I guess. If their goal was to generate controversy, I'd say they succeeded.-
I wish more people could think like this. It's pretty hard for humans to get past things being black and white.
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So he is cloning the Sims then?
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So, it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=879280
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