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November 5, 2007 Link to this post
Terrorism... and Halo
We have a pretty strict rule on our forum - there's no discussion of politics. This is because we are, at heart, a gaming community - and political discussions tend to be fractious. Barring discussion is simply an easy way to keep the peace. Sometimes, though, gaming and politics mix in our news - and we mention it here, because it can be of interest to the community. There were two separate articles I ran across this morning that caught my eye - one is about a child in trouble, the other about an adult making connections. GameRush has a story of a boy in Pennsylvania who was suspended from school for drawing Halo weapons (the school says they're part of a larger body of evidence that the boy might have been planning to hurt someone, his mother says he's just obsessed with the game). And Wired's Clive Thompson draws parallels between Halo and the real-world politics that give rise to suicide bombers. On the surface, they're both WTF articles, making you wonder if Jack Thompson is going to be able to find a way to use them to stir up trouble. They both can give you something to think about, though, and (assuming you can stay away from inflammatory rhetoric) can provide interesting conversation fodder for our forum. (A quick warning: as soon as the conversation veers away from the immediate topic, and strays into nationalistic namecalling, it'll be closed down. We are, after all is said and done, a gaming community. If you want to discuss world politics in general, there are thousands of forums to do it in - please don't use ours.) (Louis Wu 12:03:41 UTC)
