Joyanna Adams

Nobody's Opinion

We are ALL Video Gamers Now

Nobody Wonders

Many years ago, I was in California, dating a music producer, and we went to a restaurant, where they had on the table, the video game PONG. It was so easy. And I beat the poor guy every time. He didn’t take it well, although he was gracious. Today, I couldn’t beat anyone even at Donkey Kong. So, this whole rant about video games is from the perspective of a woman, who really, never had the time to play them. I was too busy working or cooking, or cleaning, all the things that women do every single day. I was a caretaker typical woman. But…I was thinking, Atari started it all.

Atari started the computer addiction. There was Pac Man…and two guys fighting games, and the kids would spend HOURS having fun. Every mother loved it. “Go play with Richard.” And so, the kids would be laughing for days, and we didn’t see any harm in it. It was simply, a game. Much like Monopoly. Or…so we thought. And we could get our work done. Built in baby sitter. It was great.

Then came the Nintendo days. As I remember, TWO or even FOUR kids could play in the same room on the same game. And what was the most popular game? Mario Brothers.  I wish I had a 100-dollar bill for every time I went to a store at Christmas time looking for the NEXT NEWEST Mario Brothers game. And not only did you have to find the games, you had to upgrade the systems. Wow. Talk about a money maker, and all the parents had to get them because that was the biggest thrill to the kids.

The last generation grew up on video games. Think about that. Not all of them became Elon Musk.

Nintendo made SURE they always had a shortage. I went around so many times, in the snow, rain, tired, cold, after work, on weekends. Sometimes all over the city, cursing at the manufacturers.

 I spent so many days of my life looking for the latest game.
My son was being raised on Video games, and I figured, hand eye coordination, friends. Can’t be all bad.

Or so I told myself.

EXCEPT, because the American kids never came out of their bedrooms. Sports suffered. The baseball teams filled up with poor Spanish kids who went outside to play baseball all day. I read that in Whitey Herzog’s book. That’s his explanation. I think he’s right.

Now…back then, tech was innocent. But boy has it evolved. My husband plays video games now. He now has to play others online. The games are so addicting that you have to wonder…did all those kids growing up actually BECOME addicted to video games? Like drugs? Where once they were kids’ games, now they are close to soft porn, and the violence is overwhelming.

And the challenges are almost psychologically made to make SURE you can’t win on the first try…you have to keep at it for hours until you conquer. HOURS.

It’s like putting a ball in front of a dog, and chaining him up, and making SURE he can’t get it.

Is it any wonder males love it? They might feel powerless in the outside world, with romance or whatever, but in the video world? They are King.

Zuckerface wanted to take that video world into the Meta universe where humans would do nothing but sit around talking to people with their stupid looking head things on. It really didn’t catch on. I mean, you could get your own avatar…whoopee. You are now, a cartoon!
That’s coming from someone who runs to books not videos.

The video revolution led to all the computer advances that we have today. Some of those kids learned how to code, like Elon Musk, and grew up to become heads of companies. And that’s a good thing. But not all the men did that. Many of them are still playing on them. Instead of being with their wives.

And that’s a big change. Less kids? You tell me. Good for the population? Good for training future soldiers? Good for…late night dreams of Zena the 42-16-34 figure?

My son lost his job three years ago. You know what he did? He was 40, not married. He sat around playing video games all night and all day. For a month. It was his escape. It soothed his ego, his soul. He would watch South Park for hours and then go back to playing video games.

As a mother I thought he was just plain lazy and stupid, but he was on Adderal. What could I do?

So, I ask myself: Did I destroy him? I remember Steven Spielberg saying quite some time ago that he didn’t let his kids use cell phones or watch too much TV.

Creativity is not born playing a game. Unless of course, you are Elon Musk. But not many people are.

But here’s where I think we’ve come. NOW they want to interface the brain with the computer. Does that mean that all of humanity will be hooked online and playing games instead of living life?

And let’s not even talk about tyrannical governmental control through ports of your brain, and then if you disobey, a simple virus will do. ZAP. You die. But unlike the games, you don’t come back.

So, I ask this one question: Right now, scams, bots, criminals, viruses, they can shut down whole countries with the right internet connection.

They have no protection against that. There is ALWAYS a way to destroy.

What makes us think, that they wouldn’t be able to do that when all the humans are hooked up to their ‘video’ world?

I don’t know.

Video games are certainly fun. Men enjoy them so much. The women that grew up with them do to. No doubt I would too…if there was someone that I was having fun with.

I just am not sure that seeing the last planet on earth in REAL time, wouldn’t be more enjoyable, before they decide to blow it all up, then having us all connected and blow up our brains.

Sure, some of us wouldn’t be connected but…what if you have to get connected to get your food stamps?

They are so good at ‘nudging.’

Joyanna, you’re cynical? Uh…no. The sheer artistry in video games matches anything you see in museums. And that’s the problem. It’s many times more beautiful than the real world. The artists are incredible.

The world could very well be destroyed in a make-believe fantasy.

The question will be…do you want to HOLD that real woman? Or feel sex in the virtual world?

We already are seeing the answer to that transformation right now. Less kids. Less marriage. More violence. Did video games have a hand in that? And more importantly, was that the long term plan to begin with? We all KNOW they want less kids, less population. Keep them busy!

Bring on the GAMES!

Nobody Knows. But one thing is for sure:

It’s here to stay. And when A.I. takes over?

I’m going to become the first avatar to leave the planet. Hopefully, I won’t land in Mordor. Because that’s where many would place me. In the volcano of fire. To die

AND I’D COME BACK! YEAH!

January 3, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , , , | Leave a comment

Nobody Wonders about Quantum Immortality

Here’s one guys exploration on whether the soul lives on after death, and other mutiverse realities to ponder. I used to listen to Coast to Coast late at night, some of it really silly, but Noory had some pretty smart people trying to explain the questions of the universe. It seems almost absurd, if you observe the very order of just about everything, from how a body works, to how stars are born,— it all seems much too beautiful and coordinated to just be random. But then, what do I know? I’m not educated in these things, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to know…

What do you think? Does a ‘soul’ survive? Are we the real inventors? Mmmmmm

January 3, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment