Assignment 7

Lara croft is a good heroin that is easy to follow in the play ethic of the video game genre and Scheiner's depiction of the way games are networked in the postmodern and feminist pop culture is close to reality on how the technology of today is wasted on gaming. But, the money has to be made some how. I really think that Scheiner puts a little too much into a video game and how it effects us humans. The web is really nothing compared to real life and that goes for Lara Croft too.
The jaunt through computer games that people spend time on to me is a little much, I hear stories all the time from these kids to adults that speak of being up for days trying to beat a game, but the average person playing these games are just out for fun or trying to escape from the actual reality that they live in. Solving puzzles is fun and entertaining to the point that you do feel better when solving a problem in the game and gives you some confidence in reality that if a situation did come up that you would or could solve the problem. What I liked about Lara Croft and first person games is that it does divide your attention away from the outside stresses that you know that you can not remove yourself from permanently and helps in some mental way to give you that stress release that is needed. I am never down on video gamers because I would rather anyone playing a game than committing a crime or get into trouble or worse.
When it comes to the feminist and Lara in her get-ups I say to the feminists...Get a Life!
How this effects me is that I always gave my children (when they were growing up) rules to live by and that included the playing of video games. This is just make-believe, I would tell them, play time not reality.
Believe it or not I would like to live as good the Jones's, but that is not reality, and being the mirror image of everybody else all the time would make this life a lot more boring. Individuality is important to me and just because the entertainment business wants to make a heroin out of a cartoon character is better then watching that stupid commercial about your brain on drugs! Even though it made sense. Who really cares what she is wearing and I really did not get the impression that it made her look masculine, if anything it gave the positive impression that ERA for women was not dead and that women can do well for themselves if it came down to it...In my opinion.....Lara Croft and women like her (and Ameilia Earhart ) Rock this World for women.