Jayne ,'Safe'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Speaking as an atheist, I think that the whole furor over the Left Behind games is way overblown. I know at least one serious gaming site that gave it a decent review: [link]
I'm not sure why I'm supposed to take the game content more seriously than I would GTA.
Why do I insist on trying to use sites' internal search engine, when Google will find me what I'm looking for? In other words:
As to the question above (and frequently submitted) of why we put apostrophes in decades (the 1960's) and in the plural of some all-capitalized initialisms (DVD’s), the answer is we don't anymore. Phil Corbett, the deputy news editor who is in charge of the stylebook, eliminated those anachronisms last October, with this comment:
Our main reason for using the apostrophe had been to avoid confusion in all-cap heds, but with those heds long since eliminated everywhere but Page One, that rationale is no longer compelling. And the apostrophe annoyed many readers, who thought we were mistakenly using a possessive form instead of a plural.
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I'm not sure why I'm supposed to take the game content more seriously than I would GTA.
Because they believe it. Okay, that's harsh. But it's being presented as a point of view of the organisation, or at least cannot but be perceived as such by the majority of onlookers.
I don't think the GTA people are all about stealing cars for real.
Somewhat tangentially, if a game came out about shooting random black people, I'd be disturbed. Okay, maybe it's already out--I don't pay much attention to this stuff. Now, if that game came not so much from a gaming house who are all about profit, but from a religious organisation (all about prophets?) or anyone else with an agenda that's not primarily commercial, I'd be wondering how long the decision-makers behind that gem were going to still have their jobs.
we were mistakenly using a possessive form instead of a plural
But they were! Okay, kinda. They picked a typographical symbol with a meaning and didn't expect people to flash on it?
And ita says what I would have said, had I known that's how I wanted to say it.
ETA: About the Left Behind video game.
Some white supremacists groups to put out games where the viewpoint characters kill Black people, Gay people, and Jews.
Speaking as a Christian, I was horrified by what I read about the Left Behind game. The book series' eschatology is bad enough, but what I read about the game made me sick.
Some white supremacists groups to put out games where the viewpoint characters kill Black people, Gay people, and Jews.
There I don't have to wonder. I know they hate me. I knew that the Left Behind people think I'm a heathen, but cannon fodder? Do they really want to do that to their image?
The Left Behind books aren't really about converting anyone, the books are written for "Real True Christians" who already believe this stuff. I know the book talks about people getting converted, but not really they just had to have someone who could be there and walk the readers through what would happen at the End Times.
I knew that the Left Behind people think I'm a heathen, but cannon fodder? Do they really want to do that to their image?
I think this is exactly why the games didn't bother me much. I mean, on an intellectual/moral level, sure, but practically speaking, I prefer when the crazy leaks through to the outside.