Battleangel

This post was rated by the MPAA and received a solid: R Haha, just kidding …

First of all I’d like to say happy birthday Asia Carrera! Although this is a couple of weeks late, I felt she qualified to be included in this blog somehow.

And why? Because she is such a prominent member of the p o r n industry? No, I was more thinking along the line of “famous people who play Unreal Tournament”. It is also a relief to see that she isn’t as predictable as you would presume her to be. I still think that most people would label her as a brainless bimbo simply because of her profession. Nice to see that they are wrong. And if there is anything that battleangel.org stands for it is proving smug and self-righteous people wrong!

I mean, anyone who has made their own Unreal Tournament skins deserves to be mentioned here. Even if their other “accomplishments” might not be accepted by the majority of people. She does possess a “nerdfactor” (not even I have made any custom UT skins and for that she is mentioned here.

Having said that, I still consider it a strength to be able to take “this profession” so lightly. Just brushing it off as if she doesn’t really care. Some of the image captions on the site (link above) imply a certain healthy distance to it all. The spoofed home cinema and unreal tournament games speak for themselves. On the one hand there is the real world .. and then there is the imaginary creation that is easier to accept for some. I would be incline to say that this is true for most of her fanbase.

From a psychologists point of view, the entertainment industry and especially the adult branch make a fascinating example of how our cognitive processes work. One of the foremost reasons that we are so appealed by entertainment in all it’s forms, let it be folk dancing or pornography, is that it presents various roles that we can bond to. Imaginary worlds. We all make them up in one form or another. For example, it was recently proven once and for all that we form imaginary relationships with long running soap opera type series. Or any continuous series of fabricated stories and characters really. And imaginary characters or events can be made just as vivid as any real-world persons or events. The jumble of neurons we call ‘brain’ doesn’t really care.

The point is whether or not the people, the ‘fans’, can distinguish between fact and fiction and WHY so many choose fiction before fact? Are we still so unhappy? There you have something to think about …