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Like any kid, I had to deal with bullies, one bully in particular, Butch, got on my bad side. He was messing with me since I was a kid, probably why I had to off him during my escape.
See, my dad left the vault, went out into what we're told is completely inhospitable. If my dad went out there though, he must know better. The vault administrator wants to keep us in, turns out we were some sort of an experiment. The bombs hit, just like they say, but people are making a life out there. After he left, the administrator tried to arrest me, luckily, over the years I've learned how to defend myself. Amazing what a good baseball bat can do.
I just wanted to leave, and the security guards kept pulling their guns on me! Me! I'm not going to be kept in like some lab rat, so lets just say there are a few openings in Vault 101 security.
I've spent about 2 weeks out here now, only a few rumors about dad. The ones who've talked to him, don't really want to help. Don't they understand? Well I guess they never will now. Most of them have gone to sleep...permanently.
Megaton is a ghost town now. It started with Moriarti, he wouldn't tell me where my dad went, so I took care of him. Then the rest of the bar patrons came after me, I took care of them too. At that point it was only a matter of time before the rest of the town came after me, so I waited until everyone went to sleep, then I wired the nuclear bomb sitting in the middle of town to explode. Those crazy priests who worship the bomb are about to go to heaven. I've hauled everything of value out of the town, those people over at TenPenny Tower have promised me a luxury apartment once I've pushed the button. The bodies will be nothing but ash, I'll have a sweet set of diggs to hang at, and then I can get back to the business of finding my dad....
I'm loving Fallout 3. I chose to be good, then I found out some of the perks you can get for being evil and decided to switch to being evil. Maybe once I've gone through as my secretive melee assassin I'll go through again as a super saintly diplomat (who is good with a laser gun if it comes down to it). I've been playing it in between visiting my gf at the hospital and working on my websites.
I am not unique.
I don't believe you are either, whoever you are.
Ok, so maybe everyone is a unique snowflake, but we all ride the winds similarly, go down a lot of the same paths.
I like it. I'm very comfortable with it. I know many people, especially it seems, from around my generation, are obsessed with being a unique person. Maybe all generations, but its a bit ridiculous sometimes.
Unique isn't better, or worse, at least not by the nature of being unique or not.
I'm comfortable that when I do something, out of 360 million americans, or even more so, over 1 billion people in the western world, or 7 billion humans on the planet, there will be a few thousand other people who will do the same thing.
Thats a great thing, because if something is important to me, social change, whatever, there is a great chance I can find "someone" else that will help me do it. This has never been more so since the internet.
People who believe in our individuality often try and convince me of the utter lack of significance of my vote, my desires, my decisions. Then, when society changes, a law passes, companies relent, they tell me it would have happened anyway. But a law can't be passed, society won't change, unless individuals make the decisions that force change. The world is both a seething mass of birds that can't be seen but as a large shapeless cloud, but also the individuals who collectively decide to steer the cloud in ways they like.
And EA changes their DRM on Spore, and the world is a slightly better place. No particular person mattered, just enough people yelling on the internet to make their collective voice heard.
Is it perfect? No, but now Anna can play with her own spore account with my cdkey of Spore. How cool is that? I thought she was going to have to buy her own copy. and its a shared universe,which I think is kinda cool.
They've answered an irritation of mine, that I thought eventually spore would be unplayable, because the activation servers will eventually be taken down, but they're going to remove the DRM at that time via a patch.
More needs to be done, but it works...for now.
- Mood:
cheerful
