Is south park brilliant, or are we just stupid here...

[Vodstok]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/0...of-warcra.html

Not exactly "Make love not Warcraft", but the comparison is apt, because this also smacks of Imagionationland.


I almost coughed out my coffee as i read this. I can imagine the coordinated attack the ukranians or iraqis might carry out against us with their vast armies of night elves and dwarves, not to mention the orc tribes of China...


And last I heard, Bin Laden was working on Fireball..

[The Mothman]

wow, good way to give terrorists ideas.

[Vodstok]

Here's what gets me:

The people we are afraid of have long since had most of their technological equipment destroyed or lost, its not like there is a way to get a hard-to-trace internet connection in the middle of nowhere in a mountain range. Not to mention, they could, say, have a face to face conversation in most cases since they have had to move in groups for nearly a decade.


Now supposing they do have the equipment and time to do this, pretty much every one of these games requires a registration with a valid credit card.I think it would get noticed when a slew of 50 newbies sits around and talks in euphamisms about attacks that never happen in game (not to mention, one would hope that the evil ones would be smart enough to use lingo from the proper game... my guess is the guy who put the demo together worked with Bush to use the Google to search several internets for their intel), Blizzard might notice.


Not to mention, the terrorists would give up eventually when every time they held a meeting, 13 year olds come thorugh and kill their newbish characters, or just hound them to the point that they give up and go back to email because its easier and not any easier to track.

[Ferox13]

I bet the terrorists roll ALLY.

[Papillon Noir]

Yeah, I seriously can't imagine terrorist playing WoW to hide their terrorist attacks. It's just too much effort to build a character and such. I think the Pentagon is just being overly paranoid.

Besides, I can't imagine fundamental Muslims playing a game dealing with sorcery, demons, elves, etc., I would think it would be forbidden. I know some groups are only allowed to read the Koran.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Papillon Noir

Yeah, I seriously can't imagine terrorist playing WoW to hide their terrorist attacks. It's just too much effort to build a character and such. I think the Pentagon is just being overly paranoid.

Besides, I can't imagine fundamental Muslims playing a game dealing with sorcery, demons, elves, etc., I would think it would be forbidden. I know some groups are only allowed to read the Koran.

VERY good points.

Now our government, the source of countless conspiracy theories, have become conspiracy theorists themselves...

Which raises another question:
Are they beginning to believe their own bullshit, or are they just stupid?

[Freak]

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, but in this day and age I wouldn't be the least bit suprised if it was true.

[Festered]

The MOSAD(Israeli secret service) employed readers, for years, to read every newspaper in the world, to glean any scrap of info about potential enemies of the state(anti-Zionists, Nazis, terrorists, etc.). Shades of Se7en.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Festered

The MOSAD(Israeli secret service) employed readers, for years, to read every newspaper in the world, to glean any scrap of info about potential enemies of the state(anti-Zionists, Nazis, terrorists, etc.). Shades of Se7en.

I can understand the Israelis beingcrazy paranoid, the only side of the country that doesnt have an ENTIRE COUNTRY trying to kill them faces the ocean.

[Ferox13]

wow, good way to give terrorists ideas.

A mate on another board thinks its a CIA plot - they want the terrorist to get on WOW then they'll be too busy grinds mats to level their black smithing or doing 10 hour raids for some rare purple drop.