The quest by David Wong for the ultimate war sim, a humour story describing his wish list for such a game and proof that Starcraft can be too much of a good thing for some gamers, driving them into insanity.
In my eternal search for interesting material I came across this image, which I knew immediately could pass as one of our POTW. Digging a little deeper I found a very funny story by a gamer who is undoubtedly a Starcraft gamer. A crazy one though, but still one of us. This gamer, that goes by the name David Wong, is apparently in the search of the holy grail of all Real Time Strategy Games, but stressing on the "Real" over the rest of the components. As he views Starcraft, it is too soft of a game, or in his words:"Like my Grandpa always said, there were no naked human pyramids in Starcraft."In a clear allusion to recent very public cases of torture of Iraqi prisoners. This Starcraft gamer who obviously has spent far too much time playing Starcraft for his own good wants and RTS that prepares him for real war or again to use his own words:"I want a war game that gives you PTSD*"It is all for the sake of humor, but I have a feeling some game developer out there might one day give him just what he wants or worse still, he might have to enlist for real war to get what he wants. Anyway I leave you with one of his “art works”, be sure to check the whole story. It is actually humorous at times and has more interesting images.
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*PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - a syndrome common when an individual is subjected to severe traumatic stress, first discovered in Vietnam Veterans)
Links
Pointlesswasteoftime.com - The Ultimate War Simulation
