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Will we be picketed?

WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
edited July 2007 in PAX Archive
I realize this is probably a long shot, but do you think PAX might be picketed by Lyndon Larouche and his ilk?

Frankly, I think that'd be hilarious. I haven't heard anything, and I sincerely doubt it'd happen, but c'mon... wouldn't that be a laugh?

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Werrick wrote: »
    I realize this is probably a long shot, but do you think PAX might be picketed by Lyndon Larouche and his ilk?

    Frankly, I think that'd be hilarious. I haven't heard anything, and I sincerely doubt it'd happen, but c'mon... wouldn't that be a laugh?

    I read his wiki and all I see is "general nut", but nothing Thompson-esque. Why exactly would he be picketing? Context is handy.

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    MKR wrote: »
    Werrick wrote: »
    I realize this is probably a long shot, but do you think PAX might be picketed by Lyndon Larouche and his ilk?

    Frankly, I think that'd be hilarious. I haven't heard anything, and I sincerely doubt it'd happen, but c'mon... wouldn't that be a laugh?

    I read his wiki and all I see is "general nut", but nothing Thompson-esque. Why exactly would he be picketing? Context is handy.

    He has Thompson's mentality about games, but holds public office. He was actually one of the ones pushing the VT inquiry to blame video games and then when they excluded them from the report he accused the government of a "cover up".

    He had followers of his lining up to testify at the inquiry hearings to blame games.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Werrick wrote: »
    MKR wrote: »
    Werrick wrote: »
    I realize this is probably a long shot, but do you think PAX might be picketed by Lyndon Larouche and his ilk?

    Frankly, I think that'd be hilarious. I haven't heard anything, and I sincerely doubt it'd happen, but c'mon... wouldn't that be a laugh?

    I read his wiki and all I see is "general nut", but nothing Thompson-esque. Why exactly would he be picketing? Context is handy.

    He has Thompson's mentality about games, but holds public office. He was actually one of the ones pushing the VT inquiry to blame video games and then when they excluded them from the report he accused the government of a "cover up".

    He had followers of his lining up to testify at the inquiry hearings to blame games.

    Well if he brings picketers, the solution is to pass out DSes loaded with a mario game. That will subdue them for the duration of PAX.

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I've been having little chuckles to my self about fucking with them, taunting them and seeing how angry I could get them.

    I think the ultimate victory would be to have one of them take a swing at one of us.

    Again, it's all fictional, the chances that we'll see anyone from the anti-game camp is pretty nil, but it's a fun thing to think about.

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  • ElectricTurtleElectricTurtle Seeress WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Ugh. Ol' LaDouche has more supporters in the Seattle area than I would like. They used to accost me on my lunch breaks when I worked downtown. One time on my way out of Victrola they tried to push how games are "murder simulators" and such crap. Bunch of nutjobs.

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    ElectricTurtle wrote: »
    Ugh. Ol' LaDouche has more supporters in the Seattle area than I would like. They used to accost me on my lunch breaks when I worked downtown. One time on my way out of Victrola they tried to push how games are "murder simulators" and such crap. Bunch of nutjobs.

    Really?! See, I find that fascinating... I don't know why, but I do.

    Do you work in a place that makes you easily identifiable as someone who needs to be "told" or were you just "random passerby" who got accosted?

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  • ElectricTurtleElectricTurtle Seeress WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Well they do bother everybody, when I worked downtown I was just yet another tie-wearing young professional. It was funny because the guy who tried to bother me while I waiting for a crosswalk was going on about how "the banks" were evil or something, and I said "I work for a bank" and he was pretty thrown off for a minute. Really, I don't know what they expect in the financial district.

    They guys in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where Victrola is, couldn't be after me for any other reason than I probably looked like some young gullible hippy (three years passed in between these anecdotes and I let my hair grow for most of that time). After we got to our car and drove back past them, my fiance yelled out the window at them, "Vote Republican!" hehe

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    At over thirty years old I've never had occasion to deal with that kind of thing in public. Maybe it's becuase I live in Ottawa...

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  • ElectricTurtleElectricTurtle Seeress WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    They're on the street pretty much full time in the Seattle area. I once took them head on after reading one of their pamphlets in which LaDouche opines about how the solution to tensions with the Islamic world is a new version of the Treaty of Westphalia, a concept that is completely ignorant of the cause, effect, and environment of that particular moment in history. I pwnt that poor activist n00b.

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    ElectricTurtle wrote: »
    They're on the street pretty much full time in the Seattle area. I once took them head on after reading one of their pamphlets in which LaDouche opines about how the solution to tensions with the Islamic world is a new version of the Treaty of Westphalia, a concept that is completely ignorant of the cause, effect, and environment of that particular moment in history. I pwnt that poor activist n00b.

    Sweet... I never get the chance to do that, but I've done it to the odd Jehovah's Witness that's come to the door, and most recently, about 5, 6 years ago I eviscerated some poor girl canvassing for Greenpeace.

    Actually, that's not true, most recently, last year I went on a blind date with this girl, real nice-lookin' girl too, but it turns out she's this hard-core vegetarian animal rights activists. This girl brough pamphlets.... to a first date! Pamphlets! What's more, they were filled with complete falsehoods about the mistreatment of animals in some fairly major livestock companies.

    She didn't last long either...

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  • atrayatray Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I havent seen them yet. I usually see people trying to get me to signup to save the endangered animals

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  • whypick1whypick1 PAX [E] Info Booth Manager ~2' from an LCDRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    If this does happen, I'm going to have to brush up on my "pwning points", since my solution to deal with any pamphleter I see involves wearing headphones and either walking alongside someone else to shield myself or quickly walk by while they're not facing me. 3 years at UW, and I haven't been stopped by a single LaRouche follower.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Someone really needs to pass around a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide and see how many people sign it.

    Since this is a PA crowd, I doubt you could get as many signers as when Penn and Teller did it for "Bullshit", but it would be funny. :D

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    MKR wrote: »
    Someone really needs to pass around a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide and see how many people sign it.

    Since this is a PA crowd, I doubt you could get as many signers as when Penn and Teller did it for "Bullshit", but it would be funny. :D

    That's because for all their grand-standing most activists are sheep.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Werrick wrote: »
    Actually, that's not true, most recently, last year I went on a blind date with this girl, real nice-lookin' girl too, but it turns out she's this hard-core vegetarian animal rights activists. This girl brough pamphlets.... to a first date! Pamphlets! What's more, they were filled with complete falsehoods about the mistreatment of animals in some fairly major livestock companies.

    Did you order steak on that date?

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Did you order steak on that date?

    No, we just went for beer.

    However, she asked me (guaging my response, I assume) what I would do if I was with someone who was into the stuff that she did and went on marches and protests and stuff.

    I told her the straight-up truth. I said that I would show my support for her beliefs and that I would probably go with her on occasion to show that support, but when the march was done and we went home I was havin' me some chicken'n'ribs for dinner.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    If such a thing were to occur at PAX, I'd probably just ignore it. I got the pwning of activists and protesters out of my system some time ago.

    I grew up in and around Kansas City, which is just an hour and a half away from Topeka, KS. So I had the misfortune of running into quite a number of Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps early get togethers, back before he was making national headlines for protesting at servicemen's funerals. Me and several of my friends (2 of which were openly gay) used to have fun whenever we spied one of their congregation's rallies by arguing scripture with them. Once my friend Arthur got Phelps so flustered that we though he was going to stroke out on the street corner.

    Sadly, we missed out on when Michael Moore (I guy I normal can't stomach, but who has had a few good moments) met up with Phelps and his flock in his "Sodommobile" back when he was doing the show the "Awful Truth".

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  • wenchkillawenchkilla Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    whypick1 wrote: »
    If this does happen, I'm going to have to brush up on my "pwning points", since my solution to deal with any pamphleter I see involves wearing headphones and either walking alongside someone else to shield myself or quickly walk by while they're not facing me. 3 years at UW, and I haven't been stopped by a single LaRouche follower.

    Are you kidding? I love screwing with their heads. First of all whenever I'm near them with a friend I say loudly "Hey look, it's LaDouche! What's up guys?"

    My best one though, one of them tried to talk to me, so I walked into point blank range, put my face inches away from his, looked into his eyes and said with all seriousness: "I like to fuck dogs". And walked away.

    It was the first time I've seen one of them left speechless. It was very hard to keep myself from cracking up before I was out of earshot.

    Serious Warning (tm): If they DO show up, which I'm gonna say 20 to 1 won't happen, do not screw with them in any way that is quasi-legal. A girl in the U-District dropped water balloons on them from her apartment, they filed for assault, and actually got some sort of conviction out of it.

    Then again, if you're coming from another state, you pretty much have free reign on anything that won't attract immediate police attention

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  • BamboozaBambooza Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Sweet so nerf and supersoakers for the win. See computer games give me such violent tendencies. :P

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2007
    Just make sure you're wearing a shirt that says "Jack Thompson made me violent."

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  • whypick1whypick1 PAX [E] Info Booth Manager ~2' from an LCDRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Bambooza wrote: »
    Sweet so nerf and supersoakers for the win. See computer games give me such violent tendencies. :P

    Just make sure you stick to the Rules of Engagement.

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  • CyberJackalCyberJackal Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Huh, didn't know LaRouche was on the anti-game bandwagon. His cultists... er, supporters... out here in DC usually just call Cheney a "beast-man" or some such and demand his impeachment. I generally just laugh in their face or give them the stink-eye depending on my mood.

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Moe_Fwacky wrote: »
    Just make sure you're wearing a shirt that says "Jack Thompson made me violent."

    I want one that says "Jack Thompson may be an idiot, but he gives great head."

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    "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be rude without having their skulls split, as a general thing."

    -Robert E. Howard
    Tower of the Elephant
  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    we could pass a petition around downtown to ban h2o with jack thomsons name on it, then send it to him asking for his support in banning this very dangerous chemical and see if he buys it.


    thats a long sentence....

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2007
    If we're going to bother passing around a petition, it should be one to ban Jack Thompson from the state of Washington. I mean, sure, it may not be taken seriously in that he won't actually be banned from the state. But, I can imagine the look on his face when a copy of the petition with all the signatures is faxed to his office.

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  • BamboozaBambooza Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Why stop with only WA? I am sure I am not alone in thinking he shouldn't visit other PAX goers home states as well.

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    The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
  • ThePimpImpThePimpImp Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Make sure he doesn't come to canada either. Send him to some other continent.

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  • BamboozaBambooza Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Last I heard not even Antarctica wanted him. Maybe Mars will take him.

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    The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Mars has standards.

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  • ElectricTurtleElectricTurtle Seeress WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Moe_Fwacky wrote: »
    If we're going to bother passing around a petition, it should be one to ban Jack Thompson from the state of Washington. I mean, sure, it may not be taken seriously in that he won't actually be banned from the state. But, I can imagine the look on his face when a copy of the petition with all the signatures is faxed to his office.

    You think you're joking, but you may not be aware that there was I-831 here in WA to officially declare a local populist a 'horse's ass'. It garnered 50000 signatures before it was stopped by injuction...

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  • WazWaz Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    So there.

    Classy.
    I second the Ban Jack Thompson petition.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    http://www.petitiononline.com/vgp2007/petition.html

    :)

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2007
    Yeah, but it's more fun when you have a paper petition passing through a line of thousands with actual signatures that can be faxed directly to his office.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Moe_Fwacky wrote: »
    Yeah, but it's more fun when you have a paper petition passing through a line of thousands with actual signatures that can be faxed directly to his office.

    Well if someone ends up planning one, I can add a footnote to the petition I made. :P

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Moe_Fwacky wrote: »
    Yeah, but it's more fun when you have a paper petition passing through a line of thousands with actual signatures that can be faxed directly to his office.

    Especially if we can get it to be pages and pages and pages so that it clogs his fax machine for a good 15 minutes.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Werrick wrote: »
    Moe_Fwacky wrote: »
    Yeah, but it's more fun when you have a paper petition passing through a line of thousands with actual signatures that can be faxed directly to his office.

    Especially if we can get it to be pages and pages and pages so that it clogs his fax machine for a good 15 minutes.

    How many people are expected at PAX this year? I wouldn't be surprised if every attendee signs. :P

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  • WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Well, I was actually disappointed when he said he wasn't going to show. I kinda want him to come to stuff like this and debate video games with someone who knows what they're talkin about.

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    Tower of the Elephant
  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Werrick wrote: »
    Well, I was actually disappointed when he said he wasn't going to show. I kinda want him to come to stuff like this and debate video games with someone who knows what they're talkin about.

    He'll probably have cronies trying to pretend to be gaming enthusiasts.

    Look for 40-80 year old men trying to act "hip" and making futile attempts at using ebonics.

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  • atrayatray Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Throughout most of this thread I thought we were talking about the movie big trouble in little china. In my search I found this picture :)

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2007
    Somebody should pay the $400 to have those put in 10,000 PAX goodie bags

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