Word: guilts
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Martial-arts games (like the Street Fighter or Tekken series) used to be the digital equivalent of a cheeseburger--good for a little messy, mindless pleasure but always leaving behind a coat of grease and guilt. Beating your opponent to a bloody pulp by hitting all the buttons on your controller faster than he or she did was hardly something you would call tasteful. Then came Soul Calibur (released in 1999 for the now defunct Dreamcast), the caviar and champagne of fighting games. Its sword-wielding characters preferred fencing to fisticuffs. Combat was balletic and mercifully blood-free...
...believe we must have been cursed... When we have made the apology we will be clean again." Filimoni Nawawabalevu, Fiji village chief, before a tribal ceremony to assuage his village's guilt for consuming an English missionary in 1867. According to a contemporary report, the villagers ate all parts of the Englishman "but his boots...
...grave-diggers is also the least cited. At some point in Missy Elliott’s long, esteemed career, she added “pimp for dead rappers” to her resume, and the general population neglected to take note. Unwittingly, Elliott makes an unambiguous case for her guilt in her newest single and accompanying video, “Pass That Dutch,” offering evidence of the shamelessness with which she regularly exploits her fallen peers...
...classes on how to “interact with other people” and “make friends.” The best thing the council and the College could do to create a better party atmosphere, besides changing the admissions policies that let in all of us guilt-tripping workaholics, social misfits and overachievers is to leave us to our own devices, force us to party for ourselves or die trying. Anyone wants to join me, my e-mail is flood@fas.harvard.edu. I’ll be out all weekend. Random freshman dudes need not apply...
...come up with a campaign that bothered me more. It’s pretty hard to follow enlarged color photographs of fetuses and cutesy sayings like, “I’ve developed toes!” They went for shock value, they targeted emotions and preyed on guilt. And yet this year, I find their campaign much more maddening...