Hero, Legend, Myth, And Beyond
Hero, Legend, Myth, And Beyond
[This seeming spam is a test ballon for a preface to Per's Encyclopedia Of Game Review Double Speak, and not intended for the dialogue tree challenged.]
Wake up and it's Tuesday ("Tyr's day" = 'Tew's day' in Old English) 12/09/08!
Pardon that this took days to collate, ... masticate, and regurgitate.
Cimmerian Nights said:
This is the same Per that documented the number of rocks that could be found in Fallout, and you're suprised that he's this thorough?
Remembered, in 'The Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul' (Douglas Adams, 1988),
a Nordic deity, with a day of the Anglo week honoring his name, was assigned an act of contrition, or busy work, counting all the stones in Wales.
Not that I am focusing on punishment for frustration's anger, nor the book's schemes of misdirection,
although there may be a latent issue of veracity,
when these reviews or blog scribbling-s are accessed with out the proper genre warnings of dire opinions and desperate fictional content.
If electronic game reviews, and the fellow traveler commentary hovering in the blogosphere, claim any pretense to journalism,
then I might allege the phenomenon to be - pack journalism - and the consensus of opinion a result of a stampeding groupthink into a warm and fuzzy, feel good style.
But as reviews are more about pleasing every one all the time, then I consider these as text filler between the ads,
a variety of happy talk dependent on the PR trickle down of corporations for information and the slight of hand agenda of reinforcing paid ad space.
And perhaps after this facetiousness, there remains the 'dear diary' etchings of ecstatic enthusiasm by the forever young, and, or terminally Nex Gen.
I will admit some may read as journalism, and the 9 out of 10 scoring may radiate an honest expression of personal opinion.
My profile is not as absolutist as those pleading eternal fealty to FO3. My stereo type may not apply to one, nor to all.
Professional writers can scribble in any artistic school fancied, including that of 'capitalist realism'.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Now to the true focus of 'counting all the stones',
Per's cataloguing / chronicling the news, reviews, and hysterical spews , heralding the second coming of 'Oblivion' (with guns).
It is the bare faced gushiness of absolutes, and the epidemic blistering use of 'epic' at a rate of acceleration only encountered in special relativity,
that rockets Per from the muddy tracks / muddled tracts of a working class hero into beyond the hazy domain of heady legend ...
... into the mythic!
I am sure my *modest* style has been infected by the absolutist rhetoric of all this catalogued advertising copy,
but before I slap down my irrationally exuberant salutes to this legendary cartography of the advertising wastelands,
I wish to propose ... no, not renaming a day of the week (Thor's-day --> Per's-day?) ...
no, the tax liability would be sure to devastate any implied income ...
no, if legend transcends all expectations and this glorious venture for truth quantum leaps onto myth ...
well, Per will be long gone and our humble gratitude will rustle like dry leaves spinning down our now dark avenues.
So, I suggest we plan to celebrate one day, a SPECIAL one day only!, as "Per's Day", doesn't have to be 2008, or 2009. or even 2012,
perhaps an appropriate date in the 'once and future' FO canon!
For those emotionally budget minded, could declare it in 2007, so all expenses paid!
PR speak is proofed script that supports the ease of rewriting history.
Per must have misplaced the NMA regalia award of Carmel Nut Clusters,
or Dogmeat ate it.
Consider we celebrate ... the hero ... the legend ... the myth ... into THE BEYOND!
Salute!
Hammer on Per!
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