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Life is what happens between loading screens

October 22, 2009 Leave a comment

2z7e92tSomeone once claimed we wouldn’t celebrate happiness if we didn’t know what sadness was. The same way monotheistic religion needs Satan or any other form of ‘dark side‘ to justify what otherwise would be an unfair deity, we celebrate the little joys, the packaged excitement.

A loading screen is a way of disguising the preparation of a program to execute content. The user, waiting for something to happen while staring at beautiful art or sometimes a black screen. We wait for the world of excitement, or knowledge to be ready for us to use.

Video games are an essential part of our lives now, from the leaps in technology harnessed by other industries to a way of meeting and socializing people. We are the last generation who played on the streets, and the first one to use interactive technology to expand our culture.

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Discovering stuff

October 16, 2009 Leave a comment

tv460There’s a vehement stigma towards TV.

People call it the stupid box, the brain washer, the source of idiocy and all that’s wrong with our society. When they think about TV, they think of Big Brother, Strictly come Dancing or East Enders. Nothing that comes from the same platform could be remotely interesting they say. You can expect to find anything culturally interesting from the TV.

I disagree.

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