A Six Year Old Plays the Opening of Bioshock

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Editor's note: I'm not exactly sure how to classify Jack's creative and very funny narrative, but I like it. I hope to see more from him soon. -Brett


Is this in a plane?

I went in a plane last year and there were potato chips and I was sick. And I watched a film with a dog in and a boy that loved the dog and--

The plane is crashing! The plane is crashing! 

He’s not going to drown, is he? He isn't, because if he drowned, there wouldn’t be anything to play. But if it was a game about drowning, or if it takes place in heaven, then he might drown.

(You have to swim, sweetie.)

I was going to. I was about to, but I was watching the fire and the end of the plane. Can you see the end of the plane there? There, in the water.

Look! A lighthouse!

The lighthouse is there to stop the boats from crashing into the bits of the plane. If they crashed into the plane, they’d sink too, and someone would have to make another lighthouse to stop other boats from crashing into it.

 

The plane is sinking! Watch the plane sinking! I’m going inside.

Oh. Why would anyone put a statue in a lighthouse? To scare away boats? It’s not like anybody’s going to go in.

Down the stairs. Round and round and round and round. Bump, bump, bump.

Look! Is that a submarine in the lighthouse? I'm going to pull the lever.

...Is Mr. Ryan selling something?

I don’t like being in small spaces. I went to a railway museum once and I climbed into this little box where the railway men kept their sandwiches and the door got stuck and Dad had to call the railway museum men and they used a crowbar and said some things that you would not say to nuns. And when we got home...

...When we got home...

Bioshock View

...Wow.

A whale!

Mr. Ryan was selling something! Look at all of the adverts!

When I dropped my walkie-talkie in the bath because I wanted to hear the bubbles underwater, the walkie-talkie went off and didn’t come on.

All the lights are flashing still! Is it a magic city?

All... good... things... of... this... earth. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, the Spiders are coming up!

He’s come, he’s come to see me! Hello! Hell-- oh.

I don’t want to play this anymore. I want to play the game with the shovel and the flowers and the Lego Batman on his swinging rope and when you smash them you get sweets which you can feed to the other ones. Idon’twanttoplaythisanymore.

 
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Comments (5)
Me_and_luke
August 22, 2010

I liked this, Jack!  And I will never forget that splicer's "shriek of rage."  So eery...

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August 24, 2010

Little one, would you kindly keep playing . . .

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August 25, 2010

Outside of the story about the train museum, this was strangely similar to the way my brain was conceiving the beginning of BioShock. Heh! Nice stuff.

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August 25, 2010

Thank you so much for the comments, everyone. It's my first article here, and I'm glad you liked it. While it was a great article, I was a bit disappointed in the 'My Four Year Old Plays GTA', because I was expecting something silly. This was for all who thought the same. 

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August 25, 2010

I stuck around to watch the plane sink before swimming away too, except then I felt bad and swam back to check for survivors.  For some reason, I feel vindicated to have more virtual empathy than a hypothetical six-year-old.

"Things you would not say to nuns" is golden, btw.

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