Metroid represents everything wrong about our treatment of the enviornment.

[Madara XIII]

So, you're angry that it promotes survival of the fittest while having humans the fittest to survive?

Ironic wouldn't you say?
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[HotFezz8]

yes, this post is ridiculously long, i don't log onto the escapist to read people's theists.

 

[Sanctus Hospes]

I really didn't think people would still be missing the point at this time. You'd think that if someone didn't read the entire OP, they would at least look at the end of it.

Dude, it's the Internet. Personally I feel it's a bit naive to post this much written word online and expect people to read every single bit. This is a forum; it is to opinions what hookers are to sailors. My recommendation is to put your intention at the beginning if you want people to get what you are doing.

Otherwise, keep putting at the end and pretending to be smarter or making a point no one is really going to get behind (that people don't read it all).

I don't expect people to read the whole thing. However, I do expect that if you're going to make a reply, you would read the whole thing. If someone doesn't feel like reading a long post, that's perfectly understandable. What I don't understand is why someone would bother responding if they don;t even want to read the entire post.

And I'm not pretending to be smarter than anyone. If you got that impression, I apologize. Most people around my age on this site are probably smarter than me anyways.

Most people (and I've been guilty of this myself) feel they can get the gist of an article with 3 of 5, or 4 of 5 paragraphs read. This is something you need to expect if you are going to put your work online to be read. Also using the last third of your post to change the nature of the first two is poor writing, inefficient and ignores the practical use of the thesis.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Most people (and I've been guilty of this myself) feel they can get the gist of an article with 3 of 5, or 4 of 5 paragraphs read. This is something you need to expect if you are going to put your work online to be read. Also using the last third of your post to change the nature of the first two is poor writing, inefficient and ignores the practical use of the thesis.

The point of changing the subject of the paper in the last few paragraphs is meant to further reinforce my point. If I just announced from the start that everything I was saying was a joke and was not meant to be taken seriously, it might influence people's opinion. I wanted people to think the first part was serious.

You don't have to do everything by the book when it comes to writing. There is room for flexibility.

 

[Cheesus333]

This thread has taught me four things... in order:

1. Samus Aran is a thoughtless, extinctionist planet killer.
2. Over-analysis can ruin a harmless bit of fun.
3. No-one reads the OP if it's too long... but they post their thoughts anyway.
4. Not reading through correctly can make you look like a twat.

 

[Souplex]

I would over-analyze Pokeymanns by saying it promotes animal abuse, but that's the entire crux of the game.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I would over-analyze Pokeymanns by saying it promotes animal abuse, but that's the entire crux of the game.

This is kind of off-topic, but I'm pretty sure the plot in Black and White, at least from what I've heard, is actually about this. The generic villain group this time is a bunch of Pokemon abolitionists who think that Pokemon shouldn't be used to battle. Or something like that.

 

[Misho-]

EDIT: Do people just run away from anything more than 3 paragraphs long? Number of views seems really high considering how many responses this has.

I think it's because there's so much to take in that people forget what they were going to post and drift off to do another thing

Also yeah I mean we should go all huggy huggy with our enviroment here on Earth, but in the Metroid series anything is out to kill you... Its like the old Nintendo games where everything was out to kill you but in space! So it gives us a nice sense of detachment by killing alien species and not feeling guilty about it. Specially since they lack like cute eyes and such...

 

[Sanctus Hospes]

The point of changing the subject of the paper in the last few paragraphs is meant to further reinforce my point. If I just announced from the start that everything I was saying was a joke and was not meant to be taken seriously, it might influence people's opinion. I wanted people to think the first part was serious.

You don't have to do everything by the book when it comes to writing. There is room for flexibility.

Of course there is room for flexibility, but part of what makes a good writer is realizing how effective it will or won't be BEFORE making it public. In this case, it was naive of you to think it would actually work and (unfortunately) it just made you sound like a know-it-all.

Perhaps it should have been a better article, followed with something very strange and random at the end, just to see who would notice.

 

[huigho1215]

You could equate KIngdom Hearts to genocide and animal abuse.

The Heartless is a natural occurring creature that prays on people's hearts. Ansem the wise and his apprentices
come along and start experimenting on them, eventually creating a machine that makes artificial Heartless and branding them. The first game is about stopping the heartless, by killing them all with your key-shaped sword. both the artificial controlled ones along with the natural ones who were just hungry.

but, you may protest, the heartless were out to destroy all the worlds. Incorrect, I say, only those in power were. Malificent, and her gang were using the creatures to find Kingdom Hearts. and since the heartless were under her control all the heartless just end up being cannon fodder for the main character. even if you were to say Xenahort's heartless was in control, is it justified to exterminate an entire race for one "man's" actions?

Then come the Nobodies, who are also naturally occurring creatures, and heartless's natural enemies. the nobodies are just looking for completion, a sense of self. this is evident in the Nobodies who have evolved to a state where they can talk. they just want to feel again, to be whole. and the main character's job is to once again wipe every last one off the planet. Organization XIII was created by nobodies looking to find completion and escape from the nothingness they were born to. They started to sue the heartless to harvest hearts to create a fake kingdom hearts to achieve their goal.

Once again the heartless were not acting out of their own desires but of the desires of others and once again they get wiped out for acting out their natural coures. Is it from the natural fear of loosing one's heart that we cast these creatures as evil? we see lions prey on gazelles and think nothing evil is under foot. but if something prays on us we must destroy them? genocide of those oppressed, and genocide of those who are acting out their natural instincts are represented, glorified in this game.