You're too young to realize this, but once upon a midnight dreary gamers were thought to be engaging in witchcraft. Dungeons and Dragons and so forth. It's a rather amusing reference tbh.Celuan wrote:Um... here are some strange quotes from the poem thing.
"They used to hear voices. Before the players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air on sticks powered by demons,"
Is this some demonic group of players?
Celuan wrote: "Does it know we love it? does it know the universe is kind?"
How is the universe doing this? Isn't the universe an it? Is this a strange religion?
"I want to help them speak the word they fear."
Is this trying to get me to say something I don't want too?
"Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn, ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change."
Is this some REALLY screwed up religion?
"We are the universe."
Ok, is this some all religons are the same crap?
Whether you like the idea or not, in a game you are at the mercy of the gods that be, id est, the people who designed and developed it. They are your gods and you bow before them.
Beyond which the whole thing is basically an attempt to develop a suitable cosmology.
As for the heart of a star thing, actually science, as the nerdkin said.
Basically your problem here stems from a narrow worldview. I blame your age. Read a little, live, experience the world and it's glory. Love, hate, watch yourself break over and over again, raise some Cain and get your backside kicked a couple times. Then maybe, just maybe, you'll not have knee jerk reactions to fiction. Maybe it'll be because after seeing enough of humanity you'll have some perspective. Maybe it'll just be you get so cynical you cease giving a crap.