Friday, April 5, 2019

Musings

Strife, it seems, is an integral part of any space that you occupy. As you grow older, the space becomes smaller, the strife becomes larger. Oversimplification? Well, not really. I started playing this game called PUBG where the player needs to fend off attackers over a large area for a defined period of time. The walls then start closing in. Everyone is running towards the smaller circle and is fending off attacks. Conceptually, brilliant. Watch your back over a larger area, target anyone that gets close in a smaller area.

You see, I am never one for "fights to the finish" or "protect thy turf" schools of thoughts. I am more of a "let's share and make do with what we have" kind of a guy. Time to reconsider it seems.

One of the other things that I saw during the gameplay was the settings on the display tab. You see, for the gameplay to be totally immersive, it needs to hog all the processing power of your phone. You can set it to extremely clarity, medium clarity and stoned clarity. Some phones cannot even handle the gameplay. But it still allows you to shoot and kill. And that brings me to premise number 2. For most of us, the shooting bit satiates our need rather than the immersive bit.

Have we started dip-sticking our way through life. My Twitter feeds seems to suggest so. So many "point-and-shoot" tweets, no depth or research.

And the third and last premise. I have had the most fun in team mode, but the most wins in the solo mode.

Ah well, winner winner chicken dinner. Makes almost as much sense as this post does. 

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