Yep, the Lich King himself, uber necromancer, Nemesis, etc. etc. turned 67 today. Here’s to many more awesome years and zombie Armageddons.
SIDE NOTE: Today, the Sci-Fi channel is airing a marathon of their “Ghost Hunter” series. Give me a break. I love restless spirits as much as the next guy, but I don’t give a crap about them right now. Sci-Fi should be paying their respects to The Great George and showing ZOMBIE movies.
Props to Destructoid for the source.
Everyone’s favorite Miami attorney/nanny state advocate Jack Thompson has teamed up with an independent film maker named Spencer Halpin to bring us Moral Kombat, a documentary that focuses on the evil video games that turn our kids into gun-toting murderers.
The preview runs for about 2 and a half minutes and there’ s practically no additional information about it anywhere. From what I got out of the clip, it’s clearly technophobe propaganda posing a big “what if?” question, and the usual anti-game rhetoric: video games teach you how to fly planes professionaly and fire guns with pinpoint accuracy, the worlds are so crisp looking that it’s difficult to tell them apart from reality, some titles let you play as a Nazi or something, and there’s going to be a “Columbine to the factor of 10″ that will be the downfall of violent games.
Thompson also appears in the movie, adopting the same gentle matter-of-fact tone he uses when he’s not yelling at people or throwing tantrums on message boards. It’s what I like to call his “60 Minutes Face.” People see him in things like this and think, “Hey, he’s not as crazy as I’ve heard!” Yeah, until he loses a court case. Then it’s back to the legal threats and angry letter writing.
Will I watch Moral Kombat? Maybe. It doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that would be shown in theaters– more like special documentaries that students watch in college classrooms. That’s good, because they’re the type of audience that knows it should be taken with tiny grains of salt.
