The Future

When was the last time you walked down the street (or drove, or biked, I don't really f*cking care how you get around) and saw a kid (or anyone really, again, I don't give a sh*t) reading a book? Probably never, because reading while walking (or driving, etc.,) is really dumb and can get you killed. BUT how many times have you been going down the street and seen someone holding a Nintendo DS or a PSP or something like that? A lot right? Now, I don't have anything against video games; in fact, I own quite a few and I think that if they were used correctly, they could make the world a better place. However, big gaming companies don't see it my way. They look at previous attempts at educational games and see abject failures. All they care about is making a f*cking buck. (To be addressed in a future post) But if they injected educational, good messages instead of all this overdone sh*t like fighting games and racing games and rescue-the-princess games and RPGs and FPSs and all that other sh*t that all games seem to be now. There isn't an original idea to be seen. The graphics are better, stories are a little bit more complex, but it all boils down to the same, old, f*cking things. If this doesn't change, the future may turn out to be this bleak, depressing, Orwellian world where everyone is predjudiced against everyone else and people kill each other just to gain status. So petition Nintendo and Sony and Microsoft and Atari and everyone else: Make games for a different reason than to make a buck! What you do changes the world, so do good! Think about it.