Mr. Crazy himself. I heard he's high on Centrum.
The one thing that the games industry is lacking more than anything is crazy people. Sure, there are plenty of guys completely full of themselves, and even more who are completely mediocre, but crazy? There is a serious shortage of the truly deranged working within the industry. Is this a conscious choice? Very likely. The misguided believe that having a genuine crazy nut-job in the office is actually counterproductive has led to the inevitable point we’ve reached now; not enough crazy people.

A riveting read, until you get past that salacious cover image.Fortunately, there are people outside the industry who don’t mind lending a hand in providing the sort of frothing psychosis that the industry desperately needs. Enter Lyndon LaRouche, a basket case whose been running for president for the last 127 years. He hasn’t won yet but that won’t stop his conspiracy theory addled, Centrum multivitamin fueled, political platform. His platform as I understand it can be simple stated as, “I’ve lost my damned mind, so make me King of America or I’ll rape your dog.” You can purchase that bumper sticker or the book to your right on his website.

But now LaRouche has set his sights on videogames, specifically the release of Halo 3. In an articlewritten by the LaRouche Youth Movement Counter-Intelligence Team, the byline reads “Bill Gates in Your Soul.” That’s right, if you play Halo 3 Bill Gates will effectively be in your soul, probably to make your soul yearn for Windows Vista and to stop getting a decent hair cut… just like Bill Gates.

The first line of the article is:

“For all those individuals salivating about the new Halo 3 video game, ask yourself the question: what is the difference between man and beast?”

Probably that beasts can’t play Halo 3. I haven’t seen any studies to prove this, but that seems like common sense. Animals are useless and can’t brandish weapons to stop an impending alien threat. They’ll probably just roll over and die. I hope all the questions aren’t that easy.

The article goes on to ask:

“How does one young adult get corrupted into becoming a psychotic-mass killer… ? The most obvious answer to any thinking individual— is to dehumanize the image of human beings.”

In the case of Halo 3, this is done by killing some aliens. I mean, most of them have arms and legs, like humans. They even talk in English when I shoot them the first, second and even the third time. Pretty amazing. They even have cool guns to kill their objects of hate, just like us.

“Once that dehumanizing process has been accomplished, the ability of making useless wars (like that of Iraq, today) and mass killing of innocent people, as in the case of the Virginia Tech incident, are stepping stones for the unleashing of a New Dark Age.”

If that New Dark Age includes killing some goddamn aliens you can count me in. I’m more than ready to shoot some extraterrestrial zealots right in the face. I feel like I’ve been training for this moment for years, honing my skills and dehumanizing these non-humans. They are like homeless people and war protesters to me. I am prepared to commit violence acts of extreme prejudice on them and feel little remorse.

Wait. Is this what LaRouche and his Counter-Intelligence Team are talking about? Is Bill Gates in my soul? Has he made me into a psychotic-mass killer, without me even knowing it, brainwashing away the very basics of human decency? I could shoot that bastard in the face right now.

I didn’t read past that part in the article because I was too upset at Bill Gates. However, I did notice a nice graph and comparison of LaRouche to FDR, Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. Unfortunately, the comparison is not what the graph is about, which is a shame, because I wanted empirical evidence showing that LaRouche is a cripple, a catholic and a black man all rolled into one. That sounds like the best presidential candidate I’ve ever heard of. I’d vote for him.

[Source: Game Politics]