That is an actual screenshot from the upcoming NBA Jam video game by EA Sports. I blogged it yesterday on my gush site, but I want to bring it over to Kossack turf so we can wallow in it.
Sarah Palin is hilarious in the game. She has a beehive haircut and a helicopter dunk that is just awesome. She also makes some pretty funny faces in the photos. It’s just good, clean fun. We even made logos for the Republicans and Democrats, where the donkey is this bad-ass donkey with a Mohawk, and the Republicans have this cool elephant. It’s just this perfect storm for us and we couldn’t be happier to include all of these characters in the game.
That is a quote from Trey Smith, developer, on ESPN. It sends my mind reeling. I tend to live my life on the edge of the intersection between the Immateria and Social Consensus Reality. This video game blurs the line quite nicely.
Barack Obama vs. Sarah Palin, in a little world that I can control completely like a maniacal fanboy puppet master? Yes please. I have always adored the godlike powers that the human is afforded by video games. Now I get to play politics.
How does this affect the real world of elections and legislature? Hmmm. In modern society, politicians are little more than an image anyway. It remains to be seen how the Obama and Palin (and McCain and Biden) characters are portrayed, but it will now be possible to make any of them into a fireballin' bad boy (or girl) of epic proportions. Even if the game designers have inserted a red or blue bias, each gamer that thumbs the knobs will hold an entire political reputation in their sweaty little hands. I am sure there will be more than one embarassing video on Youtube from this game, since the nerdgasm resulting from forcing helpless characters into hilariously compromising positions is way too tempting to resist. Especially in this case.
I adore the times we live in. Pop culture is my cup of tea. Growing up watching Banana Splits and Wacky Races twisted my formative brain into a Zen Arcade of pure aestheto-ephipanal bias toward anything loud, lovely, and luscious. The fact that I will soon be giggling as I get to make my Obama detonate dirty dunks in Sarah Palin's beehive sends terrific tickles of anticipatory joy up my brainstem into the crown of my skull.
You?
