By Senor Bullcrap on Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 06:03 pm:
This raises the question: who plays Bin Laden? What strategies will such a player employ? Act like a total doofus and give patriots an easy frag, or give other players an actual run for their money?
When I used to play Half Life multiplayer over a dial-up connection, I would get incredibly frustrated when logging on to a game server where one guy on a cable modem was sitting in a room killing everyone, running around at double-speed, impossible to hit. If such a person were dressed in a Bin Laden skin, I suppose it would have been that much more frustrating. Though, perhaps a useful foreign policy reminder on the difficulty of catching anyone in the mountains of Afghanistan...
And if we take this to another level, and someone makes a skin of George W. Bush to go after the Bin Laden skin, would someone who shot at the Bush-skinned character be reported to the Secret Service?
The questions are endless. Time for my lo-fat peyote buttons and kool-aid.
By Mark Asher on Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 06:42 pm:
I wouldn't want to make a Bush skin, that's for sure. I know there were Clinton Doom skins, though.
By Bub (Bub) on Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 06:58 pm:
There is a Bush skin. Some guy made skins for all participants in the 2000 election. Including Nader and LaDuke.
-Andrew
By Sparky on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 01:53 am:
Guess I should start working on my "Michael
Dukakis" skin....that'll be a big hit.
By Mark Asher on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 02:11 am:
Heh heh. How about a Janet Reno skin? Scary!
How about a battle of the politicians? You could have Jesse Ventura, 900 year old Strom Thurmond in a space-age wheelchair that shoots rockets, etc.
By Sparky on Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 08:31 pm:
How about Lara Croft's body with Margaret
Thatcher's head?
Sure as heck scarier than robot frogs...