"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
-Herman Hesse 1919
Though I find this to be one of the most accurate couple of sentences ever said, this becomes fairly convoluted in games. You usually hate people because they're annoying 12 year olds who keep killing you and corpse humping you while yelling with they're ball-not-dropped-yet voice "You like that Bi(Pitch change)tch!?".
This get's really annoying after about 10 seconds and you start to hate them.
In this space I was going to say "I can't think how this would be true for video games, how can a 12 year old kid yelling obscenity's in to his tinny microphone and raising your blood-pressure until you (personal experience this, from both the inside and outside) Throw the damn controller at the wall and almost put your foot through the TV." What I'll say instead is that I get it, you see that that was probably you years ago.
Last night, raided Ice Cream citadel, drank two full throttles, did dailies, wandered aimlessly, watched Chuck until roughly 4 a.m., father came and made me go to bed, watched another episode of Chuck, went to bed at 5, watched more episodes of Chuck in bed, got to shocking ending of most recent episode of Chuck (won't spoil it), cried, got out of bed because I was bored. Had brilliant gaming philosophy idea, am now writing gaming blog. Good evening. How was yours?
1 comment:
Yes, and it works the same for what you like in other people. You respond to that thing because it's in you.
Great post!
ps I seem to have recovered my password, so I can look at this again.
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