PS2 as imagining future Earth World War

ThirtyMartinsen · 2012-12-07, 08:04 PM

TR are the future Microsoft - the elder, the dominant, the inventors, the totalitarian.
NC are the future Google - smarter, younger, taking on the big. The new entrepeneur nerds.
VC are the future Apple - strange but powerful, semi-religious. Think different.

Seems obvious, doesn't it?

PS - mailing your life pledge to [email protected] today, returns only an error.

Blackice · 2012-12-08, 01:43 PM

Interesting way to look at it.

Also though it is not very well advertised, there is actual lore behind PS2 as well.

http://wiki.planetside-universe.com/ps/Lore

GLaDOS · 2012-12-08, 06:32 PM

Ewww. I don't wanna be Apple. I laughed at the semi-religious bit, though. It does kind of make sense, too.

ThirtyMartinsen · 2012-12-08, 09:06 PM

I became TR after only 2-3 minutes of installing/reading PS1 back then. There wasn't such a "lore" back then (called "s-word" by hardcore id fans as myself), but the TR - it felt like me.
It wasn't for many years later, when Google and Apple rose, someone talked about a tech WW3 between them. My thoughts went to PS1, and here we are now.

"Take that for selling me to advertisers!" +140 XP dead NC
"Bet you didn't know you needed THAT, Vanu!" +140 +80 XP headshotted VC