So today i went to Laser Quest for a friends birthday (hi Maddie if your reading this!) which for those unfamiler with what Laser Quest is exactly, its basically a simulated close quarters gunfight using "weapons" that emit laser lights similer to laser pointers and the aim is to to hit people on the opposing team, all while all of you are wearing this vests equipped with sensors that pick up the laser lights and disable your weapon for a few seconds when you get hit. It was a fun experiance, I had been Laser Questing previously, but it had been a good few years since i had last been, so the experiance was slightly different to how i remember it being previously.
It also made me think about how much the idea of guns and weapons in general had become such an intergal part of our society that we decided to make games out of them. Obviously i realise thats the way its been since the dawn of humanity, with people wanting to be warriors and engage in combat since the earliest records of history, but in this day and age where we have weapons that can kill you from half the world away its interesting to see the nonchalence that we conduct ourselves with at the idea of violence and conflict in general, whether it be for recreation or in an dangerous political stiuation. Of course this sort of nonchalence isn't just limited to imitation weaponry and "play-fighting" and i will happily admit that i enjoy a good FPS (first person shooter for those unfamiler with gaming termonology) as much as the next guy, but these sort of things take it to a completly different level, with the shooting being much more realistic and the variety of weapons and killing techniques avaliable to a player being alarmingly large. Now this isn't suppose to be an anti-violence rant, as i realise its necessary and can sometimes be enjoyable, particualry when it comes to video games, i just find it how interesting that we as a species have become so accustom to violence that we rarely see the need to think about who's watching it at all.
In better news, Portal 2 is released on consoles tommorrow, squuuuueeee!! :D been watching some vids from the people that got it early on Steam and it looks pretty damn awesome!
Question: Do you think we've become too accustomed to violence in our lives?
DFTBA
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