Bono buying Take 2?

[Thewho]

It might be true. (http://ps2.ign.com/articles/685/685834p1.html)

[ZuljinRaynor]

What would happen. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[Hudson]

Oh god no, NO!

NOT after they just acquired Irrational!

NO!!

[SyntaxN]

Is Bono...evil or so http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Kristian Joensen]

FAR from it, quite the opposite.

[Hudson]

I just don't want Take-2's gritty pushing-the-envelope style to turn into some kind of "Rated E: For Everyone!" BS that certain specific developers seem obsessed with http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[GodBlitZor]

Take-Flop? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hhg.gif
The next game "Grand Flop Auto : Adventures of THE EDGE!". Sounds really extreme. I hope all the new games come with those gigantic dumbass glasses. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Gryph]

Bono is just one of the major partners in the Elevation group.

[Zztx]

As soon as read the topic, I thought "Oh, GOD!".

That sums that up, methinks.

[John]

SyntaxN said:
Is Bono...evil or so http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif



No, infact he is a great person, mentally/ethically and otherwise. As a musician he has tried harder to help the poor more than those with political power.


And as it was stated, Bono has no stronghold over Elevation Partners. He is just a major investor of the company. He doesn't say what goes.

[big fat lazy]

Bono's a good guy, but U2's music sucks http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dopefish.gif.

[kylemf88]

U2 have been around for a long time and have done allot of great things for music and more. They are getting older and most of the greats start to die down in the music world with age. But they have managed to stay popular and I have to admit I hear a song of theirs here and there that isn't bad at all. This is despite the fact I don't like their style of music. But I think it’s save to say their music is far from “sucks”. I think Bono is one of the most respected musicians in the world for both U2 and his rule in helping the poor and the countless other charities he has helped.

[Synti]

"This quote epitomizes U2's pious, holier-than-thou attitude:

'I don't know why, but we always had this belief that there was something sacred about our music, that it was almost holy.'

-Bono, pompous ***** and lead singer of U2

Cocky, high-handed, imperial *******s."

Total 100% agreement with Maddox on this one.

[Dr. Kill]

Hudson said:
I just don't want Take-2's gritty pushing-the-envelope style to turn into some kind of "Rated E: For Everyone!" BS that certain specific developers seem obsessed with http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif



Same here. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[John]

Synti said:
"This quote epitomizes U2's pious, holier-than-thou attitude:

'I don't know why, but we always had this belief that there was something sacred about our music, that it was almost holy.'

-Bono, pompous ***** and lead singer of U2

Cocky, high-handed, imperial *******s."

Total 100% agreement with Maddox on this one.



Um...Maddox DOES understand that Bono was talking specifically about the way he writes his music and lyrics..................right? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif The fact that he said that "we always had this belief" about his music should tell you that. (That isn't a blasphemous statement and Bono was not comparing himself to God like Maddox likes to make you think. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Context is a beautiful thing, isn't it?)

[Murder]

Wow...Max Payne 3 is soooo screwd if this is true.

I can see it now, no more Max Payne...we'll play as Bono and use his uber voice to kill of bad people that don't make donations.

[John]

Like it was stated before....Bono has NO power over Elevation Partners... (He can't just tell them what he wants in their games. He is only an investor of the company. If they make a profit, he makes a profit. But he does not control the creation or distribution process.)

[Synti]

John said:
Um...Maddox DOES understand that Bono was talking specifically about the way he writes his music and lyrics..................right? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif The fact that he said that "we always had this belief" about his music should tell you that. (That isn't a blasphemous statement and Bono was not comparing himself to God like Maddox likes to make you think. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Context is a beautiful thing, isn't it?)



Mmm, that doesen't change anything? Saying that the way he writes his music is almost holy, is the most pompous thing one could say. But I'm not going to sink in thigs bog never again. "The only thing worse than U2 is a snobby U2 fan"

[Roger]

John said:

Synti said:
"This quote epitomizes U2's pious, holier-than-thou attitude:

'I don't know why, but we always had this belief that there was something sacred about our music, that it was almost holy.'

-Bono, pompous ***** and lead singer of U2

Cocky, high-handed, imperial *******s."

Total 100% agreement with Maddox on this one.



Um...Maddox DOES understand that Bono was talking specifically about the way he writes his music and lyrics..................right? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif The fact that he said that "we always had this belief" about his music should tell you that. (That isn't a blasphemous statement and Bono was not comparing himself to God like Maddox likes to make you think. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Context is a beautiful thing, isn't it?)



Teehee, kind of funny seeing John griping because something's been taken out of context. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif Oh, the irony.

Even being a non-Christian non-U2 fan, I agree with you, though.

[ZuljinRaynor]

Murder said:
Wow...Max Payne 3 is soooo screwd if this is true.

I can see it now, no more Max Payne...we'll play as Bono and use his uber voice to kill of bad people that don't make donations.


I can see Max Payne with U2 music. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[John]

Synti said:

John said:
Um...Maddox DOES understand that Bono was talking specifically about the way he writes his music and lyrics..................right? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif The fact that he said that "we always had this belief" about his music should tell you that. (That isn't a blasphemous statement and Bono was not comparing himself to God like Maddox likes to make you think. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif Context is a beautiful thing, isn't it?)



Mmm, that doesen't change anything? Saying that the way he writes his music is almost holy, is the most pompous thing one could say. But I'm not going to sink in thigs bog never again. "The only thing worse than U2 is a snobby U2 fan"



Don't some christian and gospel groups describe themselves as "holy" or something similar?


Roger said:
Teehee, kind of funny seeing John griping because something's been taken out of context. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif Oh, the irony.



http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif Grr. When have I taken things out of context? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Thewho]

Jack Thompson writes to Bono to ask him not to buy Take 2 (http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/202166.html?thread=13231030#t13231030)



Dear Bono:



I write you as a fellow brother in Jesus Christ, appreciative of your bold witness to the transforming truth of the Gospel, in both your words and your deeds. You daily “fight the good fight,” serving Him as salt and as light in an unbelieving world. You inspire other Christians to confront the “culture of death” that surrounds us all, and I thank you. Because of what you do, it is easier for me to do what I have been called to do.



I write to encourage you, respectfully and in a spirit of brotherly love, not to purchase Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. It is reported in the New York Post and in the San Francisco Chronicle that your Elevation Partners is engaged in talks to do just that. See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/07/EDGU9GJD7D1.DTL .



Allow me to provide some of the reasons why I make this fervent suggestion:



1. I appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes twice last year on behalf of two Alabama police officers and a dispatcher killed by a teen who trained on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to kill them. We are now proceeding toward trial in our wrongful death action on their families’ behalf, buoyed by three affidavits sworn to by experts who have testified before the US Congress as to this copycatting phenomenon that the American Psychological Association in August 2005 says is now irrefutably proven.



Thus, if you buy Take-Two and its Grand Theft Auto franchise, you will be buying a Mature-rated murder simulator marketed and sold to teen that has been linked by law enforcement officials to numerous, specific, provable copycat killings around the country. I have appeared on roughly 70 national television programs, including NBC’s Today show eight times, recounting the causation of these copycat events. More such events are on the way. Take-Two, whoever owns it, will have to deal with those pigeons when they come home to roost in the months and years ahead. Indeed, the most recent such incident tying Take-Two to murder was found in the 18-year-old Jacob Robida who went from carving up homosexuals in a “gay bar” in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to a “sucide by cop” shoot-out in Gassville, Texas. Three lay dead. Robida was an obsessive gamer, whose games included, according to detectives in Massachusetts, the Grand Theft Auto games whose scenarios he replicated precisely.



In fact, the above-noted Chronicle editorial which encourages you not to buy Take-Two mentions the Oakland, California, gang called the “Nutcases,” which used Take-Two Grand Theft Auto III as a carjacking and murder simulator. The older gang members trained the younger ones with the Take-Two game in order to both show how to carjack and to get “pumped up” to carjack. Said one perpetrator in jail: “We played the game by day and lived the game by night.”



I could cite to you dozens of similar incidents that tie GTA to murder. Is this what you want to own, along with all its coming liabilities, both legal and spiritual?


..........................

[avatar_58]

Jack Thompson is just scared more money will end up on Take Two's lap and he won't be able to fight them anymore.

[Hudson]

Jack Thompson's scared? Bahahaha

[Orochi Avlis]

Thewho said:

In fact, the above-noted Chronicle editorial which encourages you not to buy Take-Two mentions the Oakland, California, gang called the “Nutcases,” which used Take-Two Grand Theft Auto III as a carjacking and murder simulator. The older gang members trained the younger ones with the Take-Two game in order to both show how to carjack and to get “pumped up” to carjack. Said one perpetrator in jail: “We played the game by day and lived the game by night.”




Where does he get such obscure cases and facts?
Press Square or Enter teaches kids how to jack cars?

Way to go Jack. Let's not tackle the real issue here and go for the easy, finger pointing way out.

Cause you know murder and theivery never existed between kids until video games became all the rage. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

I also live how he kisses ass with people he tries to sway.
Maybe we shuold pitch in and buy him some kneepads and lipstick.