Look. Don’t look. Look wherever you want, but avoid eye contact like it’s the cold gaze of the devil, staring into your very soul to steal it. You live in a town with a subway? Then you surely know that phenomenon.
Everybody stares straight at what seems to be the most uninteresting and harmless thing in sight. Interfering with this system will either result in a) a nice little conversation about the metro system, b) an accidental flirt or c) gang violence. At least this is what we have been brought up to believe.
Kian Bashiri has turned an awkward situation into a win-win-situation. Go for the high score by avoiding misconduct in your local metro, Virtua Cop style! Do not create social interference at any cost. Look at phones, mp3 players, ties, to increase your score, but do not ever look into the eyes of the pretty cut-out passengers. Also, you don’t have to burn the rope this time.
2 Comments
1 Ben Chandler wrote:
Finally a game that teaches people PROPER social conduct instead of normal games who teach us that rescuing people and murdering people are both acceptable. Once people learn that the trick to correct behavior is not paying anyone any attention at all, society will progress forward.
No, smelly beggar man, I will not give you money for your lunch, nor will I help you out, old lady who is clearly having her grocery cart stolen by hoodlums. Speak to me not, man in tie and glasses who might want to share his religious or political beliefs – I get my opinions from the television. Oh, and you, young lady with whom social interaction might be a very pleasant thing, I can already sense that you’re either out to steal my money or pass on that STD you’ve been saving for that special someone >:(
But what is this? Are you inferring that I was paying attention to you, article written on video game website? No, not I, observe as I successfully stare in what appears to be a very interested manner at that start menu button in order to appear nonchalant enough to remove any desire you might have previously had to talk/flirt/fight with me!
Victory is mine once again as I continue to pretend that very boring things are very interesting!
ps I am so lonely :(
2 Igor Hardy wrote:
I was going to write a comment about this fine game until I accidentally looked straight at the spotless social theory written in the comment above and had to run away in shame.