The Tao of Fall Guys: Deep Thoughts While Gaming
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Dive into "The Tao of Fall Guys: Deep Thoughts While Gaming," where we blend the chaotic fun of Fall Guys with philosophical musings. Explore how the game’s unpredictable nature mirrors life’s ups and downs, and find wisdom in the pursuit of victory and the acceptance of failure. This unique take on gaming will entertain and enlighten, offering a fresh perspective on both the game and life.
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Dive into "The Tao of Fall Guys: Deep Thoughts While Gaming," where we blend the chaotic fun of Fall Guys with philosophical musings. Explore how the game’s unpredictable nature mirrors life’s ups and downs, and find wisdom in the pursuit of victory and the acceptance of failure. This unique take on gaming will entertain and enlighten, offering a fresh perspective on both the game and life.
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00:00When action is taken without action, nothing is left undone.
00:06Even when one is immersed in the depths of the abyss, one must maintain the essence of
00:11tranquility.
00:12Dang it!
00:13No!
00:14Welcome to Deep Thoughts While Gaming.
00:19Today I find myself on a contemplative journey through a colorful realm of minor background
00:24characters from the Studio Ghibli movie, who live to battle each other in physical contests,
00:29worthy of a mildly sadistic Japanese game show.
00:34Fall Guys is an online-only battle royale that involves a string of four games, where
00:39an initial set of 60 players gets cruelly whittled down to a single blood-splattered
00:45warrior champion.
00:48Figuratively speaking.
00:49Sure, they may actually look like a hot dog or a sushi roll, but come on!
00:55Blood-splattered warrior is the only way to describe whoever makes it through all this.
00:59Squid Games has nothing on this brutal critique of capitalist competition gone mad.
01:05Where's the Emmy nomination for Fall Guys?
01:09In reality, though, Fall Guys is an advanced meditative training simulation created by
01:15ancient yoga masters, or possibly Zen monks, or reclusive Taoist hermits.
01:21Whoever they were, they had one clear goal—to show the player the impermanence of everyday
01:26life and the need to adopt a calm, unperturbed view of human struggles.
01:31A door that we encounter might well be a wall, while some walls are really doors.
01:37Being blown off a tube by a suddenly appearing enormous fan is an opportunity to explore
01:43new paths, and potentially even reach one's goals all the more quickly.
01:49Just like how if you lose your job and get dumped by your partner, you might find a five
01:54dollar bill on the ground that very same day.
01:57True story!
01:58No, that wasn't me crying, it was the hot dog.
02:03In Fall Guys, as in life itself, striving forward as fast and determinedly as possible
02:10often actually leads to setbacks.
02:13Narrow tunnel vision focused only on the next step forward can leave you vulnerable to a
02:17sudden punch from a giant boxing glove.
02:21Instead of plunging ahead, the way to succeed is to embrace an unworried mind, free of anxieties,
02:28and to fall into a state of flow.
02:31Victory in the end goes not to the one who is always racing ahead, but the one whose
02:36moves follow the course of nature.
02:39The experience calls to mind the ancient Chinese Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi, and his story
02:44of a lord who was watching a butcher cutting up meat.
02:49After asking him how he became so skillful, the butcher replied,
02:53What your servant values is the Tao, or the Way, which goes beyond technique.
02:59When I first began cutting up oxen, I did not see anything but oxen.
03:04Three years later, I couldn't see the whole ox, and now I encounter them with spirit,
03:10and don't even bother to look with my eyes.
03:13Sensible knowledge stops, and spiritual direction proceeds.
03:18I rely on the sensation of heavenly patterns, strike in the big gaps of bone and flesh,
03:24am guided by the natural spaces and gaps, and follow what is inherently so.
03:30To which the lord replies, Excellent!
03:33I have heard the words of a butcher, and learned how to care for life.
03:38I too have heard the words of a fall guy, well, mostly squeaks, and learned how to care
03:43for life.
03:46No longer do I pay much attention to the apparent successes of my rivals, or worry that others
03:51are ahead of me.
03:52Instead, I allow myself to drift forward, dancing with the energies of the universe
03:58around every obstacle, hanging back coolly while traps snare those in front, suddenly
04:05pressing forward when the moment is ripe, and never, ever losing my pure and unsullied
04:12calm state of mind.
04:14But even when that little pink son-of-a-sushi roll gets in my way on purpose to block me
04:20from reaching the finish line at the last minute, and I end up rolling off of the...
04:24Yes, tranquility is the most precious possession of the unperturbed soul.
04:30Who cares if you grab an opponent's tail or not?
04:34Yes!
04:35Got it!
04:36I mean, ah, so it goes.
04:40I remain unbothered, even when I should have gotten into that floating ring if I had been
04:46pushed off course by some jerk who obviously has no chance of winning, and is probably
04:52just sitting on the controller accidentally.
04:54It's actually a toddler pushing buttons at random when they should be being supervised
04:58by a responsible parent or guardian, and yet here they are, ruining my chances of coming
05:04out on top.
05:08As I said, I am cool and collected, part of the natural flow, with no thought of winning
05:14or losing or other such vulgarities.
05:16It would take more to phase my meditative state than a few wee sprites trying to outpace
05:22me as we jump around rolling logs to avoid deadly slime, even if they keep unfairly getting
05:28in front of me and burning up the little hexagon tiles.
05:33After all, only an unenlightened person would let himself be emotionally affected by the
05:38mere experience of jumping between platforms trying to be the last one standing, letting
05:45the others fall to their doom while you deftly evade every barrier.
05:50What matters is being in communion with the cosmos, not who wins or loses.
05:55Why should I even be pleased with seeing my last remaining competitor finally make the
06:00wrong leap and go plunging into the void, while I, at long last, win the gold medal
06:07and emerge the glorious, blood-splattered champion of all Fall Guys, whom all must bow
06:15before in awe.
06:17Take that, hot dog.
06:19Ahem.
06:20I mean, that'd be silly.
06:24Keep watching Deep Thoughts while gaming, and as always, maintain your inner peace.