DO HUMANS DREAM OF NINTENDOGS?
Na novela Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick descreve um 1992 distopico em que ter um animal de estimacao e um previlegio das classes endinheiradas, as pessoas vulgares tem que se contentar com um simulacro electronico. Lembrei-me imediatamente deste livro quando vi o Nintendogs a venda num grande supermercado:
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Product Description
Put a puppy inside your Nintendo DS! In this game choose from Labrador Retriever, Miniature Schnauzer, Toy Poodle, Corgi, Miniature Pinscher or Shiba! Nintendogs lets you pick a puppy from a variety of breeds available at the beginning of the game. As you start spending time with your pup you can throw flying discs and balls to improve the pup's agility. You can bathe it when it gets dirty and use your own personal voice commands to train the dog to do tricks. If you train it well enough, your dog will excel in obedience and agility trials and disc competitions, which will earn money that you can use to buy other supplies and puppy breeds. When you earn enough cash, you can buy even more puppies to live with the original pup. Players can socialize their pups by walking them around the town, where they will meet neighborhoods dogs, and maybe even find new toys. Trips to the park and gym offer valuable training time to prepare for agility trials and disc competitions. Over time, the pup's stamina will increase so players can explore rather and farther. Players can interact wirelessly with their friends' Nintendogs - they can set their DS to bark whenever another puppy is within wireless range.
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Product Description
Put a puppy inside your Nintendo DS! In this game choose from Labrador Retriever, Miniature Schnauzer, Toy Poodle, Corgi, Miniature Pinscher or Shiba! Nintendogs lets you pick a puppy from a variety of breeds available at the beginning of the game. As you start spending time with your pup you can throw flying discs and balls to improve the pup's agility. You can bathe it when it gets dirty and use your own personal voice commands to train the dog to do tricks. If you train it well enough, your dog will excel in obedience and agility trials and disc competitions, which will earn money that you can use to buy other supplies and puppy breeds. When you earn enough cash, you can buy even more puppies to live with the original pup. Players can socialize their pups by walking them around the town, where they will meet neighborhoods dogs, and maybe even find new toys. Trips to the park and gym offer valuable training time to prepare for agility trials and disc competitions. Over time, the pup's stamina will increase so players can explore rather and farther. Players can interact wirelessly with their friends' Nintendogs - they can set their DS to bark whenever another puppy is within wireless range.
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O Nintendogs esta a ser um sucesso de vendas em Londres, onde a maioria das pessoas nao pode ter um um bicho maior que um hamster. Uma parte substancial das casas e apartamentos e alugada por intermedio de agencias que, seguindo as regras da boa gestao, procuram sempre maximizar os lucros e minimizar as despesas e de ano para ano o preco dos alugueres aumenta, o espaco disponivel e mais exiguo e surjem clausulas cada vez mais restrictivas nos contractos de arrendamento. Neste momento e praticamente impossivel um inquilino fumar, ter um animal de estimacao ou pregar um prego numa parede - no centro de Londres, ter uma sala com quadros ou um caozinho a dormir a sesta ao pe do aquecedor tornou-se um sinal de riqueza e status.
Vejo na existencia de jogos como o Nintendogs um pressagio sombrio: no futuro nao so nos vao tirar uma serie de pequenas coisas que amamos - os jardins, as pombas ,o tempo para ler o jornal, o pao com crosta, as bandas filarmonicas, os estalinhos de carnaval-como ainda vao retirar dividendos da nossa perda e da nossa saudade .
3 Comments:
Gostei deste post. Nunca tinha ouvido falar de tal coisa, mas acho que muita razão no que concluis!!
Porra, a mim não me tirarão o pão com crosta! >_<
(Passe a agressividade.)
Nem que se queime a torre de menagem... :)
Sim...terrível essas moradias da modernidade..em que temos grande platéia até para cantar no chuveiro. Tenho medo de colocar um quadro em minha parede e essa desmoronar e ter que dividir minha sala ainda mais com o vizinho. Grande problema também do Rio de Janeiro.
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