Wafaa Bilal, etc.

At first I didn't think that Mr. Bilal was very compelling. At first glance, his game doesn't seem very well thought out, and gives the impression that he simply went for the shock value of publicly releasing a game that put the player in the role of a terrorist. If the game had just been that, like I assume the version he hacked was, then I would not have been impressed at all. However, once I understood the twist he put on the game, I began to think that it was actually a very well thought-out project. I think that my immediate reaction reflected the response of the protesters who came on behalf of the Troy Department of Public Works. Most of them didn't know much about the game, and jumped to conclusions about it as a brash statement against the U.S. rather than a potential educational tool that came from perhaps the most informed source possible.