Firstly I couldn't think of a good thread title. OK so I was thinking the other day after reading about the whole Infinity Ward lawsuit thing, does anyone other than me miss the connection to things happening to real people? Because I caught myself when I was reading thinking about it like a story where somewhere in the world a bunch of people are angry at a company. When really there is some animator who has to go home at the end of the day turn on the TV maybe and then decide whether he is going to say, quit his already existing IW job or go over to Respawn and deal with his now uncertain future. A minor example maybe so here is a heavier one. I was watching a CBS news cast (we get them in Australia) and you hear about the car bombs and so on going off in Iraq yet I again never made the absolute link to real people. I knew it was happening to people but that concrete link was never made to physical breathing individuals with families and friends etc. The reason I mention the news cast is that I was bought up short by the memorial at the end of the show. In absolute silence it shows a portrait of every soldier that died that week in Iraq. It was strange realising that these WERE the people. They WERE the statistics and I was kinda wierded out I never made that human link properly. I just never really looked at things from a first person perspective from their eyes.
So does anyone else do this or am I just too detached from things?
So does anyone else do this or am I just too detached from things?