Nostalgia
I am remembering how, not too long ago, Gabe from Penny Arcade was waxing poetic. Gabe doesn't wax as poetic as often as Tycho, what with the difference in English skill and everything. So, this stood out to me.
He was waxing poetic about pokemon.
He was talking about how, when he went to a pokemon tournement, all of the kids there had picked their pokemon teams not based on stats or battle advantages. Instead, they had picked pokemon that looked cute or fun; their favorites. This made an impression on Gabe, who had been doing the whole pick out awesome pokemon and raise them with pain-staking effort thing. Someone asked him why he was using this cute little ghost pokemon, who had had picked for his crippling status effect abilities. He lied, saying he picked it because it was cute. At the tourney, some other kid, slightly older than the other kids, showed up and bragged about his fancily-raised team. Gabe, knowing his team had better stats, had been planning on backing out before the first round, but then he got paired up with this kid. This kid pulls out some legendary pokemon with some complicated strategy, and Gabe pulls out his tiny ghost, and kicks some butt.
For Justice. For Cuteness.
Then he backed out of the tournement, and went home. I think he put one of his cute butterfly pokemon back into his team.
This inspires me somewhat. I was never into the fancy leveling up. It takes too much effort, and yields not great enough results for me. But, ya know, this take the awesome out of the game. Games are for fellowship; this is the conclusion I have come to. Fancy levelling up takes the fun and the humanity out of the game, yeah? It becomes a game of hard, cold machines.
I'm thinking of starting a pokemon league on campus here. Well, i dunno if league is the right word. But it will be for fellowship.
And Justice. And Cuteness.
NFD
He was waxing poetic about pokemon.
He was talking about how, when he went to a pokemon tournement, all of the kids there had picked their pokemon teams not based on stats or battle advantages. Instead, they had picked pokemon that looked cute or fun; their favorites. This made an impression on Gabe, who had been doing the whole pick out awesome pokemon and raise them with pain-staking effort thing. Someone asked him why he was using this cute little ghost pokemon, who had had picked for his crippling status effect abilities. He lied, saying he picked it because it was cute. At the tourney, some other kid, slightly older than the other kids, showed up and bragged about his fancily-raised team. Gabe, knowing his team had better stats, had been planning on backing out before the first round, but then he got paired up with this kid. This kid pulls out some legendary pokemon with some complicated strategy, and Gabe pulls out his tiny ghost, and kicks some butt.
For Justice. For Cuteness.
Then he backed out of the tournement, and went home. I think he put one of his cute butterfly pokemon back into his team.
This inspires me somewhat. I was never into the fancy leveling up. It takes too much effort, and yields not great enough results for me. But, ya know, this take the awesome out of the game. Games are for fellowship; this is the conclusion I have come to. Fancy levelling up takes the fun and the humanity out of the game, yeah? It becomes a game of hard, cold machines.
I'm thinking of starting a pokemon league on campus here. Well, i dunno if league is the right word. But it will be for fellowship.
And Justice. And Cuteness.
NFD