#geldshot

Yea, given that a single person will walk in and out of the con frequently throughout the event, turnstile numbers are completely inaccurate.

Turnstile works for a shop, because even if it’s the same person going in an out, it’s still showing the level of interest in the shop.

Attendees per day I dislike, but makes sense on expos that are largely based on Day Tickets - unlike a convention where the majority of attendees are there for all days of the event.

Common discussion in games will inevitably come to the concept of of perfection and idealized bodies that many protagonists sport. I’m not immediately concerned by this concept because separating the concept of an ideal from reality is one I’m fairly used to. If we are going to be exploring a story why not make certain parts of it works of art to help the story move along?

More at the forefront of my mind is what these supposed perfect beings mean to the human mind. On one hand we have a character who is meant to be perfect in someones eyes, possibly in both body and mind. Though, if that’s all there was to this character then we’d never have found the story interesting. In fact, many of these stories play up their supposed perfection to point out the hubris in assuming they would succeed and showcasing a very specific flaw in which even the perfect being couldn’t succeed.

Consider World of Warcraft. In this every character is meant to be some blend of perfection. True the different races and characters may not be perfect in everyone’s eyes. For the sake of this argument I’ll assume that the player will only play a character they are 100% at ease with and therefore perfect. Especially when we consider that the player character will always triumph at some point.

Now we come to raids in World of Warcraft. At this point a group of “perfect beings” are expected to band together to defeat some greater evil they couldn’t possibly defeat on their own. So, if they were so perfect, why did they have to band together and, more importantly, fail so many times to finally kill even one boss? Well, it stands to reason this is the moment when WoW teaches the player that despite being perfect, many challenges can’t be overcome without help and perseverance.

So, now that we’ve tackled a particular use of perfection I want to move on to perceived perfection, or hero worship. I’m certain we’ve all experienced it to some degree, that want to be just like another person. This tends to be related to a human desire of seeking perfection and seeing that person as perfection. They exemplify the standard and act as the guiding star for what we want to be.

This construct strikes a particular chord with many of your audience. Used properly it acts as another way for someone to relate to a character, especially if they are a kid. In truth, hero worship tends to bear a striking resemblance story wise to religion in faith. The key difference is in fact that the religion is replaced with a particular being or character that the person has faith in. Even in the moment when the character has a crisis of faith it’s almost exactly the same as the root cause of the crisis is generally a difference between the expectation and reality. Seeing Christians act “un-christlike” or watching the hero character condone a heinous act are examples of things that can cause such a crisis.

During this time of Crisis the character will often be wrapped up mentally trying to reconcile the expectation and reality, coming to terms with what they believe. Rare few stories I’ve seen will have the character forsake expectation to follow unconditionally, though those are the characters that infuriate us the most in a good way. These tend to be the characters we label as spineless turncoats as they had values they held to be perfect in which they forsaked for the image of perfect. I’m trying to think of a particular good instance of this but I’m really at a loss, all the ones I remember are very obscure. Perhaps this is the perception of characters still following lelouch in the last half season of Code Geass, which just adds another level of mind fuckery into that whole mess.

The other route is of course where the character is able to separate their ideals from the hero and then confront said hero. In many ways this is the confrontation of what could be their own flaws and making the point that they won’t do the same. This can also be used to show the ramifications for following your ideals, letting the character suffer for confronting their hero or becoming the villain for a time. There really isn’t a wrong way to go here as long as you put effort into making it good.

I was actually referring to how ‘the fall’ and ‘falling’ are reoccurring motifs in all of my works. But the Protomen are badass as well.

> The Fall I’m just going to believe that this is totally and undeniably a reference to me.