Joseph DeLappe has been logging onto America's Army under the name "dead-in-iraq", reports GameSetWatch, and he chooses not to fight. Instead, he just types in the names of America's war dead:
I just dropped a tear into my porridge, and I'm not even American or Iraqi.
One of the reasons he's doing this is also in protest of the game military recruiting tool itself. Angry at the tax dollars spent on creating it, angry at the people who "play" it.
I have a question: can IP addresses from the middle east log into the game, I wonder. I'm guessing not.
This makes me think of when I was in LA recently and got lost driving up to the Hollywood sign. I asked a random group of guys for directions and as i was pulling away to driven on they all shouted "OH AND WE ARE SORRY ABOUT BUSH! PLEASE FORGIVE US!" That made me laugh.
Posted by: yeahitsme | May 26, 2006 at 11:30
Joseph has been quietly doing work of this nature for years (his Quake Friends is one of my faves). However, his work has finally found an angle that really resonates with current events - and will hopefully register beyond a headline or two.
In the immortal words of American consumerism: "Go Joe!"
Posted by: DeadMertz | May 26, 2006 at 17:57
I love the idea!
It's almost as good as signing up for the Iraq war and not fighting!
Posted by: Cibbuano | May 29, 2006 at 00:39
i'm sorry. but that made laugh. not to say that it's a laughing matter at all. no. just...let's remember that people really do have a choice. you don't HAVE to join. i mean you have to know that if you join there's a pretty good chance you'll not come back no?
still, great protest. i'm sure it'll get him noticed.
Posted by: Maharet | June 01, 2006 at 23:40