Dan, you're a puss. Virtual terrorism/slaughter is fun...stop acting like a f-ing pansy.  Why would you care if something is offensive.  Don't play the game.  Jon, I'm with you man about the no Russian level.  I blasted those 01010101's.

is it me or is that racist? but still that level is kinda screwy i mean who would put that in a kickass video game. gamespot gave it a 9 i think it would have gotten a $$$10$$$ if it had left out no russian

Agree with Jon on the whole matchmaking system idea that Halo2 system was one of the best out there.

But would highly recommend mercenary team deathmatch - I find it much better to play without ending up against a whole clan of players on an oposite team.

However against that, there is nothing more satisfying than being on the oposite team to a clan and whooping them while playing with a bunch of other random nutters!!

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The problem with Dan's argument is that the No Russia mission is made up, and America is fine with games about killing Americans, (take for example, Grand Theft Auto) as long as the game is made up. A game about real terrorism would be banned, or censored, but terrorism that's just made up doesn't seem to hit as close to home with the pussy rating board (waa waa, too much gore in left4dead 2, let's ban it, waa waa). Although, the country that the fake terrorism is directed at is a bit more sensitive obviously.

John was right when he said killing 1's and 0's was ok (at least the way I interpreted it was ok... by me) in that if it's completely fake, not a real situation, not real people, (or even loosely based off of real people) then it shouldn't be a problem, because there should be no problem what-so-ever seeing the difference between a totally fake situation and real life. But I'm too removed from either side to make a good argument, I'm in Australia, and we don't usually go to war every other day.

[Review time:]

This was the first podcast I've ever listened to, and it's pretty awesome, there's nothing you guys really do wrong, apart from maybe the occasional slow-down, when you finish a topic and can't find a segue to the next topic, but apart from that, you guys do well. The sports is good too, mainly because I can't relate to it (I'm from Australia), and I hate all sports, but somehow I still like it. The gaming news is awesome, you cover the stories well, and either tell me new stories or stories that I know, but with more information, there's never a story that I already knew, and didn't get any new information from you guys. The stories about real life are awesome, they're funny and there's absolutely nothing wrong with them :).

I'd rate on iTunes or where ever, but I've sworn to myself to never associate myself with any product that starts with a lowercase letter and has the second letter capitalized, and I don't know where else this podcast goes on. Anyway, my rating is 4/4 stars.

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I really dont get why pussiecountries ban awesome games...

if people dont want it WELL DONT BUY IT!

everyone in Russia is probably Pist off because they cant buy the game there...

Politics and games dont go together... if you know what i mean

 well..

Thanks for Thanking me in the Podcast :) makes me feel good

I think treyarch should do a world war 1 game coz there hasn't been hardly any games based on that war coz its worth a try to see what it will be like instead of repeating the same idea over and over again.

Why don't you try some of the Terry Pratchett Stuff. It's pretty entertaining and funny. You'll love it.
I recommend Good Omens (1990, with Neil Gaiman) which is pretty hilarious. Or any of the Discworld series which is just amazing.