For The Love Of Ayn Rand, Do Not Quote From Marx Or The World Will End In FIRE

@Scott: “There is also the game Hidden Agenda, which has multiple branching choices for leading a Central American government in either a right-wing, left-wing or moderate path, each with its own pitfalls and strengths, and players have their government embody their political views and have them tested. This was in 1988.”

Again, there is no opportunity to win the game by fighting communism, central planning, and state control. There is no opportunity to walk from cafe to cafe and form a fellowship based on the npc’s ideals and beliefs. There is no opportunity to quote, nor hear others quote, the founding fathers, and find out who is interested in fighting for a free government based on the classical, exalted ideals found in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

Furthermore, in the prior art, ideas which have consequences do not spread like viruses, transforming the NPCs into communists/vampire/zombie/fanboys all stating that there is no such thing as objective truth and reason, nor immutable, classical ideals.

The gaming industry is in a vast crisis, and this novel technology could exalt it to new heights.

You guys keep repeating “walls of text,” and “inane” as the fiatocracy’s academies trained you to do from an early age, rewarding you for deconstructing the Great Books and Classics, and shouting “wall of text” when encountering the US Constitution. So it is you must loyally defend yesteryear’s hooker-killing technologies in false open-ended gameworlds, where one cannot fall in love nor exalt a classical, epic renaissance.

In three years or so, someone will blog about the novel research as if they themselves created/discovered it, and then it will begin becoming common knowledge.

Then, in five years or so, after the MBA/fanboys begin to believe that they are the ones creating it, we will see the novel Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise technology in video games.

And I look forward to it!

I look forward to video games with exalted story, soul, moral premises, character, honor, love, romance, and epic story! And so do millions of others!

I hope you join the renaissance in serving the rising demand. Now, go forth and read Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey–go forth and read Shakespeare & The Bible. Go forth and read the Great Books and Classics, until you see that they are not “walls of text,” but eternal vessels of the ethereal soul’s epic beauty.

The first companies to adopt my novel Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral premise technologies will reap billions of dollars.

I came up with very specific, novel game mechanics in my patent applications:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366448

You can tell how novel it is, by everyone’s amazement at its elegant simplicity which has already solved a glaring design problem in Fallout 3.

–http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908
“Self-censorship was the least effective course of action open to Bethesda if they are looking to morally instruct their players. Why not take the route less traveled and try to implement some meaningful consequence, something beyond an essentially meaningless “karma” stat? (YES!! THE KARMA IS MEANINGLESS! WHY NOT INCORPORATE A GOLD 45 REVOLVER WHICH ONLY SHOOTS ZEUS’S LIGHTNING IN THE END IF YOU HAVE BEEN DOING THE RIGHT, MORAL THING THROUGHOUT?)”
read more @ http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908

As you can see, the simple, elegant solution would be worth billions! And it could be applied to all RPGs and FPSs! Such a novel weapon would be worth tens of millions in gameplay enjoyment, and tens of millions more in publicity. *Everyone* is going to want to get their hands on that Gold 45 when it comes out, and *every* game is gonna want to have one.

Where in the prior art can one form a fellowship based upon the ideas/ideals/characters of the NPC’s? In what game does the eventual outcome depend on the character and integrity—the ideals and beliefs—of the fellowship one forms? Re: How much would it be worth to Bethesda/EA/38 Studios/Visceral/Bioware/Ubisoft?

How much would it be worth to put the following on a game box? “It is the dawn of the American Revolution, and it is up to you to build the fellowship that will lead the epic battle for freedom. From tavern to tavern you must walk the streets of Boston, listening in on conversations and recruiting those speaking (and oft whispering) of liberty’s epic ideals. Redcoats and King George’s spies abound, and when you hear the words of Washington, Jefferson, Paine, Madison, Jay, and Hamilton, you must engage the characters by speaking of liberty’s ideals yourself; or lose their trust. Throughout you must select the best words to rally and inspire the troops during the fierce war for freedom–to attract the poet warriors with the greatest characters to fight alongside you. Ideas have consequences and word must be matched with deed, as freedom’s fate falls upon your shoulders. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. –Thomas Jefferson”"

I argue that such a novel approach to gaming–not only incorporating the words of the actual Founding Fathers–but rendering their consequences (or the dire consequences of their absence)–would be worth hundreds of millions, if not billions.

And wouldn’t that be an awesome game??? Imagine meeting Jefferson and Hamilton, finally defined by their greater aspects–their souls, characters, and words–and actually recruiting Washington to command the forces, based upon his words!

But, as you can see, the fiatocracy’s fanboys have been programmed by their deconstructionist lords to laugh at classical, epic, exalted ideals and their rugged, moral implementation in gameworlds, as you et al. are forced to accept the debauchery of the currency and culture–of marriage and the family–as if it were ordained by God.

It’s not my fault the fiatocracy has dumbed down so many and commanded them to deconstruct classical ideals in innovation, while investing hundreds of millions in hooker-and-unarmed-women-killing technologies.

As you can see, the MBA/fanboy industry would rather shed billions upon billions of dollars in market cap while serving their bottom-line arrogance, instead of serving an exalted renaissance in gaming, and incorporating the classical, epic ideals, as outlined in my research:
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=
0&chdet=1247423239469&chddm=98141&cmpto=NASDAQ:THQI;NASDAQ:TTWO&cmptzos=-18000;-
18000&q=NASDAQ:ERTS&ntsp=0

@Njal

You write, “When I speak of fighting for the US Constitution, I am speaking of fighting for its immortal, immutable ideals.
Ah, here’s your problem.
There’s no such thing.
What he said.”

That’s the unique magic of the Beatrice Game Engine–it treas ideals form a manly perspective–as immutable abstractions; and not from the feminized, fatherless, fanboy perspective.

And there’s a growing demand from gamers to play games that treats them not as dumbed-down, feminized fanboys, but respects them as men, capable of interacting with the Constitution’s immutable ideals.

thanks kildy:

So I have to ask the two required questions:

A) What’s with the all women are whores unless they embrace your ideals thing?
That’s not the point of the patent/research.

I am not sure where you are seeing it. I am merely trying to introduce the classic Beatrice/Penelope/Autumn archetype into games and gaming. You see, when the fiatocracy’s corporate-state tries to render Beatrice, they put her in hell, as does EA in their “Dante’s Inferno” game. I am just trying to return her to her rightful place–Paradisio.

B) Why do you have something attempting to model moral choice into a game properly, but only with one correct outcome? Essentially you’re just throwing out choice entirely and presenting it as an “agree with me or game over” variant of a choose your own adventure book.

You see–the ideals of freedom and liberty–which so many died for to defend, are absolute and immortal. And sure–you could use the exact same technology to fight for communism’s ideals and collectivism’s, but we all know how that ends.

I’m not finding that compelling, personally. Simply because it refuses to accept that any choice other than the developer’s pet choice is acceptable. Heck, it fails to accept that a player may fall from the accepted path and become redeemed later by reaffirming their dedication to the one true path.

No, no, no. It is not the developer’s choice–it is the choice of Leonidas, Cicero, Homer, Dante, Jefferson, Ron Paul, Moses, and every hero of Western Civilization. Now wouldn’t that be an awesome game–to be a hero of Western Civilization in an open-ended world, and to form fellowships based on the classical, immortal ideals; and to fight alongside a band of brothers who you recruited based on their soulful principles expressed in word and deed?

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.” –Shakespeare

It’s a patent for a nine hour QTE without the button prompts.

No, no, no–it is the paradigm shift that will exalt a renaissance in gaming and video games–something the ailing industry needs in a massive manner.

http://gold45revolver.com

Tnaks Gx1080
8:30 am on July 17th, 2009

About the subject, 1) laws in general are supposed to be able to adapt to the current times, thats how they stay vigent instead of relying to mafias and social laws to keep order.

–yes–that is what the Federal Reserve’s schools taught you so that by and by they could destroy freedom, liberty, truth, and the soul. I forgive everyone here for the snarky hate, as many of you grew up without fathers, as the Federal Reserve also funded the sycophantic feminist movement so as to socialize all of entirety and criminalize free thought and creation. A true Zeus-like Father would have taught you the importance of manly principle and the honor in matching word and deed–tenets which will be exalted in the great books gaming renaissance. Many of you love/hate me because these words remind you of the father you never had.

2)Hell yes a game can have multiple choices with each choice affecting the outcome in the storyline. Problem is that the number of choices and outcomes are LIMITED unless you are in the social aspect of the game. Thats a fact because designers are human beings and they can only create so much and random-generated content it all looks the same after a while.

No, no, no. By focusing on simple ideals and ideas which have consequences, the present research/gold 45 revolver/moral premise vastly simplifies the AI. The hero’s journey natural emerges when ideals and the moral premise are incorporated in the AI. Aristotle noted the moral premise was a most unifying force; so why not use it to unify the programming and AI of a game?

3)If you havent noticed, we are NOT impressed of the “billions”(slight exageration perhaps) in your investigation. My reasons are that i have seen money dumper in dumber things and you are sponsored by pharmers (who are bad for the industry).

Well, all I’m saying is that everyone here would want to not only buy, but work on such games, and thus the technology will be released in such a manner that you could populate the dialogue/ideals/action trees with your own sense of moral goodness. Even if you are a communist at heart, you could use the novel technology to build a game wherein the freedom-fighters were the vampires/zombies whose ideals and ideas spread the zombie/vampire virus/quality; but in order for the communist game to be any fun, I imagine that the designers/players will have to be high as a kite–like heroin high or something.

Join the Great Books Gaming Renaissance!

http://gold45revolver.com
http://twitter.com/45surf
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090708/2305/The_Gold_45_Revolver__Ideas_Have_Consequences__Moral_Premise_InnovationsTechnologyGames.php

@John

Hey there! I am not the one rejecting Scott’s examples for fallout 3, nor syaing that the moral system is hollow and the karam system meaningless.

I am merely echoing the word on the street:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908

“These are difficult questions with few satisfying answers. But no matter what, in removing the opportunity to kill children in their anarchic game, Bethesda has admitted video games’ ineffectiveness in providing meaningful disincentives and negative repercussions for in-game atrocities. That the team chose to carve the issue out of their game rather than attempt to engage it head on, speaks volumes. ”

Self-censorship was the least effective course of action open to Bethesda if they are looking to morally instruct their players. Why not take the route less traveled and try to implement some meaningful consequence, something beyond an essentially meaningless “karma” stat? (YES!! THE KARMA IS MEANINGLESS! WHY NOT INCORPORATE A GOLD 45 REVOLVER WHICH ONLY SHOOTS ZEUS’S LIGHTNING IN THE END IF YOU HAVE BEEN DOING THE RIGHT, MORAL THING THROUGHOUT?) see the post @ the bottom: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908

See? The novel Gold 45 Revolver technology solves vast and glaring design issues!! This could be applied to GTA/Fallout 3/KOTOR/Bioshock any RPG/FPS/MMORPG!!

“In Fallout 3, you cannot kill children.
…
Problematically, in singling out and self-censoring one particular type of ‘crime’ in his game Pagliarulo by implication justifies all the others as being non-gratuitous and necessary. Last night I blew the head from a homeless scavenger girl, one who’s barely into twenties. The slow motion camera tracked her head’s explosion before lingering on the crimson fountain spurting from her neck stump. Is this kind of interaction and feedback ‘socially responsible’? And so then what’s the difference to killing a minor?”
–http://dragonchasers.com/2008/11/01/moral-choices-in-fallout-3/

I don’t think I’m the litigious type.

I innovate and invent not to sue other people, but to serve the greater good.

If I could walk into Best Buy next week and buy a novel Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise game, I would be happy. I might also call the the developer and ask for a couple bucks, and give them some ideas for the film/movies/franchise. A rising tide lifts all boats.

I gave all my artificial retina technology away for free:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40158797
http://elliotmcgucken.com/dissertation.html
http://elliotmcgucken.com/figure9.jpg
http://elliotmcgucken.com/figure7.jpg

oops–somebody is not letting my posts go through!

why the fear of the First Amendment Scott Jennings?

I will have to post this on my various blogs if you keep deleting it:

9:07 am on July 17th, 2009
@John

Hey there! I am not the one rejecting Scott’s examples for fallout 3, nor syaing that the moral system is hollow and the karam system meaningless.

I am merely echoing the word on the street:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908

“These are difficult questions with few satisfying answers. But no matter what, in removing the opportunity to kill children in their anarchic game, Bethesda has admitted video games’ ineffectiveness in providing meaningful disincentives and negative repercussions for in-game atrocities. That the team chose to carve the issue out of their game rather than attempt to engage it head on, speaks volumes. ”

Self-censorship was the least effective course of action open to Bethesda if they are looking to morally instruct their players. Why not take the route less traveled and try to implement some meaningful consequence, something beyond an essentially meaningless “karma” stat? (YES!! THE KARMA IS MEANINGLESS! WHY NOT INCORPORATE A GOLD 45 REVOLVER WHICH ONLY SHOOTS ZEUS’S LIGHTNING IN THE END IF YOU HAVE BEEN DOING THE RIGHT, MORAL THING THROUGHOUT?) see the post @ the bottom: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20908

See? The novel Gold 45 Revolver technology solves vast and glaring design issues!! This could be applied to GTA/Fallout 3/KOTOR/Bioshock any RPG/FPS/MMORPG!!

“In Fallout 3, you cannot kill children.
…
Problematically, in singling out and self-censoring one particular type of ‘crime’ in his game Pagliarulo by implication justifies all the others as being non-gratuitous and necessary. Last night I blew the head from a homeless scavenger girl, one who’s barely into twenties. The slow motion camera tracked her head’s explosion before lingering on the crimson fountain spurting from her neck stump. Is this kind of interaction and feedback ‘socially responsible’? And so then what’s the difference to killing a minor?”
–http://dragonchasers.com/2008/11/01/moral-choices-in-fallout-3/

I don’t think I’m the litigious type.

I innovate and invent not to sue other people, but to serve the greater good.

If I could walk into Best Buy next week and buy a novel Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise game, I would be happy. I might also call the the developer and ask for a couple bucks, and give them some ideas for the film/movies/franchise. A rising tide lifts all boats.

I gave all my artificial retina technology away for free:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40158797
http://elliotmcgucken.com/dissertation.html
http://elliotmcgucken.com/figure9.jpg
http://elliotmcgucken.com/figure7.jpg

Oh, but there is a vast and growing demand for the Gold 45 Revolver Technology!

Without any funding *whatsoever*, it has become the *most talked about* novel gaming research over the past few months.

Imagine if a company went ahead and built the game, which could be done with simple mods of existing engines, requiring minimal investment. The ROI would be huge, huge, huge!!

@scott yes–i appreciate the property rights and all, but it’d be more fun if my posts went through!

@We flie Spitfires
yes–finally someone is getting the gist of the novel research/technologies! weclome aboard http://45surf.com

@scott thanks for letting the post go through dude!

i find you intelligent & witty.

i laughed aloud at your original post.

i imagine you laughed at the patent–haha.

i still laugh when i read parts of it. “omg–the fanboys are gonna kill me for this!” i kept thinkin’ when i was writing it. but then, if i provided some pictures of hot chicks, all would be cool, i figured.

but seriously, i was wondeirng how long it would take for someone to find the patent. a year? two years? never? it was more like a couple months after its publication in January 09, and then things took off in May.

i’m glad you guys found it–loved Scott’s post.

i think i know where/how it all started too–how the first person found it/happened upon it & opened pandora’s box.

Yes–for the first time we would have a truly open-ended gameworld.

In the novel Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise games, you could actually fight for the principles of the US Constitution in word and deed.

You could man up and win, or fanboy it on home and lose.

http://www.onelastcontinue.com/9136/vampire-zombie-communist-hookers-patent-it/

“Vampire Zombie Communist Hookers? Patent It!
By Austin Walker, 1:30 pm on June 27, 2009

From Patent # US 2009/0017886 A1: “If the player heeds the higher ideals and seeks the higher path they will be rewarded not with money and jacked cars, but with their soul.” What? More after the jump.

If you’ve read my editorials, you know that I’ve been pushing games towards a more serious path. An intense potential for creating and cultivating emotions and ideas in the players exists in games that is unique among artistic mediums and valuable for it. Dr. Elliot McGucken, a man dedicated to bringing sight to the blind and honoring Joseph Campbell, believes so to. And the way he’s realized this belief is through this patent [via EmCeeGramr on NeoGaf] that makes my stomach churn.”

http://incentives-matter.blogspot.com/2009/07/video-game-wherein-ideas-have.html

Where’s Kabul?

It seems I am a big hit there!

http://paulpajo.com/2009/07/16/system-and-method-for-creating-exalted-video-games-and-virtual-realities-by-elliot-mcgucken/ ”

“… 6. The method in claim 1 where said ideas spread like viruses, by being spoken, written, or disseminated in some other manner, transforming characters who come in contact with said ideas into vampires, zombies, or other forms of monsters, and where said vampires, zombies, and monsters may be saved or converted back to normal by coming in contact with ideas that oppose the ideas that made them vampires, zombies, and other forms of monsters…”

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090717/2462/_Marketers_of_Video_Games_How_Much_is_The_Massive_Gold_45_RevolverIdeas_Have_ConsequencesMoral_Premise_Buzz_Worth.php

all you peeps are sooooo much more fun than the metafilter dudes & dudettes.

http://www.metafilter.com/83274/Would-you-give-this-man-125000

I think I wrote something that offended them or something–who knows–maybe I didn’t return their friend request on facebook or something.

Anyhooo–I just wrote the way it feels to get shut out and abandoned:

“Where’d everyone go?

I hope I did not spoil your fun, and too, I hope you don’t shut me out and leave me in the gold. It seems just yesterday we were all falling in love, but now I’m only falling apart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urY1aZCRs7c”
–http://www.metafilter.com/83274/Would-you-give-this-man-125000

@hmm

I checked and it seems you have to first volunteer for it. Maybe that is why they are going bankrupt?

A lot of you probably work in the video games industry. Many of you in marketing.

Well, this question is for you:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090717/2462/_Marketers_of_Video_Games_How_Much_is_The_Massive_Gold_45_RevolverIdeas_Have_ConsequencesMoral_Premise_Buzz_Worth.php

“How Much is The Massive Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise Buzz Worth?”

Thanks in advance!

@hmm

i’m glad you enjoy my poetry!!

THE MOST PERFECT SILENCE
I know where the most perfect silence is,
Seen it in the wild blue off Hatteras,
A mile out, rainbowed sails in silent bliss,
Looked like they’d collide, but they safely passed.
I know when the most perfect silence is,
Down a dusty Ohio road, high noon,
No shirt on, being burned by the sun’s kiss,
Sixteen, takin’ my time– it was still June.
I know what the most perfect silence is,
It’s what we say when falling out of love,
It roars and thunders right through the kiss,
Says all that no words can ever speak of.
I know why the most perfect silence is,
It is there for the whisper to be born,
The whisper in her ear became the kiss,
Just a dream in DC early one morn.
I know who the perfect silence is for,
It is for the ones whom we love the best,
It is there to protect them from our core,
By the silent trust we all seek to rest.
And I know how rare that silence can be,
With everyone talkin’, it’s hard to hear,
But I know I felt it, on the streets of DC,
The sound in her eyes– it was crystal clear.
And it brought back to mind the rainbowed sails,
And the way it looked like they would collide,
Like two souls set upon fate’s iron rails,
But the most perfect silence never died.

“Dr. E, or whichever of your sock puppets, if any, you choose to use to respond to this… let’s try an experiment if you’re willing: you list one thing, ONE THING, that you think is novel in your approach to game design. ”

Let me turn to my good friends in Kabul, Afghanistan:
http://paulpajo.com/2009/07/16/system-and-method-for-creating-exalted-video-games-and-virtual-realities-by-elliot-mcgucken/

“Are you ready to patent your own game system and method? Here’s a sample of Elliot McGucken’s patent application:

“… 6. The method in claim 1 where said ideas spread like viruses, by being spoken, written, or disseminated in some other manner, transforming characters who come in contact with said ideas into vampires, zombies, or other forms of monsters, and where said vampires, zombies, and monsters may be saved or converted back to normal by coming in contact with ideas that oppose the ideas that made them vampires, zombies, and other forms of monsters…”
“

“Right now I’ll candidly say you’re doing nothing to earn our respect, much less our interest… except in the morbid sense that people like watching NASCAR to see car crashes.”

Then I imagine you enjoy following the video games industry!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2350390,00.asp
Video-Game Sales Plunge to Nine-Year Low

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10289207-235.html
Video game sales revenue plummets 31 percent

My novel technologies are here to help, but so many fanboys are so filled with teh fiatcoracy’s hate and ignorance that they would rather see the industry and culture and currency debauched, than save it and the greater culture with a renaissance in games, art, film, and literature.

Oh but it is!

http://www.google.com/search?q=fiatocracy&hl=en&filter=0

Check it out! The rising generation is using the word “fiatocracy” in their signatures!

While games view hookers as lowlifes, worthy of use, abuse and murder, this novel invention would foster games where the hookers have souls, and within those souls are the secrets of the games greater glory and ultimate victory over the fiatocracy and the Supreme Court which has sanctified the murder of tens of millions of innocent souls and plays GTA all day long [...] – by Elliot McGucken PhD

Search for it on this page:
http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=16433.msg675925
http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=9992.msg676329

In addition to revolutionizing the gaming industry, I suppose I’ll also go down in history as coining the phrase “fiatocracy.”

dude–we live in a fiatocracy!

the fiatocracy trained many of you to hate the great books and classics, to rage against the immortal ideals, and to snark manly truth and honor. they did this so as to blind you to your slavery. while they create the debt, you work to pay it off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmYI_4XCbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXb-LrVkuwM

they detest the honor deep in your soul. they detest exalted manhood and womanhood. they detest the classical, epic ideals; and that is why you will not find such worthwhile, exalting entities in GTA/Fallout 3, for as you can see by the fatherless fiatocracy’s fanboy’s comments here, such entities are not allowed.

Trinity: I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing… why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You’re looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn’t really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It’s the question that drives us, Neo. It’s the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Neo: What is the Matrix?
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it’s looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

dude–those sooooo aren’t my sockpuppets!

While games view hookers as lowlifes, worthy of use, abuse and murder, this novel invention would foster games where the hookers have souls, and within those souls are the secrets of the games greater glory and ultimate victory over the fiatocracy and the Supreme Court which has sanctified the murder of tens of millions of innocent souls and plays GTA all day long [...] – by Elliot McGucken PhD

Search for it on this page:
http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=16433.msg675925
http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=9992.msg676329

just ask them!

Of Woman by Arthur Schopenhauer Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rttJo9y22JQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zmw3zpqoEA

Not sure how much I agree with.

Certainly there are both truthful and untruthful men and women, which is why it is unfair the feminist movement labels men as bad.

@Scott

Dude! The Fed created the bubble & the crash!

No wonder you don’t get my research!

Read the Harvard Historian!

http://www.amazon.com/Meltdown-Free-Market-Collapsed-Government-Bailouts/dp/1596985879

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (Hardcover)
by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Author), Ron Paul (Foreword)

Product Description
If you are fed up with Washington boondoggles, and you like the small-government, politically-incorrect thinking of Ron Paul, then you’ll love Tom Woods’s Meltdown. In clear, no-nonsense terms, Woods explains what led up to this economic crisis, who’s really to blame, and why government bailouts won’t work. Woods will reveal:

* Which brave few economists predicted the economic fallout–and why nobody listened
* What really caused the collapse
* Why the Fed–not taxpayers–should have to answer for the current economic crisis
* Why bailouts are band-aids that will only provide temporary relief and ultimately make things worse
* What we should do instead, to put our economy on a healthy path to recovery
With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.

p.s. imagine a game that allowed you to fight for sound money and the Constitution, instead of sitting in your single-mom’s basement, taking out your hate for the feminist/fiatocracy (which destroyed marriage so as to undemrine the family) by shooting unarmed women and innocent hookers in the games the fiatocracy pumps hundreds of millions of dollars into to keep the fanboys from manning up and finding their true fathers–from reading the Constitution and the Great Books and Classics.

http://www.amazon.com/Meltdown-Free-Market-Collapsed-Government-Bailouts/dp/1596985879

@foolsage

now you’re coming around!

That is but one, small novel aspect of the new technologies!

You guys just aren’t thinking big enough. We were graced with divine reason and imagination, so why not use it? Think like a developer/marketer for a major billion-dollar company here; and come up with some scenes exalted by the new “Gold 45 Revolver” technology!

Think big, like in the ending wherein the Fiatocracy’s Vampires/Communists/Feminized MBA Fanboys swarm our lone rider in the mountain town, screaming/shrieking the words of Lenin/Marx/Feminism/Fiatism in Banshee voices, trying to claim his ideas and his soul.

Alone our lone rider stands in the thundering downpour, as the lightning reveals the grotesque swarm–the horror of their collective countenance is only trumped by the screeching words. Alone he stands, with his 45; and if he has done the right thing throughout, legend has it that the 45 will glow gold and shoot Zeus’s lighting, slaying the hundreds, if not thousands of rough Vampire/Communist/Zombie beasts who slouch his way, screaming, distorting the words/slogans of the declining fiatocracy in a most demonic manner.

See? There are billions of dollars $$$$ in the novel, emotional, exalting gameplay alone. I know you can feel it deep in your bones. You *want* to hold that Gold 45 Revolver. Or you want to obliterate it and that lone rider, and destroy/take his ideas and his soul. But either way, you know you *have* to play the game. That will be $69.95 for the collector’s edition, complete with a metal box. For $179.95, you will also get a life-like Gold 45 Revolver replica, based on the single-action Colt .45–the Peacemaker Smokewagon–the Judge Colt and His Jury of Six.

Who wouldn’t want to play that, just to see if their Gold 45 Revolver fires Zeus’s lightning in the end, or just a little puff of smoke, like a fanboy who took out his hate for the feminist movement (which debauched his father’s classical, epic soul and exiled him in the divorce regime) by killing too many unarmed women and innocent hookers?

More here:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/DrElliotMcGucken/1169/

That could be a mod of the new technology!

batshitcrazocracy vs. the fiatocracy!

Seriously though everyone–when is the last time you had so much fun just *READING*?

That’s my job as a professor–to profess and educate.

Just wait until you play the game! I know all of you laugh about it, but imagine that you are a spy, walking around a cafe, and instead of looking for innocent hookers to hire and kill, you have to take out everyone discussing Marx/Lenin in a positive manner. The only thing is, that you have to do it in the right order so as to make a clean escape. So first, you walk around the room, trying not to be noticed as you eavesdrop. If you fail, soon you will see long lines and the death of millions of your countrymen, as “ideas have consequences.”

BTW–I got that phrase from the title of an awesome book:
http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Have-Consequences-Richard-Weaver/dp/0226876802/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247857047&sr=8-1

@foolsage

You write, “And no, I’m not coming around. I still don’t see any gameplay value whatsoever in this idea. I certainly wouldn’t pay to play the game you propose, and I don’t believe anyone else would either. I don’t care about your golden penis-metaphor, and the promise of a “reward” like that isn’t enough to make me want to sit through the thoroughly pointless and uninteresting gameplay that (as you describe) would precede it.”

why sooooo serious? plus it is not a golden penis but a gold 45 revolver which shoots zeus’s lightning in proportion to the moral level of your preceding actions. what is with you people? sometimes a cigar is just a cigar–freud.

you would be most welcome to not play the game and not be rewarded with epic story, profundity, meaning, and depth; but many, many would play and rejoice in the new technology.

check out the global buzz, dude!
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090717/2462/_Marketers_of_Video_Games_How_Much_is_The_Massive_Gold_45_RevolverIdeas_Have_ConsequencesMoral_Premise_Buzz_Worth.php

don’t be a gold 45 revolver playa hata!

what do you peeps have against the mentally ill?

why hate on people who cannot help it?

show some love peeps, and the gold 45 will glow gold and shoot zeus’s lightning in that third act y’all are yearning for deep in yer spirits.

i forgive you hmm.

i said it before and i’ll say it again. the fiatocracy blinded you to your soul’s glory–to the wondrous beauty of the great books and classics. that is why they are funding EA to place Beatrice in hell, but ultimately they will fail. i know it is not you that says mean things, but it is the fiatocracy working through you, as they slay the soul, love, honor, and epic romance with their hooker-killing, stalinist technologies.

but they have no power over my love for autumn and beatrice. and mark my word–this renaissance will be. that gold 45 will glow gold in that third act. i have concept art to prove it–will share soon.

“Autumn Rangers”

go now–sin no more–go forth and spread the word of the great books gaming renaissance.

what language us this?

http://www.playright.dk/forumemne.php?id=14902&sort=0&start=40

Uwe strikes back, og han har spist Jack Thompson og sammen er de reinkarneret i form af Dr. Elliot McGucken!

and is it good to have your name alongside uwe bowls’ and jack thompson’s in this language?

“Uwe strikes back, og han har spist Jack Thompson og sammen er de reinkarneret i form af Dr. Elliot McGucken!

Det er længe siden jeg har læst noget så win i spilsammenhæng. Dr. E, som kan kalder sig, har søgt om det bedste spilpatent. Han vil have patent på… moralske valg i spil! Åh nej, nu må BioWare og dusinvis af andre RPG-udviklere jo begynde at lave sportsspil!”

http://intertran.tranexp.com/InterTran?from=dan&to=eng&type=url&url=http://www.playright.dk/forumemne.php?id=14902&sort=0&start=40&Submit=Translate

i feel like bruno likes my patent! (or he likes me.)

woah.

isn’t saying i ought be put away/killed extremely extreme?

it’s also mean-spirited.

perhaps you have killed too many in virtual videogames and it has had a negative effect on you?

i am standing up for innocent hookers and unarmed women in videogames.

i am saying this is wrong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=587vgvDYjYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQSjeu4710&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7b9SbFzIp0

and it is a sad commentary on what the postmodernism of our universities/mass media has contributed to.

i suggest a better, higher form of gaming, with romance and epic story–with character–where one saves hookers, and one does not shoot them–where one can fight for liberty and freedom, and not shoot innocent civilians and women.

if you note the first diagram at the top of this page, it is about helping people in the sex trade–not about hiring them and shooting them, as was made popular in gta & fallout 3.

my patent strives to solve problems via dialogue over violence. again, please see the flowcharts above. violence is always a last resort in the game, which makes the game unique.

the flame-thrower reference was inspired by my Princeton drama teacher’s favorite film–Scent of a Woman.

Al Pacino, playing Lt. Coonel Frank Slade, mentions “taking a flamethrower to this place (the school)” in the film Scent of a Woman, during the third act’s showdown speech.

check it out at 5:00-5:15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqsf0XynGz8

he got the academy award for that performance!!!

should pacino the authors of scent of a woman be put away too?

it was the favorite movie of my Princeton drama teacher–Milt.

this imdb quote influenced the patent’s phrasing: Memorable quotes for
Scent of a Woman (1992):

“Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Out of order, I show you out of order. You don’t know what out of order is, Mr. Trask. I’d show you, but I’m too old, I’m too tired, I’m too fuckin’ blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I’d take a FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do you think you’re talkin’ to? I’ve been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn’t nothin’ like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you’re merely sending this splendid foot soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are… executin’ his soul! And why? Because he’s not a Bairdman. Bairdmen. You hurt this boy, you’re gonna be Baird bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, FUCK YOU TOO!” –http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105323/quotes, Memorable quotes for
Scent of a Woman (1992)

i’m hoping to create deeper, more exalted roles for women in videogames, inspired by the likes of Athena, Penelope, and Beatrice.

i am glad you joined the dialogue & thanks for the feedback.

@Quinnae Moongazer

“If you’re truly interested in creating roles for women inspired by Athena, Penelope, and Beatrice, how about recognising that not every woman needs to be rescued by a “virtuous man”?”

Yes! I agree! Dante put Beatrice in Paradisio/heaven in the original Divine Comedy–she needed no rescuing! That’s what I’m talking about.

EA is putting her in hell in their game Dante’s Inferno, and Dante has to rescue her now.

I thought this was totally missing the point of the poem/inverting Dante’s intent, as it is Beatrice who rescues Dante, and not the other way around.

That’s the kind of archetypal woman games need more of–the true Beatrice.

I agree with the videogames journalist Heather Chaplin:
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694389/GDC-2009-Smartbomb-Author-Heather-Chaplin-Tells-Game-Designers-To-Grow-Up.html

http://www.destructoid.com/videogames-are-stupid-and-babyish-states-games-journalist–126722.phtml

http://www.destructoid.com/videogames-are-stupid-and-babyish-states-games-journalist–126722.phtml

“Chaplin used her slot to tell the industry, as reasonably as she could, to grow up. See, she covers the business for the mainstream outlets – she co-write Smartbomb, the single best book to buy anyone who doesn’t understand your “hobby,” and she reports at NPR among other venues. She says this puts her in the role of a “translator,” trying to tell the mainstream why gaming even matters. This also means explaining a lot of big-name games that feature zombies, and aliens, and girls in metal bikinis wielding axes. And while she’s heard the excuses – it’s “a very new medium” – she’s way past accepting them.

Like Wendy slapping around the lost boys, Chaplin patiently but firmly laid down the line. “It is you guys as game designers who are mired deeply in ‘guy culture,’” Chaplin said. The problem isn’t the medium: “You are a bunch of stunted adolescents.” Games avoid any of the things that separate men from boys: responsibility, introspection, intimacy, and intellectual discovery. And “when you’re talking about culture-makers, this is a problem.””

–http://www.pixelvixen707.com/?p=1406

More later, but have to go surfing!

Wow–we all typed a lot today….

Best,

Dr. E

Hey there peeps,

Surf has been up this weekend! And it’s finally hot out there!! The June gloom is gone, and the July sky is out en force.

This is quite a thread! But it’s a bit on the gloomy side compared to the weather out there.

If everyone could list three positive things they find about tomorrow’s Gold 45 Revolver / Ideas Have Consequences / Moral Premise games/technologies/patents, that would be fun!

We have so much to cool fun look forward to!

Anyone going to comic-con this week?

If you see me there, I will give you a free t-shirt or two if you speak the magic phrase, “broken toyz fiatocracy fanboyz.” Please whisper them softly as I do not wish for the word to be getting out just yet regarding the impending Great Books Renaissance in gaming. We should probably keep the secrets of our future games to ourselves, so as not to show up on the fiatcoracy’s radar just yet.

Soon, I can tell we will all be getting together and forming a gaming company to build out the new exalted technologies, serving ideals greater than ourselves, and heroically and selflessly rescuing the ailing gaming industry, where too, too many are being laid off, and too much cash is being lost by investors on visionless, massive groupthink corporations reskinning GTA and God of War and calling it Dante’s Inferno. We could go surfing every day (company policy) and have an IPO in a year or so, or maybe just sell the Gold 45 Revolver technology/games to EA or Bethesda, so they could exalt Fallout 3 with deeper meaning, more engaging stories, romance, hookers worth talking to, and Homeric character. Either way, we should all be driving Dodge Vipers in a year or so. Scott seems like he would make a great CEO. I’d offer to do it myself, but I probably would be out surfing too much; and it seems Scott has a better rapport with y’all than I do. Oh well, we all have our places in this world, and I am happy just to be a part of such a great team, and serve alongside y’all in this battle for epic idealism and video games wherein ideas have consequences, whence epic romance, battle, chracter, honor, story, and plot are all finally united in simple moral premises, and games finally gain soul in being exlated as classical, epic art.

We should probably draw up a corporate hierarchy flowchart soon, and form an HR department headed by geldonyetich and sheepherder. We will all have nametags with our usernames/handles, so that will be fun, and y’all can wear masks at the new company, so as to maintain your anonymity and keep mean-spirited ad hominem attacks easy & fun. I look forward to seeing you and your masks every day in our lavish corporate offices, complete with free eminems and soda pop to keep you happy in your cubicle as you work long/insane hours to bring the soulful games to life.

I know many of you have been thinking of possible games utilizing the novel technology. Many of you have pondered the possibilities of endowing the Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/Moral Premise technology with your own thoughts, values, and belief systems, to varying degrees of satisfaction. Instead of shooting the Lenin-quoting, property-redistributing woman in the flowchart on the patent’s first page, for instance, many of you have replaced her with folks quoting the founding fathers or Ron Paul or Dr. E, whcne you shoot them and/or have them put away so as to serve the fiatocracy. I am sure some of you have already drawn this up–some might have made a fallout mod of this, incorporating my words. Perhaps there will be a market for such games–in fact–I am sure of it, and we will definitely devote company resources to your mods based on this theme, as after all, we own the tehcnology and might as well employ it across the spectrum, for, as many of you pointed out, there is no such thing as ideals and the Constitution, and as long as there is a market for debased debauchery, teh free market dictates that it is our holy duty to serve it. Rockstar/Bethesda/EA have the hooker-killing/Beatrice-in-Hell market covered, and our company will cover various other demands, such as those for epic story, romance, character, honor, and exalted meaning in gameworlds.

“Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.” –Braveheart

“Again, purists must remember that 300 seeks to bring a comic book, not Herodotus, to the screen. Yet, despite the need to adhere to the conventions of Frank Miller’s graphics and plot — every bit as formalized as the protocols of classical Athenian drama or Japanese Kabuki theater — the main story from our ancient Greek historians is still there: Leonidas, against domestic opposition, insists on sending an immediate advance party northward on a suicide mission to rouse the Greeks and allow them time to unite a defense. Once at Thermopylae, he adopts the defenses to the narrow pass between high cliffs and the sea far below. The Greeks fight both en masse in the phalanx and at times range beyond as solo warriors. They are finally betrayed by Ephialtes, forcing Leonidas to dismiss his allies — and leaving his own 300 to the fate of dying under a sea of arrows.

But most importantly, 300 preserves the spirit of the Thermopylae story. The Spartans, quoting lines known from Herodotus and themes from the lyric poets, profess unswerving loyalty to a free Greece. They will never kow-tow to the Persians, preferring to die on their feet than live on their knees.

If critics think that 300 reduces and simplifies the meaning of Thermopylae into freedom versus tyranny, they should reread carefully ancient accounts and then blame Herodotus, Plutarch, and Diodorus — who long ago boasted that Greek freedom was on trial against Persian autocracy, free men in superior fashion dying for their liberty, their enslaved enemies being whipped to enslave others.”
–http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson101106.html

–http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090710/2366/That_will_be_6995_for_the_collectors_edition.php

–http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589

Best,

Dr. E

P.S. Get out and enjoy the sun & surf! And everyone needs to list three positive aspects of the novel technologies before our first official company meeting!