As a 'Guardian'- and 'New Yorker'-reading leftie hipster emopants, I knew that by playing this game I was participating in what some people would call a hate crime - but as far as design and playability are concerned it is no different to Commando, Cannon Fodder, and ethically it is no different to running around in the backyard as a 10-year-old pretending to kill 'Germans', 'Russians', 'VC' and so on. That this game got buried so quick and dismissed as dull etc missed the point. Games like this are a legitimate reaction to the 24/7 media saturation of the 'threat of terrorism'.

If anything there should be an iconoclast construction kit game - pick the faith (or cult) you wish to offend, uppload a few sprites, bob's your media outrage. Faith Fighter comes hilariously close - seeing God slip in the occasional headbutt and Mohammad (PBUH ;) point at the sky and shout 'Allah ahuackbar!" is hilarious. See if you can unlock the end boss ... you'll never guess who it is.

Ah! Sweet mystery of life
At last I've found thee
Ah! I know at last the secret of it all;
All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning
The burning hopes, the joy and idle tears that fall!
For 'tis love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
And 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living
For it is love alone that rules for aye!
Love, and love alone, the world is seeking,
For 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!
'Tis the answer, 'tis the end and all of living
For it is love alone that rules for aye...

You remind me of what I read in Freakonomics about backyard pools...

They kill more children under 10 than handguns do - and there are way more handguns in the US than backyard pools. 6 million pools / 200+ million handguns. Yet your child has a 1:11,000 chance of dying in a pool vs. 1:1,000,000+ than dying from a handgun, accidental or deliberate. ,', You should be moar afraid of the pool than the bugs.

Anyhoo, if it weren't for OUR FRIENDS the spiders, we'd be over-run by bugs! Stop killing 'em! The biomass of insects is greater than that of people! There is a precarious balance of power at stake!

[tinfoil hat coated with cobwebs on]

shoop da woop

... DO! YOU! SPEAK! IT?

http://www.fischertechnik.de/en

"Why, that sucker's huge!"

They can compact hundreds of Canadian runaways per hour ...

http://digg.com/people/Teen_Compacted_In_Wis_Garbage_Truck_Survives

serendipitous captcha word: mortally.

DROKK IT!

Stromm, Drokk, and Grud? Who were they again?