There are several things happening in my life simultaneously but for one reason or another, I have not been showing my presence on the site for quite some time. I’m trying to set up a video environment I am satisfied with- which is hard to do when I am in the process of moving back to Montreal, QC.

Currently, I’m also in the process of writing the blog “2010 Sucked: Kinect” in which I hope to explain how Kinect is the biggest embarrassment the decade could have possibly closed with. This topic however, is something that needs to be mentioned.

While I can credit people with the ability to think about our relevant subject matter in the gaming space, it becomes painfully obvious, when see the voice of reason get shot down, so quick, that we’ve got a LONG way to go as gamers.

Don’t let the ‘gamer’ title distract you though, when I speak of ‘gamers’, I mean to topically section out the general majority of our community. The truth is that we’ve tainted the concept of gamers because we’re losing the concept of being human. With that, we’ve been blinded with toys and a game, enough to be ignorant to what is actually important.

They say “In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king” that couldn’t be any more relevant in these times. When it comes to any sect of people out there, it is without a doubt, that we are the most ignorant of what is going on in the abstract. That’s why I am so enraged when most gamers start narrowing the range and simplifying the mold of who we are to be. We’ve been cursed by birth, dumb down by design, rationized effectively- most prominent in our interest group.

Gamers are not alien to mainstream core believes. We all function by the same eternal interest and value of seeing our love ones succeed but our lifestyles are eclipsing the very foundation that holds our whole human existence together. The truth is, we are not in a position to play video games anymore when elitist have played them with all of us, while we were sleeping. This is what leads me to believe that we are the prime people to make a difference; playing this game better than them.

Like I said before though, it would seem that no matter how many people try to bring up other real world issues, we would much rather keep that nonsense to people outside of gaming space, because it doesn’t encompass the light-hearted cute fun fluffy cotton candy coated world games have conditioned us to or has allowed us to escape our personal dilemmas. Don’t you see it? The drug correlation, don’t you see the concern? We are not kids anymore, some gamers are realizing that, but most are stuck blinded with console wars, game review score debates, online gaming, manga, anime, sequels, internet memes, 90s nostalgia, phony gamer score stature, franchise gossip, graphics, cinema, fantasy, game release date, cartoon characters, J-pop, violence and the debate over it.



Can’t you see my concern? Do any of these topics of gaming enlighten us in the abstract once expanded on? No they don’t, and in consequence distract us from the real issues in life! It has come to the point that the damage behind the surface has been so uncontrollable that most media and medium outlets have had no choice but to center around it. We are still in the dark. So there are a minority sect of gamers that preach the voice of reason in our narrowed environment and what happens? They are cast aside because they don’t fit the molded view of what we consider to be relevant, but I will argue any day of the week that it’s not the ‘speaker’ of the information irrelevant to gaming that is the issue, it’s the ‘gaming culture’ irrelevant to the issue that is the problem.

So what triggered this rant?

Just a few days after giving some praise to the Destructoid (I was once disgusted over), I was casually reading past community blogs on the website, when I stumbled across a blog that gave me the impression of a gamer that has actually caught a glimpse of the truth, (not too topical mind you) and has decided to express his concern with the rest of the community, (whitewashed constitution, economic collapses, 9/11 truth) but then the popular cast of commenter then proceeded to moan and rage about something they clearly have not clued on to; All the mockery in the name of unpopular rhetoric in the so called ‘gaming’ medium. This was disgusting affirmation for me that the gaming population has a long way to go.

I posted a similar post to his a while back and it was met with the same type of response. I doubt he’s going to come back to this community, and I can only imagine how many gamers have been discouraged to come back here after similar events. What bothers me the most about it, as a whole are the people using gaming as a platform to combat revolutionary speech when they have little concept themselves of what the fabric of gaming is in the first place. In addition, let me just say that around the same time somebody made a very small post about his favorite comic book character’s inclusion in a video game and last time I checked, it got over 23 approvals. Don’t you see the problem? This is the gaming equivalent to society’s focus on Jersey Shore versus the Nation Debt Crisis.

Everyone, right now that visits this blog, doesn’t know what QE2 is. I can also assume that people who try to prove their worldly knowledge by researching will only benefit themselves in consequence of trying to prove my assumption wrong. So go ahead.

There are a lot of arguments made to denounce 9/11 because of its false sense of past irrelevance. So surely gamers could stand on their own two feet and tell me what QE2 is right? Blow my mind with all your cultural understanding, and tell me about all your strategies and investments you’ve made for the future without clinging on to dear life to your child’s importance, when this gamer apathy for anything ‘gaming irrelevant’ is doing its part to undermine our children’s whole future.



This is a piece of mind’s eye the runs through my mind like a montage. I can barely stand to look at children without a sense of doom. If we only allow comforting messages into our mind, gamers will be amongst the first to go when this truth unfolds. I could have never believed the social consequences, the pain, and limited scope in playing (at one time innocent) video games. Look at our legacy, look at our lifestyle’s- we could have never have imagined. How crippled are we conditioning children with the gaming belief system? Why are we undermining our thirst for critical thinking, with entertainment?

I'll finish with this.

In this video I cover where I'm making improvements and flaws from past video blogs aside from that, another timely opinion about what to expect in 2011 and reflections about 2010. Again, sorry about the lag.

I've been looking forward to this topic for a long time, I hoping that you can understand my position better now with the advancement in delivery.

I've also decided to no long have a second video addressing comments due to the logical distaste that has developed. So I'll keep my response to the comments section and if there's a major topic brought up, I can make a topic video about that.

If anyone is interested, I did video in place of another rambling about Motion Controls in gaming. That video can be found on my Youtube Profile.

After a long while, I show my ugly head once more to talk about some fun subjects in these two videos. Sorry about the lag.

Community

There's also another past episode that I didn't post in my YouTube channel if anyone is interested.

Not to much news, so just a quick comment on some of the blogs around the joint.

I was busy with work and drinking yesterday so there was no video.

Basically, my commentary on the biggest beaten horse in gaming: Violence in Video Games.


Also there's no "Video Two" today for commentary because there was a hassle getting it up. I acknowledge Wisearse long blog post and I've read all of it but I can comment on the blog it self, I would like to tackle other issues as well (despite the fact that I can talk about narrative in games forever.)