The Wii is the promised land, where games have chance to prosper in ways they never have before, but developers would rather support the consoles fighting for second place.
I……don’t get it. I know it’s Moses destroying the tablets with the 10 commandments, but I don’t get the metaphor. and the symbol on the idol is just a bull, so I can’t really see what it’s supposed to represent.
Yeah, it’s about Playstation Home, which was supposed to Change Everything(tm), but is pretty much just an overwrought vehicle for marketing and product placement. Red Bull is one of the early sponsors; see [http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171762] for the logo.
I’ll take a stab at this, though it’s been a while since I’ve gone over this part of the bible.
There was the whole thing about moses leading his people to the promised land, and the whole 10 commandments. numero uno on the list was “thou shalt have no god before me”
Well, the trip to the promised land was rough and unpleasant, and apparently there was a faction who detracted from moses and decided to worship a idol they made from, if i remember correctly, a calf/bull of some sort that they made a statue from by dipping it in melted gold.
my memory is a little foggy on that part, but long story short, that faction didn’t fair well from breaking commandment #1. I believe they were swallowed by the earth via earthquake.
Of course, I could be totally wrong and the bulls are purely in reference to the red bull sponsorship, but even then, the coincidence is quite interesting.
Wait, now that i look at the comic again, I was wrong. That is definitely supposed to be the arc of the covenant. The 10 commandments are representative of the benefits Home could have to gaming (the Content) but finds out everyone is worshiping the arc(sponsorship and various “pay for” items) that was merely supposed to house the 10 commandments.
Come on guys. It’s about how Home was supposed to lend itself to independent development and unique content, but is instead just a home for redbull ads and not much else.
That is NOT supposed to represent the arc of the covenant, but instead the idolatry that Moses saw after he descended with the 10 commandments.
I believe good plebs that this is how Sony has become hypocritical. Sony said it wouldn’t be Second Life again, but lo and behold, just like Second Life it is has commercial interests. What is next Lord Playstation? Furries? Hah, you make me guffah!
So the end is the eqivalent to sony saying god damn it and haveing to go with the sponders even though they truly thought they could pull it off with only them selves.
Red Bull is the golden calf of the videogame religion. I saw that back when Wipeout was new; Wipeout was a large part of what made videogames popular to the shallow masses, and it sported Red Bull logos on every track.
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