DaFool wrote:
Delta m.m >> I'm pretty sure if you make a game (VN or whatever) that's straight from the heart about Syria (from a native) it will become popular and end up on Kotaku, Destructoid, Siliconera, etc. Let the outside world know about the plight of the people there. That's how you're going to change the world. And you don't have to be pro-Assad or anti-Assad. Just tell it honestly and people supporting both sides will clamour to stop the fighting.
I appreciate the thought, but a game is nothing but a game, it can't do anything, can't help anyone, "both sides will clamor to stop the fighting"?, there is never two good hearted persons fighting each other (without a misunderstanding, or a third party tricking them), it's always good and bad, and there's a type of people I think you've never seen before (and I hope you never encounter such people), the kind of people who enjoy seeing others suffering, they just get delighted by seeing someone crying, by torturing, by killing, with those you can never hope for the fighting to stop out of good will like you said...
but I'm not talking about Syria in general, I'm talking about this whole world, everywhere, Syria is just one case, look at Somalia, look at North Korea, look everywhere, even in your city (what ever it was) someone is suffering, there is always someone sick with no cure, someone hungry with no food, someone kidnaped, someone killed, and everyone else doesn't care like they are in a totally different world...
and on the other side you find those getting benefit from that, you need money to get a cure the cure company make billions, your hungry, your country has the greatest deposit of Diamonds in the world, and the large corporations and their puppet "leaders" are swimming in money...
it's just that Mafia leaders are the presidents of countries and large companies, nothing changed...
people with such powers can change the world...
Blane Doyle wrote:
We don't want to admit that things happen in the world so we make a thin attempt at it on film, on paper, on zeroes and ones and no matter how true to life it is we indulge in it because it is fantasy. Different people want to see different things but each person wants to escape from their reality into another one that's like looking into a mirror, it's so close so real but it's WRONG. It's backwards, the good guys always win, the people who die are remembered, that lonely girl gets her dream boy, it's wrong because most times we don't get what we want but we lose ourselves of only for a moment to see someone else get it for us. Because in reality bad guys do win, most people who die are forgotten in days, and the dream boy is nothing like he seemed... who wants to live in a world like that 24/7?
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No matter how fancifal and stupid or realistic and horrifying. If only for a moment we want to escape and we have the means to. So we do.
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EDIT: I may or may not be having a bit of an issue with being overly cynical at the moment for multiple reasons that include "I need to see a therapist and be on medication but I don't and I am not" right now so don't mind me. I'm just being extra imbecilic today. (And self hating apparently but that's not new at all.)
that's no imbecility, it's the truth, it's human nature, they try to forget about everything, to live in their imagination, they all want to do something, they all want to be heroes, so they play computer games, they read a story, they watch a movie, but never change the real life, they don't look at those who need real help, and if they do it's mostly just those around them, the world is messed up, then they go live in another one...
and people who try to live in reality just get depressed, they don't consider changing the reality they hate, and back to the PSP they go...
and all those people hate them selves and think about suicide...
inside them they want to do something, but they just convince them selves they can't.
they feel empty, without purpose, "why am I alive?" they say...
Blane Doyle wrote:
It's so easy to lose yourself in that isn't it? Why would they change that when people want to escape, for whatever reason they have into whatever world the media attempts to portray for them? Some are good some are bad but in the end it's all one big escape from reality that we need to distract ourselves with for our own sake, our own happiness and sanity.
most of those truly happy all the time, are nothing but ignorant, they don't have problems (or ignore them), they don't feel for others, and then they are happy and watching TV.
arachni42 wrote:
Re: Delta m.m
You may not be able to change the world as a whole, but don't underestimate the value of helping one person when you have the opportunity.
Reikun wrote:
@Delta m.m;
Even if you don't change the whole world, never forget that your actions however small do have the power to make someone else's life better.
why dose everyone think like that?, that's the same almost everyone say, changing the world IS possible, and it's been done before you know, sometimes all it take is the will of one man...
look at Hitler, look at Napoleon, look at Stalin...etc. they all had great power, and changed the world but for the better? maybe not...
those people are not better than me, nor than you, if they did, I can do, but this time I'll make it a better world...
helping someone is just like a drug, you use it to feel good once in a while when you have "the opportunity", and put it as an excuse for not Going to help everyone...
in that case you don't help them because they need help or because you're good, it's just because you want to feel good about your self...
if you're really good, then you must try to help all those in need.
you know why are you YOU??why you're not someone else, why you're not the neighbor next door or your friend at school, the answer is in video games, in video games why don't you play with that normal soldier that get's killed, why don't you play with some guy just passing the street?, because you are meant to be the Hero...
because you are different, and you are the one supposed to do something, if it's not you, who will? it's one life you get, so what is this life if you just passed it like everyone else, get money eat drink sleep then again until you die, did nothing, end of story...
you can if you will, change the world...
I know I can't do it alone, but I can gather those who are willing, but that is the hard part, because usually all you get is someone laughing at you....
but the answer I have is a question:
What have you done in your own life ?
and most people don't say "nothing" or they will destroy them selves, so they say "I've done a lot, for example..."
and then it's my turn to laugh, (although I try to hide it because I don't want to hurt them).
I have this problem here: I Always Write Long Posts...I'm really sorry.
