Millennium on 19 June 2009
If we were only to take raw statistics and logistics into account, the US probably creates a fairly big risk merely by being a single point of failure: if it goes down, most of the world goes with it and even those who survive still don't make it out unscathed.
However, politics doesn't happen in a vacuum, nor without people. Throw them into the mix, and the game changes drastically. North Korea ("Give us food or we'll start a nuclear war") emerges as a major threat, as does Iran ("Our nuclear DEATHTOISRAEL programs are DENYTHEHOLOCAUST strictly for peaceful KILLTHEGREATSATAN purposes.") Then you have people like Hugo Chavez ("The US is imperialistic man 12-year-olds in bikinis are hot I must take dictatorial power for the sake of my people I AM SIMON BOLIVAR!"), who aren't as big of a threat as they'd like to believe they are, but still have the potential for major annoyance.
Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.
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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.