That gungrave gun could actually do some serious damage. To be honest, that video scares me a bit. It's not that the gun itself scares me; in fact, I think it's pretty cool. What actually scares me though is that the type of person who's willing to sit down and MAKE A gungrave gun is the last type of person who I'd feel comfortable with having ANY gun.

That's like if Brian made a QUAKE gun back in high-school. I'd fuckin drop out and go to another school if I found about that shit. You couldn't even trust that son-of-a-bitch with a hammer; he damn near hammered my brains out, the dumb fuck!!!

While I agree that Grewal's actions will have greater repercussions for his profession than his ethnicity, these sort of things can be damaging nonetheless. Take for example Alfonso Gagliano and more recently Joe Morselli. It's difficult enough for people of Italian descent to live with the usual stereotype of being linked with organized crime, but then to have them going out and perpetuating this popular view through their reckless behaviour just makes it that much more difficult for the rest of us to deal with that image. So even though all East Indians are not going to be tainted by Grewal's actions, nor have to try harder to overcome a stereotype further perpetuated by this, it will reflect badly on the community regardless.

(Did I just say what P was trying to say? I never can tell with him...)

also check out his sweet ass website:
http://www.gurmantgrewal.ca/
and be sure to Rock the Vote on the main page:

Do you think it was appropriate for Mr. Grewal to hand over his taped conversations with Mr. Dosanjh, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Kalia to the RCMP?

haha. unbelievable

yeah i kinda agree. if the public has any type of racial prejudice it's against the race known as politicans

Par, the race filter will always exist. First take of an issue will always be a concern as to the implications of a said person's actions unto his own community (or perceived membership to a community). Of course when time passes it'll turn to a bah politics item. But the immediate point is that there's a normative standard. This person should not have fallen into such a terrible problem because he's brown, yellow, black, whatever. A lesson to whoever is listening at the time: don't do that. That's what I think when experiencing similar parallel events occur anyway. As to whether or not someone will actually become prejudiced as a result of the Grewal thing, I agree with Jess.

Paras - the Grewal thing seems to me to be just another "bah, politics" thing. You know - the kind of stuff politicians and the media get all a tizzy over instead of spending time studying actual issues related to governing. I have wondered if it was a white man if there would be quite this level of concern over his reliability, or if people would be taking him more seriously. In the event that the man is lying I don't think it will prejudice anyone against East Indians who wasn't already prejudiced against them, though the possibility had occured to me as well.

Speaking about geeky stuff look at this:

Model guns based off Gungrave firing

From A Gamer's Manifesto - 20 things gamers want from the seventh generation of game consoles:

5. And on the opposite side of the nipple coin...
Developers will be shocked one day when they notice that the world is full of women. It's true! More than half of your potential customer base are penisless. They have money. They like doing fun things.
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Have you guys ever met a woman? Then why don't you try making just a few games that don't play off of a 14 year-old male's idea of womanhood on the apparent hope that he'll play the game one-handed?

Chances of that happening...

Sadly, the proven money-making designers in the industry are the same ones that have given us Dead Or Alive Beach Volleyball and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (where the main character rampages though a city populated with violent men and sex-crazed street whores). As it turns out, they’re all men. The female demographic is seen as something that can be “targeted” by adding features to existing games, such as in-game clothes shopping, in-game makeup application and in-game cute animal pets. Game creators aren’t just casually missing the point, they’re showing a unified front of stupidity.

12. Don't bullshit us on the difficulty
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Instant-Failure Stealth Levels. Ack. This brings back horrible memories of a Goldeneye level where if you tripped an alarm, an infinite number of bad guys poured forth. We knew a man who failed that level 37 times, then got the Infinite Health cheat for it and came back. He intentionally tripped the alarm, the guards rushed out. Laughing maniacally, he proceeded to shoot those fuckers for four hours, killing 1,183 of them - 682 with groin shots - before his thumbs cramped up. Your game should not create this kind of bitterness.

15. Stop the Short-Sighted Business Bullshit

Patents. Did you know there's a patent held by some microscopic software company on spherical camera controls in realtime 3D, and they're starting to level lawsuits against EVERYONE? Did you ever wonder what happened to force feedback, controllers that push your hands around so you can feel the action in the game as well as see it (we're talking real force feedback, not controllers that vibrate like pagers)? Somebody has a patent, that's what. Did you know you can't have mini-games during a loading screen because of patent law?

oh. and the Foo Fighters too yeah? the new (double) album's called Brain Damage yes?

lots of good stuff over at:
http://regnyouth.blogspot.com/

and COLPLAY'S X&Y is finally totally leaked and shit. about time Internet, about time.