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- sinner0423, on 10/12/2007, -11/+63"How can people looking to talk to you about a job reach you?
I have a resume posted online at the blogger.com site which is: http://www.blogger.com/posts.g?blogID=22106355
I believe I could be a good addition to a team, and I’d be willing to start at the bottom."
Someone hook this guy up, seriously, he's a ***** champ.
He gets paralyzed by some terrible tragedy, and is able to comment & review playing a game which re-enacts the very thing that left him that way, and uses it as a plug for him trying to get in to the gaming industry.
This guy has some serious drive - if we had more people like this in the gaming industry, we'd have better games. - Rigbymatt, on 10/12/2007, -15/+58run THRU with a spell checker eh?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31@philz: That's not the point. Tragedy is, unfortunately, rather commonplace. People who have the ability to rise above those tragedies and to lead normal lives is already extraordinary. I say, anyone with the drive to do that will accomplish what they want to, regardless of the challenges. He'd make a great part of any team.
- philz, on 10/12/2007, -16/+41I'm not sure that being involved in a tragedy makes you a better game designer.
- hello2usir, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32It's not an acronym...
- DesireCampbell, on 10/12/2007, -15/+39"thru"? "acronym"?
For Christ sakes... - sinner0423, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23No, but being able to look past what has happened, and try to turn it around in to something positive makes you a better person. The fact that he could tolerate, let alone review or discuss a columbine *game* , says he can still remain objective even when it comes to something as personal & serious as that.
I'd say that's more than enough will power to get him through the door, even as an intern. - 12Volts, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24You mean like Baghdad??
- sert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/retro/super-columbine-massacre-rpg-better-than-youd-think-171305.php
original game, its just a 2D RPG - Ratty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Last time I checked, my arms weren't attached below my chest. God knows what sort of freaky mutant you are.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Direct Download
http://www.columbinegame.com/media/ColumbineRPG.zip - mtrip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
- sert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This game is pretty shoddy and half-assed. I am assuming it was just put together to simply garner some attention from its controversial subject matter, I mean look how much attention that garbage flash game about shooting immigrants got.
And also, read the forums, the people who made this game and their supporters are genuinely crazy. They appear to simpathyze with the shooters even, some of those posts are quite disturbing actually.
BUT, what it all comes down to is that this is a poorly made game that would never in a million years have gotten any attention if not for it's subject matter. - c0uchm0nster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I don't know what everyone else got form ub3rgeek's post, but here's the jist of what I got:
"I'm a parapalegic and it's sad. You shouldn't make fun of us parapalegics because that's mean.
Retards however are terrible people, so I'm going to call you one even though you're not. Haha, retards." - ub3rgeek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14@pointaken you are a ***** ass hole for saying that. And if you think that is a joke you have a very sick and twisted humor. I am a paraplegic and he is two. He would be a quad if he was paralized at the neck. You are a fool.
retard - thejakester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9at least its not a FPS
- tynin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I agree in some ways, but still, maybe you haven't been in school for a while, but having a mom who has been teaching for ~30 years I've seen a lot of what the public school can offer when it comes to teachers. Some teachers have no business taking care of themselves, much less the kids, nevermind securing a handgun and using it in a responsible way. It would never work because as soon as a teacher lost there gun or had it stolen and someone got hurt/killed, wow, the litagation would be ugly.
I think a better idea would be to allow at least 5 to 10 very responsible teachers, who would be willing to commit seppuku (obviously thats too extreme, but close to the level of punishment they should expect) if they ***** up with the gun and leave it at that. - Venkman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9But slapping RPG at the end of it is not a good way to remember it.
- barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I've never heard of a person getting robbed at a gun show.
Also these kids obtained their weapons illegally. I support this game because I support free speech, after all it's there to protect the things we DONT want to hear. - captaindan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6When you learn to kick me from 200 yards, then I'll believe that your martial arts are effective against my rifle.
- Omnicrola, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7While I haven't actually played the game in question, I respect the fact that the creators chose to make this game not to glorify the incident, but more to document it apparently. No this is not a game that will or ever should be mass produced or distributed, but I think it's important that someone did something like this. As the article says, it's more of an artistic reflection of a very horrible incident. Making it into a game allows the viewer/player to become far more involved in the story than they would by simply reading about it or watching a documentary.
- Strahd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5One of the consequences of living in a nation with freedom of speech and expression is accepting the consequences - good and sometimes bad, pleasant or repulsive, of that freedom.
I thought the guy was very mature and nuanced given the life-altering mental and physical trauma he suffered that day. I can't say that I would be as objective as him if the same had happened to me! - ThinkFr33ly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6How about games that recreate World War 2 or Vietnam?
Sure, there is a more "personal" aspect to this incident since it involved far fewer people, but I think it's, to some extent, a matter of timing.
The longer you wait after something bad happens the easier it is to either make fun of it or exploit it. - Eddible, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I'm surprised it has took this long for something like this to appear. It's like 9/11 and all the talk of them making a movie out of what happened. I mean even if it is "artistic" it's still a bit sick.
- Cyrealm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sadly, there is at least some fascination in death and the macabre in just about all of us.
- kankerfist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"Wow, you people need to get a life, stop being ***** grammar nazis and do something productive with their lives."
I can see why you hate grammar Nazis so much. - zkakisochra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Look at the discussion boards for the game. It seems most of the people who see this do not find the subject material to be all that enlightening or ironic. just complete glorious excess.
http://www.columbinegame.com/discuss/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=cbf246adbf4bb7876b00305dcd1d0802 - Anthraxx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Could you sound any more stereotypically American? Go on, I bet you a 600mL Coke that you can't.
"More guns fix guns?"
Maybe if someone had realised those kids were messed up BEFORE they shot those people, then it wouldn't have happened. You know what else stops unnecessary gun deaths? Not having dip-***** gun laws and a culture that nurtures violence. Case in point: Australia. - merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this game is ***** sick, and so are the people who created it. Innocent kids were ***** murdered you sick *****.
- PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Tried the game...it sucks!
- spiritflare1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This is just an exploitation grab. If someone were truly interested in understanding Dylan & Eric, there are better ways than the disneyfication of that fateful day. Hey I didn't understand WW2, let's make a game about gassing people, so it clears up the confusion.. i didn't understand 9-11, let's make a game about crashing jets into bldgs so i "can better understand" the perpetrators. Give me a break.
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6A ***** game that profits from the violent deaths of children should be actively boycotted. Hell, a good game that profits from the violent deaths of children should be.
Not to mention the social irresponsibility of lowering the threshold for acceptable behavior for young people. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What exactly is the point of this RPG when there's a 95%+ chance of surviving? It's not like they killed everyone at the school.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Anthraxx look at the uk the only ones with the guns are crimanals and thus since they banned guns crime has rised
- Ratty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Gun crime usually includes the use of fake/replica guns. And I read that the gangs with real guns tend to rent them and the same gun is used by multiple gangs. I guess there just isn't enough of them to go around.
- Strahd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5BBC - Gun Crime Soars by 35%
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2640817.stm - epohs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3His ability to look at the game objectively was surprising, and quite respectable. Very level headed fellow. Someone give him a job.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@ sert
The game wasn't about shooting immigrants, it was about shooting *illegal aliens*. One is lawful, the other is illegal. There's a difference. - spc2226, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The game is sub-par anyways.
- Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes they have, you've just missed it by skimming the comments.
- Rmplstltskn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Uhhhhh, yeah. That sounds reasonable.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Comic sans?
- chrislewis, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9I still think the idea for game is macarbe. And im not even in america!
- Omnicrola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Way to have a knee-jerk response, without even trying to bother and understand the purpose of their project. Notice how I used "project"? Contemplate the difference in your personal reaction if someone called it a project instead of a game. A game does imply that it's supposed to be fun, possibly amusing, which I don't think is what they where trying to communicate at all.
- WalkerBurgin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This just isn't right... it's distasteful, not to mention disrespectful.
- Brewno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The game is very innacurate.
The boys were'nt members of the trenchcoat mafia.
The guns weren't all bought illegally. - Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good luck finding enough parents who can take off from work long enough to give two shakes of a rat's ass about what their children are playing.
- jfujita, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Theres a RPG Maker 2000 font patch that fixes the problem
- rishimaharaj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The difference with WWII games is that 95% of the time the player is a Allied soldier - a morally defensible, if violent, action. If COD2 had you play as an SS officer at Auschwitz you can be damn sure that people would outraged.
- Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Have you played the game yet? I haven't, so I'm reserving judgement for when I get a chance to see it.
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