Video games are frightening

Orientation week is over and I finally got a good 11 hours of sleep last night. I feel like such a little kid sometimes though because I get so cranky if I don't get enough sleep. Anyway, I got my white coat yesterday, and even though it's a women's small it is still way too big for me. I think I might just go get it tailored so I don't have to deal with it annoying me for the next two years. You'd think they'd be better about accommodating different sizes by now.

Warning: Lots of nerdiness ahead.

Anyway, the fun news is that I got a new video game (yes, I am a giant nerd, I know). It's probably one of the coolest ideas for a game I've heard of in a while. It's a one-person shooter game, but done with some style. The setting is an underwater haven for the geniuses of the world called Rapture, which is very much based on Atlas Shrugged. Everything is done in an art deco style, and considering the underwater world has gone to hell, it's pretty creepy looking. The reason that the world is now in chaos is that the people discovered some sea slugs that produce plasmids, which could be developed further to modify people's genetic codes (this is a rough explanation). The modifications essentially made the inhabitants into superhumans with various abilities, like sending electric bolts through their hands or having telekinesis. So as you run around this place, you can find these plasmids, inject them into yourself (which is kinda horrifying to see) and then kill people with your new powers. This is a pretty novel concept for a video game.

It doesn't quite end there, though. One of the best ways to be able to use these plasmids is actually through little girls. Let me explain. There are little girls all throughout the city that use large syringes to suck out the blood from dead people. They then drink the blood, and a parasite living in them processes it into something that'll allow you to absorb more plasmids called Eve.


Since little girls are pretty helpless, they have incredibly large men in underwater tank suits with a metal drill for an arm protecting them. They're known as Big Daddies, but the little girls call them Mr. Bubbles (kinda disturbing isn't it?).

So, if you want more superpowers, you either have to get the Eve stuff from the little girls by killing them (which will give you lots of Eve), or by saving them and removing the parasite (which will get you less of the Eve). Either way, you still have to get through the Big Daddy first. Yeah, whoever thought of this is incredibly fucked up in the head.

Really, as scary as this game is, I am kinda determined to beat it just to see what happens in the end. The game emphasizes the fact that as you keep modifying yourself and killing these little girls, you lose more and more of your humanity. I doubt it'll be a happy ending.

Anyway, this is pretty much the big thing going on in my life right now because I'm so cool. I'm just oozing coolness, I know.