We lost the kids -- big and small ones -- when Super Mario let his plumbing heroism get displaced by MMOFPS’s -- Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooters. The poor little guy and his plumbing buddies got so lost hunting for CAPS of their own concern that they missed that others were discharging in the form of very realistic, rapid fire destructive calibers against anything that so much as wiggled.
And, alas, severe damage against good tech was done. From that period till now, generations of participants on virtual killing fields have grown up (either from being actual little people to becoming gamer adults) thinking that the splay of bullets even from a virtual weapon were worthy tools for destroying life’s challenges (or challengers). Super Mario and his do-good friends were rapidly transformed into symbolic relics whose noble intentions -- to scare away evil with a wrench! -- could not possibly stand alone as realistic weapons against the evils of human transgression.
Rescuing the damsel in distress gave way to accepting that the true fun of interactive existence came with blowing away enemies at such astoundingly fast rates that we could collect points for our efforts.
A game of Warcraft, perhaps, but still something that could readily take the competition of life to new and daring platforms of conflict and revenge ... pretty cool, huh?
And since Mario gave up, it has gotten worse. And a good part of the blame for which is now landing in the lap of the iconic ugliness of fear that sells membership of its own to other kinds of killing fields: the NRA, which I prefer to think of as the National Ridiculous Association.
Rest easily, however. There are signs that the nefarious methods and unadulterated madness sold to the public by this corporate front have themselves gone too far. Slaughtering Mario and all about him is too much.
The NRA and all that it represents in gaming America has set the issue such that it is about to be splayed, one might say, by its own gun petard -- and this is a good thing. We might even get Mario back.
We need to understand why this change is happening and what it will take to give our sweet animated characters back the tools of morality. But rest easy, that transformation seems under way. In future posts, I'll talk more about smart guns and smart ammunition and why the NRA has done so much damage to the very game it is playing.
The NRA and all that it represents in gaming America has set the issue such that it is about to be splayed, one might say, by its own gun petard -- and this is a good thing. We might even get Mario back.
We need to understand why this change is happening and what it will take to give our sweet animated characters back the tools of morality. But rest easy, that transformation seems under way. In future posts, I'll talk more about smart guns and smart ammunition and why the NRA has done so much damage to the very game it is playing.
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Thanks for sharing. The idea is for me to motivate you (and others) to do something with good ideas. Some are mine, some belong to others; all belong to the world of change.