Ruins - A Way To Nowhere

Its been a couple of days break since the trip to Miri, and it certainly feels good to be able to play all day . . But after a few days like this, yeah it starts to feel a little pointless, one now that my team isn’t as close to me literally speaking, so can’t play with them in the hostel anymore WAAAAAA . . . . So wish to go back into professional gaming but . . zzz . . . getting old lor. .  have to retire T.T

Theres always been this saying that gamers are dumb~toot~s and losers who have noa bility to communicate with the outside world . . How false it is, how can you judge by just a case of addiction as opposed to those who really love games for what it is - its an art, and its the expression of the human mid. I know a lot of professional gamers with personalities bigger than some of your holy holy fellas in church - and my respect goes out to those - well particularly team games of course, after all those ar ethe ones that ar epopular - playing with people.

It is true that games cannot emulate real life. There are mearly illusions and copies of what resembles the real thing, and we try to express ourselves within these games - interacting with people via the virtual platform, that we can shroud ourselves in. And its only in this platform that we get to the the true human character revealed at its worst. The worst killer is not found outside in the world, but in the game, where nobody really knows who you are, then you wan to tunjuk gigi la .  .

And it is in these environments that we get to see, mend and treat such character, especially in the teams that develop strong and lasting friendships - because a game is a simulation of the world - without the same qualities in a team found in the real world, a virtual team will fall as hard. And it is in these virtual environments that we get to truly shape our character in the right way in a safe zone and in a trusted circle of friends. Well, you can choose to go out into the world and get backstabbed before you realise that there is something called backstabbing (well, in games they literally stab you in the back . . but the concept is there bah . . )

So u say that the virtual enrivonment is  not the equivalent of reality? Very true indeed. Well, I can list down an equal number of losers living outside there in reality, sucessful bastards, poor losers - its the same all around in every arena in every domain it is the same. Because the common denominator in every one of these situations are basically - human -.

So please don’t go around stereotyping gamers - you wanna try - you can take me on a 1 on 1 skill challenge - anything you want - you name it and well see how many more the so-called ‘reality’ skills you have superior to mine.

There was once a Warcraft custom map called Full Circle where players had to basically run in circles around the map, trying to accomplish goals etc etc to win and sort of get out of the circle. . . Its kinda ironic that reality is pretty much the same. .  Everybody is born into a circular track, where we constantly go through the cycles of life, over and over and over until we finally decide to break that circle and get out into, well . . . a bigger circle lol . .

Its in astronomy to . . the same way orbits work, eveyrthing revolved around a centre mass, naturally falling towrds the core slowly unless enough energy can be attained to get out of the gravity pull, and move into a larger orbit - hence, getting away from the body it is orbiting, a larger elipse, at a higher velocity.

So what makes an individual capable of moving out of orbit? Naturally exteroir forces that propel it in either direction, speeding up or slowing down . .And kinda interestingly, we also make use of the slingshot effect to further improve speed so that an object can attain escape velocity faster with less effort . . .

So whats the point you say? All ths crap . . .  1. We are all born in some sort of cycle which we continously revolve around (I know the days do change, but the phases in reality don’t) 2. To break out of the cycle, we need to utilize some sort of force in some direction - force in the wrong direction will virtually crash us too . . 3. Knowledge and the ability to manipulate and control the environments and the rules around us will make the task much much easier . . Man would have never made it off Earth had they tried to use a rocket to blast straight up into the sky (Well . . if you still think that rocket launches go up vertically all the way, you have a loooong way to go :P)

And of course the most important thing - in order to fall into a lower orbit, it requires the loss of velocity, which requires force, hence effort - Counter force to the initial force used to reach higher velocity = waste. Never look back - crawlers can crawl till their ready to go, but don’t ever try to slow down for others, they have to catch up, or it would cost you everything. . . . Well, aren’t future generations supposed to reach far beyond what we have? Most certainly . . They have to ovetake the responsibility eventually, so perhaps its best not to try to make things any easier for them . . 

sometimes, it is realy difficult to decide, whether or not to train up people in a Sandbox, rather than in reality. While a sandbox is potentially safe and nothing can actually be destructive no matter what happens, is this really the proper way to train up an individual? Perhaps its the knowledge that nothign can go wrong that causes one to lose one’s edge in a prescribed role, and end up taking it very lightly as opposed to another being put in the direct line of fire.

Sometimes its a very difficult task at hand, deciding whether or not one should continously try to protect those trying to grow, for fear that they may be hurt beyond recovery - But it is difficult to decide. Unless a man is burned by fire, no matter how many times we warn him of the damage it can do, he probably would’nt understand . . . Perhaps its time to let go and stop protecting those around us, and let them get slapped around a little bit and feel real pain, that they will know what it feels like to really get hurt and learn from it, rather than constantly trying to fill in for their constraints.

But in the end, its stilla very delicate process, and we have to consider the individuals involed. A toughie would be best thrown into the fire and left to fend for himself, but what about the softie? Throwing them into the fire would probably cause them to get roasted for good rather than having them to crawl out of the fire. . . . So in the end, can we really be called a loving guardian if we constantly try to protect those under our care? Or would it be appropriate to let them get burned a little? Perhaps exposing a little bit more of the world, one step at a time may be the best solution - though its a very big question just how long that would take. We need trained people, pretty much now. Every delay only results in greater loss for an ongoing call. Everything is moving around us. Are we going to crawl or surge forth? Where would we be at the end of the day?