another find from my friend Nicholas

[winterbadger]

Maoist reviews of games

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bookstore/vgames/

I'm tempted to think this is all just a huge joke, but it seems to have taken (the whole site, not just the reviews) more work than a prank would really be worth. Given which, I'm inclined to feel sorry for these folks.

Comments

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

astounding, but an interesting perspective:

"Since there are no politicians and no weapons or war in this simulation, one may wonder why MIM would recommend this game. There are also no labor strikes (realistic for the united $tates) and no complications from borders while one operates in several countries. We do not see military aid arriving for death squads who kill trade union organizers and keep wages down to 50 cents an hour in most parts of the world."

[winterbadger]

"There are also no labor strikes (realistic for the united $tates) "

One wonders what world these people live in, since it ain't the one msot of the rest of us inhabit.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, really in another world.

"In the Soviet Union, the people proved able to develop rocket launchers to defeat a Nazi invasion in progress."

The Soviet Union did not defeat Nazi Germany through rockets, but through throwing millions of bodies at them. Well, of course, in *this* world. In Dimension X, or wherever these folks live, maybe the Soviets did come out of the war with a functioning rocket program, rather than one built by captured German scientists (http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ecliched/main_missile.html).