Monday, September 28, 2009

Halo game used as christian recruiting tool

The game halo is truly a gamers best friend. It has shooting, blood, aliens, cool weapons and more. I so far have all the halo games, books and some action figures (i think of them as collectables). Although it is a fascinating game, I think it is used for the wrong reasons. Christianity is a religion that sates thou shalt not kill. But how about in video games? In the US Christian churches are using the game halo to recruit young men into becoming christians. For one the aliens are called the "Covenant" the game is called HALO. These are all religious terms. I just don't understand why they couldn't use another game, like a racing game, or a RPG game. Halo also has swearing and blood which is offensful to a christian.

The churches are using the game to recruit more people. But the people they are recruiting are in a certain age group. The age group is between 10-15. Which is however kind of weird because the game is rated M meanin 17+ and the church is letting 12-15year olds play it. If you think about it, if you were a Christian parent and your kid suddenly says "im going to church to play halo" would you approve of this? The kids aren't going to church becasue they want to believe in God they just want the game Halo. So this recruitment method is a bad influence and can even lose followers.

In Colorado (where this recruitment method started) a church has a basement and what they found was kind of surprising, there were some kids playing halo on 3 different TV screens. (how do churches afford 3 TVs?) What was scary was that they were from the ages 12-16 and they are in a church. You could hear blood and violence all around the church which is somewhat scary. One of the youth ministers said "We want to make it hard for teenagers to go to hell" How does playing halo make it harder for teenagers to go to hell. He sent that message to the parents of these kids.

My brother is only 12 and loves halo. Eversince he got that game he has been doing crazy stuff. He made a frag grenade with paperclips, water bottle and an ice pak (scared the shit out of me) and he made a replica of halo weapons. He likes to hit me now and then and loves shooting with cap guns. If that game did this to my brother what effect has this game done to other kids who play games in churches?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Laser pointers are awesome. Some are so strong that they can pop balloons, burn through plastic CD cases, and much more. They come in many sizes and colors. They come in red, green, violet and blue. They come in a variety of 5MW (milawatts) to as strong as 500MW. I however have a 50 MW green laser and a 400 MW red laser. The green laser can pop balloons and the red one can burn through newspapers, light matches, and burn through a whole lot of other stuff.

On this site is a bunch of videos about laser pointerhttp://www.lasercommunity.com/movie.php

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

stuff

The topics i have chosen to put on my blog are cars,movies, games and food. I want to write about cars because I love them. Without cars there wouldn't be any girls. For example, an expensive car will give you a nice girl those cars would be ferraris lamborghinis and Mclarens. A not expensive normal looking car (nissan, honda, toyota) will only get you normal girls and drunk hookers.

Movies are important because I don't like spending 10-20 bucks on a movie that i thought was good, but sucked. You probably don't like it either. So I will be putting up reviews about movies i've recent seen.

Games, my favorite thing to do. I can blog about games all day. I can write reviews about games, cheats and more. I will post machinimas and write about about upcoming game tournaments and conferences. (example Blizzcon MLG tournaments etc.)

I love food, we all do, I want to write about food because well...i just love it.