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The phrase "guns, goons, and gold," sometimes referred to as the "Three Gs of Philippine Politics" [1] was a catchphrase coined by media to describe the violence and vote-buying that characterized the political campaign period in the Philippines, [2] beginning with the presidential reelection campaign of 1969, [3] [4] [5] declining only with the advent of electronic voting machines during the ...
[2] Time and Newsweek would eventually call the 1969 election the "dirtiest, most violent and most corrupt" in Philippine modern history, with the term "Three Gs", meaning "guns, goons, and gold" [10] [11] coined [12] to describe administration's election tactics of vote-buying, terrorism and ballot snatching. [13]
Guns of Boom, known as Gods of Boom from 19 November 2019 [1] until 4 May 2021, [2] is an online multiplayer first-person shooter video game for mobile devices. It was developed by Game Insight and released on 16 May 2017, for iOS and Android .
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Another theory suggests that it originates from the English word "goon". However, the first English-language appearance of "goonda" (in British newspapers of the 1920s, with the spelling "goondah") predates the use of "goon" to mean criminal, a semantic change which seems to go back only as far as the 1930s comic strip character Alice the Goon. [1]
The state of New Jersey in the United States is the first to prohibit redemption games that distribute tickets based on a player's skill without a valid Amusements License Issued by the State.
The Gold Code is the launch code for nuclear weapons provided to the President of the United States in their role as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. [1] In conjunction with the nuclear football , the Gold Codes allow the president to authorize a nuclear attack. [ 2 ]
Guns! Guns! Guns! provides step-by-step instructions on how to design virtual firearms for any roleplaying game system. [1] Some of the parameters covered are damage value, projectile velocity, range limit, and barrel length. [2] The book provides conversions of this data for eight different RPG systems, including GURPS and Torg. [2]