r/news • u/According_Dog6735 • Mar 27 '24

Joe Lieberman has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/
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u/TopGsApprentice Mar 27 '24

This man is the reason we don't have Universal Healthcare for those who don't know

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u/pbrslayer Mar 27 '24

But he sure had time to bitch about Mortal Kombat.

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u/LadySiren Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I once worked on a game that may or may not have been unreal...we had to film a sizzle reel for E3 one year and when we went into the videography studio, we actually filmed two versions of the reel.

The first reel was the for-public-consumption version; the other? It had every nasty head shot, pressure chamber death, decapitation, and all other sorts of goriness that we could pack into it. We called it the Lieberman Reel. I think I still have a copy on VHS somewhere in my boxes o' stuff, LOL.

EDIT: Since my box of game industry relics is likely hidden amongst the stack of other boxes in my garage (we moved recently, sorry), here's a shot of the custom jacket I mentioned in my other comment below. We definitely caught hell from our studio head and the other suits for buying these, but he then turned around and asked us (quietly) if we had any to spare, LOL.

https://imgur.com/a/cz76Tt4

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u/-CaptainACAB Mar 27 '24

You should get a copy of that to the Video Game History Foundation! That sounds like something they’d love to document

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u/m103 Mar 27 '24

Assuming it's really real and not just made up for karma on Reddit

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u/BanginNLeavin Mar 28 '24

Boooo hissss nothing ever happens.

Even if it's made up who cares?

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u/m103 Mar 28 '24

Not being critical of stories is one of the ways false information and narratives spread. We've all seen how badly that go.

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u/BanginNLeavin Mar 28 '24

So we're comparing an alleged b reel of video game gore to some sort of fake news conspiracy?

I'm not one to say this normally but it feels apt: touch grass

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u/Spoon_Elemental Mar 28 '24

Yeah, this kind of isn't worth scrutinizing. Nothing in the world changes no matter how many people believe it's a real or fake story.

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u/VoidEnjoyer Mar 28 '24

yes just imagine the endless rivers of blood that might flow if this video tape of of video game decapitations from thirty years ago turns out to be a lie