Two posts, one day?!

While it may seem odd for me to post twice in one day, I had a good chat with some of my extended family today. So, I decided to make a quick commentary on it while it is still semi fresh in my head.

First off, political talk. It seems most of my family are democrats, as they are mostly divided between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They got into some heated debate, which I found interesting. For one, they brought up the question of whether or not the U.S. needs a president who is willing to do anything to win, or a president who is overall superior (the latter of those two I got wrong, I know). If you happened to ask me, I'd say a president of the 2nd category would be better, as a president who will do anything to win will no doubt have an odd way of "goal" based governing, I'd think. For an example, if Bush were to fall into the 1st category of president, consider how he stripped the citizenry of various rights (phone tapping and the like) in order to better the defense of the nation. I dare say that this wasn't an overly effective thing to do, and a more thought out plan could have happened, given proper thoughts and advice from all of the government's resources.

Imagine now if something more drastic were to take place? I dare say it wouldn't turn out well.

Next, we had various talk about computer games. We talked about Gears of War 2, recently unveiled at the GDC, a game called APB, Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, and Defense of the Ancients (oddly enough).

While we didn't talk about it, I was tempted to bring up Battlefield Heroes, a free game from EA. Another part of the Battlefield franchise, it does a complete 360 degree turn, considering that it not only a 3rd person game, but in a cartoon-like style. No doubt it will be entertaining, but I think that EA going this way is bound to lead to trouble. While a free game like this seems like a good idea, look at what Korea is up to. They have a multitude of free games of low quality, with low specifications. If the Western game market becomes like that for the PC, I'd be rather disappointed at the stagnation that would no doubt occur.


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