I flipped on the TV and instantly found myself watching little Japanese children who are wearing multicolored angel suits throw white balls into white holes. Let’s ignore racial allegories for the time being. Their giddiness and glee was easy to see as they each try to get balls into the hole. Having just come to this program mid-stream, I have no idea if there is any reward or not for the completion of this task.
This is fucking awesome.
I had been wanting to write about turn based battles for a while but never really found the inspiration. Were it not for these little tots and their faux snowballs I don’t know if I ever would. I’m going to try my best to abstain from yelling out “We’re just thinking too hard!” throughout this article because otherwise I will end up as one thinking too hard about thinking too hard, and frankly I even understand what that means. Plus, we want to think hard, don’t we? But anyway, let’s get back to the children.
So I’m watching this program intended for people three thirteenths of my age and all I can think about is turn based battles and how sweet they are. On a simple and obvious level, they are fun because I enjoy doing them. But let’s delve deeper than that. There were two kids I noticed, one was a young girl who, instead of throwing the ball in the hole, was nibbling on it. There was another, a boy, who looked liked he couldn’t be arsed either way and wasn’t doing anything with the balls or holes.
Now, let’s say all the kids just throwing the balls in the hole are playing a turn based RPG. They are doing it, and they are having fun. Then we have the girl who is still playing with the ball, but handling it differently. She doesn’t want to not play with the ball, but she’s not entirely sure if just throwing it in the ball is all there is to it. She could be playing another style of RPG, or just playing the turn based RPG in another way.
The young boy not doing anything could be scared of being around all these other strange children, miss his mother, have his angel suit groping his junk in an uncomfortable way or just not give a shit. What he is not doing, although, is going around kicking the genetalia of the kids having fun throwing the balls in the hole. I think that’s cool. And for the sake of argument, I will assume he thinks throwing balls in holes is boring. And maybe he’s been trying to get other kids to say the balls are boring and they should do what he’s doing. But they’re too busy having fun. This angers him. Perhaps he should go and find his own fun instead of telling others they shouldn’t be doing what they like.
Hmm, this has gotten too deep into the “arguing on the internet can be annoying” territory and has yet to have all that much to do with turn-based battles per se. That’s okay, though.
I’ve been sitting here, writing this article, listening to the Nikkei Podcast and fighting enemies again and again in Final Fantasy 6 so I can a Paladin Shield after 256 fights. Then, my numbers can be higher. With my high numbers, I will try to take down enemies with higher numbers. And I hope to succeed.
For all my efforts, I am rewarded with a relaxing evening. Like throwing balls into a hole, I’m just doing something that feels good just because it feels good. The details make it more complicated then it worth.
I can’t complain.
