Fallout 3 ads criticized by Washington D.C. Metro rider

I am sick to death of these overly sensitive people that expect the rest of the world to cater to their frailties. God I hope the posters don't come down and, in fact, this makes me wish the whole town was plastered in them.

@vanu, the idiot in question has not voiced a valid concern. The posters do not serve as a reminder that washington d.c. is a constant target; that's just a fact that we live with everyday. The original objector obviously can't face that truth and can't handle to thought of it when reminded.

The guy just needs to chill the hell out.

I think Anzalone needs to shut the fuck up and buy a car.

If the adds had a city in another country, like Paris, France for example, being bombed, the guy wouldn't give a damn so why the f*** should we care what he thinks?

What is more important: the speaker's right to say something or the audience's right to not be offended? I go with the former every time, but I also think it's the viewer responsibility to critique the "art." In this case, I'd call it even.

I'd like all Fallout 3 ads to be pulled because they remind me that I spend too much time and money on games. :)

I think I'll go outside. Oh wait, better not, might get hit by a bus. People need to stop giving in to fear. Shit happens. There are bad people in the world. So either stay in your closet, and let them win, or go out and live. Also, it's just a video game......(that means it's not real).

At Vanu/Cere:

well if being a video gamer = immaturity

hell,i dont want to be mature.



-immature gamer. ( Yes, me know how 2 speek London vary well, jst like u =D )

When ads for the "Towers Crashers" game come up in NYC, then people against it will be able to garner some support. In the case of Fallout and Washington D.C. though? It's complete bullshit.

It certainly feels like a " I don't understand this medium that people call video games and I don't tolerate what I don't understand, thus I think that it is not supported by the - oh so sacred - First Amendment and should be removed from my environment" kind of situation. In the end, I think that the less people listen to this kind of guy the better.

I live in the DC metro area, and take the metro almost every day to work. As a gamer myself, it really doesn't bother me because I know it's not real. However, older people (or perhaps people who just don't get the whole "fictional gameplay" idea) could get offended or even reminded of the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon. While I don't feel the same way as this guy, I guess pictures of a post-apocalyptic DC would make someone crap their pants if they aren't desensitized by that kind of stuff.

Grow a pair, and/or Man up.

Wow Americans seem to get scared and offended by everything, I remember a Simpson episode shown before with loads of jokes about the IRA bombings which killed a lot of people. No one got offended, but if it had been over something like 9/11 Americans would be in a uproar

Weak. This clown lives in D.C. and he's whining about ads for a video game! He should instead be focusing his efforts on the criminal in White House who's done a heckuva job of destroying our country.

Honestly, I think the poster looks cool. Makes me want to see what its aboutttataaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh....the end is near.....ahhhhhhh!!!!

nnnnnnnnnnNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOooooOOO!!!

The only way this would be insensitive is if DC had those landmarks attacked at some time. Let's say they had a pic of the pentagon, then yeah take it down, that is totally out of line cause it's insensitive to the victims of 9/11. Let's face it, every major city in the US, even Canada, faces the possibility of an attack. Get over it, it's a way of life and it's not going to change.

People need to stop be so bitchy about everything! God dammit!

I live in DC and rarely take the metro. I did however make a trip last week and took a moment to take in the ads. Obviously I am biased, seeing as I am reading a game blog site, but I found them to be very well done. People have a right to complain, but I am happy that neither the city nor the transit authority over reacted.

If people are going to complain about that, then they need to complain everytime the Statue of Liberty gets destroyed in a movie.

I'm quite sick of the extensions of political correctness that seem to have spawned the "anybody can be offended by anything" movement.

I'm all for free speech; clearly everyone has the RIGHT to be offended by whatever they want. But I would like this society to draw a large line between respecting the fact that everyone has different feelings (no matter how stupid or unreasonable) and actually respecting their feelings.

Sensitivity need not be a principle that is universally applied, especially given that these protests very likely do not come from anyone who has any reason to feel victimized. Short of an ouytright nuclear apocolypse, random DC landmarks could get blowded up and the only direct effect on many of our lives would be that footage would take over every channel on TV. Except Fox, because, y'know, stuff may blow up but baseball goes on.

I am severaly annoyed by the over-sensitivity and paranoia in post-911 america that seems to be a symptomatic of a national post-traumatic stress disorder that afflicts everyone from NY firefighters (who actually likely have a good reason to be traumatized), to commuters in DC (who really should rethink living in the capital of a nation that is hated by international terrorists if they are going to be pissy), to everyone else from anywhere that could be considered US soil (who need something to bitch about).

Screw that. Everyone needs to shut up and leave the paranoia to people who actually have a reason to be traumatized (other than having watched too damn much Fox news in the past seven years). Besides, everyone know that DC is now protected by a giant invisible grid of lasers.

Once giant radioactive scorpions start devouring entire third-grade classes on field trips to the Smithsonian, I will eat my hat.

I know what Fallout is so, no, I'm not offended, but someone who doesn't might just be.

Isn't that how this goes? Uniformed people getting offended over stuff they don't understand?

seriously? people are entirely too sensitive this day in age. it's almost like we're constantly looking for something to whine about or get offended by. We live in such a "bitchy" culture. it's like society isn't developing beyond the age of eight. "there are fictitious portrayals of my hometown being blown up... boo hoo". somehow i don't recall the scene in Independence Day where the alien mothership blows the White House to bits having to be removed because it being "offensive" to anyone.... it's fiction. people like this guy annoy the piss out of me.

I must say--my g/f lives in DC and I've ridden the metro and sat in station with the Fallout3 ads. even though I'm stoked about the game--it is a little unsettling...just saying, if you haven't been there, you don't know.