Wednesday, March 5, 2008

It's a Caveman's world

Interesting how when time progresses we revert to the past, when one grows up they start to act younger midlife crisis, peeing the bad later on in life just as they were kids. but never in my life have I imagined that civilization itself would revert back to old times. All the signs were right there but no one noticed, reverting back to polytheism of ancient times this time worshipping zeuses and heras that are better known as hollywood stars. and after this reading i discovered that we are back to the great age of the caveman, hiding in our little caves as dictated to us by the major dinosaurs better known as the corporations, or for a more closer concept the videogame corporations.

you see acording to the eye opening gamer theory, I discovered that the video game world is placing us (gamers) in a world in which we are blindfolded from the real world, better yet we were forced to live in a masked world, a world that resembles reality yet it just isn't the real world. with games resembling reality more and more it is no longer a matter of escapism, it has become a form of psuedo life in which the gamers live and thrive. and who wouldn't want to be an extremely awesome person that defies the rules of physics. well this can go overboard and take over their real life, making the virtual world real and the real world non-existent.

But the theory is even deeper than that, you see in a game, there are timekeepers, score keepers, judges, and written rules. life as it turns out deeply resembles the video game (Ironic init while games try to emulate life, now life is resembling the games, the irony is uncanny) with only minor differences, you don't know the score, you don't know the rules, you don't know "merde" (excuse my french), you're just pulled into it, slapped on the butt and off you go, you're on your own from then on out, the rules ?? no one tells you, the score ?? no one knows, the goals ?? you set your own.

mackenzie states that immersing oneself in a game locks you up in that virtual cave that venturing into the outside world afterwards seems next to impossible, and the real world isn't easy to venture into normally due to the vagueness of its objectives, no one knows how you should play in this life game, but it sure beats the hell out of any algortihm, so in my opinion one shouldn't focus on one game or the other but simply combine the two to reach optimum results in both. with moderation ofcourse in matters relating to military affairs (seeing as how most games tend to arch in that direction call of duty is only cool when you're blasting polygon based blood and guts aight)

1 comment:

schleinerama said...

Yes, we like our caves. Nice and warm and cozy, especially in cold climates where the blizzard outside forces you to snuggle up with a video game. Interesting connections you make...