Chuckie (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} enixmoogle) wrote,@ 2008-09-26 01:25:00 |
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New Survivor
Survivor Gabon has begun and I've missed it. The details for missing it I'll probably mention at a later time if it ever becomes essential, but I've been looking forward to this season since it was spread throughout the Smash community that “Sephiroth Ken,” would be one of the contestants.
I've had sparse interactions with Ken, a few tournament matches, his presence when I took HugS' name at Pound, but what I remember most is when he tried to pick up on my girl Michelle from New Mexico. He was socially awkward and even in a friendly match he didn't let a girl beat him. Yet, He was trying to lay down some game, like he got game.I think Michelle enjoyed the attention (who doesn't), but thought he was weird. I remember the incident, not only because he was trying to put some moves on my lady, but because I enjoyed watching the best smasher in the world transform into an impotent ghost. Some how, it felt like an ethereal lesson.
So it's strange to know that a guy I've met, a guy that knows me, knows my first name and smash name, would be on a reality T.V. show. I've always had a sense, no a belief, that no one I knew would ever really be a contestant to any show that I watched regularly or had watched. It's not that I'm pessimistic, simply that there is some kind of sanctity to what I watch on television.
To be clear, I don't watch a lot of television, so what I do watch is either things I care a lot about, or things that are purposefully distractive (I made it a word). People say games are a form of escape, I've rarely used games in that context since high school, but bad television, bad television seems designed for this. I used to lay around on the couch and watch the Real World, Blind Date or Girls Next Door, simply to maintain a nice relaxing vegetative state. I still do this, but it's for when I don't want to do shit or think shit. Theres a time for everything, right?
Anyway, knowing that Ken would be on a show that I had loved years ago was pretty eventful, I've been looking forward to seeing how he would represent gamers in a non-gaming setting.
How confident will he be? how capable will he be, will he interact with everyone, will people like him, how long will he stay in the game?
Essentially, do competitive gamers have something to offer and is the fact that he's a competitive gamer even relevant?
I have yet to hear anything about the season premier, but I imagine someone would have texted me:“LOL Ken is out already!,” if he wasn't still in the game. So I'm writing this with the assumption that he still is.
I'll be watching the season premier one way or another in the next few days, and I'll cross my fingers that Ken doesn't disappoint, how can he, he's got mind games.
Season Opener: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6YNzvne
About Ken: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/b
Survivor Gabon has begun and I've missed it. The details for missing it I'll probably mention at a later time if it ever becomes essential, but I've been looking forward to this season since it was spread throughout the Smash community that “Sephiroth Ken,” would be one of the contestants.
I've had sparse interactions with Ken, a few tournament matches, his presence when I took HugS' name at Pound, but what I remember most is when he tried to pick up on my girl Michelle from New Mexico. He was socially awkward and even in a friendly match he didn't let a girl beat him. Yet, He was trying to lay down some game, like he got game.I think Michelle enjoyed the attention (who doesn't), but thought he was weird. I remember the incident, not only because he was trying to put some moves on my lady, but because I enjoyed watching the best smasher in the world transform into an impotent ghost. Some how, it felt like an ethereal lesson.
So it's strange to know that a guy I've met, a guy that knows me, knows my first name and smash name, would be on a reality T.V. show. I've always had a sense, no a belief, that no one I knew would ever really be a contestant to any show that I watched regularly or had watched. It's not that I'm pessimistic, simply that there is some kind of sanctity to what I watch on television.
To be clear, I don't watch a lot of television, so what I do watch is either things I care a lot about, or things that are purposefully distractive (I made it a word). People say games are a form of escape, I've rarely used games in that context since high school, but bad television, bad television seems designed for this. I used to lay around on the couch and watch the Real World, Blind Date or Girls Next Door, simply to maintain a nice relaxing vegetative state. I still do this, but it's for when I don't want to do shit or think shit. Theres a time for everything, right?
Anyway, knowing that Ken would be on a show that I had loved years ago was pretty eventful, I've been looking forward to seeing how he would represent gamers in a non-gaming setting.
How confident will he be? how capable will he be, will he interact with everyone, will people like him, how long will he stay in the game?
Essentially, do competitive gamers have something to offer and is the fact that he's a competitive gamer even relevant?
I have yet to hear anything about the season premier, but I imagine someone would have texted me:“LOL Ken is out already!,” if he wasn't still in the game. So I'm writing this with the assumption that he still is.
I'll be watching the season premier one way or another in the next few days, and I'll cross my fingers that Ken doesn't disappoint, how can he, he's got mind games.
Season Opener: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6YNzvne
About Ken: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/b
