Comments on: Madworld’s Laugh http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/madworlds-laugh/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=madworlds-laugh Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:46:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/madworlds-laugh/#comment-28659 The Dane Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:19:21 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=2686#comment-28659 While I think she's on the right track with satire, I don't think her comparison to MadWorld really washes. It's not "tricks like satire to give us permission to enjoy throwing a man against a fence of foot-long spikes again, and again, and again." It's nothing so sneaky or subtle that justifies the game. Instead it's something much more overt. It's the fact that MadWorld isn't real. <abbr><em>The Danes last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nowheresville/~3/tooRmJU4yIo/2008_11_01_old1.php" rel="nofollow">20081119.ChurchLies</a></abbr></em> While I think she’s on the right track with satire, I don’t think her comparison to MadWorld really washes. It’s not “tricks like satire to give us permission to enjoy throwing a man against a fence of foot-long spikes again, and again, and again.” It’s nothing so sneaky or subtle that justifies the game. Instead it’s something much more overt.

It’s the fact that MadWorld isn’t real.

The Danes last blog post..20081119.ChurchLies

]]>