Terrorist Group ISIS Releases a Recruitment Video Game

Foxi4 · Sep 21, 2014

Again, big difference between enticing to participate in the military and enticing to participate in slaughter of civilians. Yes, the premise is the same, but the cause is completely different. You don't see the U.S. military strapping kids into bomb vests, do you?

ComeTurismO · Sep 21, 2014

Ugh. Fucking low life ISIS. Turning the religion into even more shame. I don't get what religion expects you to terrorize. Not in the Quran it says that. So if they're so called muslims, why are they doing this? For Jihad? What? Fuck terrorism.

Tattorack · Sep 21, 2014

Foxi4 said:
Again, big difference between enticing to participate in the military and enticing to participate in slaughter of civilians. Yes, the premise is the same, but the cause is completely different. You don't see the U.S. military strapping kids into bomb vests, do you?

Different culture different ways of doing it.
And I sorely doubt such an organization with so much money to throw around would do such a thing as blow up a bus by strapping bombs on an individual.
More like they claim its their doing while its actually done by some desperate fool.

Besides, even if they would, how is that any better than the US?
The US are basically school-ground bullies. A school-ground bully is this strong guy that everybody looks at and buggers everybody who is weaker and has a 100% guarantee against them.
Same as the US when they invade. they're attacking a country armed with people wielding last-years weapons and covered in t-shirts for the most part with guys wielding the most advanced and expensive killing toys and covered in bullet proof vests.

The one side is sending children with bombs, the other is sending bombs to children.
If ISIS is sick for making a game that promotes their form of terrorism then any game company that ever made a waregame of the US invading anything is sick for theirs.

FAST6191 · Sep 21, 2014

Foxi4 said:
Again, big difference between enticing to participate in the military and enticing to participate in slaughter of civilians. Yes, the premise is the same, but the cause is completely different. You don't see the U.S. military strapping kids into bomb vests, do you?

No, they have more funding so they strap them into explosive tanks instead.

Foxi4 · Sep 21, 2014

Tattorack said:
Different culture different ways of doing it.

I disagree. This is not a matter of "different ways of doing things", this is a matter of social advancement of the culture. The middle east is at the point in history the west went through in the middle ages - we "crusaded" in the name of God as well before we realized that the life of an individual is more important than a phony premise.

Reisyukaku · Sep 21, 2014

Not gonna lie, this looks like a great mod. But it's also gonna fuel all those sensationalist, right-wing asshats like fox news..

Tattorack · Sep 21, 2014

Foxi4 said:
I disagree. This is not a matter of "different ways of doing things", this is a matter of social advancement of the culture. The middle east is at the point in history the west went through in the middle ages - we "crusaded" in the name of God as well before we realized that the life of an individual is more important than a phony premise.

Nope. The middle east just "branched off" so to speak. They're in no way primitive. Just developed in another direction.
If that cannot be excepted by the ideals of the western population that its the fault of their own (and I have quite a bit of difficulty myself trying to see the logic behind how they treat women).
We just made ourselves the target for wanting the black gold so much.
And hey, weapon companies need to make money on something right?

Foxi4 · Sep 21, 2014

Tattorack said:
Nope. The middle east just "branched off" so to speak. They're in no way primitive. Just developed in another direction.
If that cannot be excepted by the ideals of the western population that its the fault of their own (and I have quite a bit of difficulty myself trying to see the logic behind how they treat women). We just made ourselves the target for wanting the black gold so much. And hey, weapon companies need to make money on something right?

It depends on your definition of what primitivity is. I'll agree to the extent that the middle east is "different", but I will not agree that it's not "backwards" - it is backwards because it's constantly war torn and cannot progress.

FAST6191 · Sep 22, 2014

Foxi4 said:
It depends on your definition of what primitivity is. I'll agree to the extent that the middle east is "different", but I will not agree that it's not "backwards" - it is backwards because it's constantly war torn and cannot progress.

Though it is unlikely I will be visiting the middle east, and that is not just the weather causing such things, I may have to disagree with the historical part. There was some pretty good science, politics and more going on during the middle and "dark" ages.

On "branched off" I fear we may need to cover the end of world war 1, world war 2 and a bit more besides. A lot of it would seem to have been conducted with the subtlety and cultural understanding... actually it would be fitting to try one of those "names of the country" jokes but they might have actually had that one, if only because they were the ones assigning them after their rulers landed there on the map*.

*I wonder if I can get both the Eurocentric history guilt for the actions of my (theoretical) ancestors accusation and "it is all a lot older than you are making it out to be" one.

WiiCube_2013 · Sep 22, 2014

Haterbait said:
Hopefully they'll have online play with heists from day 1. Actually this could be a good thing. Perhaps potential terrorists will satisfy their bloodlust through this simulation and grow complacent. It's their first step towards joining the rest of the world on our couches consuming entertainment!

Heists? YESS!!

Finally they can all play the heists they wanted!

lol

Guild McCommunist · Sep 22, 2014

Grand Theft Allah.

Ashtonx · Sep 22, 2014

haxan said:
I'm Muslim and this is just disgusting!
Islam is really getting fked up lately, with all the terrorist shit going on
I think i'm going Christian

Go atheist. all religions are evil.

Guild McCommunist · Sep 22, 2014

Ashtonx said:
Go atheist. all religions are evil.

Please stop.

Ashtonx · Sep 22, 2014

ComeTurismO said:
Ugh. Fucking low life ISIS. Turning the religion into even more shame. I don't get what religion expects you to terrorize. Not in the Quran it says that. So if they're so called muslims, why are they doing this? For Jihad? What? Fuck terrorism.

MarioFanatic64 · Sep 22, 2014

I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda tempted to play it for teh lulz. Actually, I'd kinda enjoy a game where you're a terrorist and you kill westerners. Sounds like fun.

ComeTurismO · Sep 22, 2014

Ashtonx said:

Even though one is entitled to their own opinion, your opinion is surely invalid. I will not watch this video because I'm sure it's lies. No religion is evil. It's the people. Not the faith and the one you worship.

Trevor Belmont · Sep 22, 2014

So, the moral of the story is, video games are the devil's work...?

Trevor Belmont · Sep 22, 2014

So, the moral of the story is...Indoctrination is social control of the populous..?

Ashtonx · Sep 22, 2014

Well religion is a social control of the populous

Islam is just a bit better on waging war side, it's not exactly much more evil than christian religion, most christians didn't even read bible and the religion is more centralized + made up by bunch of people so it's easy to tell people how to interpret depending on times. Islam on the other hand was written by one guy, who explained in detail how to interpret the book, and as he gained power he turned it into more of a tool for war. Now the guy is dead but bunch of maniacs still follow the book. Ain't saying all islamists are bad, religion isn't something you chose in most cases but something you're being taught since you were a kid, I'm guessing most islamists didn't even study quran too much and went with what they were told. On the other hand since they follow qran doesn't really take much for some fanatic religious leaders to turn them into gods soldiers when it's needed, as it was done by all religions through history.

I mean look at the ComeTurismO, he assumed it was lies before he even checked out what video was about, he doesn't question, just obey and picks up facts he likes. Easy to control, no different from jihadists.

Sterling · Sep 22, 2014

Tom Bombadildo said:
I wouldn't say that's the problem, the problem is you expect people on GBATemp, with an average age of like 13 at best, to actually care about terrorism and stuff like this in general. This is a homebrew community, people don't come here for news about ISIS and "war", they come here for 3DS h@x0rz and general Nin10doh circle jerking. Regardless of whether this involves video games or not, it's not exactly a topic a Nin10doh community is going to jump all over.

I've no idea why you assume a majority of our members would actually care about stuff like this, hence why I also think it's strange you decided to make a front page post on this. Not to say that this isn't important, it just isn't important here.

Tom, it's not that I disagree with you, but GBAtemp is not just for homebrew and gaming. We have several outlets of media discussion. If a reporter sees something that they think needs to be discussed, I think they should bring it up and discuss it. What's wrong with having a "real world" article on he front page if it relates to games? It brings a ton of discussion and people like talking about how their world is and how to fix things. Even if it's just a few regular posters who feel strongly about something, that's still loads of discussion compared to some newsworthy front page posts.

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