I just had a conversation in my head, as happens when I'm reading interesting things:

"You're dressed up fancy, what's the occasion"

"Nothing special, I just realised, I might die at any moment."

"Okaaaay..."

"Well, If I'm going to bleed to death in a gutter, I might as well look good doing it."

Seriously Brain, can you hear me in there? You are insane, Q.E.D.



SO, ANYWAY

This weekend I watched all of the Full Metal Alchemist I possess, some 11 volumes (1-8, 10-12). And I find that I have a few things to note, no I will not spoil anything. That Anime has the saddest episode of all, Fucking Time, that, and the Homunculus Lust is honestly one of the coolest, saddest characters I've seen, She wants so desperately what most take for granted.

Next subject: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

There has been, as you may have heard, a fair bit of controversy over this game. let me say this: The Slaughter of the cilvilians in a Russian airport is horriblw, it is heinous and bloody, but it's avoidable. At no point does the game force you to kill unarmed civilians, even if you DO chose to make that mission available to play.

I also think that people are over reacting. It's a game people, a Simulation, nothing more, nothing less. It's not murder training, it's not a breach of the Geneva Convention, because it's not war, it's a videogame. Yes, there was in fat a swiss organisation that labeled anyone who had played any of a given list of *videogames* as War Criminals. Yes, War Criminals.

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What honestly shocked me even more than this was some of the later missions, which take part after the Russian Federation invades Washington, District Of Columbia. You walk through a bunker, filled with wounded and battleweary soldier, you emerge into a trench network, and look up, and there's the Washington Monument. Which bring something into sharp relief, probably even sharper, if, unlike me, you're actually American. You are in the Capital of what is genrally reguarded (In the western world at least), to be the greatest nation on earth. And its burning. The Sky is dark red-orange, the buildings are crumbled from artilery and airstrikes, and the chatter of machinegun fire fills the air. It's like Hell. And there, sitting over it all, the Washington Monument, like a weaping, rotting king on his decaying throne, watching his dead land.


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To me at least, it shows, that these games do not glorify war, for how could such an image be so glorious? It shows us horror, nothing more.

Now's Quote: "How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know, or see."