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  • arsonpaintball06
    Registered User
    • Jul 2003
    • 653

    #1

    Stop This Event!....Please Read

    This is a scenerio game that has recently been posted on AO, the following was written by the AO member Meph

    Originally Written By Meph:


    Now we've all seen or heard of or even played in D-Day type of games. About events that happened how many years ago? Decades ago? I mean the grievances of those events have come and gone, they are now history. Personally I'm not a fan of them, I won't participate in them, but I also can see it as play-able to a degree. So long as it's still pushed on the fact that this is fantasy land and such.

    But what about recent events. Would it be okay to have a game in a shut-down school and call it "Columbine"? Would it be okay to play in the Nevada Desert with 'hostages' and call the game "Operation Iraqi Freedom"? Would you expect somebody to produce a game in Maryland where the objective is to find 2 poeple who've been picking off random civilians and call it "Sniper Hunt 2004"??
    Or how about a game on September 11th. Not even twisting it around with fake terrorist organiztions... but using the actual names and the game's intent is to prevent the president from being assassinated..... would you think this game is okay?

    Well some people did. Check this crap out.



    That's right. Apparently these guys have no problem making light of these events and attempting to make a profit off it at the same time. Showing a complete lack of respect to those 3000+ who died in that terrorist attack which inevitably would trigger us to go to war causing even MORE American casualties!

    And nowhere on the site was there any specific bolded mention of...
    "This game is in rememberance of those who died due to the Terrorist Attacks"
    "This game is to pay for the WTC organization funding"
    Or anything like that, nothing. They've now deleted it from their website, but their original promotional message was



    quote:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    911
    AMERICA UNDER SIEGE

    WHO THOUGHT THAT IT COULD GET ANY WORSE AFTER THE BRUTAL ATTACKS THAT OCCURRED TO OUR COUNTRY ON 9/11/01. NOBODY.
    NOW THAT TRAGIC DATE IS UPON US ONCE AGAIN, AND THE AL QAEDA FORCES HAVE A NEW PLAN, THE ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
    THE AL QAEDA FORCES HAVE BEEN PLANNING THIS ATTACK FOR YEARS AND KNOW THAT IT WILL BE ANOTHER SUICIDE MISSION. THEY HAVE GATHERED THEIR TROOPS IN THE CITY OF TAYLOR, MICHIGAN AND WILL DEPLOY THEIR PLAN AT EXACTLY 10:00AM ON 9/11/04 TO COMMEMORATE THE DEVASTATION THEY BROUGHT 3 YEARS AGO.
    JOIN THE SECRET SERVICE AT TAYLOR MICHIGAN ON 9/11 TO HELP STOP THESE TERRORISTS FROM KILLING THE PRESIDENT AND KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE FROM AL QAEDA ONCE AND FOR ALL.
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------



    I'm sorry but this is just plane wrong on so many levels. A classless lack of respect or honor towards you, I, and everybody else who has suffered because of this event. And those who died. And ABOVE all hosting it on the 3rd anniversary of the 9/11 attack itself.

    Sorry this had gone too far.



    Please contact the field and promoters of this event and tell them how much you disapprove of it. Also contact the sponsors if you have time. Events like this cannot happen. What is next, a holocaust scenerio game?

    Field:nolimitspark.com
    Promoter:splatterzonepaintball.net
    Last edited by arsonpaintball06; 07-16-2004, 12:40 PM.



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    • Aug 2003
    • 1012

    #2
    thats like something my field based off a movie WW2/ WW3 www.reddawngame.com

    even tho its a movie america is conquered by russians, and the small band of resistance fighters is left and destroyed


    what can you base scenario games on? even Dday is a little sketchy
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    • Halliday
      Level 10
      • Oct 2000
      • 1655

      #3
      Yes it is in bad taste but I think they have the freedom of speech to run it.
      Personally I'd show my lack of support by e-mailing them, not attending or if I REALLY wanted to go by paying for the entry fee and paint with pennies.


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      • 252
        What? Shocker?
        • Jun 2003
        • 115

        #4
        Thats pretty sick.
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        • Automaget
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          • Jun 2004
          • 111

          #5
          I can see WWII or WWI or just about any war because if you think about it, its educational to the youngens out there to see what the people had to go through back in the day or learn the beaches of normandy or famouse battels like battle of the baulge but reinacting 911 is a discrase that should never be done it happend and you show respect to these people and the tragidy. but wars right now should not be reanacted hence because its to close to home maybe in a decade. thats what i have to say
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          • Skoad
            Registered User
            • Feb 2002
            • 3265

            #6
            Not a big deal, at least to me. I've already played in a Bin Laden scenario.

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            • Hairball
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              • Jun 2004
              • 251

              #7
              I agree, it is in bad taste.
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              • wantamag
                Rec Poster
                • Mar 2003
                • 5055

                #8
                skoad, i dont think i ever realsied that your so close to me where u paly at? im in st.louis/fenton/st. louis conuty w/e

                i think that this is in poor taste as well however i dont see a big deal if u dont like it dont attend..there are only so many REAL things to abse scenarios off of without making up random things like aliens,or soemthing...soem people like the war simulation games our local field recently had a ho-chi-minh scenario game and objectives like capture this setroy that ,it worked out pretty well but i do think there should be more variety in the scenario scene

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                • Fred
                  AO Zealot
                  • Feb 2002
                  • 2624

                  #9
                  I've never heard of that field, i think...

                  I know for sure i've never played there...

                  and now i have one more reason never to!

                  that's wrong on so many levels...

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                  • Muzikman
                    Everything AGD
                    • Dec 2000
                    • 6229

                    #10
                    Don't worry, already been averted. Take a look at their website http://www.splatterzonepaintball.net/ .

                    It was posted last night in the Scenario forum and it got shot down by this morning.

                    The power of AO.

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                    • Skoad
                      Registered User
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 3265

                      #11
                      wantamag - pm

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                      • arsonpaintball06
                        Registered User
                        • Jul 2003
                        • 653

                        #12
                        so are they not havin the game anymore?



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                        • gtrsi
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                          • Dec 2001
                          • 5786

                          #13
                          I think you guys are missing the point why this is so dam wrong.

                          Scernario games based on warfare combants offer historical perspectives for younger gens whom do not understand the absolutle loss of life that happned durring world wide conflict. Paintball does a fine job of illestrating that. The difference is the combat was bewteen trained armies and not innocent civlians, police and fire departments.


                          I can see a generic terroist V. whatever but not something as specific as WTC.
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                          • warbeak2099
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                            • Jan 2004
                            • 4447

                            #14
                            Well it's a good thing that was shut down. It was in very poor taste. However, I don't understand why an Operation Iraqi Freedom scenario would be wrong. I don't think it's wrong to take scenarios from real life. If it was, then it'd be wrong to play the D-Day games. There's nothing wrong with reenacting history and adding a fun twist to it. Consider this, the war in Iraq is current history. There'd be nothing wrong with reenacting it as long as the real horrors and truths of the war are observed as they are in the D-Day and other ww2 scenario games. I'd like to see more historic scenario games come to think of it. How bout some ww1, vietnam, desert storm, or korea scenario games? Maybe even farther back! Franco-Prussian, mexican war, american civil war (i've seen some), spanish-american war, crimean war, etc. Now some of those scenarios would be fun...
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                            • SlartyBartFast
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                              • Jun 2002
                              • 2940

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Automaget
                              I can see WWII or WWI or just about any war because if you think about it, its educational to the youngens out there to see what the people had to go through back in the day or learn the beaches of normandy or famouse battels like battle of the baulge but reinacting 911 is a discrase that should never be done it happend and you show respect to these people and the tragidy. but wars right now should not be reanacted hence because its to close to home maybe in a decade. thats what i have to say

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