hello, everyone. well, i survived the whirlwind that was last week. everything got done that was supposed to get done, and i would say that it was an overall success. i am taking the day off today, and am currently sitting in a booth in the coffee house in moon township, drinking french vanilla coffee, eating a blueberry muffin, leisurely reading emails, perusing the blogworld, and stalking people via facebook. in a minute, i plan to read some more harry potter.
a bunch of big things have happened in the last week; too many to explain in fair detail here. jubilee was this weekend, and it was incredible, as always. i've got a lot of stuff to think about now... i'm not sure where to start to explain. so, if you're interested, call and ask. i was so exhausted afterwards that i got home, i climbed into my bed, and started reading a book by tony campolo (one of the conference speakers). after an hour of so, i decided that i needed a nap, and i fell asleep so soundly that when my friend emily "venn" vanjacobs called at 8:15, i was convinced that it was the middle of the night. once i woke up, it was fabulous to talk to her. i'm glad she called, or i probably would have woken up at 3:30 in the morning ready for the day.
unfortunately, when i did wake up this morning, i found that the cold i was coming down with last week has finally caught up with me. i don't have much of a voice today. all the more reason for me to take the day off.
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Didjya go see the vidjyahgame guy?
Any changed perspectives?
And new appreciations?
Any hankerings to play some San Andreas?
I'm expecting great things here, Kathersmas.
Also, while we're on the subject, it might please you to learn that my sis-in-law, Becki, is actually begging my bro to buy them a GameCube. Apparently, she's hooked on some Mario game. Amazing, huh?? I'm telling you: girl-folk are going to embrace videogames BIG TIME in the near future. You heard it here first. Well, except for those other fifty times I said that.
So... you heard it here fifty-first.
i couldn't! i had something i had to do during the session, so i couldn't go. don't kill me.
i am willing to concede that videogames are a valid art form. i am not willing to concede that san andreas is worthy of our time and attention as christians. something about the neck-slicing via wire doesn't sound like the kingdom of God to me.
call me crazy.
mario, however, now that's something different. i always knew i liked becki.
Neck-slicing via wire? Bwuh? Not in the copy of SanAndreas that *I'm* playing!
...sure happens a lot in "Manhunt," though. But I'm not defending that game.
For now.
But I get your point. And you're certainly entitled to it. But it does raise an interesting question: does the simple fact that one is *able* to do bad things in a game make the entire game bad? As I know I've informed you in the past (usually tongue-in-cheek, but hey), you *are* able be very good in SanAndreas, if you so choose (putting out fires w/ firetruck, rushing people to the hospital in an ambulance, etc.) Not to mention the fact that you can go mountainbiking, can excercise in a gym, can fly through the clouds, can go sailing... things that are not only harmless, but might even approach on "healthy." Heck, the game even sacks you with a huge belly if you eat too many cheeseburgers! It's like an after-school special!
Which all gets to the question: does this change anything? Does it provide a counter-balance to the fact that you can, after putting out fires, taking a bike ride, and driving an old woman to the hospital, bust out a chainsaw in a crowded town square and make chaos? I dunno...
But consider this as well: in every one of "The Sims" games (which happens to be the best selling PC series of all time - selling many more copies than SanAndreas every did), you are able (if you so choose) to:
-invite over 50 sims and drown the whole lot of them in your backyard swimming pool by simply removing the pool ladder
-have sim-sex with any sim after about, oh, maybe 5-10 minutes of progressing the in-game "relationship"
-ignore your sim teen and let him die in a pool of his own feces (which happens to look like a pool of pure Aquafina, but still)
-download a VERY easy-to-find series of nude-patches that not only take away the blurred-camera effect that pop up when sims take showers/change clothes/etc., but also add anotomically-correct... uh... everything. Yeah. Let's just say making a nude colony is very, very easy (and hilarious, depending who you ask).
Not to mention the fact that what the entire game really boils down to is earning money/fame so you can aquire more "stuff." It's amazingly materialistic.
So -- "kingdom of God?" In some ways, no. Very far from. But, the play-thing of Satan himself (not saying that's necessarily what you're saying...)? You be the judge. I'd say no (call ME crazy). And that goes for SanAndreas as well, in my opinion.
But I'll be quiet now. I think I'm going to blog about this m'self, instead of taking up more of your comments section.
nathan, i feel terrible for as of yet failing to respond to your comment. i feel that it's more of a live conversation than a blog-comment section conversation (which, as far as actual conversations goes, in my opinion, is just a rung or two up the communication totem pole from a forwarded text message). thus, next time we hang out, we'll have to cover this. okay?
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