MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

I don't know what kind of person is automatically ignoring all games with reviews of 3.5 Stars or less but I'm gonna go with an asshole? Yeah, let's go with an asshole. Fuck this person.

@El_WaKa: Dude, I already played Cave Adventure. And commented. At length!

I thought it was a good game, FWIW, at least as much as that judgement can be appended to something only 10 minutes long.

Training Day

lolwut

This is a movie that so clearly presented Ethan Hawke as in the moral right and Denzel as morally in the wrong that I am pretty sure the vast majority even of black youth who saw this movie found themselves relating to the white cop and not the black crook-masquerading-as-cop. While Hawke is a white "pig" he is genuinely interested in doing the right thing and catching the bad guys whereas for all of his "jive" and "soul" Denzel's character is a despicable fucking parasite opportunistically preying upon the people of color in his community who clearly fucking despise him. Like I cannot imagine anyone regardless of demographic factors watching fucking Training Day and somehow walking away with "Denzel was a pretty cool guy, I relate to him".

Basically I know that my being a white guy might automatically cheapen this opinion to some but I think that you are underestimating the ability of poor and black audiences to see past bling and moolah to a movie's underlying moral message and authorial sympathies, especially. That you think poor black folks can't see past Denzel being awesome and having a cool gold necklace to the fact that Alonzo is clearly a fucking awful person who dies pitifully seems really condescending if nothing else.

And the fact that you mentioned Menace II Society as glorifying gang culture? Are you trolling, bro?

If you want to talk about the propaganda value of media/literature/film I can certainly recognize it. For instance the "virtuous upstanding cop" is a trope/character that is like omnipresent in crime movies but seems to exist less and less AT ALL in the real world. So that clearly has propagandistic value.

author=harmonic
Police brutality is an issue yes. Yes there's corruption, yes the Eric Garner case was bullshit. And I've acknowledged this multiple times. I simply think it's a symptom, not a root cause.

Alright, let's talk about the root causes behind police brutality. I'd like to start listing some of them. Here are some of the ones that occur to me. Anyone who wants can challenge, add to, or expand upon these.

• Cowardice and Fear masquerading as "self preservation". While as CAVE_DOG pointed out violent crime has actually gone DOWN in recent years, the perception from the perspective of police is that it has increased. Facts be damned, cops fully eat up the narrative that they are at "more risk than ever." This has lead to increased militarization in police tactics and gear and increased "us versus them mentality" among cops. Basically speaking, "get them before they get us" has become an accepted attitude for police tactics. And that is extremely fucked. It's as much missing the point as it is despicable. Police officer is an honorable, prestigious, and fairly well-paying profession because you are RISKING YOUR LIFE. If you act with extreme prejudice to kill anyone who might, potentially, if you squint, present a risk to your life, then you don't deserve that honor, prestige, or paycheck.
  
• Racism. It is clear that on the state level, our judicial system values black and brown lives less than white lives. White cops kill black dude, no charges, keep their jobs. I read an article recently about a black cop that hit a white dude ON THE HAND with a baton. He was immediately fired and charged with assault. Violence against black people is socially accepted. That is fucked.
  
• The police are so heavily armed and geared that for citizens to defend their lives with force when under unjust assault is completely impossible. The cops will always have more and better guns.
  
• The judicial system is riddled with corruption and deeply broken. Prosecutors are extremely buddy-buddy with cops yet are ultimately the ones responsible for prosecuting them. Prosecuting your best friends, your bosom chums, the police is an obvious flagrant conflict of interest.
  
• What I'm on the fence about listing as a root cause is stupid ass laws like on selling loosies (or fucking "illegal camping" for that matter) because they were involved in so few of the most problematic cases.

author=harmonic
Obama, the Justice department, big media - they're on it. And they've convinced a lot of people to go rioting in the streets about it.

OH MY GOD THIS IS SUCH COMPLETE BULLSHIT. Obama has urged people NOT TO RIOT every single time he has spoken on the issue.

author=harmonic
I don't think it's a big issue compared to the systematic cultural dismantling of western civilization.

By all means make a separate thread about that. I'm not being sarcastic. I am actually really curious what you mean by that, it just doesn't belong here.

Solitayrius, accept my reviewsssssssss.

*whines*