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« on: February 08, 2007, 06:45:39 PM »
You'll think I'm taking things too seriously here. In response to Brandon and one or two others:
I think that once we come to DS boards and spend a significant amount of time here, the "get a life" boat has already sailed. Â I might have mangled a metaphor there. Â Anyway, we're already in fandom up to our necks, an activity that the "outside world" generally considers nuts, so we may as well relax. Â
I know the remarks about straight jackets etc were just tossed off in a light-hearted way, so please bear with my occasional need to respond to such things.
I think it's a precious thing, when a TV series can take us out of ourselves, and get us to want to lose ourselves in it. Â If real life were enough, this wouldn't happen. Â Â We've created a pretty antiseptic culture which creates a healthy urge to escape. Â Â
Society accepts any activity no matter how pointless, as long as the majority does it. Â Football obsession never causes anyone to say "get a life". Â DS is a smarter and more imaginitive "waste of time" than most. Â The DS story certainly connects more with human experiences, motivations, and relationships than any game. Â
I think a need to make sense of a story that you find compelling is more connected to life than working out pi to whatever number of digits, or any of those games Mensa groups play to test themselves or show off. Â Math is important-- I'mn just saying DS must be. Â The story is complelling... there must be reasons for that.
And now you will excuse me I'm sure, while I put on my Barnabas coat and put in my fangs, and walk around in public for awhile, beating passers-by with my wolf cane made out of a curtain rod and aluminum foil taped to the end.
This is just a slight detour from the topic. Â It's out of my system now.