If I told you to related that word to a personality, to a person… That person would probably be one that finds mistakes in everything: “The floor is too white”, “the paintings are not straight”, “the text has a mistake”. That sort of things are what you probably associate to a perfectionist.
I’m not going to say you’re wrong, but I just have a different concept; I take a different approach when I define myself as a perfectionist.
It’s been a while since I don’t publish a word on this blog. But hey, I have my reasons (getting accepted on my country’s best university is one =) ). Since I found myself letting my blog die slowly being forgotten and losing readers, I just needed to relaunch it, let it reborn or something with re- on it, because it wouldn’t be the first time. Yet, it would be the best, so far.
And what’s new? A completely new design, more elegant and stylish (what a word, huh?). What else? SEVEN new articles for you to read and pay my blog bills (that is, letting you starve from my content). Now, after the break, the list of articles that will be published in the next 6 days (7 days, total), one each day, first hour in the morning.
Some time ago I wrote in my notebook “Change things to complain about by different things to complain about”. As almost always, it was in the night/morning time —I was sleepy—, and by the time I woke up the next day I forgot the meaning of that. It sadly happens a lot, but just few times I change the forgotten meaning to something else.
What’s the point of changing a state of being A by a state of being B, if you don’t like either? Sure, if state B is less bad than state A, why not, right? That was one of my thoughts deciphering the note. It was actually the idea behind writing it. But I don’t like it anymore, because I started thinking if that statement should make sense for two states of being, A and B, that are equally disliked. And it turns out it does.
To lend you some background… A couple of days ago I enjoyed the view of an old movie I remember watching in a VHS like a decade ago. It was “Digimon: The Movie“, an animated movie based on the anime series “Digimon“, in which digital creatures exist in a digital world, with which selected (digi-destined) kids can interact. The story is as much irrelevant to you as relevant is the fact that the series is aimed to younger audiences, to kids.
It wouldn’t be relevant if that consisted in the drawing (along with the plot), and it were somehow simple. In a children’s cartoon, the plot can take complex turns; they do, some times. But in a children’s cartoon the drawings can’t be too detailed. The children get bored with such “seriousness”. My question was always “Why?“.
When I think of the word geek, I’m never sure of what it is. I’m not sure if a geek prefers Star Wars to Star Treck, or the other way around, or if that choice is irrelevant to the fact he or she enjoys a science-fiction work. And about science-fiction, I’ve never seen it as something different from a sub-genre of fantasy: They narrate nonexistent plots, with nonexistent inventions, science or even worlds, but trying always to explain it in with existent resources.
It doesn’t matter if it might exist: in practice, it doesn’t. And as so, it’s part of a fantasy. So… What does fantasy has that attracts geeks, and what do toys have to do with it? I’ll write this from a geek’s point of view.
That’s a question I never thought about, until some days ago, when I was reading through some web forums’ posts, and some random worried parent asked what was the deal with his son playing video-games so much. I was curious about the question, so I kept digging, and found tons of other parents complaining about how their children are not going out as they used to, how they spend most of their time online, or on console games…
Well, I just started wondering, and came up with a few answers to that question…
