Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Childs' Flashbacks to JFK















                                    shoot 3 bullets

Here's the impact of one shot.
















And here's the impact of two.















Here is the suffering JFK sackbot, located a click to the right.

It barely moves - nodding its head (sleeping, obviously).





























In this level there is no mention of the assassination.

It just says;

jfk was and will be the best president america has ever had . 















i am monkeys_10 and i approve this message.

In this one we have:















i am JFK one of the greatest presidents EVER! I PWNED ZOMBIES IN CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS! I 

He gets shot.
















HE'S DEAD

You then catch a balloon to the roof of this building to confront JFK's shooter.






























I SHOULD'NT OF DONE THAT!!!

You cannot damage Oswald. There is no alternate-history 'save JFK' level or anything like that. There's just repeat after repeat of the same disaster.















The crying sackbots here make sense.















This level is called 'jfk'. That female on the left is singing "Call Me Maybe," and I'm left puzzled as to why. It does sort of sound like a sad song in this special ironic context; "Call me (JFK) maybe! (from the dead)," etc.

Thursday, 22 August 2013

Buddhism Beliefs - Rencarnation

Project presentation for Cultural Studies class















I once did something kind of similar for a class.

I didn't lug my PS3 into school and hook it up to a generic storage compartment TV, no. What I did was illustrate a 'children's book,' for R.E. class, but instead of drawing pictures on paper and stapling them together (i.e., moving in the general work direction in which the other students moved) I printed screenshots of things I made in create mode.















This level. Even though this is for a school assignment, the kid can't resist putting in one of those badly designed, dysfunctional vehicle sections.















Why he didn't, you know, use the Asia Buddhist/Hindu Temple level background is also kinda lost on me.















About here (below); you realise why this kid wanted to do his assignment on a videogame and not powerpoint or something.


Does this actually explain what "Rencarnation" is supposed to be like?















In other words: are there notes for this presentation? Is there stuff like this?




































I wish more assignments were doable in LBP. I wish LBP became the medium for presentaitons. 


LBP Clans #2























if you do, contact me or ___ (username) you must be an EXTREMEL good creator and over the age of 8

This is too much fun.

(You can't see it here, but in the actual level, the "B" on the BORDER PATROL sign is mistakenly covered by a huge yellow text box.)

UNSC_POLICE117'S lvls















This is in fact the most serious "role playing" clan I've ever seen on LBP.















With this set-up they are actually able to take shifts watching this imaginary LBP border.

There are also levels called "BORDER PATROL UPDATE: NEW VEHICLES." Two of them.

But the creator never intends for the vehicles to actually move across the ground.















I suspect that he's using this opportunity to show off his car modeling skills moreso than simulating an actual "boarder patrol" experience. Maybe this is the true intention of the group. A childish sham. Attention grabbing. Who could know?




Sunday, 18 August 2013

VOTE Ugly or Cute

Hello

 people say i am ugly some say im cute the ppl who r my friends said i was ugly may get deleted, but if you were testin it out u r fine. 16 people say im cute!
















Pull the switch on the left if you think she's "ugly."

Flip the one of the right to select "cute."

This level likes to perpetrate as if it's asking for your "opinion," as if the girl is taking an honest risk and "putting herself out there," looking for an objective consensus as to whether or not she's attractive.

The truth, however, is that she won't accept it if you choose "ugly." She kills you.















Noteworthy are the two commenters who've left these:

"your so cute cause your youger than me i so happy for u"

"your cute becuase your younger than me"

Youth is always a plus.

But I'm wondering; is youth seeming a little more "important" to these youngins' - moreso than when I was a kid?

"I see you as cute, solely because of how your age compares with mine." These boys sound like they're sort of.. subtly worshipping the youth (?)  Moreso than any boys I've ever seen, anyway. That kid actually sounds like he IS happy for her. Strange.

Something like this would never have come up so commonly (TWICE!) in the 90's.

Also remember that (much like in all LPB social exchanges) we never actually sees this girl's human face.

Some more player comments:

"cute"
"LOL"
"My answer is... NU (deleted x1)"
"ugly jk"
"cuty pie" 
"cute"






Rejoice















Yes!!! My annoying little sister finally died!!!!!















My sister is sooooo anoying! She was diagnosed with colon cnacer 9 months ago and i was soooo happy!

hoped that would kill her before I did! And it did! I was soo happpy I just had to make a level on it!

My parents think im sad about it lol
















Well anyway I just wanted to share the joy of my little sister's death to you all.
Give a big fat heart if you want your little sister to die too!

The boy has published this level 8 times and this is the only activity recorded under his account. The account has zero hearted levels. He hasn't even bothered to decorate his planet/moon.

I think he's slipped up enough to confirm this is fake.

Most obvious piece of evidence: "My sister is soooo anoying." 

Present tense. You get it.

"She was diagnosed with colon cancer." In other words, bowel cancer. This reeks like toilet humour.

The rest of the "evidence" is kind of veiled. But to me the lines make more sense if you read them under the context that he's showing her (i.e. the sister) this level; all eight versions of it (to elevate the level of "humiliation" he's giving her), the girl probably watching from some other spot in the room.

There's a sort of cute jeer, an elbow nudge at the end of each line, seemingly directed towards her and only her.

"I hoped that (the cancer) would kill her... before I did!" (Sneer @ sister. Cliche' family threat.)

"Give a big fat heart if you want your little sister to die too!" (another sneer @ sister)

Also note how he enjoys lengthening the word, "so."

My sister is soooo anoying. I was soo happy. More live jabs?

You get the idea.

Plus, you know, human empathy dictates he wouldn't actually do this. Or maybe she did die and he's in a horrible state of denial over his depression.

Either way, this case is done.

Friday, 12 July 2013

"Inside of Justin Bieber (You are an insect)"

A big trend on LittleBigPlanet is the (rather self-explanatory) Justin Bieber murder craze.















To make these types of levels "work" you only need two simple things. 

Intense violence, and an identifiable picture of Justin Bieber's face.















Which makes this next level kind of curious to me. 

What follows might be the most whimsical and pointless thing I've ever written. But I think that it's noteworthy, that it captures something that's vaguely unspoken and, who knows, important.















That looks nothing like Justin Bieber. 

You don't even hurt him or injure him.















You just go through him.

This is simply not an acceptable Justin Bieber hate level. It is focussed purely around the fun of exploring his digestive system. (The sperm in his pants really is just a distraction.)

I know this is terribly high-standard of me but the level description hinted that it would be a hate-themed level. And as it turned out, the creator delivered something that's completely devoid of this; something that's devoid of any rational meaning.

You seriously just fly in there and wiz through his stomach/intestines. This is the most baffling thing I've ever played.

What scares me most is what was going through the creator's mind as he/she made this level.

If this isn't an example of unconscious pop-culture vomiting, then I wouldn't know what is. (Interesting how the same sort of thing happened in that Selena Goeaz one.)


"your life sucks kill everything that is good"




















These are "gummy bears." One of them is singing the "I'm a gummy bear" song.

A good, unintentional example of the way lollies are being advertised to be psychically linked w/happiness, which this kid has fun blowing apart for whatever reason. Maybe his life wouldn't suck if he didn't associate "all that is good" with imagery such as these bobbing green bears made of candy. (This is a joke.)