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I think we have to shout.

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It's not video games or cartoons or off-color jokes. It's guns. It's a society awash in guns. It's the unholy alliance of the NRA and the GOP. And there's no end to it, evidently.

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Is that ''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'' game related in any way to the great Russian sci-fi fim ''Stalker'' by Andrei Tarkovsky (who also made the original ''Solaris'')?

A link to info on the film...https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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I hope she and DJT have a long marriage.

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These mother fuckers are still trying to blame video games. Unfuckingbelievable.

As for Empty Gee blaming overseas spending, I bet she's got a shitton of cash tied up in Russian oil and or other Kremlin productions that she can't touch until this "conflict" in the Ukraine is dealt with. Either that or she's pissed because she'll look a privileged White woman if she tries to go after these survivors like she was doing with the Parkland student activist survivors.

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According to the Wiki link that you provided, it looks like the video game and movie are loosely based off of each other.

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Can we have a video game where we get to hunt down Ted Cruz? Someone would make a quick billion.

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Well, as the Wiki mentions, ''screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic''.

Last time I checked, video games did not exist in 1972 (other than Pong), and the 1979 film could not have been based of the video game, as that was released in 2007.

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Firearms deaths per 100K population 2022Japan 0.06USA 12.21Source

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The game is based on the characters from the famous Marvel comics and movies. In the game, you will be playing as a director of Jurassic World. You will have to create dinosaurs from the DNA, hire some staff members and protect your dinosaurs all large carnivores battle royale See here.

https://youtu.be/EfA9qX1tzBc

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OMG, that is so obvious, but I never considered that before.

Now that you say that, there does appear to be more socially dysfunctional young males than there were when I was growing up (back in the 70s).

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and that whole "respawn" thing..

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Yeah, I can see the ads now. "The perfect assault rifle for all occasions. Great for shopping for groceries or the kids school clothes, even for a night out at your favorite eatery. With suitable accessories and enhanced magazine capacity, even suitable for church."

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It's all true and I'm living proof.I was never been into video games of any kind, mostly because I hate learning new things.

Thusly, I remain uninfected.I have not committed a single mass murder.Let these facts speak for themselves.

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Republicans REALLY REALLY REALLY hate the First Amendment. Even the religion part they claim to love but only for Xtians.

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https://www.pewresearch.org...

Deaths per 100K are roughly constant. The population is increasing so the number of deaths is roughly rising.

Notice the spike in 2016-2020; i.e. Trump years.

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