{"id":344,"date":"2007-06-14T14:48:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=344"},"modified":"2007-06-14T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T13:49:18","slug":"for-gods-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/06\/14\/for-gods-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"For God’s Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Manchester<\/p>\n

It’s extremely hard to take the current commotion about Resistance Fall of Man<\/a> seriously.<\/p>\n

The Church of England is outraged that Resistance Fall of Man features a location with likeness to the Manchester Cathedral, Tony Blair is asked to comment, and the church would be willing to calm down for a price.<\/a><\/p>\n

Something is seriously wrong – everybody seems to basically understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction, but when it comes to video games, otherwise intelligent people will happily short-circuit and claim that a sci-fi game “encourages people to have guns battles in the building<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The part about encouragement comes from the bishop of Manchester, and it raises the question whether he personally felt very encouraged to engage in gun battles after playing the game? I think he needs to step forward on this issue: Did he feel a strong urge towards real gun violence that he could only barely control?<\/p>\n

Or is it rather a sort of interpretation-by-proxy along the following lines: All these weird people who play video games must surely feel encouraged to engage in gun battles in the cathedral. (Though I have no basis for this assumption whatsoever. Please send money.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s extremely hard to take the current commotion about Resistance Fall of Man seriously. The Church of England is outraged that Resistance Fall of Man features a location with likeness to the Manchester Cathedral, Tony Blair is asked to comment, and the church would be willing to calm down for a price. Something is seriously … Continue reading “For God’s Sake”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}