From our Can Someone Please Do This department.
GTA (Grand Theft Auto) has been making the media rounds all over the planet, we would like to talk about GTB (Grand Theft Budget).
GTB is the video game TheEditor would spend money on, but, alas, it is not available on video.
It is being played every year in Washington D.C., with many remote players hooked up from all over the country. The game has a grand total of at least 300 million players, although only 1% are active players, because you need to bring a minimum of a couple of million monopoly dollars to get to provide input into the game and get a good share of returns. The other 99% are extras, who get a non-union stipend for being at the disposal of the active players.
The game The Sims owes some ideas to GTB, but GTB is far more advanced and more social in nature. GTB is the only known game that temporarily suspends the basic laws of science in favor of a faith based approach to life.
The revenues for GTA are peanuts compared to the stakes of GTB, and in GTB you get to punish real people, starve real people to death, rummage through their most private possessions and thoughts. The winners walk away with so much money and prestige that - if you simply gave away the cash - you could make every adult in the United States a millionaire within a couple of decades, but the players decided long ago that this would change the nature of the game to something too rational and peaceful.
The curvy women and the guns are the same in GTA and GTB.
We had eyed former games innovator Zynga as the developer of the online version of GTB, but they are not doing too well after the Mafia invaded Farmville.
But there is still the Daily Show, whose intrepid correspondents might take up the idea of GTB.
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