Last year I traveled to Boston to see the Institute of Contemporary Art's exhibit Design Life Now. This is the design world's Mecca... showing the best of the best from the past three years.
Among the installations I spotted what was clearly a virtual reality game. "Ug" said my inner voice. "VR is so 90s." Boy was I wrong. Snow World is a game made to help burn victims deal with the pain associated with their injuries. Men who have been injured in Iraq (due to real point and shooting) don the game's glasses, lob snowballs at snowmen and feel relief.
That's a FPS even I can support.
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It is interesting to hear your comments about guns. I was born and raised with guns in our house because everyone in our family hunted. There were always toy guns. But there was also some very strict rules--you were never allow to point a gun at an individual even if it was a toy gun--hunting guns were for hunting and to NEVER be played with. Guns were NEVER to be left loaded. You only shoot things that you were going to eat. I understand your feelings and I don't like playing shooting games. However I can see where people don't have the same negative feelings about them as you or I.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was a hunter, and my brother hunts as well. While they obviously enjoy the activity, I don't believe either one would have described it as a "game." Like in your family, it is a serious activity with lots of safety.
ReplyDeleteMy mother's family has a different story. My mother grew up in Finland. She was 22 in the 40s and Finland was at war with Russia, and my grandfather had a loaded gun hidden in his study. My Uncle, then in his early teens, found the gun and was looking at it. It discharged and hit my 12-year-old aunt in the leg. She died of blood poisoning.
My Mom was never the same after the incident. She was always on pins and needles every time my dad would go hunting. As a child I was fascinated by the story... My dead aunt looked exactly like I did. I wish I had been given the chance to know her.
Our life experiences definitely influence how we feel. Safety was a MUST. It is also strange how somethings occur and why like how you aunt died but you look like her. Our family has a camp on the river near Buckhannon. While they are there they put a string across the trees with cans and target practice with BB guns. So I guess experience really does influence opinions.
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