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TheBryceKrispy
Jun '20
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This may be a weird thought, so here is the background:

I was looking up at the ceiling hoping that would magically make me fall sleep. It didn't. My eyes stayed wide open staring at the nothingness surrounding. My mind kept attacking me, each thought was a knife cutting deeply into me. There was nothing but darkness between me and these thoughts. No people, no games, nothing from my mundane life to distract myself from these thoughts. I couldn't stop thinking about every stupid or douchebag-y thing I have ever done. Every insecurity. I'm never going to make it. God, I hate myself.

Video Games, this never happens in the video games I play. Mario doesn't think about how he could have done that jump better in 1-1 or how he could have treated his brother better. What a douchebag-y thing I did back there. Ditching Luigi for Peach at the end of Super Mario Brothers Wii. Now that I think about it, I ditched all those Yoshis? Why do I ditch the people around me then wonder why I feel alone?

Man, I wonder what if would be like if life was a video game? Gosh, how many lives do you get? Do Video Game characters know when they die or do they just restart blissful to the fact that they ever died? Like, when a video game character dies, they tend to restart at a checkpoint or at the point they died. Sure, the player knows you died and will adjust accordingly, but does the character know? They don't show signs of it, mostly.

You could potentially change everything about your life depending on the checkpoint. Unless change is too hard for them, so when your not playing the game Mario is looking up at the ceiling hoping that will magically make him fall asleep. It doesn't. He has wasted so many of his lives and he still ditches the people in pursuit of one love that he never gets.

Eventually at some unknown time, I crashed asleep.

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Ramonkey
Jun '20

Hehe. Have you played Dark Souls? Cause I'm sure as hell you have heard about it.

phoenixrenaissance
Jun '20

Not a 1 to 1 comparison but this topic makes me think of ReBoot.

Hopefully the video game characters are just putting on a good show for the player and they go back to some mundane daily life while the game is turned off.

snowy
Jun '20

Man, all those alien genocides..
Oh god, where do all those tetris blocks go to when they vanish ?? :fearful:

Ooookay, time to switch of the internet. G'night folks.

M.ComicFan
Jun '20

That's a deep thought. I don't think video game characters would know if they died, but man would it be messed up if they did.

:thinking:

Actually come to think of it, there might actually be some video game characters that could know if they died. Like for instance (and I've never played this game mind you): Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles. Doesn't he have the power to see into the future? If so, then maybe he'd also be able to see all the times he died in game too.

DeformedSunflower
Jun '20

I think it depends on how you see video game characters; do you see them as just actors acting out a play? Or do you see them as sentient beings who chose to be who they are?

The first one is sort of like Wreck-It-Ralph. These characters act in certain ways because that's what the script requires them to do. It's all just a play, and when the game ends, they go back to their own lives. Perhaps Mario isn't such a douchebag. Perhaps he and Luigi actually have a great relationship.

If it's the second scenario, I imagine them knowing that if they fail, they can always try again. Perhaps all main characters in video game just have time-bending abilities, you know? So if they flubbed a jump, or chose a wrong option, they just turn the time back to before they made that mistake and try again.
If so, perhaps Mario does stare at his ceiling, contemplating his life.

Zolakandhoney
Jun '20

I think it depends on the game. If you've ever played Dragon Quest it's pretty clear that the characters know they've died. Fallen party members show as coffins and you typically have to have a priest revive them.