Techno-Snark
Via Bob Geiger’s The Saturday Cartoons, Nick Anderson, editorial cartoonist of the Houston Chronicle, has The Missile Defense Game.
Note, that as a reward for my mis-spent youth, I was actually able to hit things. Your mileage may vary.
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It’s good to see Nick Anderson doing something with his Flash skills other than bashing Hillary Clinton.
I hit two missiles in the course of two games, allowed the city to be pretty well destroyed, got myself blown up once, and also dropped a few of my own missiles on the city. The message you get if you hit anything incoming is worth the trouble of playing, though it’s too close to true to be funny.
world domination is mine! BWAHAHAHHAHA!
Apparently he didn’t put GPS locators in the incoming missiles. Tsk, tsk, not very nice.
The thing is, if you hit the war head, what do you do about the radioactive debris?
Hipparchia, you blew yourself up – that’s is not considered a good thing in missile circles.
Hey — Hipparchia isn’t the only one who can blow themselves up — and I got two of the incoming missiles before I toasted Gunner Bush!
Imagine what we could do if we spent $10 billion/year on something that actually worked and made life better.
well, y’know, bryan, i like to think of it as having blown up george bush.
but i’m pretty sure that game was rigged entirely and that any missiles that get blown up are not because of any skills on the part of the shooter. i can put the cursor anywhere on the screen, leave it in one place the whole time, and still destroy just as many missiles. also, when you put your cursor over a missile, the crosshairs turn red and the word LOCKED replaces the top number. you think that means you’re locked on target? ha! don’t bet on it.
if johng gets his way [about halfway down the comments thread over there] the “destroyed missile” falls into the barents sea. now there’s a delicious twist to the cold war: save russia by shooting down incoming missiles that will then poison all the local seafood.
Actually, the rusting nuclear sub fleet at Murmansk is already doing that.
I thought “Murmansk” rang a distant bell in my memory when I read his comment.