E3 '09: Protesters March Against EA and Dante: Pix Here
Trade your PlayStation for a PrayStation!
Protesters are currently massing* outside the LA Convention Centre and the E3 Expo. They are up in arms at the use by EA of part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, the Divine Comedy for its forthcoming game, Dante's Inferno. We've seen bits of the game in action, and it's really not worth making up your own banner and driving through LA at rush hour just to protest the bad script.
Bearing hand-made banners with legends such as "My High Score is in Heaven", "Trade in Your PlayStation for a PrayStation", "Hell is Not a Game", and perhaps slightly more harshly, "EA = Electronic Ant-Christ" (which would actually be "EA-C = "). We suspect they might be Christians who've got the wrong end of Dante's stick given that he actually wanted people experience his dire warnings in an entertaining way.
Of course, and far be it from us to suggest such a thing, they could just be EA marketing people who had a crazy idea, some lurid pens and a little too much... coffee last night. Either way, it's about to kick off, and someone could be in for a proper sandalling!
Luckily our man on the spot managed to snap some pix of the seething, angry mob of crusaders as they prepare - as we write - to storm the Gomorrah that is the E3 Expo 2009.
We dread to think what will happen when they get wind of the fact that they missed out on Heaven and Hell from CDV by six year, let alone Softek's Monsters in Hell by 26 years!
Firstly, no we don't mean that they're attending mass. Secondly, yes it's a provocative verb; we're provoked damn it.
Bearing hand-made banners with legends such as "My High Score is in Heaven", "Trade in Your PlayStation for a PrayStation", "Hell is Not a Game", and perhaps slightly more harshly, "EA = Electronic Ant-Christ" (which would actually be "EA-C = "). We suspect they might be Christians who've got the wrong end of Dante's stick given that he actually wanted people experience his dire warnings in an entertaining way.
Of course, and far be it from us to suggest such a thing, they could just be EA marketing people who had a crazy idea, some lurid pens and a little too much... coffee last night. Either way, it's about to kick off, and someone could be in for a proper sandalling!
Luckily our man on the spot managed to snap some pix of the seething, angry mob of crusaders as they prepare - as we write - to storm the Gomorrah that is the E3 Expo 2009.
We dread to think what will happen when they get wind of the fact that they missed out on Heaven and Hell from CDV by six year, let alone Softek's Monsters in Hell by 26 years!
Firstly, no we don't mean that they're attending mass. Secondly, yes it's a provocative verb; we're provoked damn it.
Read More Like This
Comments
jesus 3 Jun 2009 17:48
1/12
what a load of b******s
Parapraxis 3 Jun 2009 18:10
2/12
This is absolutely hilarious!
Religion never ceases to make me laugh.
These people are 1 step away from a mental institution.
Religion never ceases to make me laugh.
These people are 1 step away from a mental institution.
more comments below our sponsor's message
Daz 3 Jun 2009 18:12
3/12
We dread to think what will happen when they get wind of the fact that they missed out on Heaven and Hell from CDV by six year, let alone Softek's Monsters in Hell by 26 years!
maybe you should get your man on the front lines to tell them.
TimSpong 4 Jun 2009 08:35
4/12
jesus wrote:
what a load of b******s
Note to self: I thought we'd banned religious figures (especially those with multiple personalities) from the Forum. If not, do so. However, remember that Ganesh is cool.
On a serious note: why haven't these nutters boycotted the local Borders to have the Divine Comedy removed, it's merely a work of fiction and not a gospel.
Tim
Bunterboy 4 Jun 2009 10:26
5/12
Oooh. "Electronic Ant-Christ". Now that's a deity I would worship.
Peter Apostlethwaite 4 Jun 2009 11:27
6/12
Bunterboy wrote:
Oooh. "Electronic Ant-Christ". Now that's a deity I would worship.
All Hail our Electronic Anti-Christ! May the sinners Burnout in Hell not Paradise! Now for the liturgy: "Fifa, Fifa, Peter Moore and a Richottello! Fifa, Fifa, Peter Moore and a Richottello! Spore is great. Spore is Great!"
Ahhhhh-Moore!
TimSpong 4 Jun 2009 13:09
7/12
Daz wrote:
We dread to think what will happen when they get wind of the fact that they missed out on Heaven and Hell from CDV by six year, let alone Softek's Monsters in Hell by 26 years!
maybe you should get your man on the front lines to tell them.
Sadly, Joe - like the rest of us - was burning in Hell.
Well, we were burning in Hull actually.
Cheers
tim
headcasephil 6 Jun 2009 17:51
8/12
Bunterboy wrote:
Oooh. "Electronic Ant-Christ". Now that's a deity I would worship.
this got me thinking of a forum post from 2008 lol http://forums.spong.com/en/html/forum/viewThread.jsp?forum=8&thread=8108&message=45007#45007
Bob 6 Jun 2009 19:00
9/12
Electronic Arts stages fake protest of game at E3, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hmKyub7zU5NelM_NYJ-JxSMkvBWAD98KF7880 So who are the fools Christians or those attacking Christians falsely for allegedly staging this protest?
PreciousRoi 7 Jun 2009 23:03
10/12
I'm gonna have to go with the Christians, Bob...Primarily because attacking them is never a bad idea, as sooner or later, they're going to be coming after you anyway. But an even better reason, second only because I didn't think of it first, is that Christians, by which I mean the really scary fundies, have already proven themselves to be so full of shamelessly prideful ignorance and intolerance, that anyone can stage a demonstration like this, and most people find it perfectly reasonable to believe. Fundies are a single step away from becoming the worst kind of fascists, witness the response to that famously taken out of context statement by one of the Lads from Liverpool, of course the most offensive thing (to Christians) about that was its fundamental truth. (pun intended)
Its just too bad that Religion isn't really the "opiate of the masses", if it were, fundies (of all stripes) would O.D. and the world would be a better place.
So really, who's the fool, the person "falsely" attacking someone based on a patently plausible deception, or the person whose pattern of previous extremely foolish actions make such a deception plausible?
Its like an inverted "Boy who cried wolf"...They've cried Ant-Christ so many times for less reason...why doubt that they'd do it again...I mean no one was saying to themselves, "Oh, Fundamentalist Christians are such reasonable and well-educated people, this must be a fake..." No...it took actual evidence to reach such a conclusion...Common Sense would have supported the deception.
Its just too bad that Religion isn't really the "opiate of the masses", if it were, fundies (of all stripes) would O.D. and the world would be a better place.
So really, who's the fool, the person "falsely" attacking someone based on a patently plausible deception, or the person whose pattern of previous extremely foolish actions make such a deception plausible?
Its like an inverted "Boy who cried wolf"...They've cried Ant-Christ so many times for less reason...why doubt that they'd do it again...I mean no one was saying to themselves, "Oh, Fundamentalist Christians are such reasonable and well-educated people, this must be a fake..." No...it took actual evidence to reach such a conclusion...Common Sense would have supported the deception.
sandymiss 10 Jun 2009 08:31
11/12
sandymiss 10 Jun 2009 08:34
12/12