Dear Connecticut Shooter

Dear Shooter. You're on the receiving end for a lot of anger right now, but I hope you at the very least understand why. Regardless of the intent of your actions, I truly am sorry that we let a member of our own species be pushed to the breaking point that you were pushed to. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of mental and emotional torture you must have endured before carrying out the actions that unfolded yesterday. Politics aside, you've given us an opportunity to step back and look at how we treat the people around us. We weren't there to help you when you needed us most, we instead aided your confusion by handing you a weapon.... but YOU pulled the trigger. Please accept responsibility for that, and we'll try to understand how we could have better assisted you while you were still alive. Rest in thought, I hope you are able to find your peace eventually. My deepest condolences to the victims and their families... your suffering is unjust, but it will NOT be forgotten. May we all move forward from here with love and respect rather than frustration and anger. Take some responsibility for our fellow human beings. Gun laws aren't going to stop someone from being pushed to insanity. God isn't going to stop them either. We have to learn how to help them before it's too late.

Videogames: Part 1

The Mindless, Unedited Rant.
I'm on a quest to design a video game/series reminiscent of the classic Nintendo games: Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Mario, Megaman, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, Etc. If you have any idea what I'm talking about and would like to join me, LET'S DO IT!!! Fuck these first person kill-all "RPG" games that are coming out. They SUCK. Skyrim, Fallout, Red Dead Redemption, Deadspace, Halo, COD, Battlefield, every zombie game ever, and even all of Nintendo's sequels to the aforementioned titles. Gaming has seriously declined in the past few years. We need more games like Braid and Limbo. Mario RPG anyone? THAT GAME WAS THE SHIT!!! Not to mention Mario 64.

I feel like we're at a time where the level of graphics in a game is only very minimally pleasing, and the actual story/gameplay has pretty much just become cut & paste. What happened to the plumber that could jump really high and smash his enemies? Wanna know what made that game cool? IT WAS NEVER TRYING TO SIMULATE REALITY. They weren't trying to make you feel like you were playing a simulated version of life... they were trying to give you a game that could manifest what you always wanted to do when you were a little kid: Be an imaginary character in an imaginary world where you had the obvious evolutionary advantage!! Now it's all about which games 'look' better... The last time I remember being seriously impressed by an increase in a game's graphics engine was the jump from SNES to Super Mario 64... remember that shit? That was so cool. I was only 4 years old and I still remember the feeling I got of finally seeing those overalls in 3 dimensions. And it wasn't even THAT cool because Mario RPG already existed for the SNES and it was in 3d and looked even better than Mario 64 did. And then EVERYTHING became 3d, and people lost sight of what made games fun in the first place: The capacity for UNLIMITED imagination. So here's to everyone who would still rather bust out their Nintendo, SNES, Gameboy Color, Sega, and N64. You want a fun first-person shooter game? Go play Wolfenstein 3d.