He loved it because he was making his dad happy. Kids love their dads. But the dads are supposed to know better.

Impossible Mission FTW.

He is teaching his kid skills which have some but limited value in actual life.

Not to mention that they end up talking about ethics in game journalism and "SJWs" and then you have to drown them.

I find out they are simply watching Youtube videos of funny British guys narrating their games.

And harassing women on Twitter, which appears to have become the current primary activity of people who grew up in this millennium playing video games. Because ethics.

Dad Makes His Kid...

It sounds like another overbearing parent trying to relive his youth through his kid.

I know parents who are trying to force their kids to listen to the music they listened to, or play the sports they played, or go into the professional field they failed at. There's one kid who got pushed into pee-wee hockey at a very young age and ended up hating the sport (and his father, a little bit).

What is so hard about understanding that your children are actually individual human beings and not clones of you? Please don't experiment on your kids. And they're smarter than you think and are capable of exercising a little agency regarding what does and does not interest them.

Site down, random shuffle, site comes back.

Seriously. If only Sony's Playstation Network was as robust.

If you actually read TFA, you'd see that it also indicates that Bush had little to no knowledge of the specifics of the interrogations or their brutality

Yeah, he didn't really strike me as the curious type. But Cheney claims to have known every single detail. I guess he gets off on that stuff.

and in 2006, upon his learning of it, it was ramped down.

"Say fellas? You think we can ramp down the shoving of pureed food up prisoners' asses a little bit? The screaming is starting to keep Laura awake at night and somebody keeps stealing the mashed peas out of the White House fridge. Now watch this drive"

http://youtu.be/Z3p9y_OEAdc

Wait a minute. They forced pureed food into detainees butts, in one case causing severe tearing and prolapse.

But hey, this Anonymous Coward says that's not brutality so we can all go back to our regularly scheduled programming.

To be fair, the AC has pureed food forced into his butt for fun, so he can't really relate.

Brutal is having your skinned peeled off in one inch strips, electrodes to the privates, hammer to the toes, peeling your finger nails off, propane torches, pliers and nipples, etc. THAT'S brutal.

Pfff. That's not brutal. Brutal is having your head ripped off by a Bengal tiger with ebola while being lifted into the air on a studded 2x4 stuck up your ass, while Linkin Park is being played at 160 decibels. Before you've had your morning coffee.

Now THAT'S brutal.

These guys just didn't have a good time is all.

We talking about the CIA interrogators? It sounded like they had a blast.

Oh, sorry. I completely missed the molestation murder joke there.

You're right. I say, dress the bankers up in short pants and sailor suits and drop them in a room full of Jimmy Saviles.

You want a certification for a good career? Certified HVAC Technician.

So the banker molestation murder cults get away with their crimes. Not sure if a good or bad thing.

I bet if you had some quiet reflection and thought carefully about it, you could figure out whether or not child molestation & murder is a good or bad thing.

Unless you are somewhere down the sociopathy spectrum, in which case you might not.

Remember, you only need cameras covering where the "little passages" enter and exit. You don't need 100% coverage to cover 100% the people.

So your argument is that his bad behavior excuses anything you might do ?

No, my argument is "People who live in glass houses probably shouldn't be smearing their own feces all over the walls."

It's pretty hard to take climate change alarmists seriously when y'all

Who are you talking to? Do you have some internal argument going on in your head?

We're talking about a guy, a congressman with actual power, who chairs the House Science & Technology Committee, who believes the earth is 6000 years old, that someone named "Adam & Eve" were the first humans (one of which was fashioned out of the other's spare rib). And who then flips out over an ecology project that costs less than 1/2 that of a single failed fighter/bomber (one that's built in his district by the way). Oh, and that fighter/bomber? It'll never be used and the military says they don't want or need it. He does this of course, after taking shitloads of money from the defense industry.

Now THAT'S integrity.

He's crying about waste in government, while he works exactly 70 four-hour days, drawing a taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000, not to mention a full pension for life, all his expenses paid (a household in DC for those 70 days) and one at home, health care for life and even free postage he can use to write letters asking his constituents for more money.

It's hard to take rightwing, science-hating Bible-humpers seriously when y'all defend such an obvious fraud, not to mention an obvious shitlord who believes governing is basically the publicly-funded version of gamergate. Oh, by the way this fraud supported no less than nine separate House inquiries into Benghazi, even after the first eight found no wrongdoing. Each one of those investigations had a multi-million dollar pricetag.

So you can just walk that climate change denying ass right out of here with that bullshit, parson. Your ass is showing.