Pixellation

[elfs]

I took Kouryou-chan to a pizza joint and then over to Kidopolis. It was short notice, but we had just dropped Omaha off at her coven meeting and were on that side of Tukwila. Instead of taking the freeway we drove through Renton hoping to find a traditional pizza place. None were to be found. Desperate, we stopped at a Pizza Hut. Bleah.

While I was in Kidopolis and Kouryou-chan was running around with another pretty girl her age and I was dealing with the girl's anxious-to-talk father, I noticed a video game called Police 911, very high resolution police game, and as I watched someone play it, I saw that the perp's faces were all pixellated.

I think it bothered me because, y'know that whole bit about "faceless criminals?" About how we're not supposed to be bothered if a cop takes a shot at a perp because he's a nobody? In this video game, you're literally shooting at a nobody. Someone with no face, no identity. Completely clothed, you can't even tell the race of the perp.

Really, really weird.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Greaaaaaaat. My cynical side tells me this is part of some grand right-wing conspiracy to dehumanize anyone they don't like...

My brutally realistic side tells me some cop is going to get a real good surprise the first time he has to draw his weapon.... and is probably going to lose his lunch several times.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

It disturbed me to see how attracted Ael, and later Erin, were to the shooting games. I don't let them play them, but they go right for those pistols as soon as they see the games.

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

FYI, the perps face only gets pixelated at the end of the mission/level thing, where the view is supposed to be a news camera.