I was playing Robot Unicorn Attack today, and I couldn't help but notice about how deceptively hateful this game is. Just before you are about to start running in the land of bubbly joy and dolphins and sparkles without a care in the world, a menacing message pops up, something along the lines of "YOU WILL FAIL." Or, "YOU WILL DIE IN PAINFUL BLAZE OF FLAME AND SCORCHED FLESH WHILE THE GODS OF HATRED LAUGH AS YOU WRITHE IN AGONY." Or something like that. Then, after this cheerily presented message of doom, you are shoved into a world that is so deceitfully joyful and gentle and inviting, you question what the computer presented to you earlier. I hate this a lot.
It is a lie.
In a way, this atrocious distortion is like everyday life. You are presented a world brimming with hope and success, only to be given the threatening message "You will undoubtedly fail." We try to gallop through our lives despite this message, only to fall apart into a blaze of flame when presented with a seemingly impregnable obstacle. In this way, we allow these foreboding messages and expectation of failure to dictate our own success. It really isn't fair. This is why I prefer to play the Heavy Metal version. Sure, it's dark, twisted, and brimming with masochism, but at least I expect that. At least the messages of doom and despair actually match the digital world I'm about to enter. I suppose this is another way of saying I prefer a bitter truth than a beautifully disguised lie. There's a world you know that is full of pain yet honest, and another world created to be beautiful but yet deceitfully tears you down from the inside. Because honestly? Which one is truly more twisted, the ugly yet honest world, or the beautiful yet hopelessly flawed and psychologically deteriorating, deceptive world?
Think about it,
Victory
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