Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout Now Has a Playable Counter-Strike Map

Re:Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout Now Has a Playable C... by njharman on Monday May 09, 2011 @01:02PM (#2529378)

Not with FPS (never really my thing) but after biking around Germany for 6mo, looking at war memorials, mass graves, and other WWII sites I lost all interest for several years in playing wargames (computer and chit and hex paper). Every roll of dice and flipping unit to "damage" side I couldn't get out of my mind how that represented a bunch of sacrifice and suffering by actual humans.

Games are not fun when they get humanized.

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Re:Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout Now Has a Playable C... by maayank on Monday May 09, 2011 @01:40PM (#2529507)

I never fully grokked it. I'm jewish and I don't mind playing the nazis in strategy games. While I can understand why it would create a negative gut reaction at first, don't we ought to as logical creatures transcend such emotions and not let them govern our actions?

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