At no point have I lost interest in the math behind video game mechanics, and how to tune that math to produce a rich narrative experience for the player. But after my long long hiatus from my most obscure of blogs, I’m still not gonna blog about that…Now I think of it, I have some New Year’s Resolutions to make. What was I saying?
Oh, yeah. When I was in high school, I was assigned an essay about a my personal hero. Wow, not really a hero worshipper here, didn’t know how to approach it. So I subverted it, and wrote an entirely tasteless piece about the poor, misunderstood Mr. Nazi, the WWII German spandexed superhero, who led the world down the path to genocide on a yellow brick road mortared together with good intentions.
Now, I’m not a talented writer. I’m a less talented public speaker. And I wrote this knowing I’d have to stand up in front of my class and read it. Yeah, that wasn’t fun. I don’t know what my classmates thought of it. Thanks for indulging my pointless digression.
So, haha, I’m wondering if maybe somewhere there’s an awkward, warped, excessively sarcastic high school student writing the same thing about George Bush’s America. Or perhaps even some serious, sober adult who should know better, and writing it unironically. You know who I bet would know about such things? I’m gonna go check out Glenn Greenwald and see if he’s seen anyone writing or saying anything like that.
