I'm Never Late, I post When I Mean Too!

So, I apologize, life throws one many curve balls, often fifty at once. So, until I can get things straightened out, and my life into some sort of organized mess, the posts will be sporadic at best. Building an entire epic universe, in which you have gone off in a dozen different directions, takes a lot out of you, more on that when I discuss writing. Also the pressures of a small business, more on that to, later.

So, here is a schedule on what is come in my sporadic posts:

1. Game of Thrones Season 5 Thoughts.
2. A review of the game Destiny
3. DooM, greatest game to ever exist
4. Something on Politics
5. Something on Religion

So, keep checking, I may have something up, I may not.

But, a quick thought for this post in regards to the recent events concerning the Confederate flag.

This morning I read an article on Apple removing any reference to the Confederate flag off their app store (link below). This included a strategy game on the Civil War, in no way endorsing the recent shootings, nor slavery or racism. There needs to be a fine line between removing materials the would be offensive, such as the flag, and maintaing historical accuracy. Are games and movies now supposed to remove the flag and put something else in it's place? Understanding flags, symbols, sigils, emblems, ect… are just as important to learning history as learning about the events and what they happened. They symbolize cultures and ideals, and have a history to them. To deny them, is to deny history, and to show we are afraid of those symbols. We don't chastise World War II games on displaying Nazi flags and emblems.

Historical perspective is something that we are losing in this country, I'll go more in depth in another article. We are rewriting history so that it is more clean, more palatable. It shouldn't be, because it should teach us a lesson, if you don't know you past, your doomed to repeat it. We should learn about the good and the bad. Plus it's also up to game developers and movie makers to determine how they want to portray historical subjects that may be controversial and upsetting. Yes, it is also Apple's propagative to determine what goes and doesn't go on their App store, but there should be a fine line between what is intentionally offensive, and what is done for the sake of history.

http://www.ultimategeneral.com/blog/our-game-has-been-removed-from-appstore