Do maladjusted programmers build spite into a video game's control? If not, why does Boston always sock about four straight homeruns immediately after I get a lead? Screw that, computer. And why an unskippable shaming after each one? Seriously, the homerun takes about two seconds, and then your pitcher spends the next minute and a half doubled over, face in glove, as the impudent batter circles the bases, making a last-minute stop to lavish high-fives on teammates lined up to receive his glory like fratboys at a train.
Also, the play is flagrantly unrealistic, in that I, totally unschooled in the sport, can wipe out five innings worth of batters just by throwing to a particular corner of the strike zone at a certain speed. That said, I really like watching a guy I just beaned get ejected from the game for fighting with me. That was a nice touch, and decorously in the spirit of our petty programmers, who spent years and friends and girlfriends, or just years, planning and designing and manufacturing a game that perfectly reflects and endlessly instantiates their insecurities and minor aggressions toward an indifferent and better-looking world . . . to a new generation of sports nerds who, no doubt, will grow to program even pettier, more hostile games in the face of greater indifference and superior beauty.I love this version of whatever baseball is.
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