Monday, March 21, 2011
The Scientific Method of DOOOOOOOOOOM!
Hypothesized Reactions: "Do you really think your life is/was so bad?" "What a douche." An overwhelming sense of boredom or apathy
Monday, March 7, 2011
Repurposed Rodent - 3/7/2011
The Bliss Assignment was more difficult than intuition would suggest. It turns out that I have no fucking idea about what makes me happiest, as much as I know the stuff that I enjoy and makes me happy. I ended up playing a new game that I received last week, which I enjoyed; I just didn't experience what I would call "bliss." If it did anything to my creative side, it wasn't anything that I noticed. I didn't have an epiphany about what to do on the stuffed animal assignment or anything. When I came up with my idea, it was a day or so after I did the Bliss Assignment.
Given a stuffed animal of Mighty Mouse, I was confronted by the knowledge that I really knew nothing about Mighty Mouse. My knowledge of cartoon-superhero-animals essentially encompasses Atom Ant and UnderDog. So I started thinking about superheros in general, and came up with the idea of a non-confrontational superhero, and the implications of such a creature existing.
The part that intrigued me most about a non-confrontational superhero is thinking about "What's the end-game?" Would he get fed up with himself for never using his powers for anything, let alone good? If he did, would he discover that his powers had atrophied due to his decision to not use them? Would people discover his abilities and then mob him for not using them? I don't foresee a happy ending for this character.
For shits and giggles, I figured it would be a nice link to the stuffed animal to call this superhero Mighty Mouse and made a quick mock-up of how this person could be dressed.
The contradiction is a super-hero that is not heroic through actions, although he would certainly classify as super-human, with the harmony being the decision to become heroic or the backlash for his decision not to be heroic as such a character cannot last in that state for long.
Given a stuffed animal of Mighty Mouse, I was confronted by the knowledge that I really knew nothing about Mighty Mouse. My knowledge of cartoon-superhero-animals essentially encompasses Atom Ant and UnderDog. So I started thinking about superheros in general, and came up with the idea of a non-confrontational superhero, and the implications of such a creature existing.
The part that intrigued me most about a non-confrontational superhero is thinking about "What's the end-game?" Would he get fed up with himself for never using his powers for anything, let alone good? If he did, would he discover that his powers had atrophied due to his decision to not use them? Would people discover his abilities and then mob him for not using them? I don't foresee a happy ending for this character.
For shits and giggles, I figured it would be a nice link to the stuffed animal to call this superhero Mighty Mouse and made a quick mock-up of how this person could be dressed.
The contradiction is a super-hero that is not heroic through actions, although he would certainly classify as super-human, with the harmony being the decision to become heroic or the backlash for his decision not to be heroic as such a character cannot last in that state for long.
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