Week 3

This week we have to examine the words "play", "game", and "simulation", explain in our own words and how do they relate to one another. When I think of the word "play", i think of just innocent fun, nothing that would affect somebody in a negative way and shouldn't cause any harm. Simply from thinking of the word "play", i think of the word "game", simply because they are to be played. Games are activity played or done for amusement, from my experience in games, when i hear the word game, I automatically think of modern gaming such as Xbox and PlayStation. Thinking of how I played games growing up and today, games aren't real, they're just a simulation, you can imagine that you are a character within the game. All these words are connected because when you think of one, you automatically think of the other two. All of these words would provide a child with long term entertainment, gives them a chance to live a differnt life for a short period of time, as long as they play the game, their life is a simulation of an alternate character. But with adults, playing games may provide a different result. For a adult to play a game, it would be to get away from the life that they live for a temporary period of time, they want to live a different life so they can get away from their own.

Week 2..."The Matrix"

We just finished watching The Matrix in Dr. J's class, even though I've seen it more than enough times, he wants to explain it in his own way. He relates it to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" which is about a civilization that lived in a cave throughout their entire lives and don’t know of anything else outside of it. One individual got lose and is trying to convince the others that theirs a world outside of this cave. In the case of the movie, Neo would be the individual that gets set free and he eventually sets free other minds that were trapped in the Matrix (more obvious in Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions). I agree with Dr. J's opinion of the movie, they are similar in a sense, the Cave would be the matrix (the world those with their minds trapped live in), the free individual would be Neo.

Bloggin'

This blogging thing is not the easiest thing in the world you know. Im spending all this time just creating this thing that I'm honestly not interested in. Maybe i can get used to it and learn to like it in the future, but for now, I'm just tired of trying to understand this blogging process. Give me some time, maybe a few days and hopefully I'll have it down packed......MAYBE