God45
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Penny Arcade hade en intressant krönika nyligen som jag såg idag: The other place
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Vad tycker ni?
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Jag vet inte vad ni tycker men personligen har jag trivts som God45 i ungefär fem år på olika ställen runt nätet och jag gillar när folk har "handles". Det är en rolig liten form av kreativitet och självuttryckande.Something I’m constantly seeing lauded with the Playstation 4 (and will ultimately be a thing on the “other box”) is the ability to use, or view, “real names.” I have less than no desire to see that come about, which is to say I hate it. It’s partly generational and may be entirely generational. What I’m trying to say is that it’s generational. Now that we are switching generations, in all the different ways you can, it might be worth taking a moment.
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Creating a handle was creating an encapsulated version of myself to send into the machine, like when our mothers and fathers let us feed their paychecks into the pneumatic tube at the bank. I grew up when twelve-hundred baud was a pretty fucking serious amount of baud, and I was young, with a swirling identity that didn’t really coalesce until I was almost twenty. I went to those electronic places as a host, like that in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. I’ll let you follow the analogy to its natural conclusion.
If your handle of choice necessarily had to have several alphanumeric characters appended to it, maybe Gregg Harfle is better for you, I don’t know. But I don’t really want to see people’s real names in the Call of Duty leaderboard. I know why we’re at this juncture: because the pastime and the industry that fuels it is all growed up. But I am under no obligation to celebrate this winnowing of selves. Self-naming, the creation of a projected self, is the only magic we have left.
Vad tycker ni?