Not enough racism in gaming? #GamerGate #NotYourShield

 

Stupid people will be confused by this, a great deal of people will be triggered by this, I am not supporting sexism or racism but rather racism in gaming. I can already feel you all getting upset but I want you to consider what I’m going to say. [This is a post about games themselves, and not multiplayer chats which is another kettle of fish. THIS IS NOT CLICK BAIT, JUST A THOUGHT]

I just watched a video coming from a black american talking about Gaming and racism and how games that touch upon topics of race are ‘keeping it real’.

This made me think.

Hey, this rapper guy is actually right. Art is a reflection of society. It’s not what it’s seen as, that’s what it is. What ever piece of creativity you form is a form of today’s times. If you are porn star, a political leader, a serial killer or a basement dweller. If you produce something, that ‘something’ is a product of our time. Our reality.

You may think you made it for you, but you didn’t. Like it our not your made it for the human race for the year 2014.

That’s right mother fucker, you fucking matter.

So if you video tape yourself taking a shit and it becomes an internet sensation (Ie Two girls One cup) then that is a reflection of the world we live in. You’re gross and the fact that we love you for it matters!

Which is why some movies stand the test of time(Jurassic Park 1, Clock Work Orange) and some do not (American Beauty, Tron)

We all instinctively know this. It is why Huckleberry Fin and Tom Sawyer are allowed to refer to black people as niggers and it’s acceptable in literature, and whaling is perfectly acceptable in Moby Dick. It paints a picture of what was, and, of course, what is.

We accept these things because it would be disingenuous to reject them as a part of our history and a part of our present.

By acknowledging these things we give value to our own histories even if we don’t know the dates and times of everything. The lessons of WW1 taught us a couple bullets could start a chain reaction that could literally change the world.

With it we know the horrific history of the word Nigger which at some point had started out as a Spanish word to describe black Americans (Negro, meaning black) became a world to insult and dishonour their ancestors.

Without these we let pieces of history slip through the cracks and they effect our present. The prime example off the top of my head:

Calling a woman hysterical or crazy was something men did to out spoken women who wanted equality. They were called hysterical and sent to mental asylums and all types of medieval shit for a disease which was basically the all in one of diseases that was blamed for every problem, kinda like ADHD. Not fun, we still use it because no one really knows about it. It took a kinda lame movie for me to find out. [It adds extra meaning to Charlize Theron’s character hating the word crazy in the movie Hancock doesn’t it? Just the knowledge alone added to that movie for me.]

It is imperative that someone talks about this stuff as much as possible.

We need bards to sing!

We need poets to write!

We need limericks and lyrics!

Motor mouths and Minstrels!

Because if we don’t have them, people will forget what was. PEOPLE WILL FORGET WHAT IS!! We already live in a world of opposing facts and echo chambers as it is.

So if you believe that sexism is a problem on a massive scale THEN OF COURSE IT WOULD BE IN FUCKING GAMES ON A MASSIVE SCALE!! If reality is dealing with true sexism then it should be in games, as games are art and art reflects life. Otherwise no one will believe you when you cry wolf! Even if there is a wolf there. How the fuck don’t people know this? Why does someone have to tell you? As a person who doesn’t see remotely what you seem to see, I have every right to dismiss your opinion as exactly that, your opinion.

This is not what Gamergate is, Gamergate is about ethics in journalism. I cannot express this enough.

But the people who claim it is something else entirely have brought up some very fascinating points.

As a black South African I have faced racism that will make your jaws drop. As a lesson in school one of the first things I was taught was that my black skin was a punishment by god as god had punished Jonah (or job or jeff or who ever, I remember there being a J), with dark skin. I WAS SIX AT THE TIME! [Thank the invisible racist in the sky for atheism]

dear Anita Sarkeasean if I had “Listened and believed” my teacher that day, what would I have become? Why should I ever listen and believe?

That is a reality that SHOULD be in a computer game. People should have the opportunity to feel it too, be disgusted by it, hurt by it or heart broken by it.

Malala Yousafzai, who only wanted girls to go to school and she was shot in the face for it.

The vast majority of people who died in Iraq  AFTER the “Mission Accomplished” Speech NEED TO BE MADE INTO A GAME!!

EVERY TYPE OF GAME NEEDS TO BE MADE! BECAUSE GAMING IS BREATHING LIVING ART!

Gaming is the first medium where the shit other people in other parts of the planet feel can be felt by someone who is completely alien to the situation. It’s where a person can feel nothing, feel something, or just have fun. Why would you want to crush that in the name of you getting offended?

Nelson Mandela said something that’s always stuck with me.

So SJWs and Anti Gamergaters who are determined to crush a consumer movement designed to develop trust between the media and the consumer, along with the developer. [Look an actual #GamerGate issue!]

We are not your enemy, we want what you want because we want everything, including what you don’t want. Because gaming or art is bigger than your sore ouchy feelings. It’s so much bigger than you or me. Gaming has always been inclusive, I was welcomed in open arms and if you’re the least bit honest then you will admit that you were too. And you still are.

We’ll even give you a free armour upgrade so you have thicker skin and sharper minds.

I support the right or jarring images and lewd works along with educational and motivational works. I will decide what I like because that’s how the market works and I know myself well enough to know what I like, maybe I can trust gaming reviews and journalists to not MAKE THE FUCKING CHOICE FOR ME!

Let games be games, the market changes because culture changes and that’s not a bad thing because change is the only constant in this world. We acknowledge and support it by supporting everything about it.

Do you?

White Knighting might be the new “Buying a Porsche”?

This is an insane thought I had today and I felt I absolutely had to jot it down before it escaped my mind.

I remember one of my favourite Jerry Seinfeld videos was that one of the reasons men spend money on fast cars is because women enjoy being inside fast cars and the thing that made me laugh was the observation where he says that basically if women decided that they like pogo sticks that men would buy pogosticks. Men’s lives would be engulfed by pogosticks.

That’s a funny thought but one I actually have a hard time simply blowing off. I bet what ever you are good at, skilled at or have just done that you were proud of. You, at some point, have used it to impress a girl.

It’s not an unnatural thing, not just in culture but in nature. From the peacock to birds dancing to fighting other men. Everything does it and, well before the modern times, it was perfectly acceptable.

Of course nowadays things have changed.

In a big way!

Now it’s kinda pictured as cheap and sleazy.

You doing something, anything great is…well…GREAT. You should use it to impress someone, otherwise what you did isn’t impressive(Not enough to have one must do!).

If you buy a Porsche as a method to impress women then well done for you, you rich fuck. You have enough money to buy a Porsche, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to make your dick happy. It’s not fair to accuse him as someone who is over compensating for a small penis. It’s being practical, it is something that works, why wouldn’t you use it if you could?

But still we paint them as little dicked fucks.

They are creeps.

This, brings up an interesting thought to me though. Aren’t the white knights who defending ideals they quite honestly care nothing about as they fire pot shots and straw man arguments constantly from a safe distance. Wouldn’t it be fair to say that these people are over compensating too, and just maybe they are overcompensating for the exact same reasons?

I’ve been an active part of #Gamergate for a while now and I can’t help but look at the people in antigamergate and think to myself, “what the hell are these people talking about?” and somehow I just know that, quite a few of the men defending the anti consumer revolt are just doing it to be seen defending the anti-consumer revolt.

Now I only noticed the pattern during the #gamergate incident but when I reflect upon media I have started to see the pattern is actually all around us. These guys who jump up to defend an issue, and the more they talk, the more you realise the less they know until you can’t help but wonder what the hell they hoped to achieve with their yelling.

My first thought, and if I’m honest the most accurate, was that they were men determined to follow get an alternate fix on the “Damsel in distress” trope. Men want to be heroes. We want to save the day(Personally, if it involves effort, I’m not up for it) and for some I’m sure that’s exactly the case but what if there’s more to it?

What if there’s “overcompensating” tool right there? The alternative to buying a Porsche, except these people didn’t do anything impressive or achieve anything to be who they were, they just supported a group of people who were put under the pressure of having to make sense.

And if that was the case. Should we fault them for it?

The power of the male erection has build worlds, who are we to stop them? So if you find yourself talking to a SJW white knight and you feel yourself getting frustrated. Just remember the power of erections, commend them!

SQJPure’s Top Five[Part Two]

Hey there…um guyz?

Oh well, I’m going to keep talking about the amazing Manga I got to read during 2013. I already spoke about my number five and number four favorite games. Number five being Fairy Tail and the number four one being Gantz. Both are pleasures of mine. 

Check it out here!

Now lets get back to the meat of things!

 

NUMBER 3!

SUN KEN ROCK!

 

Sun Ken rock this was such a gem to read! This HAD to be on my list!

Okay I can’t seem to find a site to buy the English version online, especially for South Africans, I don’t know. Maybe Ebay. Give that a shot. Support buying manga!  

Back to my horrible horrible thoughts on this manga. And this is a manga and not a Manwha, which is a Korean Manga. The location is simply set in Korea.

This is the Story of a young Japanese man, Ken who travels to Korea to follow the girl of his dreams who rejected him and went to Korea.  Which in hindsight, considering how the manga starts, is INCREDIBLY creepy. It is twilight levels of creepy. But the story thank fully doesn’t play out all that creepy, and when it does, it acknowledges itself. 

Thankfully this Manga isn’t really boy chases and hunts girl. Not at all, the story takes a very dark and sudden turn right at the start as he can’t get a job and is borderline homeless and gangs shake down the only store owner willing to keep him from starving and we learn that lil old Ken is actually a bad assed mother fucker.

He got the mother fucking gangsters out the mother fucking store! 

At the end of his confrontation and ken survives in his battle, the gang’s leader faces off against him and we are locked into a world of gangsterism and we get a very Quentin Tarantino, dusk till dawn twist with the girl next door becoming a part of the Korean Anti gang force and Ken becoming a thug until the story evolves once more.

 

The plot becomes incredibly dark, border line pitch black as we look at Sun Ken’s rise of power. 

 

This story is very web written, funny when it wants to be and quite clever when it wants to be. It can talk on for ages, going on and on which i would love to say you can walk away from, take a dump and come back to find that you had not missed anything but it’s not anime, ITS A FUCKING MANGA so you’d still be where you fucking left off! But I will say it is a world better than air gear or any thing of the like where a single chapter becomes a fucking school lesson where the manga does its best to justify the bullshit we’re seeing though we’re supposed to go. “Oh that makes sense, of course Japanese people can do that, they are just that awesome. Why? Because JAPAN!!”

 

Anyway, as I was saying the writing pretty good though, having an immersible element as the story doesn’t pull punches or faffing around with crime. These are criminals! They do bad things! We get to see the bad guys do bad things as out typical anime hero does the absolute right thing at all times while having his self righteous morals thrown in his face constantly. It’s fucking brilliant.

 

 

Then comes the art work, which is well a fucking brilliant work of art.  I used to turn a page and just stare wide eyed and stunned at exactly how visually stunning the art style is here and it suites the writing oh so perfectly. It’s so good it will make you run over to your favorite ‘art friend’ and slam his fingers with a steel mallet just because you know in your heart that he will never be god enough and, of course, you never really liked him in the first place, tosser. The frames are beautiful making every character realistic s fuck and unique, it will spoil you. Ruin you, but you will be so grateful for it. 

As for maturity, it hits at very mature themes for a while before, a moment later, becoming completely immature. It makes you want to slash your wrists one moment before leaving you in stitches with its corny oddball scenes, terrible excuses for showing full on breasts and sex.Yes, this not so much eicchi as it is adult manga, but not porn. Though you’d not be to hard faulted at the nudity. Which can be seen as fantastic, bearable or appalling. 

Considering that it’s in my top five I’ll let you figure it out.

Number 2!

Killer Stall

 

Now this is not technically manga but instead Manhwa, which basically means MANGA, but made by Koreans. So basically MANGA!! Just made by someone else. I’m not being racist all you invisible pretentious ass wipers. It’s all comics! 

Now that I’m finished being defensive let us talk a little about Killer stall, my second favorite Manga read for 2013. 

What can I say about killer stall besides it is very different to anything I have read in such a long time! First off the story is set in South Korea in a little stall called killer stall where we are introduced to the kindest kind of protagonists only to turn out to be a criminal himself. A former hit man who handed his resignation the way all hitmen do.

Walking into the bosses office and single handedly murdering everyone in sight. But unlike other stories of the like this story deals wit the aftermath where the now riddled with holes collateral of the plot boss is dead but his son is left behind. And unlike other crime bosses born of plot convenience this formerly alive crime boss had taunt his son to be fucked up in the head so our hero then shoots the child in the head and drives the child crazy and now the child is all grown up and is looking for revenge.

What ensues is the most bizarre, stagnant but exhilarating game of idiots, (i mean crime genius’) you have ever seen with the protagonist not having a target to aim his aggression at as he himself and his family is targeted and zoomed in on from right in front of their, insert stereotype here, faces. 

Will he save his family, which is big enough to be able to lose one or two without crushing his will to live or will he lose everything he loves? 

The story does a job job giving you a reason to care whether or not he loses the people around him, using something few mangas do, nuance! FUCKING NUANCE! Letting you see shit without beating you over the head with them so you end up wanted him to end the way dark knight rises, happily with no one actually FUCKING DYING!  To this day I’m impressed how I never noticed that no one important died. But the big question is will you get that from these character who you spend so much more time caring about. 

The villain is delightfully over the top to the point where he’s ridiculous but smart enough that he isn’t shit because he is very much capable of murder because very much like the joker from the dark knight, he wins his battles. Which is what a good bad guy makes. 

The art work is something to write home about and I can say is my favourite of the full color web comic design type. Effectively blowing right past Sorcery, God of High School and girls of the wilds with childish skill and flair. 

There’s genuine tension in this story and reason to care, it’s not too preachy and has substance in each chapter while still having the mot frustrating cliff hangers of all time embedded into the story. Like a nail in my skull after I show my nerd friend the accident that befell his play-station four when I was jugging water balloons filled with bleach over it. 

But very much like that it was a good idea at the time and I have no regrets after. You should check this manga out!

 

Be read for the part installment of my top five manga for 2013, I hope you’re excited! Because I’m not! 

 

 

 

SQJPure’s Top Five Manga for the year 2013[Part One]

Hey there….peoplewhoaren’treallyreadingthis….

I’m SQJ Pure And I’m going rattle off my five favorite Manga of 2013. It is very important to note that I am talking about manga that I have read during 2013.

NUMBER 5!

 

Fairy Tail!

First thing’s first. This is a manga that is available to buy online. So if you can afford it I would actually recommend it to be bought. 

Now the story which follows Natsu…no wait… that’s not right, that is only what it looks like, sounds like and quite clearly is like. Let me say the story starts with too thin to be healthy Lucy! An okay if not flimsy character who disappears behind the awesome of Natsu. 

Seriously, that’s how the manga plays out. 

You will end up forgetting who the hell Lucy is at some point or you’ll just be okay with it as her story is tedious and slapped on. AT BEST. To her credit one could argue she is the closest thing to a regular human being in the plot, which ironically makes her suck twice as much. 

As I said Lucy is the only regular human being with all the members being completely insane. Which is fantastic, because I love them and genuinely care what happens to them, which if you know shounen logic means you know that their stories are somewhat limited but still enjoyable. I just LOVE THE CHARACTERS. Wish I could shoot Lucy in the face, but no one else. 

The story itself didn’t take itself too seriously well at the same time having an entertaining flow and unlike other manga you do not have to read four chapters to feel like the story itself is progressing.  

It follows most Shounen manga cliches. Internationally positive protagonist who is so positive that if the story had been written in china or Russia you would have thought it was a propaganda initiative. The women are super well endowed to the point where the only way the men could match it would be if their penises were scrapping across the floor across through the manga. And of course despite how impossibly hot the girls are none of the men have a single boner to share between any of them for the women. And of course it is all sprinkled with fillers that make you want to gouge your eyes out. 

But for all of its flaws it has some genuinely good moments. The bad guys do not exactly fill the boring linear path of:

Oh? You thought Jeff was bad?

Wait till you take on, twice as strong, Steve.

You thought Steve was tough? Wait till you take on SUSAN who is twice as strong! 

Okay it does that, but if you only read through the first few story arcs you will not feel that at all. It will feel original, crisp and brilliant. (This changes sadly but that didn’t happen during 2013)

All in all.

The characters are unique.

The art style is enjoyable.

The first bad guys are fun to watch

And most importantly the magic is a rush! This is a great Manga, so if you can buy it, then buy it. 

FAIRY TAIL

NUMBER 4

The Second half of Gantz. 

Remember buy the Manga if you get the chance! Get it on Amazon. 

I would have just said Gantz but I didn’t start reading this in 2013, I started this in 2012, 2011. But if you know much about Gantz you will learn that Gantz takes a few big turns in the plot with the single biggest turn splitting the plot in half, making two Gantz in my opinion. I’m not going to go into detail on what two Gantz are I’m only going to tell you to read it. 

What can I say about the second half of Gantz without giving anything away. Well first things first. Gantz suddenly takes itself so much more seriously and crosses into realm of super pretentious BUT and this is a big big BUTT I like that. 

The cheap sexual shots grind down, not to a halt but they do decrease it heavily but I think that has so much to do with the main character himself maturing over time. And you see the main character’s growth and story’s own growth without ever getting repetitive. 

The monsters and villains are unique and exciting. And of course the most exciting part of Gantz is that people die. Like actually die. So there’s a unique element of fear as you actually have a concern that people you like might die. Which is AWESOME. And when I say might die, I mean MOST CERTAINLY WILL DIE.

This RP is dark, beautifully written, mature, clever and just beautiful! From the art work to the characters. If there were gripes it would be…well that it’s more boy orientated because of well boobies and the most impressive characters generally lack them. Except for [No spoilers] and [No spoilers] who are actually engaging. 

You should enjoy this piece. 

This would have been ranked higher but the fucking ending…the fucking ending, fuck shit fuck mother fuckers SHIT FUCK MOTHER FUCKER!! It was frustrating and maddening to no end. It just seemed rushed out like they just woke Hiroya Oku up and told him he had ten minutes and one chapter to wrap it up or they were going to break his legs and lock in him a room Misery style.

But despite the ending this is a Manga that that is well worth reading that manages to keep itself interesting. Things happen between the chapters so you don’t feel like you have to read a full volume to feel like something has happened. 

All in all this was a great impressive read and I hope you get your hands on it. It fits happily on my top five. 

I repeat this isn’t good, this is fucking great! 

I’m going to stop there that way this doesn’t end up being a solid wall of writing. 

So if you liked this review, then like and reblog it and I’ll get to work on the next part of it. I hope you enjoyed it.

The Pure One has spoken!

Movies I wish I could write myself [Harley Quinn]

A Harley Quinn movie. It would be simple as it is abundantly clear that with a Harley Quinn movie you get everything people want in a villain but enough growth potential to make a full movie, even a trilogy. 

We know one thing, Harlequin is smart and inquisitive. No one just fucking strolls into a PHD!! Man or woman, sane or insane.

Christopher Nolan’s dark knight proved simple enough that technology does not mean smart like it used to. The joker never had to invent a single thing to show how brilliant he was. 

First thing to do is look at Harley Quinn from a common sense perspective, of course using as much comic history as possible. She’s a girl in Gotham, and most likely from Gotham otherwise her ability to get away from a crime scene literally makes no sense. So being a girl from Gotham there’s definitely a clear enough picture that her work route at some point crossed mugging, rape and murder central. So her having a raised ability to use a gun and self defence skill would be easily justified. A whole lot fucking more than the cat burglar catwoman being able to beat the shit out of trained mercenaries from the league of shadows. 

Why can catwoman beat the shit out of fucking trained mercenaries?

Why? Because REASONS!

But I digress, It’s Gotham which we all know is fucked up so people bursting into your home isn’t silly concern at all. So if there was ever a reason for paranoid knowledgeable people with a gun Gotham has one(both a paradox and an oxymoron in one sentence, fuck yeah!)

As for exactly how the joker wins her over is another story entirely as that is a more tricky thing to balance as that can go wrong easily enough(See Star Wars). As far as we can tell she is not genuinely insane but is devoted to the point of insanity. 

The easiest most logical route for this is the confidence route along with the ‘new philosophy’ group. By ‘new philosophy’ I basically mean make the joker have a reason for loving anarchy. Not a logical one by any means, not even a linear one. I’ve read enugh philosophy to know a lunitic to cobble together something that would impress other lunatics, hopefully without creating mass murderers.Basically you make a ‘way’ of the joker, it doesn’t even have to be something the joker follows exclusively but something that would pull directly into her life, making her a zealot. I really sea Eat, Pray, Love meets a Clock Work Orange. Give her an awakening, a reason. Which may seem to go against her narrative but wait for it. [Side note if you need me to come up with the insanity that drags her down and takes the audience with her, YOU DON”T HAVE TO PAY ME. I WILL DO IT]

To make her life have value, give her something to leave behind when he crosses from sanity, a friend,  a sister, hard core fans will hate it but basic fans and first time watchers of her story will love it. Most especially if you make her friend, sister or roomate a super hero. This will drive people crazy as you would have to absolutely rip apart another teen level super hero storyline from DC, which I’m personally okay with. Yes not all heroes and villains are equal, so sacrifice a weak hero’s arc for this movie. 

Again, yes. This will piss hard core people off but it will not alienate them as they will be a step ahead by knowing who the hero is. It is totally worthy as this is a very effective method of creating sympathy and add a very human element of vulnerability(without having to beat her up, you don’t have to beat the shit of a woman to feel for her) as she becomes more hesitant in direct murder of heroes but as creative in playful murder attempts. 

Anyway Joker outlines his fake life story(important to all joker fans and a part of her history) while outlining his philosophy which draws her in as she sees it in everything she lives and everything she does. Create a villainous, female, Arkham prison leader, maybe the woman in charge of the suicide squad as she has to get them from somewhere. 

Here is a video link describing the DC suicide squad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JqL5s6wCgA

By using her, you have something for the fan boys and girls while at the same time creating an antagonist who is still technically a good guy but bad enough so you relate to the bad guys. Here’s where the fun comes in. By disliking the antagonist you yourself make yourself the antagonist by association. The trick of course being subtle. That I leave to the imaginary director. 

As for how the story from the point of escape moves…well actually that’s simpler. You make the joker an abusive, manipulative asshole who is pushing her into the background. 

Imagine with me:

The first movie where you see the timers being charged, where you see the traps being set up and shown being played out. (Now I know you’re thinking, FUCK I”M BORED ALREADY, but this can be done well, the best example being the waiting at the toll booth in the godfather.)

Now imagine the actually close calls with the police, because those are actually constant thrilling moments that for some reason no super hero movie, with the exception of maybe green hornet tried. But this time from a bad guy perspective where the bad guys put their own lives first, second and third. 

I can already picture Harley Quinn hiding at first then simply shooting her way out of being chased  while being barked at by dogs, climbing fences. The first time it’s rough gritty, painful and weakens her, the second time, it’s smarter, smother even sexier the second time. the next time it is borderline cocky.

The basic point is that you get a two way look at Gotham city, the actual city and Harley’s physical development. We see her go from doctor to useful crime villainess. 

With this we get to see her on multiple fronts.

Her love story, her as a love sick criminal. Which in this decade is absolutely frowned upon, by…well if we are honest…NO FUCKING ONE!! Basic mother fucking love stories are not dead! Not even close to dead! Don’t get me wrong syndical mother fuckers out there have altered the flow of traditional love stories forever, which is not necessarily  a terrible thing but when you burn all variations of love stories from the smouldering piles of crap of Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to the brilliant insanity of Othello. There are no laws on love, so her story can never be inherently bad. Especially if you make it levelled. 

Her emotional story, is simple. She’s a survivor, a girl with a tough childhood that she never really let go of but sat with it. She didn’t have a chip on her should so much as a massive sore spot that her inner masochist is determined to continuously poke and stab and pinch until she tries to break it with friendship(with a future super hero! DO IT) and her psychology degree. Her emotional story alters sharply by meeting the Joker, changing the trajectory of her life all before the climax hits.

Her physical journey is special because without montaging it there is great opportunity and most importantly REASON for her to be able to move and defend herself. This is fucking Gotham! She’s got to look after herself. She trains to protect herself and when she becomes a starter villain she improves. You watch the whole event as she improves constantly.My point is realistic growth, a dark edgy realism that would draw you the viewer in. 

Now as for the climaxes. 

 

Now this is the most important part as there are multiple elements to be addressed here. But, not to be a dick but I think I have addressed them.

Romance, this is a story of heart break, yes she’s in love with the joker and for all his manipulative skill, one could argue for good reason, until the joker turns on her which is big deal enough for her to turn on him. Which is where the heart break comes in. This, if done well, enough to tug on the heartstrings of everyone there without effecting at all the morality issue, so no one will have a moral reason against it, in the most basic sense. She loves him, he’s a fucking dick, but she still loves him. 

Ethical and mental. This is pretty open and shut. You see her being a good person. She has an internal masochist tendency that forces her to draw on the negative experiences on her which pulls against her need to dominate win while balancing against every human’s cultural need to just ‘fit in’ until finally her meeting with the joker starts to shatter that until we reach our climax and the true monster with the smile is shown and we finally see her dark side. This is compounded emotionally and physically as she finally accepts her lifestyle choice but the final nail is put in the coffin when she turns her back on her friend sister, roomate to be happy. It’s an ironic and yet cathartic twist on the find your inner beauty cliche.

 Physical, she was always athletic, stroke but never confident, emotionally at ease with what and who she was and that shatters completely leaving a full woman who knows who she is and what she can do when she pushes her body to the limits and leaves nothing behind.

All these elements make up a story ending that will likely put them all together in one scene where something happens. I have not at all put a linear story on this for the simple reason that I want the director and the writers to figure that out for himself. It should be their vision. I just want to help set up the frame work.

Maybe get paid. 

If they made a movie out of burnout.

 

The fast and the Furious franchise had a gem in Paul Walker but with his death I know the franchise still has the space and opportunity to move on. Easily actually, yes the one white guy between the solid wall of brown is missing and I’m sure if the series is going to survive; they’ll fix it. but they have moved beyond street racing to create driving movies. 

 

It looks like the movies following the game need for speed has filled the gap needed for street racing. But I believe there’s a Michael bay sized gap for hardcore racing that has been long neglected, and that’s crash centric racing.

Which is were burnout comes in. 

 

Now here me out. I’m sure you’re already backing away from me. A movie where care deliberately blow each other up, I’m sure you thought ‘mario Kart’ and decided fuck it. 

This is not Markio Kart, this is the end of the world as we know it. Why do I say that? Because the burnout universe is exactly the same as the SSX universe, which is obvious a futuristic universe. Considering the cities used in SSX and how they essentially hollow out a city every time they host their major death defying events. What if the world were very much like the cities.

 

Imagine a somewhere post dystopic society. We’ve all seen enough dystopic stories that end in freedom to create a full backstory with like three paragraphs of explosion. Hell, you could do it up style, us two second scenes and end up with the final scene independence day and then fade to black and write 100 years later and boom you’re finished, we fill in the dots. 

Now here’s something I believe is important.

GIVE IT A PUNK ROCK VIBE!!

 

I’m a huge fan of punk rock and have been in love with every SSX soundtrack(iffier on SSX 3 but still liked it) with SSX on tour being my favourite as it also gave you the option of cutting out the boring SHIT. 

 

Now that’s a very basic outline of the background. Under populated cities, rebuilding in a crushed world where the good guys won. Now comes our story as is a popular trend right now with people making movies from games which would otherwise have absolutely no plot and therefore nothing to live up to while still having a supportive fan base. 

The burnout franchise appears to have died a horrible HORRIBLE death, it has potential to be sent off with a bang, unmatched and unrivalled. A bustling world trying to be a world. When you have your protagonist. Jef, because I fucking hate Jeff. I know nothing about kid actors other than they suck and have pointlessly bad parents(and that’s when they’re not bad at being alive). Seriously if you’re going to be terrible at least make sure that your kid gains some skill for it. So I’m going to say the high school vibe because if we’re talking EA their we’re talking mass marketing so the younger the better an old punk rock vibe would be too goth, too cult.

Which is damn shame.

So anyway we had clock work orange, Daniel Day Lewis type character. He’s not a nerd, he’s not from a foreign nation. He’s not a jock, he’s not even nice. What he is, is smart and very indifferent to most thanks as he just kinda lets life happen. He has two side kicks, useful and expendable. 

Usefull as it turns out is extremely useful has he had created a system of hacking into any car he wants the system is something that surpassed the system of stolen car hacks. 

There’s already an underground network of hacks which lead to the cars of the time which ran completely automatically. You don’t battle for pink slips but for heavily encrypted hack keys. That not only start a car but get it to drive with you. This settles the element of multiple cars and the element of careless racing, only the hacks are hard but the characters have very limited investment in them. 

Something which screams of all the hallmarks that made the law of burnout without making too much of a fuss as it is humanly possible to hold suspension of disbelieve. 

 

I have now proven that there is no reason why this movie should not exist.

 

SO SOMEONE FUCKING MAKE IT!