Killzig's Kiddie Pool
September 23rd, 2001
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Disclaimer: All of Killzig's ranting / raving is not necessarily the opinion of everyone else at DAC, so don't blame us if Killy's writing gets you all hot and bothered. Blame him!
I want to stab you with something rusty (or I like short songs)
Let me get this out of the way, I hate you all.
That's
right. All of you. Every single one of you clannies (AKA the socially
maladjusted) and every one of you newsies (AKA I-want-attention-now-but-am-too-cowardly-to-search-for-it-in-my-real-life.)
And that doesn't even touch on the fan fic guilds or the forum trolls.
All of you, the entire "new wave" of Fallout fans brought
by the blasphemy that was Fallout Tactics, I hope you rot. Soon.
I blame you and only you for the current state of gaming. For the
bland, uninteresting and completely unprovoking landscape we call
the gaming industry. Save for a few bright spots marketing has corrupted
nearly all art and unfortunately (thanks to the general masses) it
seems to be working out just fine for the most part.
In movies, last week a film called "Hardball." Starring
Keanu Reeves took the top spot in the box office. A movie centered
around a down on his luck man coaching a down on their luck sports
team to victory/salvation. Sorry, I know you've probably already seen
it. The Mighty Ducks, The Big Green, etc. etc. But this one's got
Keanu Reeves and the entire team is made up of stereotyped minorities.
HEY WE'VE EVEN GOT A BLACK KID WITH AN AFRO! Isn't that funny? No.
It's not.
It's degrading and it only serves to further stereotypes and encourage
the lie that people with a different shade of skin are somehow inherently
different rather than different as a result of their upbringing and
the surroundings in which that took place. (Nature VS. Nurture) Apparently
this somehow manages to entertain the lowest common denominator.
Fortunately, there are bright spots in the film industry. David Fincher,
Darren Aronofsky, and that wretched little man who did "Memento."
(PTA left out for a reason) All of them add an interesting spunk of
flavor to an otherwise endless circle jerk of mass consumption.
Much the same way pop music does. The Backstreet Boys, N Sync, Creed, Madonna--all of them. When's the last time that music made you feel anything more than a slight rhythmic tapping on your temples. When it made you feel uncomfortable to the point of challenging your own idea or happy and giddy to the point of dancing with yourself. It's probably been a long time since you've felt anything like that if you limit yourself to major avenues of music (I.E. MTV, Radio, etc.) but probably not so long ago if you're more in tune with the underground. Not that underground always equates to good but you can find bright spots if you know where to look.
Which
finally brings us to the problem with marketing.
Marketing should be used to help sell an already existing product,
not to determine what that product should be. Control should be returned
to the designers not to the businessmen.
Maybe then we can avoid Backstreet Boys and Diablos. Get rid of 20
000 Half Life spin offs and knock offs then get Valve to make something
NEW. Maybe afterwards we can get MTV to start playing Fugazi,
get Fincher or Aronofsky to produce a movie NOT about teens falling
in love and have it supported by their studio's marketing departments,
or maybe we could even revive Destouches and get him to write another
book.
Now if only we could get everyone else to buy them too. After all, the bucks stops here. Anything and everything is always our own faults. This is why I hate you all. You keep buying Budweiser and drinking it while listening to the Backstreet Boys and gobbling up a Big Mac.
I say we all go out kill a cow (Meat is Neat!), get a keg of Killzig's Irish Red, kidnap Text and throw ourselves the first annual Fallout convention. Red Meat, Loud Music, and good alcohol (as if there were any other type.) The first steps towards a more discerning society and maybe we can spread like a cancer on this great land til every little school child knows the words "WHAT THE BLOODY BLOODY BLOODY HELL DO YOU WANT?!"
Any organizers want to step up? I'll see you on Flame the SDF day.
Next Week: Suitable spin offs for the SPECIAL system (or Pip Boy goes Spartan)
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MAIL BAG!
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Hey, thanks for the e-mail and, shit, you know I can't find my god damn F2 manual at the moment but I'm sure the voice credits are in there. But like I said before, trekkies--fuck em.RE: There is No Spoon
Killzig, you were so right. That's pretty much all there is to it. And on an
additional note, when playing in Turn Based, I thought it royally SUCKED how
long the AI took to do its turns sometimes... and i'm running a 933 P3
machine with 256 megs of ram for Vaultecs sake! (yes, i am a Fallout
Junkie).On a side note, Killzig is by far my favorite chars from F1, "That's a damn
fine coincidence" was a line I probably way overused for a solid two months.
Partially because of the character, and partially because I was/am a huge
MacGyver/Richard Dean Anderson fan.BTW, was that Michael Dorn (Worf) who did the voice for the Super Mutant
Sheriff in F2?Keep up the great articles!
sincerly,
Vince"The best way to deal with evil is to fight it. Pacifism only works if
everyone is a pacifist. If you're a pacifist and we're not, you're fucked."
This is the official FOT letter to DAC from Drunk Wookies(the largest or second largest clan on FOT/Gamespy depending who you talk to...lol)Yes let's all put our faith in George Bush. Hey let's let him drive! After all, he's only got one DUI on his record right?
The Fallout community regards any offensive actions
directed towards minority Americans as unjust, unfair, and utterly ridiculous. The gamespy fallout community of clans, we know who we are, will not tolerate any members that decide membership or even United States citizenship upon race. Everyone around the world is saddened by the events that have taken place on 9-11-01. We at the Fallout community wish that everyone will believe in the US President, those that make up the European Coalition, and the leaders of China, Pakistan and the former Yugoslavia in supporting those that are waging war against terrorism. Support our leaders, from USA and abroad, and let's defeat terrorism together with a lack of fear....FEAR is what terrorists want everyone in the world to have...let's defeat them first by saying "We are not afraid!" jjnado...dw...thejjnado@hotmail.com
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S T A T E O F T H E P L A N E T
September 22, 2001 Volume 5 Issue 24
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