Liberal City Folk Just Don't like Camping

[evan price]

Agreed... know of one specific country club type who married into "the family" and I aksed, say, when do you want to go camping with us? (Since his new wife loved to camp and hike and fish) and he said, "When I feel like camping out I'll stay at a Holiday Inn instead of a 4 star place"

 

[Brass Fetcher]

"They might not like camping, but they have all the 'rugged' trucks in the world".

Sometimes when I see a Hummer with a studio-outdoorsman in it (every one so far), I just think about my dad (RVN 70-71) and lifetime hunter/fisherman and the beat up old Ford Bronco that he used to drive. It's a funny scale : he might know 10 times more about the outdoors than a yuppy, but his truck was worth maybe 1/10 of what these new 'rugged outdoors' vehicles are... ?

 

[Brian Dale]

I don't get it. Urban liberals are enjoying a video game that has them blasting away at things -- admittedly, it's animated Bambis and bunnies -- and we're being disparaging about it?

A few of these yups might end up becoming interested in going out shooting for real, and possibly hunting later. One hopes that people like us will take them out and show them how to behave properly with firearms, and let them find out how much fun it is to blast clay birds, paper targets, stale cookies, charcoal briquets and the like. Without sneering at them.

"I am a friend of the animals," said Lucy Knight, a vegetarian, who has worked as ACE's manager for two years. "I find it disturbing for people to get so much pleasure out of it."

Hey Lady, they're photons on a screen. Relax.

I'm pleasantly surprised that this appeared in AP without any references to criminals or to children.

...wearing...jauntily-angled trucker caps with Caterpillar logos on them to be ironic.

Justin, George Hayduke and Bonnie Abbzug did it first -- boy, do I feel old.

 

[akodo]

I don't get why anti-hunters like these games.

To me, if I find somethign morally wrong, I would not only refuse to participate in the real thing, I would refuse to play pretend at it.

Could you imagine a game where the goal was to rape women, but it was all right because 'it isn't real it is only a game' or manage a slave plantation? I am sorry, my mind just doesn't think like that.


However, some people's minds apparently do, that is why games that glorify gangs and criminals seem to be increasing.

I am not saying such games should be illegal or anything like that, I am just saying if you play a video game where you choose to have your character slap women around and make them your whores, I won't believe that you are truely a person who respects women as your equal.

 

[cracked butt]

I've seen these games in a few bars and restaurants in my area, but I've never seen anyone playing them.

When I was in college I liked to play 'Area 51' because in real life I couldn't go into a secret government installation and shoot space aliens with a machine pistol in real life. I also liked 'Motal Combat' because I couldn't rip people's spines out in real life either.

I'm betting there are a lot of 'wannabes' who like to play racing games or 1st person shooter games thta posted on this thread.

Its just fantasy fun folks.

 

[LAK]

"It's distilled to the cool part, the shooting," Petro said. "The thrill is getting the kill. That's what we distilled in the game."

This is pinko-popular culture - spread by the change agents in their various forms of audio, video and print pop culture media - distilled and rising to the surface.

Very evident in this quote; where the thrill is in "the kill" - as opposed to the chase where it belongs. In addition to the accompanying and incidental aspects to hunting.

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[evan price]

Could you imagine a game where the goal was to rape women, but it was all right because 'it isn't real it is only a game' or manage a slave plantation? I am sorry, my mind just doesn't think like that.

IIRC, in Japan, there is a video game based upon the manga, "Rapeman", where the "hero" is a man who "liberates" women by raping them..

Sick, eh?