Two of the Heritage Foundation’s top youth marketing experts are making a flash video game that teaches young-uns all about the $14 trillion (and counting) national debt that will hang over their heads for the rest of their petty lives. Named U.O.Me, the game will be available for free, on the Internet, where all the kids hang out and drink Dews while being aimless. But DANG IT there’s a SNAG: A “U.O.Me” already exists on the Internet, and it also involves debt-talkin’ and flashy visuals. And flashy ladies!
Here is “U.O.Me (Welcome to Waldolala),” a music commercial made circa 1978, in which the Dutch trio Luv’ teach all about the “public policy trade-offs” required to pay off interminable debt. They also sit on motorcycles, wear angel uniforms, and sing calmly while creepy old man masks hover nearby:
Now, here’s the trailer for the Heritages’ U.O.Me debt game — it includes fly ‘n’ hard hip-hop beats that suggest “serious shit is going down,” plus Pitfall Harry‘s unemployed son carrying a piggy bank (good for him, he’d been looking for work for months):
The videos are strikingly similar, so some sort of intellectual property litigation is imminent.
Apparently, the developers of U.O.Me 2.0 have zero experience as game developers, but have nevertheless received a bunch of money anyway because the free market rewards efficiency and determination. They’re also accepting government hand-outs via a Kickstarter page in which they claim that “America is $62 trillion in debt.” Whoahhh HOLD ON THERE GUYS, be patient. Monies raised will pay for trademark lawyers, after the Luv’ ladies read about the U.O.Me video game in the Dutch fashion magazines.
Meanwhile, Demorat-libtard Internet “guru” Steny Hoyer will never be able to top either version of U.O.Me, because he only plays Monopoly and listens to ragtime. [TheHill.com]
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They were totally fellating those mikes in the beginning.
Okay, look. I am a video game critic specializing in independent and casual games, and if I brought this to the attention of the rest of the staff, I would most likely be fired.
After being laughed at.
For a very long time.
Mary J. Blige isn’t gonna be thrilled about the music.
“Meanwhile, Demorat-libtard Internet “guru” Steny Hoyer will never be able to top either version of U.O.Me, because he only plays Monopoly and listens to ragtime.”
Steny was raised in Suitland, Maryland. They don’t tend to listen to ragtime there. I have him pegged for more of an R&B kind of guy. His wikipedia page is wrong, shockingly.
Well, since the Senate has decided paying off the debt is more important than creating jobs or funding schools, a new generation of permanently unemployed, lumpen youth will have plenty of time to play stupid Heritage Foundation games (being unable to read) on their cell phone while waiting to find where out the driest bridge to sleep under that evening.
Uh, yeah. I prefer the Dutch ladies to the in-dutch laddies.
The conservaroids also seem to have a problem with their “from Social Security and Medicare for example,” also, as one wonders about $3,000,000,000.00 for the Strategic Defense Initiative, $???? for the “black budget, you can’t even ask about it, and now we’re tapping your phone, you freak” of Defense, bio-terror “defense” (the Anthrax attack was strange, because someone had weaponized Anthrax… good thing it was ours, which begs the question of “weaponized Anthrax?”), and, of course, eternal war.
Then they have the real danger of teaching their young about the danger of deficits. What happens if they take power? They won’t want their people worrying about deficits then, will they?
Give me Gold Lame, not goldline lamers.
This is a Facebook app designed to harvest and mine data for GOP and Tea Party databases for the 2012 elections. So it doesn’t have to be a good game per se.
More importantly: the women hold their microphones like they’re sucking d***s, which is a good analogy for what Jonah Goldberg and Erik Son Of Erik do.
Production values have really collapsed since the all too brief shining moment of Dutch disco from 32 years ago.
Needz moar dutch cocksuckers.
It will be amusing to watch them scramble around to put up the Deficits don’t matter they are actually Good!1111! game when the next Republican president takes office.
This is randomly off topic (if that’s possible given the topic), but after reading this item about Sharrrron Angle:
After the unsuccessful effort to get answers from Angle, the right-wing candidate’s campaign lashed out at the reporter, calling him “an idiot” and another term that can’t be repeated.
I immediately went to Wonkette hoping to find The Term That Cannot Be Repeated. Alas, I am disappointed.
[re=601710]Darkness[/re]: They won’t have to make that game. The game they will make will be something along the line of, “Don’t worry about the deficit, we need some way to pay for our shiny new wars!”
This is a Facebook app?
They already have one that espouses Heritage Foundation values – Mafia Wars.
[re=601714]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: They don’t need their monies they need their bodies, and they already have Call of Duty for that. Clever of them. This new game is just a ruse to look out of touch and incompetent at programming the yoots.
[re=601700]Geogre[/re]: Then we will have a new round of wars. And National Security Legislation making it illegal to whine about deficits. Problem solved.
“Filled with fun, debt-related mini-games.” Oh, if only I had a dollar for every time I heard that. Then my share of the debt would be $200,999.
Don’t forget that when they say “300 million Americans owwe $62 Trillion,” corporations magically are no longer people.
I’m sure the game has an option where you can make the Boomers pay all the taxes they have been avoiding since Reagan while they soaked up every benefit and are now reduced to cranky tea-bagging while demanding that the government gets tits hands off their Medicare.
[re=601693]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Don’t suppose you care to name your employer? Just curious if it’s a publication I read. And shouldn’t you be at E3 right now?
Sorry to divert the topic, but as a gamer that thing up there is too depressing to think about.
Strangely enough, Luv’s video may me want to give tax cuts to corporations and the rich, and then go read Atlas Shrugeed.
[re=601752]Zadig[/re]: Safest not to for various reasons, but we focus mostly on browser, independent, and casual pc games, so E3 isn’t a major deal for us (professionally. Since we’re all gamers, we of course keep our ear to the ground for what goodies are coming around the bend). So yeah, we don’t cover the biggest thing coming on PS3 or 360, but this piece of garbage right here is right smack in the middle of our wheelhouse, where it would be roundly panned and tossed into the circular filing cabinet of hell.
Needs more Rand Paul
[re=601755]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: It makes me feel like I’ve been smoking maryjane all week and ran out about 36 hours ago. But I actually did this at times in the late 70′s.
[re=601747]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Also had a bad case of “tits hands” for time to time, lol.
Hi all, if you read other blogs that don’t just use google search to find out info (ie The Hill) you might learn that The Heritage Foundation has no part in this game. The small grant to start making the game came from a http://www.mobilize.org conference. In fact, many groups on both sides of the aisle agree that the debt is a HUGE problem for our and future generations. If this game educates even one of you on that fact, I think it is money well spent.
Also, I bet the game makers are sorry they can’t make a new World of Warcraft on the debt for you hardcore gamers. A good mix of fun and learning is a lofty goal in itself, I believe.
I blame Royal Dutch Shell.
They should have used this song. I’m sure no one will sue them if they did.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8610362188397291938&safe=active#
[re=601897]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]:
It’s Finnish not Dutchish!
Jesus. That song sounds like Mike Oldfield producing ABBA.
I love it.
OMG, check out the first video at 2:12 – it’s Barack Obama! And starting at 2:36, you’ve got the young Michelle Robinson (future Michelle Obama) dancing on a tabletop!!
[re=601728]x111e7thst[/re]: “Say, we found you looking up ‘national debt’ in Google. That is illegal. We also found a copy of the Writings of Goldstein in your apartment. You will go to Room 101 for debriefing.”
You know, Goldstein seems to be in charge of the GOP. They have a habit of turning satire into reality and then congratulating themselves on wisdom.
Good day for shit Dutch songs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbrand_Bakker_%28novelist%29
Can a World Cup victory be far behind for these plucky swamp-dwelling giants?
This is going to be a huge hit! No one knows how to rap with the kidz better than those conservashizzle homies at the Heritage Foundation!
[re=601737]harry palmer[/re]: Isn’t it funny how that works?
no really, ISN’T it?
[re=601747]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: but, BUT… That would be fair. We couldn’t have that.
[re=601861]hillrat85[/re]: I live in a world of fantasy and spin, this edumacation you speak of may harm that. therefore I’m agin it.
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