Thursday: Ignore this Post ↓

Because I have no idea what to talk about tonight besides a video game, and because I don’t feel like randomizing Wikipedia articles again… that video game it shall be.  So if you have any respect for me whatsoever DO NOT read past this point.  Or really if I know you… DO NOT read past this point.  On third thought, NO ONE read past this point.  There.  I think that solves the problem.

The game in question is actually eleven years old, won about fifty Game of the Year awards back then, and has graphics so old that my system can play it without lagging.  And I know the two people who read this (my aunt and Anthony, if both of them ignored my request) have no idea what the Latin pseudo-proverb meaning ‘God out of the Machine’ is… so I’ll tell you it’s called Deus Ex (FYI, the ‘machine’ part is left out).

The game itself was fun, kind of a combination shooter/RPG that gives you a couple decisions and, eventually, a silenced, completely accurate sniper rifle that can shoot 2700 feet.  But the really good part is the ending… or rather the three of them.  Yeah.  It gives you a choice at the end, which I’ll try to explain without too much backstory.

First choice is to completely wipe out the world’s technology (which coincidentally is the one I chose).  There’s a Chinese scientist named Tracer Tong who tells you how to do this, and influences this ending.  The world is in kind of a high-tech, plague-filled dystopia and apparently the best way to fix it is to wipe it out.  Or at least, that’s what I thought.

Second choice is giving power to the Illuminati (too much backstory, not going into it), and from what I’ve heard not many people choose that.  Maybe it’s just me, but I wouldn’t trust a cult with control of the world.

Third choice is merging with this big AI named Helios, and becoming a sort of nice-guy dictator with the brain of a computer and human awareness.  It sounds nice, but I didn’t feel like that.  Instead I decided to explode a couple nuclear reactors and plunge the world into a Dark Age.

Now that I’ve proven just how geeky I am and pretty much destroyed any shred of self-respect I had left… I’ll leave you with a song.

SONG OF THE DAY: HURRY

 

I don’t think this alleviates my geekiness in any way whatsoever, but it’s a good song.  So if you actually ignored my warning and went this far… this is all I can reward you with.  Goodnight!