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bumbling
laden
À
la lumière des événements
du 11 septembre 2001, jusqu’où
l’Occident ira-t-il pour cuirasser
son opulence ?
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Most
generally say weekends
are good for you, since they keep you away
from the business at hand. Strange
concept, ain’t it? I personally garble
it… with a passion. I have always time-tested
my soul, making each and every day different
to the prior, in a global accrual on perplexity
and devotion. What
comes next has always been my cup
of tea… and History, unquestionably,
has not.
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Marcel
Pelletier,
whom I photographed for the first
time in 1997.
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With
that said, I did have a lovely time over
the weekend, danke very much. Visiting my
sister, I managed to get engulfed in a nuit
blanche of playing Age
of Empires with Marcel, Micheline’s
prevailing paramour. Networking like buffoons
within a ten by ten room overflowing with
fumes, we strolled around the clock drinking
vast glasses of Pepsi and munching on huge
bags of classical Doritos.
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screenshot
taken from age
of empires
© microsoft corporation
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What
a mess. I have to report that Marcel bushed the
crap out of me in every single game that we played.
For my defence, I shall say that my opponent is
an experienced warrior, having been a collaborateur
of that very game for quite a while. But what
exactly is that game... and why is it so popular ?
In
quoting Microsoft (my favourite source) :
« Age of Empires
is an epic real-time strategy game spanning 10,000
years, in which players are the guiding spirit
in the evolution of small stone age tribes. Starting
with minimal resources, players are challenged
to build their tribes into great civilizations.
Gamers can choose from one of several ways to
win the game, including : world domination
by conquering enemy civilizations, exploration
of the known world and economic victory through
the accumulation of wealth. »
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screenshot
taken from age
of empires
© microsoft corporation
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While
Marcel and I were having good, clean, napoleonesque
fun, somewhere in suburbia... a guy by the name
of Usama was, well, playing an altered version of
the same game, possibly atop the White Mountains
of Tora Bora, in northeastern Afghanistan.
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JJRD
coming out of the shower in October, 2001.
Photo :
Hélène Vallée.
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That
mountaintop shall either be Usama’s resting,
rumbled grave… or the place filed in History
as to where he was captured and brought to bumbling
laden Justice ? In any case, one could say
that the guy altered « the game »
forever. For as of today, there is only one player
left: USA & Friends.
And with only one player at the table, there is
no place left for diversity.
Yep,
that is precisely where we are headed: a levelled
logosphere filled with Pepsi and Doritos is in
the works. You goofed, Usama. Boy are we in for
a spell... but then again, what else is new ?
12.12.2001
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joseph
jean rolland dubé •
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shawinigan, secteur grand-mère
• québec
• canada
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