Because, hey, why not? It’s the videogame version. Warning, no great awe-inspiring things to come, just some points along the path
No, that’s not a picture of our house; I’ve got girls, no boys yet.
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This Is The Video Game Edition
1)
How I Became a Gamer:
I never did video games as a kid; play by email Cardassian MMOs, and if there’d been a chance in heck of doing D&D, I would’ve been there in a red hot second. My brother had some Blizzard games, but eh; my main memory is some kind of mech wars game and that the first drive all the way to the Big Town alone trip I got to do, he asked me to pick up the Blizzard Warcraft Battlechest. (I did.)
Then I got to my first command and found that, since I didn’t drink and I didn’t whore, my social life was limited…but one of the guys in my quad played this game called “Everquest” on his playstation. It was almost as good as reading a good book—not a great like the first time I read a Drizzt book, but good. Then I found:
I got to play the character in a good book! Sure, the graphics weren’t as good as my imagination, but the fight scenes were interesting without being gruesome!
A happenstance picture online, where I mistook Inu Yasha for a girl, got me interested in manga, which led me to accept a duty station in:
2)
Japan! Home of the really cool video game!
As it happens, I have an idea why they’re awesome: the Japanese seem unable to resist the temptation to shove Catholicism into every nook they can find. Yes, it’s usually rather…um… interesting takes on it, be it assassin nuns or a Priest character that’s the son of a long line of Roman Catholic priests, but they usually manage to capture the beauty and the mystery, and when you learn a bit of Japanese customs and myths the odd view starts to make sense. Video games and game inspired movies managed something that the satellite parishes I grew up in hadn’t—it helped get me inspired to learn more about the Church, which drew in me in. It wasn’t the only thing—the crowd I ran with in Japan is at least as responsible for driving me to research this and that, and I did some half-hearted attempts to unite with the Church before I ever started gaming, but it was in the Final Fantasy movie that I first saw a Catholic church of the sort that my mom’s childhood parish was trying to echo, and the depth of beauty both made old Saint Pat’s go pale by comparison, and made me appreciate how much they’d managed with what they had on hand and as a goal. It’s video games that touched on a ton of symbols in a way that made me recognize them as symbols, and go looking, and find more.
3)
You know what area video games haven’t touched?
Musicals.
This might be fueled in part by my surprising enjoyment of The Backyardigans—Princess’ current fandom—but if brightly colored CGI animals doing parodies of everything from comedic opera to classic western, folk songs and 80s rap is this good, then it can be worked into a video game.
3.5)
On that “note”….
(No, I do not and never have looked a third that good, IMHO. Most of the girl geeks I know look more like the guys doing cosplay in the quick cuts, although the wife of the guy who got me together with TrueBlue is gorgeous in a more Girl Genius type of way, but hey—it’s a great bit of craft work, and more power to them.)
Head Noises 
Incidentally: “Time-out” is a phrase that makes my teeth itch and my claws spring out… probably a small-children thing. Princess doesn’t have “time out,” she’s banished to a chair.
Second incidentally: I’m going to be gone until Sunday or so; if you haven’t been approved to comment here, your comments won’t show until I get back.
I’ve got girls, no boys yet.
‘yet’. i love that sentiment.
may the Lord continue to bless you with many more children.
Thank you!