I, shrimperpapper T. Bobberblubber. (Or how gamer "immersion" scares me.)

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It is fun to pretend to be something, a criminal master mind, a super hero, magic user, immortal ass kicker. But in the end we all should know that it is just pretend, nothing more or else. While on the topic of should than more people should have more common sense like not standing in the middle of a lightening storm with a phone glued to their head, but that is a point for another time.

You see there is a thing that scares me among people, and it seems to be the excepted and demanded this "thing" without really knowing what it is. It is immersion, and it is vexes yet frightens me. I will start on why it irks me. I like stories, I love characters and do idolize and some times day dream about them, many do. But I never want to meet them much less BE, cool as seeing Batman or Spawn would be people tend to forget the life expectancy would be tragically shorten from "Holy Cowl I always wanted to be you, Batman", to moments of " What's so funny, Joker?"

I enjoy watching these bungled piles of psychological messes run about being a plot robot for us, but it is not nor ever will be entertaining to watch Gwen Stacy die the seventh time in a gut wrenching manner. It is not a cliché when it actually happens in life, or rather as close as it can in life.

This brings me to why I fear immersion. There are people play role playing games in various forms, be it electronic, table top or (ugh) LARP (Again, UGH!) because I ran into some people who actually believe they are the characters they play. Not in the "ha ha, I like to tie a towel on and run around", but fully think they are the characters they play. As in wield katana and so athletic they can slice tanks in half, plus throw fireballs. Read, [shadow][glow]FIREBALLS[/glow][/shadow]. Those people scare me.

And some times it feels like the media of entertainment wants to feed those delusions when many reviewer want to be more "immersed", more "customizable", more "rich", more "chocolaty", less "fat" and less "carbs"... Sorry, some times a lot of reviews feel like they are talking more about food products then actual games/movies/books.

Just thought I point this out again, did it with: http://brokenrenamon.deviantart.com/art/No-never-no-way-never-make-sense-lobotimite-373844368 but it missed the point with that LARPer. Scary stuff.

Also check out Reno 911 the gamer, kind of makes my point and funny at the same time.