Donkey Kong’s Introspection
We oft sit in deep contemplation of our past relationships, particularly in solitude. Last night, I sat in my iron claw bath tub surrounded by candlelights, smoking fragrant tobacco from a pipe, which I recently purchased in Brussels with the help of my Santa Barbara friends Dan and Gretchen.
Why is it that we do not take the time for introspection to identify the repeating faults of our previous relationships? Past relationships are by default failures. For those of us not yet married or engaged to be married, we continue traverse through this world, meeting attractive persons of the opposite sex, and fail time and again to establish a deeper and more spiritual connection leading to an undeniable urge to get married.
In contrast, when we play video games, we learn quickly upon the death of a player to avoid the same mistake that caused the previous death. Mario runs up the ramp dodging wine barrels tossed down by Mr. Kong, in order to save a fair maiden. We can make the same correlation to this analogy. The barrels are the attractive, but not meant to be, persons of the the opposite sex that comes along. We must learn to quickly identify them as barrels and jump over them in continuous succession in order to reach the fair maiden. When we get hit by one, we quickly learn to not make the same mistake at the next turn. Jump sooner perhaps or jump higher.
Yet in real life, it is not as simple. The next time that you go out with an attractive person, remember Donkey Kong and save yourself some time up the ramp to the fair maiden. If by chance you begin to see all attractive persons as barrels, it is then a misfortune that I have put this imagery into your head. And if by chance you are the type of person that does not want to find the fair maiden, then run forthwith straight into each barrel, each, hopefully, filled with delicious wine.
April 23rd, 2006 at 7:25 am
Only you can come up with a theory like that!!!!!! It works though!!!!!!!! The truth is, people easily avoid the barrels because they think they are like Mario who could never die!!!!!!!!!! Once the game is over, all you have to do is just click “Start”, that’s is why to a lot of people dating is fun and challenging like a game. They forget that mario is a machine, we on the other hand are not. Temptation is the biggest barrel I think for people to overcome. Because of that, we all know when it comes to playing games, the infamous sayin always pop in our mind when it’s over, “NO PAIN! NO GAME!” Love you Yuta.
April 23rd, 2006 at 1:49 pm
hahah! well put my cambodian travel buddy
i myself prefer a more pacman-esque analogy. where i am the magical yellow pellet that ms. pac-man is forever trying to gobble up in order to empower herself with invincibility. chasing after her is colorful menagerie of hungry unrelenting demons always trying to bring her back to her point of origin.
but that’s a different game altogether. if i were stuck in mario’s blue overalls, facing the barrage of barrels as thrown down by the almighty DK,, my only solace would be the hammer,,, as the current road i’m on isn’t leading to anywhere near princess toadstool.
stop..
it’s hammer time.
..
can’t touch this.
April 24th, 2006 at 4:35 am
Motify the game, get yourself a big cannon, blast your way to the fair maiden.
Cause you know that there is the fairest maiden there waiting upon your rescue.
Modify the game = Change the given situation
Big cannon = Throw away what weapon you believe you only have in real life and fight with stronger determination.
Fair maiden? Hey, you’re the one who thought of the classic old school Donkey Kong game.. cause you’ve played it and knew that the maiden is there.
Good luck brother.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:58 pm
It is clear that the alter ego of Yuta is truly “UVAS DE BASTON!” (The Grape Beating Truncheon) - The alter ego is often expressed while on a boat in the middle of the Balearics after losing a round of cards and being commanded to swallow codena, scream “CODENA!” and launch oneself overboard.
May 26th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Asteroids, baby… Asteroids…