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Space Invaders/911?
Topic Started: Sunday Sep 21 2008, 01:18 AM (236 Views)
ravenous515
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So it's common knowledge that at the Leipzig games convention there was abit of controversy surrounding a space invaders video that resembled a scenario similar to the September 11 terrorist attacks. So what's everyone's opinion on this matter? Do you think it was harmless satire? Or it was done in bad taste? Or maybe you just don't care.

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ravenous515
Sunday Sep 21 2008, 01:18 AM
there was abit of controversy surrounding a space invaders video that resembled a scenario similar to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
I completely missed this. Any links to the video ?
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Lycan, it was an installation at Leipzig this year of a game where basically you had to try to stop (from memory) space invaders from crashing into the twin towers. I think it was mo-cap based for the control, again from memory. You'd get tired, so eventually the invaders won.

Caused a lot of fuss when some american TV "news" show went around asking the families of people who died in 9/11 what they thought of it.



Personally - I think it was in bad taste, but also think Damien Hirsts work is in bad taste yet can appreciate to some respect it's artistic merit - which is to say, the fact that I think the work is in bad taste shows it has prevoked a reaction, which is ultimately the point of art. To paraphrase Voltaire , while I disagree with what the artist was doing I will fight for his right to make the statement. The irony being that America, the home of free speech and lover of adding the word "freedom" to things like chips, becomes awfully precious where 9/11 is concerned. Or Iraq and WMD's.

It is a fine line in some respects. I think it was, and continues to be, far more disrespectful and in bad taste for news channels to repeatedly show footage of people jumping from the buildings, or that woman who was covered in soot and injured that got high rotation at the time. That's just sensationalism, at least with the Leipzig installation the artist was trying to make a statement.


My two cents



edit - this should probably be in general discussion. I'm sure one of the mods will move it. :)


edit. Oscar Wilde. What the fuck was I smoking? This is why you shouldn't try to look smart, kids.
Edited by felicitous blue, Sunday Sep 21 2008, 09:21 PM.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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I think Blue outlined everything i would say........so....Ditto
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Quick news search on the web and it seems I've been living under a rock, in a dark cave, with a blindfold on and my fingers in my ears to have missed this. :embarassed:
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SSBLITZ BLACK
Sunday Sep 21 2008, 02:26 PM
I think Blue outlined everything i would say........so....Ditto
think you meant to say "QFT"


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yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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felicitous blue
Sunday Sep 21 2008, 09:18 PM
SSBLITZ BLACK
Sunday Sep 21 2008, 02:26 PM
I think Blue outlined everything i would say........so....Ditto
think you meant to say "QFT"


:ohyeah:
QFT on the QFT :D
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sounds like the most awesome game ever, release it on XBLA!
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