Another Reason Not to Shop at Walmart

I don’t think I’d like a Christian version of Mario Kart. Jesus would be able to drive over the water, and would probably have invincibility for the whole race.

BRB, pirating the game so I can laugh at the Christards without giving them any of my money.

What makes this “another reason not to shop at Walmart”?

Is it also a reason not to shop at Amazon?

I live in Canada and they sell the game here too. And I don’t even live in Alberta.

It was surreal at Walmart the other week. That morning I walked through a rededication ceremony. It was 8 years old, and they just remodeled it. They had Boy Scouts, flags, the Pledge and a minister leading prayer. Employees and others were all holding hands. It was right in the entrance. So it was quite awkward to walk through, but I really needed milk for the kids that morning. It creeped out my christian wife as well.

Huh. I’d have figured the Dollar Store would be a better match for games of that “quality”.

I’m not a marketing or business major, but isn’t gauging consumer interest level generally done through things like surveys and focus groups, rather than producing a bunch of your product at cost and seeing if anyone will buy it?

I can’t understand how any self-respecting programmer would actually work on a game like that.

By what i’ve read and seen of the game, they weren’t very good programmers either.

But i don’t understand something about the premise of the game. If as the name ‘Left Behind’ implies, the game is set after the rapture; why are christians still around on earth? wouldn’t that mean the character being played did something so awful that jebus didn’t let him into heavan? and i thought that the reason all the crazies are yelling on street corners was because, after the rapture it would be too late to convert? This seems like a huge flaw cause the character in the game would be a sinner who doesn’t know it and is wasting his/her time trying to convert other people (just like the person playing the game, and every other christian).

At least they could have been accurate about what would happen if the rapture actually occurred. i.e. All the religious people are taken away by their gods & all the rest of us live happily ever after.

Does anybody remember the LucasArts game ‘Afterlife’? That was one that you could enjoy. Control heaven or hell, or both if you’re really adventurous, keep purgatory in beer (the riots if you run out are ‘hellish’), make sure you don’t get a high desertion rate, devise new tortures (for both sides of the game) and take hints from a cynical devil or a smarmy angel.

I still have a copy. I need to dig it out one of these days.

Even if you win the game, you are still a loser. 🙂

As a proud Christian, that game does look fun. I wouldnt mind buying it and giving it a spin! I <3 Jesus FTW!

$$Wow$$ This says a lot about what the Left Behind folks really believe about Jesus’ “imminent return.”

I’d try Christian Mario Cart if I could drive a chariot or iron.

This is funny because I just started to make a mod for left 4 dead where I remake all the infected into religious people of various faiths. They will all be running after the survivors trying to convert them still but instead of converting to zombies they will convert to religion or kill the survivor in the process.

LOL. The utter intolerance of Christian bashers is laughable.

So you boycott any store that carries books or other media that do not hew to your narrow minded world views? Sounds like somebody wants to be burning him some books.

I don’t see this as a reason to boycott Walmart. It’s just a silly product that I won’t be supporting by purchasing it.

Should I also boycott all stores that sell movies or books that I consider offensive or objectionable (e.g., What the Bleep Do We Know, The Secret, and various right-wing rants by the likes of Ann Coulter — not to mention the Bible)? I’d never be able to set foot in another bookstore in my life!

Sorry, Hemant, but I think that the notion of boycotting Walmart over this issue is a severe overreaction.

~David D.G.

So you boycott any store that carries books or other media that do not hew to your narrow minded world views? Sounds like somebody wants to be burning him some books.

Someone should educate themselves on the difference between choosing how one spends one’s money and destroying what ideas other people have access to.

Also, I think people should be allowed to burn their own books they’ve purchased. I’m sure Hemant wouldn’t mind if that church doing a book-burning would buy ten-thousand copies of his book, at full price.

LOL:

He wasn’t encouraging a boycott. He simply said that it was another reason for him to not shop at Wal-Mart. This implies that he already does not like the store for other reasons. He was not encouraging others to share the same view.

Some of you Christians love to take things out of context.

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If I see that link one more time, I’m going to scream. Everyone who posts this link thinks this is the standard of the people of walmart, or these people only shop at walmart-both of which are erroneous. I’ve seen some crazy-looking folks in Target, B&N, Books a Million, and event he malls. I think you’ve drank the media kool-aid that walmart is bad. Its not, its the american dream, and one thing I’ve learned is that everyone wants their american dream, but hates if you get yours.

Now, if you’ve got a good reason to aoid shopping at walmart, lets hear it.

Hemant isn’t calling for a boycott. He’s saying he doesn’t like to shop at Wal-Mart.

There are far too many good reasons not to shop at Walmart to worry about what books they sell.

“It’s like the kind of video game a grandparent might play, i.e. incredibly boring” Amanda, I resemble, uh, I mean resent that remark! Check out, Jess’ link. That game’s hilarious. I like tougher games. Really I do. I play Harry Potter. Who says you have to be good at something to enjoy it? Okay, I admit it. The Warriors is the baddest thing I’ve played.

As if I needed another reason to boycott the great evil that is Walmart! LOL, what planet are you on? Walmart does censor. Seriously, you must be living under a rock or something to not already know this. If you shop at Walmart, you’re narrowing your choices, not the other way around. That’s why it’s yet another reason to boycott Walmart and not a reason to boycott Amazon.

Infinitemonkey, you must be a white, male, Christian who managed to get a management position or a good little Christian wifey working for pin money to help out your husband which Walmart has told female employees is the only reason they should work. You want reasons? Okay, since I’ve picketed the local Walmart, without even goggling:

Largest class action law suit in American history and thousands of other law suits because they repeatedly violate labor standards and even health/safety regulations.

They’ve lowered the standard of living for almost everyone in this freaking country (Sam Walton’s heirs and Bill Gates excepted) by their sweat shop tactics. Target may pay better than Walmart but if Walmart paid a living wage, Target would pay even better. Hell, it’s a ripple effect. Just like raising the minimum wage raises wages across the board, lowering them does the opposite. Some American dream!

They censor godlessness out of what they sell. They discriminate against employees’ religious beliefs. Or do you really think the employees mentioned in the little Godfest above were really free not to join in and keep their job?

I’ve worked for Unemployment at third level appeals. Employers at either end of the spectrum: Post Office, in eight years, never saw them lose a case. They simply do not fire without cause. Guess who was at the other end? In eight years, saw them win a couple of cases. They literally fire for looking at them the wrong way. Some American dream! Or is that yours? To live in trembling servitude to your employer for starvation wages?

They take out life insurance on their employees. This has creepy enough implications in and of itself to keep me the hell away from them.

The local one I picketed literally locks their employees in after closing until the store is clean to their satisfaction, often causing employees who can’t afford a car to miss the last bus. Employees thanked us on the sly, out of the side of their mouth, while not looking at us, for the protest telling us it was bad working there.

Don’t believe me? Go google or use the other search engine of your choice. It’s there.

I’ll throwing a fucking party if I ever see Walmart go out of business. I’m lame and don’t drive but I’d go clear across town for a gallon of milk before I’d shop at Walmart.

muggle, you forgot to elaborate on the insurance that wal-mart takes out on its employees…that the beneficiaries are the Wal-Mart corporation, NOT the families of the employee. It’s called ‘dead peasant’s insurance’. They were supposed to have stopped the practice several years ago but didn’t.

And that a lot of the fines they have accrued have been for breaking CHILD labor laws.

If you expect a retail clerk job to pay you better then minimum wage with full health benefits, then Jesus must be real.

*Sigh*

As if the only thing we’re complaining about Wal-Mart is that they pay their employees minimum wage.

the real reason people like to hate Walmart is that it attracts “those kinds of people”.

Great straw-man video.