Arcadian Rhythms

I don’t remember why or how (probably either while sleep deprived or intoxicated, or both) but ten years ago I sometimes loaded up MSPaint and “drew” my Phantasy Star Online character, in what appears to be an attempt at the Jet Grind Radio cel-shaded style, tagging an underlined PSO on some form of… skybox… or blue wall, if you wish.

“Jet Set PSO”, in Europe and Japan.

Shortly after having stumbled on the above piece, I couldn’t help but message AJ about it. I didn’t even get to the point of telling him why I was doing so before I came to a realization. Something that, perhaps even back when this was drawn, I didn’t notice despite having depicted it so clearly.

Before I fall onto that subject, though, I’ll tell AJ (and you) why I sent him that picture: it’s crazy, don’t you find we have the same MAD SKILLS with MSPaint? I could have sworn it was you who did this!

With that taken care of, here’s the BLEEDING HEART of the subject:

Why – amid all the freedoms that are granted to us in today’s world of gaming – are we still limited to actions like parkour, stealing cars, blowing stuff up, shooting people or robbing banks? There are other things we can do in a big city with all those walls, ya know, and it’s called ART. Or, graffiti.

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