Joel, while I can't say I support the game concept based on the short description you gave of it, I can say this:
While in general I find boingboing.net entertaining from time to time, I find the comments that popup about Christianity disturbing.
Talk about gadgets and such all you want, but let's try and check our attacks on anyone's belief system at the door.
Then again, maybe I mis-understood when you wrote "apocalyptic Christian masturbation novels."
I guess a better question would be, what did you mean?

"...selling authentically tagged train cars to model railroaders."

I think half the fun of being a Model Railroader is creating this kind of detail on their own?

Here's the part I find interesting:
"..levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low"

Record low. Hmm, so we have records for sea ice since sea ice has existed?

ripley, I think you mis-understood my point. It's not that the US is a totalitarian dictatorship (indeed I did pay attention in my US history classes), it's quite the opposite. Since the US published these studies, everyone thinks it's a big deal. Given the broader scope of things, the US is certainly more open about these things?
PHASOR3000 is so on point with what is the definition of torture? Is torture not cable T.V.? What about making fun of someone for whatever reason? Or is torture having bamboo jammed under your fingernails?
The world, in general, has lost perspective on what torture really is?

I suppose that the Soviet Union or anything behind the iron curtain didn't do anything like this? If they did they didn't publish it. Maybe that's the real mistake here?