Of course I told him I'd get rid of it but I secretly kept it in the game. When I presented the game to the rest of the company, I showed them that pose and one of the higher ups told me it just wasn't cool enough. In a 2015 interview with The Guardian, he explains how he took over the failing project: It’s commonly considered Hidetaka Miyazaki’s original creation that led to its popular Dark Souls offspring, but the genre, and the sun gesture with it, might not exist at all without Miyazaki’s rebellious spirit. Early lightĭemon’s Souls was the foundation for the mechanics that we now think of as the souls-like genre-abstract multiplayer, maddeningly opaque lore, and soul-crushing difficulty. This cultural takeover, the permeation of celebration through a game that intentionally restricts communication, is all according to Miyazaki’s grand design-and it began long before the kindling of the first flame. Chances are you’ve seen it in an all-caps Reddit comment, scrolled past the ‘praising intensifies’ gif somewhere on Twitter or Facebook, or watched convention-goers praise the sun for photos like it was the new planking. We don’t get to enjoy what it feels like to fly.You don’t need to have played Dark Souls to be familiar with praising the sun. It’s a shame really, that we trick people into believing it’s all about the destination.
They got the golden ticket but couldn’t get in. Elders who have finally “made it” but have lost their purpose and their meaning. Western culture weaves the story that “if we work hard enough will finally get to relax.” It drives us, ceaselessly towards an imaginary payoff. This is counter to what our culture tells us. But what I am saying is: that is not the goal in life. Not at al! Rest and recuperation are incredibly important. We are created to invent, build, and express. We were not designed to sit in leisure or to consume endlessly – media, food, comfort. It is complacency of the highest order. We are made to grow, to change, and to adapt. So hubris is a type of arrogance, it is the belief that you finally made it. There is something so strange about the human animal in that it seems to thrive when it is challenged. Do you understand this? This is so fundamentally important! But we, as humans, try to make meaning of the world around us and more often than not we turn it into stress. They are neither good nor bad, they just are. The things themselves are inherently empty – that is, the things themselves do not hold any value or meaning.
Stress comes from the meaning that we attribute to things, not from the things themselves. I am humbled in every moment of confusion. I’m reminded daily of how little I know and understand about this world. To think that I somehow “made it” or that I’m better than others. Almost as a reminder, “you’re not done yet.” The constant reminder never to let up, and let my guard down. Just when I finally pat myself on the back and get comfortable life throws me a curve ball. Have you gotten everything you’ve always wanted and then tried to take a little more? Have you been shocked by the results? It’s happened to me plenty of times. It is the universe’s way of punishing us for taking just a little too much. Hubris takes hold just when we have succeeded. About what happens when we think we have it all figured out. A young Icarus plummeted, screaming, into the ocean. And in that moment, his wings made of wax melted. Higher and higher until he flew so high that he could touch the sun. He flew past his village, over the mountains, and out to sea. He constructed wings made of wax and took to the sky, he wanted to challenge the gods.īut then he got cocky and he flew higher and higher. Are you familiar with the myth of Icarus?
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