Category: Manhood

It’s a man world

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Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart)

One of the things that make BioShock such a great title is the sound design.

As you wonder through the first level you can hear Fitzgerald’s God Bless the Child in the background and can easily eavesdrop on the conversations of your enemies around every corner.

Destination this summer – Daytona Beach

Pretty early on, you are faced with critical moral decisions – rescue or kill.

It’s at this point you really have to get your head straight.

Got a bit stressed out last night. Back to usual dosage 60mg today.

 

Diana and Marvin sang it well in 1971

You’re alone all the time
Does it ever puzzle you, have you asked why
You seem to fall in Love and out again
Do you ever really Love or just Pretend
Why fool yourself

Don’t be afraid to help yourself
It’s never too late, too late to

Stop, Look
Listen to your heart, hear what it’s saying

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Who’s your Daddy?

The Big Daddy Character – The ultimate protector in BioShock

Good game design goes beyond the platform (PC or Console) and like a great book, it can be absorbed decades later.

I first played BioShock almost 10 years ago and now that it’s on PS4 I’ve started the story again. I never finished the series so this is a real treat.

The Big Daddy character AKA Mr Bubbles are the ultimate protectors throughout the game and the writers did a brilliant job of creating a submerged world that is full of pure escapism.

It’s easy for relationships to fade out and disintegrate into nothingness but from time to time you find something that is truly magically.

Dionne Warwick sang it well in 1983….. So Amazing.

Love has truly been good to me
Not even one sad day
Or minute I had since you come my way
I hope you know I gladly go
Anywhere you take me

It’s so amazing to be loved
I’ll follow you to the moon in the sky above

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Don’t let it go to your Head

Easy to get blind-sided

As a veteran Gamer it’s really easy to get complacent and blind-sided. Levelling up and destroying opponents then out of nowhere someone headshots you or you run into a jump scare.

WTF….

Percy Sledge said it best in 1966

“When a man loves a woman
Can’t keep his mind on nothin’ else
He’d trade the world
For a good thing he’s found
If she is bad, he can’t see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he puts her down

When a man loves a woman
Spend his very last dime
Trying to hold on to what he needs
He’d give up all his comforts
And sleep out in the rain
If she said that’s the way
It ought to be”

So let me enjoy the moment and stay measured.

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If you Love me you would marry me

“Unmarried woman wins automatic right to late partner’s pension in decision that could affect millions”

The Telegraph 8-Feb 2017

The fact is that this is not an “automatic right”, if you read the actual Court Press summary the dead guy actually nominated his woman on his Local Government pension form but the admin people claimed they “never received” it.

This is a case about the government trying to skip out of paying a pension but the Main Press have turned it into a married verses not married case.

Don’t marry her if you don’t want to.

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Masculinity and Gaming

The Virtual world may well be one of the last remaining frontiers where masculinity can be unashamedly flaunted.

Titles like FarCy Primal lean towards the pure CaveMan but it is by no means isolated. The sheer ability to fight back physically or with intellect is something that seems to be frowned upon.

A simple scenario of morals and ethics. You find an intruder in your home, do you?

A. Grab a crowbar and beat his brains out

B. Call the police

C. Laugh as your attacker turned victim falls into the man trap you had set-up earlier breaking his legs. You then walk calmly over to him and shoot him in the face at point blank with a saw-off Shot Gun.

Maybe, this is why Computer Games are still not the acceptable genre of entertainment, they sometimes feed into emotions like fear, hate, rage and nurture thoughts of premeditated homicide.

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