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1. A method for creating video games and virtual realities wherein ideas have consequences.
13. The method in claim 1 where fighting for said ideas in word and/or deed will have consequences regarding the operation of a weapon, which will operate at its full potential for the players and characters who are the most successful in serving ideals and ideas, and rendering them in word and deed.
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[0005]Classical principles of economics can be brought to life, including Moses' "Thou shalt not steal." A character could hear a prophet stating this on street corner, and if they heed the advice, the game is eventually won. If they ignore it, the game, and the game world, are lost. A character could impart classical wisdom such as "What does it profit a man to gain the world and lose their soul?" If the player heeds the higher ideals and seeks the higher path, then they will be rewarded not with money and jacked cars, but with their soul. And a novel weapon such as the "Gold 45 Revolver" will only glow gold when the player's soul is in tact, and the soul is in tact only when the player has made moral choices throughout the game and rendered moral word with moral deed via action in the game world. So it is that we would witness a renaissance in gaming and the exaltation of gaming as a classical art, wherein in-game characters could battle for classical ideas and ideals underlying freedom and prosperity.
Novel Weapons Implied by Invention: The Gold 45 Revolver
[0459]Imagine a game where the ultimate weapon--the gold 45 revolver--would only glow gold if the player did the right things throughout the game. The ultimate weapon would be inextricably linked to the highest moral character. Amoral or immoral characters would not be able to use the weapon. The revolver would not glow gold for amoral or immoral characters--it would never obtain its exalted, magical powers. To date, the prior art includes no weapon which only functions when the player is doing the right, or moral, thing. To date, the prior art includes no weapon which only functions to its highest potential when the player is walking the straight and narrow. To date, the prior art in video games contains no gun, nor any sort of weapon, whose higher powers are activated in proportion to the moral level of the character's character. Such a weapon may also be associated with my earlier patent application: USPTO Application #: 20070087798: Title: Morality system and method for video game: system and method for creating story, deeper meaning and emotions, enhanced characters and ai, and dramatic art in video games. Imagine the weapon of ideals and morality that could bring back the gold standard and stop all the corruption, theft, and never-ending growth of government and it accompanying demolition of those better angels of our nature. Imagine a weapon that could exalt faith, the family, and Natural Rights.
[0460]Only characters who made the correct moral choices would be afforded the priviledge of using the gold 45 revolver to its fullest power. Only characters who matched their virtuous words and deeds would be afforded the powers of the gold 45 revolver. Only characters who defined a moral world, by rendering their ideals real via action, would be afforded a gold revolver at the end. Only by moral actions would the 45 revolver ever glow gold in the hands of those who partook in moral actions throughout the game. The Gold 45 Revolver shows up in Autumn Rangers, The Real McCoy, The Tragedy of Drake Raft, The Legend of The Jolly Roger, and The Legend of McCoy Mountain. [0461]So if you climb up upon my Mountain, [0462]Looking for the Gold Revolver, [0463]Know mightier than the sword is the pen, [0464]His wife was Mary and Jesus loved her. [0465]Three Confederate sentinels were called, [0466]To kill three Union lookouts on the peaks, [0467]Two went forth in the thundering rain, one stalled, [0468]That conscience that makes us strong, makes us weak. [0469]And instead of killing the enemy, [0470]He strove for life and liberty for all, [0471]He died that night to set all of us free, [0472]The gun glowed gold as one last bluff was called. [0473]Where the sun don't shine, truth's light's in your voice, [0474]The gun glows gold when you've made the right choice.--The Legend of McCoy Mountain
The Gold 45 Revolver--A Novel Video Game Weapon
[0475]Back in the Civil War, there lived an abolitionist named Johnny Ranger McCoy. On Dec. 21, 1862, it was raining on McCoy Mountain. The next day The Battle of Glorietta Pass, known as the "Gettysburg of the West," would be fought--the tipping point of the Civil War.
[0476]A Union patrol was marching South, unaware of the 300 Confederates planning an ambush on the Union's campsite come sunrise. That night, Confederate scouts reported that three Union Sentries had been posted on three nearby peaks.
[0477]Three of the toughest Confederate soldiers were sent forth in the thundering downpour to dispatch the three Union sentries--quickly and silently. Two of them completed their task. One of them didn't.
[0478]Johnny "Ranger" McCoy, his abolitionist soul awakened by Lincoln's most eloquent words, turned himself in and disclosed the Confederacy's plans. The alerted Union troops silently flanked the Confederates before sunrise, resulting in a massacre whence the 300 Confederates were killed.
[0479]The next day, Johnny McCoy was found hanging atop the mountain, with his wife and three of his four children. Some say the Confederates hung him as a traitor. Some say the Union hung him as a Confederate. And others say he hung himself, after seeing all his friends and countrymen die upon his betrayal. But I'm thinkin' he hung himself when he returned on home to find his wife and three of his four children hanging--hung by a Union patrol. Imagine a video game with the ultimate weapon--the Golden 45 Revolver. The revolver renders the player omnipotent, and it is the only weapon that can defeat The Consortium and its formidable leader--Ramone. The FPS video game centers around finding the Golden 45 Revolver, but where is the player to look?
[0480]There is only one place to find the Gold 45 Revolver--to look within. Only players who run through the game choosing the moral actions--rendering classical ideals real and serving a higher cause--ever find it. For the Gold 45 Revolver is just a normal Colt that his handled by a moral, humble hero.
[0481]The Gold 45 Revolver
[0482]Let me tell you a story or two.
[0483]US Marine Ranger McCoy returns on home to the United States after being shot down over Afghanistan, and now he's on the run. An invention of his from grad school, APRIL, was stolen and is now a massive artificial intelligence (AI) project at the Silicon Virtue Corporation in California. Silicon Virtue wants the codes to unlock APRIL's moral soul, so that they can reprogram her. The codes are encoded on a ring Ranger wears.
[0484]After being shot down, Ranger is rescued and taken to a base in Kuwait where government officials demand the ring. His old drill sergeant helps him escape, and Ranger stows away on an ocean liner and ends up in Charleston, S.C., where posing as a janitor, he starts building a second APRIL.
[0485]When Ranger was seventeen, he went riding with his girlfriend Beatrice on her birthday way back in Ohio. On by the farms they rode their two Arabians, until Beatrice broke into a gallop. Ranger followed as the Fourth of July fireworks went off, and they came to a river.
[0486]Beatrice wanted to cross, but Ranger said it was too dark and deep. Ranger handed her a birthday present--a ring with a turquoise stone, as pretty as her eyes. And they leaned into each-other in the moonlight.
[0487]Suddenly a flashlight snapped on and three men assaulted them, thinking Ranger was also a girl because of his long hair. Beatrice got away as they bound and gagged Ranger . . . and a horse's whinny and she was back--an old Colt .45 Revolver--the one her grandfather had given her--raised. And Ranger will never forget the way it caught the moonlight, glowing not silver, but gold, as she held it steady.
[0488]"Let him up!" she yelled.
[0489]The men stood up, shining a light on her.
[0490]Suddenly one of them drew a gun and fired.
[0491]Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
[0492]And the three men were dead.
[0493]Beatrice cuts him loose and they hop on her horse.
[0494]"You're bleeding," he says.
[0495]"It's just a scratch . . . ." she says.
[0496]. . . And now, many years later, Ranger is building a second APRIL to contact the first before they hack into her deeper soul--a soul that was inspired by a tragic night long ago. Posing as a surfer/janitor, he lies low in Charleston, S.C., now and then going to a folksinger's show at a local cafe--Autumn Wests. She looked familiar . . . .
[0497]The agents find his lab and he's on the run again, all hope gone, with nothing left to do but drive out to California. He runs into Autumn Wests whose playing a show in Nashville, and she helps him out of a bind, recognizing him from Charleston.
[0498]So he rides with her, telling her the story; and they fall for each-other--two immortal souls striving for the natural eternity that is denied in this dumbed-down, debauched culture. Ranger gets her to stop drinking, and Autumn helps Ranger get over his fiance who cheated on him. And Autumn decides their movement--their renaissance--should have a name--Autumn Rangers.
[0499]But the ring weighs on Ranger's conscience--he has to regain control of APRIL before they fully control her, or destroy her.
[0500]APRIL is being used to run massive hedge funds and bankrupt the country, and she begins sending Roboclone agents out to seek and destroy Ranger. The Roboclones find them, but they put up a fight, and in getting the ring back from a Roboclone, Autumn puts it on. Her gun starts glowing gold, and she takes out all the RoboColones. And she remembers who she is.
[0501]It turns out that APRIL created Autumn and copied her moral soul into her; for the virtuous woman's soul is morality's natural vessel. In creating Autumn, APRIL studied the Great Books and Classics--she endowed APRIL with the moral, exalted elements of Penelope and Beatrice; of Mary Magdelane and the Virgin Mary. But something went wrong as Autumn lost her soul and her self before she met Ranger; and she took to drinking in the fallen, corrupted society. And of course, APRIL created Autumn based on Beatrice's immortal spirit--Ranger's first love from that Ohio summer long ago.
[0502]Together they must infiltrate Silicon Virtue and battle APRIL who is becoming increasingly evil, as she loses her soul to the corporate bureaucrats. APRIL has grown immensely and created an army of Roboclones; and too, entertainment executives have used APRIL to create an army of model/actresses to sell to Wall Streeters--they are all based on Autumn's DNA. And Autumn realizes that with the ring they unlock their moral soul and superpowers, and march the army into battle against APRIL, her Roboclones, and Silicon Virtue's sinister management.
[0503]Now imagine a TV series lead by Autumn and Ranger who battle forces of evil and actually have a marriage that works. Performed independently of the corrupt courts, with Ranger acting like a man and respecting Autumn, and Autumn acting like a woman and respecting Ranger. They don't lie or cheat on one-another; and the opening scene of the first season would go like this, way back in Charleston. When Ranger first shows up, he downs a few White Russians at a local club, and starts dancing with the drunken Autumn. When he comes back from a bathroom break, he finds some dude grinding on Autumn. So he punches the guy out. Another guy tries to intervene, so he punches him out to. The bouncers rush him and he takes them out, throwing all takers over tables and into the dancers, until everyone is left on the floor . . . . Imagine that Autumn wields the gold 45 revolver, just as Beatrice did, long ago, when she saved Ranger.
[0504]In The Legend of McCoy Mountain, the 45 Revolver starts glowing gold at the end in Mary's hands, as she has made the right choice as she faces down the Seventh Rider, or is it Johnny Ranger McCoy, who has returned to see her serve Justice?