That guy up there? Jesse Schell. He’s got some pretty important things to say. The gaming world is abuzz with talk of this speech. It’s quite long, but I cannot recommend enough that you take time out of your “busy” schedule to watch it. Watch with friends if you need to. Just pay attention. Let’s talk when you’re finished, okay?
Oh, and if you’ve been waiting for the right post to make some really long, really insightful comments about, this might just be what you’ve been looking for.
So, talk to me about this. Let’s have a good old fashioned discussion. Do you think this guy is a visionary, or just plain crazy? Will we ever have days like the hypothetical one Schell describes towards the end of the video, or will something similar to the current state of affairs perpetuate itself forever? I beseech you: let’s talk.
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I like.
I believe that, well, some of the things he said will come. Eventually. Not soon, but eventually.
Noooo!
You are the one that is supposed to sum it up!
It’s important that you experience the speech first hand.
This man has set off something that I had been thinking about for a while. What next for video games? I mean they are pretty as hell these days and the good ones can immerse you more than an epic poem made into a mediocre god of war knock-off ever could.
No amount of advertising in the world could have sold me on that game when I saw Dante almost exactly mimicking movements of our red paint doused and bone dusted anti-hero Kratos. But you know what? I still found my way into the game. I still needed to see it. I needed to feel what some of the reviewers felt when they received these objects that totally sold them into the fold of the Divine Comedy. The advertising for that game set up a massive event for the release.
Now imagine if the same amount of passion was put into EVERYTHING. Jesse Schell may have put some views into a dramatic array of point systems, but ill be damned if he didn’t drive home some of the fundamental points of the human mind and how it works. We are competitive. To the very freaking core. We subconsciously want to be the best at everything. It does not matter if that thing you are competing for is the worlds best card shuffler. You want to look for the perfect bridge with each shuffle. You can show your friends. You can be BETTER than your friends. And you laugh but if you could you would.
And if you are able to find a way as an educator or for the sake of the conversation the Advertising Executive could unlock the most basic of urges then they will sell billions and billions of units of whatever the advertiser is advertising from toothpaste to work and studious achievement. I believe that What Mr. Schell is saying very close to true. And that is both fantastic and fucking terrifying. It screams digital communism and Rings true to something Mr. George Orwell may have published. But from the perspective of Mr. Schell it has a chance to encourage human beings to be more than bottom scrapers of the universe who wont even get up to eat unless there are double incentives.
This is just me. I would love to talk about it. I will be posting this exact post in the forums. If you wanna talk lets break in the message boards and chat it up.
For the brief periods where “Blood and Thunder” wasn’t blaring over his speech, I heard him go on and on about reality and advances in technology. Most of what I heard would of been so aw-inspiring if I had been frozen in time after I just finished the most hardcore game of pong I had ever played, in 1972. As for the reality, anyone with a consciousness for what they’re doing could while they’re playing games could of (and should of for their own well being) come to the same conclusions already.
Honestly… towards the end I was waiting for him explain to me how the government is going to be probing my mind, but we’ll of developed the hats out of tinfoil to block out them out. Sadly, he only flirted with conspiracy, he never made-out with it or anything.
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