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This is a graphic representation of the reaction of a man who dropped his car keys in the ocean. He's fucked!

Kumiko's monologue from the film "Noriko's Dinner Table"

"Some will kill, some will be killed. That's the circle of life, though there are contradictions. There are no perfect circles anywhere in nature. But if you draw a circle with a compass and a big fat marker, a thick outline will make it seem perfect. I'll give you a sense of perfection, Tetsuzo. You can be a lion. I'll be a rabbit. I don't need thick outlines. My metal box is starting to rot. I'm gonna go to a higher level. A rabbit, a suicide, a killer, evil, water overflowing from a glass... I'll be whatever no one else wants to be. I'm sick of shameless outlines of people seeking happiness. They don't wanna be rabbits. They just wanna eat rabbits. There's no such jungle."

TV

TV news is for shut ins! Seriously, it's all B.S.! Take pride in your ability to discern propaganda from reality, most people can't! They lack the cognitive faculties to do so. I refer you to Plato's: Allegory of the Cave... Just replace the word cave with TV.

Have you ever tried to explain a true life event such as a trip to someone and all you get back is, I heard on TV that the place you went is Blah Blah Blah... Then you try to explain to them what you actually saw and experienced, and they try to argue for the TV's side? I have! And I never seem to make a dent in the assholes 2nd hand perspective. It's the same as the attempts to argue with the cave inhabitants that the perception of the Shadows on the wall as being the reality of the situation is fraudulent. And I'm positive if I didn't just stop trying in these ass-bag conversations; I'd have been killed.

Lex

Gamers unitE

I am not one to be a casual fan of anything. I research it, live it, and crave it. I have been obsessed with the videogame industry since my first encounter with my dad’s Odyssey 2. The idea that the game industry was to be my life happened when in Toys R’ Us; I stumbled upon an N64 demo unit displaying ‘The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’, it was then I realized what the industry was to become, the new mainstream. When you eclipse the movie and music industry in revenue on a regular basis that is what you become. Lately the industry seems to have been ramping up efforts to pander to the main stream. With ad campaigns that mimic what you’d see for a Hollywood picture, celebrity voiceovers aplenty, and a game for every activity know to man (no matter how mundane). None of these are actually necessary if you think about it. All they do is drive up the cost of production and force the executives at these companies to stick to tried and true IP’s instead of giving innovative ideas (the ideas the industry is based on, and also keep it afloat) a chance in production.

I might be alone; but I think this generation of gaming has become criminally stagnant. This is a generation that hasn’t produced any new fighting, sports, or racing franchises, and there are only two titles I can point to that push the art form: Red Dead Redemption and Dead Rising. Not saying the vast landscape of FPS’s isn’t bursting with innovation, but they’re all in essence FPS’s.


Being a “historian” of the interactive entertainment industry, the previous sentence raises some concern. In the mid 90’s arcades and gaming as a whole had become over-run with walk and shot/punch type games. Each a little bit more innovative than its predecessor. The problem was arcades were empty and game sales were not awesome as a result. A crash (like the one in 1984) was a possibility if not for a radically new concept in gaming. The game that recharged the industry was Street Fighter II. For the first time the gamer was able to pick from a variety of characters and develop strategies in a one on one type fighting game setting. This was a landmark moment for the industry and one that needs to be repeated soon. I want new experiences, right now. I need to feel the rush of interacting with something I’ve never experienced before. I want to feel the way I felt when I played Wolfenstine 3D for the first time… Alive!

Please don’t let me down.

Lex