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2011: Obama’s Coup Fails Injects Politics Into Strategy Game

By Brendan Seibel
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November 10, 2009

Video at the link http://www.russiatoday.ru/Top_News/2009 ... obama.html




Foes of President Barack Obama and his policies can vent their frustrations by engaging in fictional warfare, thanks to a new online strategy game with a heavy political component.

The satirical game 2011: Obama’s Coup Fails, launched last month by a group of Ron Paul supporters that call themselves The Founders, throws players into combat against the crumbling Marxist forces of Obama’s loyalist Black Tigers, the Islamic fundamentalist Nation of Malsi and The Cong — a group of deposed Democratic congressional leaders.

In a scenario seemingly ripped from the darkest corners of a conspiracy theorists’ fevered mind, Obama’s Coup Fails proposes a nightmarish world in which Obama, to prevent a midterm recasting of Congress, suspends the Second Amendment and dissolves the United States in order to form The North American People’s Union with Canada and Mexico. The people rise up in arms, combating whatever government troops choose to align themselves with the errant administration. Faced with annihilation, Obama retreats to Virginia for his last stand.

Screen grabs offer a flavor of the 2011 vibe.

What sounds like a potentially fun and humorous diversion to while away a couple hours when your boss isn’t looking turns out to be something of a disappointment. The game itself mirrors the action of war-geek strategy classics such as Axis & Allies, although simplified to accommodate quick and easy play.

In the game, resource development is reduced to training troops; tactics can be boiled down to choosing the number of light, medium or heavy troops to send and where to send them. Deciding upon a target initiates a brief movie sequence recycling actual war footage, then fills in the blanks with results.
Still, the game is nothing if not current, with gameplay elements similar to the topical jokes in Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony. Gamer-scripted news briefs reveal developments with names grabbed from current political headlines: “Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck Found Dead in Camp”; “The Cong Loses Control, Pelosi Captured!”; “Mass Graves Found in Cong and Ameritroop Territory.” (A training video with a Strong Bad-style narrator shows off the gameplay.)

The game is just the beginning of an epic work-in-progress, said Lodispoto. In upcoming months, the Obama’s Coup Fails developers plan to add a trading platform so gamers can swap assets. In-game factories will let players produce tanks, drones and attack helicopters. The game will add “other buildings too, such as libraries, town halls, even brothels to improve a player’s morale, which is another factor in battles,” Lodispoto said.

Good clean fun? On the surface, the poorly designed site appears to be nothing more than the project of second-rate coders who share a sense of political humor (and an obvious attraction to Michelle Malkin). However, news blurbs link you to actual headlines and YouTube videos of conservative commentators and other talking heads waxing philosophical on everything from Barney Frank’s record to the activities of ACORN.

Players earn extra points by writing short essays on the Libertarian Party, the “Obama deception” or similar topics. Videos reward observant viewers with additional points for answering multiple-choice quizzes after watching. If there is a unifying thread throughout the site, it is the sound of Fox News in the background.

News stories and political rants mingle on the United States of Earth site.
Images courtesy United States of Earth

In the website’s Community forum, conspiracy theories and political diatribes are interspersed amongst pleas from the game developers to report bugs and offer suggestions.

When it comes to finances, the founders are banking on a novel approach to fund The United States of Earth and reward particularly productive players.

While anybody can play free, monthly subscribers compete for monthly cash prizes (in the form of “salaries” and “bonuses”) and are granted advantages in the game.

“Members that become paid, or ‘made’ as we call them, pay $10 per month,” Lodispoto said. “It is from this that we pay them out their salaries but we will also start up micropayments … to speed up production or hurry actions.”

The trivia-oriented portions of the United States of Earth site are more innocuous than the inflammatory Obama game (which was admittedly launched as a tactical maneuver to attract attention for the site). The random, multiple-choice questions are generally apolitical, testing general knowledge and military smarts.

Despite its flaws, United States of Earth has attracted plenty of attention from fans and foes alike — Mother Jones called it a “right-wing wet dream” and the site’s operators claim it has been hacked numerous times in recent weeks as a result.

But the Founders have big plans for United States of Earth — even futuristic gameplay that takes launches politics into outer space.

“If you read the history/timeline [of the game], it is a speech from the President of the United States of Earth in 100 years,” said Lodispoto. “That version will allow players to colonize other worlds and is approximately eight months away.”

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/...as-coup-fails/

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The Shattered States of America - the improbably probable

Published 06 November, 2009, 10:28
Edited 12 November, 2009, 20:41

video at the link http://www.russiatoday.ru/Politics/2009 ... narin.html

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When, a decade ago, Russian economist Igor Panarin claimed the United States was on the verge of disintegration, almost no one took him seriously. But things have changed since then.

After an elected US official, Texas Governor Rick Perry, hinted at secession in April 2009, people really started to pay attention. He claimed then: “Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that.”

His comments about possibly leaving the Union caused a media firestorm.
Igor Panarin has, for over a decade, been predicting that the United States will fall apart by 2010. He says: “I feel that in November, at the end of November, the US will see a second wave of the economic crisis. And so, by the summer of 2010, this could result in the disintegration of the US into six pieces.”

Panarin also has his own idea of what the country will look like: “I think the Atlantic zone, which is the area of Washington DC and New York City, will join the European Union. The zone of Texas and the surrounding states will be its own Texan republic. The Californian coast will be under Chinese influence. The Northern and Central States will be under Canadian influence. Alaska, in my opinion, will rejoin Russia. The Hawaiian islands will be under the joint protectorate of Japan and China.”

It seems like many people are questioning now for how much longer the States will remain United. In 2005, the video game “Shattered Union” was created. It shows rising separatist sentiment, the possibility of California and Texas seceding, and a second Civil War that sends the nation into chaos. It’s currently being developed into a major Hollywood film.

The Russian economist also says that the current community spirit “demonstrates how the American dream has shattered,” adding, “For the first time in US history, there is a deficit of bullets in gun stores. This says that Americans no longer trust the Federal Government.”

Without trust, it may be pretty difficult to maintain any kind of Union.

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-shattered-union-panarin/

Great posts from Russia. Like they have absolutely no reason to hurry our demise so that they can get back to some superpower status instead of a commonly accepted belief around the world they are a failed nation.

Obama Coup Fails: Online Gamers Overthrow Administration in Virtual Revolt




November 19, 2009

A new online multi-player browser game follows Barack Obama bringing the U.S. to total collapse. Americans rise up on the web and begin a revolution. RT's Anastasia Churkina met up with the mastermind behind the scandalous game.

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Obama Coup Fails: Online Gamers Overthrow Administration in Virtual Revolt

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Wired: The satirical game 2011: Obamas Coup Fails, launched last month by a group of Ron Paul supporters that call themselves The Founders, throws players into combat against the crumbling Marxist forces of Obamas loyalist Black Tigers, the Islamic fundamentalist Nation of Malsi and The Cong a group of deposed Democratic congressional leaders.

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

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‘Obama Coup Fails’: Online Gamers Overthrow Administration in ‘Virtual Revolt’

http://www.breitbart.tv/virtual-revolt- ... istration/

Wired: The satirical game 2011: Obama’s Coup Fails, launched last month by a group of Ron Paul supporters that call themselves The Founders, throws players into combat against the crumbling Marxist forces of Obama’s loyalist Black Tigers, the Islamic fundamentalist Nation of Malsi and The Cong — a group of deposed Democratic congressional leaders.

WOW!...and all Bush got was the online "shoe throwing" game!

This is very telling. We are in serious deep doo when online games come out with something this radical and cotroversial. It will be interesting to see how long it is before Barackula shuts it down.

[quote=SicNTiredInSoCal][quote=AirborneSapper7] breitbart.tv/

Obama Coup Fails: Online Gamers Overthrow Administration in Virtual Revolt

http://www.breitbart.tv/virtual-revolt- ... istration/

Wired: The satirical game 2011: Obamas Coup Fails, launched last month by a group of Ron Paul supporters that call themselves The Founders, throws players into combat against the crumbling Marxist forces of Obamas loyalist Black Tigers, the Islamic fundamentalist Nation of Malsi and The Cong a group of deposed Democratic congressional leaders.

WOW!...and all Bush got was the online "shoe throwing" game!

This is very telling. We are in serious deep doo when online games come out with something this radical and cotroversial. It will be interesting to see how long it is before Barackula shuts it down.[/quote]

Related: http://www.alipac.us/f19/russian-expert-predicts-obama-will-declare-martial-law-america-end-2012-a-263452/

Related: Flashback: Analyst Says Break-Up of USA Will Be Triggered By Economic & Moral Degragr