Difference between revisions of "Reid Bryson"

Revision as of 03:07, June 23, 2007

Final Fantasy VII is a best selling RPG for the Sony Playstation. Despite being a best seller the game is filled with highly offensive material. For one it features a hockey team named the AVALANCHE who are also a terrorist group. They blow up a coal power plant but justify it by saying they are helping the environment. The game is also filled with profanity especially from Cid and Barrett (who bears a strong resemblence to Mr. T). The game was also critcized harshly because of the sexual liasons of the main character Cloud Strife. He has relations with three girls in the course of the game including a 16 year old Japenese girl named Yuffie.

Characters

Cloud

The main protagonist of the game. Once a member of the US marines, now heads an eco-terrorist group called Avalanche

Barrett (aka Mr. T)

An African-American man who is second in command in Avalanche to Cloud. Has an adopted white daughter named Marlene. Shows love and affection to her, one of the few redeeming qualities of this highly offensive game.

Tifa

Cloud's gf from his childhood. Flashbacks show Tifa and Cloud engaging in sexual acts as early as age 12. This part of the game as been highly criticized

Aeris

Another one of Cloud's love interests. Cloud steals Aeris' virginity. To be fair though, Cloud does show genuine affection towards her and becomes extremely upset when she is brutally murdered by Sephiroth.

Cid Jefferson

Owner of the Jefferson Airplane, an aircraft you can use to fly all over the world. Joins your group after he is offered a night with Yuffie and a 12 pack of Blue.

Vince the Pince

A mysterious man who has been locked in the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim for 30 years. He has been crygenically frozen so he still resembes a 27 year old man. Shoots people with his Colt 45.

Cait Sith

A puppett controlled by a 40 year old virgin who works in an office in Midgar. Turns out to be a mole for Shinra but later joins the cause of AVALANCHE

Yuffie Kisagari

An attractive Japenese teenager. She has a passionate affair with Cloud Strife and also has relations with Cid (she only slept with Cid so the crew would get access to the Jefferson Airplane). She was kidnapped and molested by Don Corleone in Tokyo but was rescued before Corleone could have intercourse with her.]

Red CXIX

Cloud's pet dog. A loyal companion with a gentle temperment, Red is probably the most moral individual in the game (sad to say because he is not even human). He shows affection to all he meets especially children.

Sephiroth

A highly dangerous psychopath with superhuman strength. He is also a leader of a dangerous cult known as Jenova's Witnesses. He is the main antagonist of the game and brutally murders Aeris in the Canadian Rockies.

Criticisms

Although from a commercial standpoint Final Fantasy VII was highly successful, it has been criticized by a variety of both liberal and conservative groups including Christian groups, women's groups, and minority groups.

Christian Criticisms

Although the game does not mock Christianity or make any references to God or Jesus, the game does violate Christian values. On one hand, Cloud does show genuine affection to his friends and lovers and Barrett is shown to have a good relationship to his daughter but the game is fraught with moral relativism. The protagonists of the game are eco-terrorists who although their cause may be noble, their methods are brutal and repugnant and their actions kill innocent civilians. Although their renounce terror later in the game, this does not excuse their actions. Also sex is trivalized in the game. Instead of being the ultimate act of intimacy between a man and his wife; Cloud has relations with three unmarried young women, one of whom is still a teenager. Although the acts were depicted as consensual, this does not send a good message to young impressionable children and teens.

Women's Rights Group Criticisms

Ironically, many women's rights groups share some of the same complaints as Christian groups. Despite often being at odds with each other, feminists and Christians find some common ground in their opposition to this game. Women's groups find the way sex is trivalized to be highly offensive as well as the fact that the girls in the game are sometimes treated as sex objects by the other characters. The fact that a 16 year old is depicted in sexual acts with an older man (Cloud is 21 years old) has also been harshly criticized.

Minority Rights Group Criticisms

Both Japanese and African-American groups have been highly outraged by the stereotypical portrayal of Japenase and African American characters. Barrett is depicted as loud, hot-headed and prone to violence, reinforcing the stereotype of black gang members. Yuffie is portrayed as a nymphomaniac which perpetuates the stereotype that Japanese women are merely the playthings of Western men.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-[[Image:Reid Bryson.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
+'''Final Fantasy VII''' is a best selling RPG for the Sony Playstation. Despite being a best seller the game is filled with highly offensive material. For one it features a hockey team named the AVALANCHE who are also a terrorist group. They blow up a coal power plant but justify it by saying they are helping the environment. The game is also filled with profanity especially from Cid and Barrett (who bears a strong resemblence to Mr. T). The game was also critcized harshly because of the sexual liasons of the main character Cloud Strife. He has relations with three girls in the course of the game including a 16 year old Japenese girl named Yuffie.
-'''Reid Bryson''' (born 1920) was born in [[Michigan]], but he regards [[Wisconsin]] as his home state. Dr. Bryson is known as the "Father of scientific [[climatology]]". He is a vocal critic of [[anthropogenic global warming]] theories.
+==Characters==
+===Cloud===
-Over his long career as [[scientist]] and [[teacher]], Reid Bryson has significantly advanced the understanding of [[climate]], people, and the [[environment]]. He has written more than 200 articles and five books ranging over the fields of [[geology]], [[limnology]], [[meteorology]], climatology, [[archeology]], and [[geography]].
+The main protagonist of the game. Once a member of the US marines, now heads an eco-terrorist group called Avalanche
+===Barrett (aka Mr. T)===
-==Education==
+An African-American man who is second in command in Avalanche to Cloud. Has an adopted white daughter named Marlene. Shows love and affection to her, one of the few redeeming qualities of this highly offensive game.
-Reid Bryson received his B.A. degree in geology at [[Denison University]] in 1941, and his Ph.D. in meteorology at the [[University of Chicago]] in 1948. He joined the faculty of the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] in 1946 at the end of his military service.
+===Tifa===
+Cloud's gf from his childhood. Flashbacks show Tifa and Cloud engaging in sexual acts as early as age 12. This part of the game as been highly criticized
-==Military Service==
+===Aeris===
-Reid Bryson served as a major in the Air Weather Service of the U.S. Army Air Corps. Long ago in the Army Air Corps, Bryson and a colleague prepared the aviation weather forecast that predicted discovery of the jet stream by a group of B-29s flying to and from Tokyo. Their warning to expect westerly winds at 168 knots earned Bryson and his friend a chewing out from a general—and the general’s apology the next day when he learned they were right. Bryson flew into a couple of typhoons in 1944, three years before the Weather Service officially did such things, and he prepared the forecast for the homeward flight of the Enola Gay.
+Another one of Cloud's love interests. Cloud steals Aeris' virginity. To be fair though, Cloud does show genuine affection towards her and becomes extremely upset when she is brutally murdered by Sephiroth.
+===Cid Jefferson===
-==Career==
+Owner of the Jefferson Airplane, an aircraft you can use to fly all over the world. Joins your group after he is offered a night with Yuffie and a 12 pack of Blue.
-His first appointment was in the Departments of Geography and Geology (in which he had been a graduate student before World War II). In 1948 he started the Department of Meteorology, which is now one of the largest and most prestigious in the United States. During the late 1960's, he was active in the university's Interdisciplinary Studies Committee on the Future of Man and in subsequent committees that led to the establishment of the Institute for Environmental Studies, of which he also served for 15 years as the founding Director, starting in 1970. The Institute is now known as the [[Gaylord Nelson]] Institute for Environmental Studies.
+===Vince the Pince===
+A mysterious man who has been locked in the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim for 30 years. He has been crygenically frozen so he still resembes a 27 year old man. Shoots people with his Colt 45.
-In 1963, he founded the Center for Climatic Research, in which he is currently Senior Scientist. Throughout his career, Dr. Bryson has been interested in interdisciplinary studies and was one of the founders and chairman of the University of Wisconsin’s Interdisciplinary Committee on the Future of Man.
+===Cait Sith===
+A puppett controlled by a 40 year old virgin who works in an office in Midgar. Turns out to be a mole for Shinra but later joins the cause of AVALANCHE
-Considered by many to be the ‘Father of Scientific Climatology’, Professor Bryson has written five books and more than 240 papers in the fields of limnology, meteorology, climatology, archaeology and geography.
+===Yuffie Kisagari===
+An attractive Japenese teenager. She has a passionate affair with Cloud Strife and also has relations with Cid (she only slept with Cid so the crew would get access to the Jefferson Airplane). She was kidnapped and molested by Don Corleone in Tokyo but was rescued before Corleone could have intercourse with her.]
-Much of Bryson’s work has dealt with climate in relation to human ecology, and this has lead him into extensive travel, especially to Asia where he worked primarily on anthropogenic changes of climate and landscape in general. The most obvious result of this work is seen in the introduction of pen-feeding of goats in Rajasthan, which he suggested in the mid-1960s and is now widespread and effective. Other work was on agricultural long-range forecasting of climate, especially the Indian monsoon. His best known laboratory works are in development of new approaches to climatology, such as airstream analysis and quantitative, objective methods of reconstructing past
+===Red CXIX===
-climates. He has also developed computer models of climate: the past history of the monsoon in Rajasthan, model simulation of Pleistocene ice-volume and Pleistocene climatic history. He recently published a model simulation of the West African Intertropical Convergence position and rainfall for the past 20-40 millennia, and has now extended that work on high-resolution climate modeling to specific archaeological sites and in montane regions. He is also working on three books.
+Cloud's pet dog. A loyal companion with a gentle temperment, Red is probably the most moral individual in the game (sad to say because he is not even human). He shows affection to all he meets especially children.
+===Sephiroth===
-His best-known laboratory works are in the development of new approaches to climatology, such as airstream analysis and quantitative, objective methods of reconstructing past climates. Dr. Bryson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Meteorological Society, and a charter member of the World Council for the Biosphere.
+A highly dangerous psychopath with superhuman strength. He is also a leader of a dangerous cult known as Jenova's Witnesses. He is the main antagonist of the game and brutally murders Aeris in the Canadian Rockies.
+==Criticisms==
-==Global Warming==
+Although from a commercial standpoint Final Fantasy VII was highly successful, it has been criticized by a variety of both liberal and conservative groups including Christian groups, women's groups, and minority groups.
-He is not skeptical that global warming exists, he is just doubtful that humans are the cause of it. <ref>[http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/197613 Local scientist calls global warming theory hooey]</ref>.
+===Christian Criticisms===
+Although the game does not mock Christianity or make any references to God or Jesus, the game does violate Christian values. On one hand, Cloud does show genuine affection to his friends and lovers and Barrett is shown to have a good relationship to his daughter but the game is fraught with moral relativism. The protagonists of the game are eco-terrorists who although their cause may be noble, their methods are brutal and repugnant and their actions kill innocent civilians. Although their renounce terror later in the game, this does not excuse their actions. Also sex is trivalized in the game. Instead of being the ultimate act of intimacy between a man and his wife; Cloud has relations with three unmarried young women, one of whom is still a teenager. Although the acts were depicted as consensual, this does not send a good message to young impressionable children and teens.
-==Accolades==
+===Women's Rights Group Criticisms===
-Dr. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education. He is an Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology—now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. In the 1970s he became the first director of what’s now the UW’s Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.” He has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist, 5th most cited physical geographer and 11th in list of all geographers.
+Ironically, many women's rights groups share some of the same complaints as Christian groups. Despite often being at odds with each other, feminists and Christians find some common ground in their opposition to this game. Women's groups find the way sex is trivalized to be highly offensive as well as the fact that the girls in the game are sometimes treated as sex objects by the other characters. The fact that a 16 year old is depicted in sexual acts with an older man (Cloud is 21 years old) has also been harshly criticized.
+===Minority Rights Group Criticisms===
-His book, Climates of Hunger, co-authored with Thomas Murray, received the Banta Medal for Literary Achievement, one his articles, a mixture of poetry and science, was chosen as the "outstanding learned article of 1981" by the Educational Press Association, and two papers in Environmental Conservation were awarded prizes for "best paper of the year."
+Both Japanese and African-American groups have been highly outraged by the stereotypical portrayal of Japenase and African American characters. Barrett is depicted as loud, hot-headed and prone to violence, reinforcing the stereotype of black gang members. Yuffie is portrayed as a nymphomaniac which perpetuates the stereotype that Japanese women are merely the playthings of Western men.
-==Publications==
-*Bryson, Reid, A; Hopkins, Edward J.;  Moran, Joseph M. (2002). Wisconsin's Weather and Climate. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-2991-7184-1.
-*Bryson, Reid, A; Murray, Thomas J (1979). Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the World's Changing Weather, New Ed edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.  ISBN 0-2990-7374-9.
-*Bryson, Reid, A; Hare, F. Kenneth (1974). Climates of North America (World Survey of Climatology, V. 11). Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. ISBN 0-4444-1062-7.
-*Bryson, Reid, A; Kolkenow, Robert J. (1974). Physical Geography Today; : a Portrait of a Planet. ISBN 0-8766-5172-4.
-*Bryson, Reid, A; Kutzbach, John E. (1968). ''Air pollution''. Washington: Association of American Geographers. ASIN B0006BWL46.
-*Bryson, Reid, A (1966). ''Airmasses, streamlines, and the boreal forest''. Madison, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Meteorology.
-==Sources==
-*[http://www.alumnifriends.mines.edu/photo_gallery/2003/hon_degree_medal_200305/bryson.htm Honorary Degree and Distinguished Achievement Medallists, Colorado School of Mines, May 2003]
-*[http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html The Faithful Heretic, Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, May 2007]
-*[http://ccr.meteor.wisc.edu/bryson/bryson.html Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2007]
-*[http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu/news/bryson_tribute.pdf 1st Annual Bryson Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2006]
-*[http://whyfiles.org/247sci_politics/index.php?g=4.txt Why Files talks with Reid Bryson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2006]
-*[http://www.sitewave.net/news/s49p1837.htm Global Warming? Some common sense thoughts, Sitewave.net, March 2004]
-*[http://ccrweb.aos.wisc.edu/cpep_web/CPEP_overview.html The Bryson Interdisciplinary Climate, People, and the Environment Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, accessed June 2007]
-*[http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=25633 A global flashback, Baptist Press, May 2007]
-*[http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming051607.htm Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics, Canada Free Press, May 2007]
-*[http://www.paleoresearch.com/about.html Let Us tell you about PRI, PaleoResearch Institute, accessed June 2007]
-*[http://www.motherearthnews.com/Livestock-and-Farming/1976-03-01/The-Plowboy-Interview-Dr-Reid-Bryson.aspx The Plowboy Interview, Mother Earth News, March/April 1976]
-==References==
-<references/>
-[[category:scientists]]