Having been more than a little surprised by the unquestionable success of Nintendo’s Wii, the Mont can’t help but wonder where the future might lead. It seems that the only element now lacking from the Wii and other consoles' interactive funfest might just be the addition of what Mont is tempted to patent: The Virtual Vulgarity Visualiser.
Imagine it now, a small Bluetooth device converting player’s game play taunts into an instant
high- definition visual representation on screen. The device could revolutionise the traditional
verbal or hastily typed insult into an instantly memorable graphic image ready for immediate duplication and sharing via web 2.0. Who hasn’t called a fellow gamer a whole variety of potentially hilarious visual concepts such as the simple P*ssy, tw*t or c*nt? Instant visual representations of these that account for context, frequency of use and intonation of voice would lead to a kaleidoscope of insult as art seamlessly accompanying the gameplay experience.
Like all technologies however, the VVV as it would no doubt be called, is fraught with many a potential problem and unintended consequence. The boundary that currently but increasingly thinly exists between the verbal and the visual, is perhaps one that the average gameplayer might not be willing to cross. While one can only imagine the potential hilarity at a visual representation of this article’s title (an insult frequently used by the Mont in multiplayer shooters), one is less keen on confronting an exact replica of our other heat of the moment exchanges; the Mofo’s and C*cks*cker chants would just have to go!
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