Ober Dicta

11:24 PM

I'd like to reprint the single post (to date) from a lonely boingboing comment thread:

i've always wanted to do a game about the time my family's house was infested with rats. my mom wanted to get an exterminator but my dad said we should do it. band together as a family and engage in toe-to-toe with the rodents. and at first it's kind of like a game to catch rats with traps but then they get awfully good at it (they go up to level twelve basically). and it gets to the point that my parents are too afraid of the rats so they left the house.

that's actually the part of the game that gets good. cause you could have this part where you are my parents running away from the rats and they could climb up mountains and get in canoes and try to get away. still the rats follow.

then, they could get on an airplane and take a seat and kind of knowingly smile at each other (*phew*) (like how couples smile at each other and its kind of tense but kind of sexy) but then they'd look out the window of the airplane and see rats flying for them. at that point, they'd totally spaz. and so they start freaking out and running around the plane (let's say there's a chandelier on the plane that they could swing on to try and get away). but eventually they'd realize that they have to face their destinies. so they could jump out of the plane straight toward the rats (kind of like one of those Hollywood jumps where Tom Cruise jumps right into another guy and its raw savage melee).

so in the end you couldn't possibly win this game. except the player would leave with a great feeling of peace that they finally accepted death. too many games don't really deal with the finality of death because you get so many lives. with this game you could say at the end, "you gave your lives for your country and your children and everything that's good." i mean what a way to end a game.

i mean that would be nothing short of phenomenal.

Joke? Or unintentionally, breathlessly hilarious?

You be the judge.