During the Euro 2012 football games a group of Irish fans made a flag with a message for Angela Merkel.

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Either the House of Cards writers are trying to send a message about first person shooters, subtly correlating immorality with games like Call of Duty.

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In many cases, games with a particular educational or social mission have tended instead to go the reverse route, starting with the message and then building a game around it.

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So Oates temporarily relented and switched Ovechkin back to the left side for a handful of games, putting the two-time league MVP on a line with little-used players, as if to send the message: Are you sure this is what you want?

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