Episode 15 "The Politics of Gaming"
Surprisingly there's no Politicking Rage from Bob in this video. Mic's still crusty though, Skip IMO.
The video is just a list of Bob's fantasies about which video game character would vote for who in the 2008 election. You don't need a video for that, just a simple list will do.
ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 27, 2008
PREAMBLE
0:00 intro & shilling
0:30 2008 election talk
0:45 Wow we elected Obama
1:00 Man America has come a long way
1:10 We can finally brag to Europe how we got a black man as president, instead of bragging about WWII like before.
1:15 Those Europoors can shit talk all they want but currently none of them have a prominent black man in power
1:20-1:55 No gaming news for Nov. 2008, not anything important anyway.
1:55-2:38 Bob here describes John McCain as basically an anime protagonist with a Bayonetta look-alike and act-alike by his side.
2:38 Bob talks about liberals and conservatives, in the purest sense, not the kinds of liberals and conservatives that argue about religion and abortion in everyday politics.
PART 1:
Bob defines it like so:
Liberals - want big government
Conservatives - want small government
3:50 "I want it on the record because I don't to get too many bitchy emails for opining that, on a narrative level, gaming has a slightly frequent conservative bent to it... ...I'm talking about broad thematic elements to it."-booob
- for example games are heavily competitive
- for example games LOVE their guns
- 4:36 another example is Final fantasy.
- FF stories like 11 and 10 and 7 are about big bad government vs. small rebels wielding fuckhueg anime guns and weapons
- Actually most game stories are LIBERTARIAN
- As in the kind that believes in the self-dependent man that doesn't want a nanny state or a moral police
-"Basically a Libertarian is a Republican with a brain, or a Democrat with a penis."-Bob, Master of Politics
PART 2: Bob now tells us ask ourselves who and what videogame characters would vote for in the 2008 election.
5:45-8:40 "Now here comes the fun part! How do you think your favorite video game character would vote?"-MovieBob, making politics FUN.
-Don't answer too quickly because Bob wants to show us his list first.
BOB'S LIST
(Street Fighter) Guile -
R
(Mappy) Mappy -
R
(Guily Gear) Bridget -
D
King Dedede -
R
Princess Peach -
D
(Street Fighter) Cammy -
D + Only does it because she's lesbian for Sarah Palin
(Mortal Kombat) Sub-Zero -
R
(Mortal Kombat) Scorpion -
D
(Street Fighter) T. Hawk -
D
Tingle -
Voted Nader
Dr. Robotnik -
R
Knuckles -
D
Meta Knight -
Ron Paul
PART 3: The more nuanced part of the list
Mario and Luigi - New York Plumbers that are probably Unionized, they'd vote
Democrat
Link - Fairy boy looks like he votes
D but he's practically a video game version of Ted Nugent, so
Republican
Solid Snake -
R reluctantly, otherwise he'd vote for
Ron Paul
(Star Fox) Fox McCloud and the gang -
R, Bob says the games are essentially TOP GUN but with furries in outer space.
Bob claims Fox McCloud is basically an expy for John Wayne.
(Army of Two) Salem and Rios -
R no questions asked, but Bob thinks they're in reality gay lovers that are pissed about PROP 8
I wonder where Bob got this particular idea, because I'd like to present these pair of videos.
You decide if they're gay lovers or not.
8:40 Bob is finally done, and then tells us to think more thoughtfully about our personal politics, we might be surprised.
And then points out how in poor taste that Call of Duty: World at War's Cinematic Trailer was released on Veteran's Day.
And then one last Shill for The Escapists
And then one last jab at PETA.
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