Thank you for asking! I would also like to know my thoughts on video game trees tbh.
The direction I think I might be going involves how trees are often used as barriers around the edges of a map. I’m going to connect this sense of “don’t go there” with (mostly North American) views of forests as being dangerous. Then I’m going to talk about the East Asian concept of “forest bathing” as being necessary for human health, and how virtual trees often serve as replacements for their real-life signifiers as the world’s population has become overwhelmingly urban during the past two decades.
I was recently re-reading Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, and I was like, “Damn, I’ve had these same experiences... but only in video games.” I thought that might be interesting to talk about, if only in the form of a twelve(ish) page/panel comic.
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Date: 2024-05-28 12:09 pm (UTC)The direction I think I might be going involves how trees are often used as barriers around the edges of a map. I’m going to connect this sense of “don’t go there” with (mostly North American) views of forests as being dangerous. Then I’m going to talk about the East Asian concept of “forest bathing” as being necessary for human health, and how virtual trees often serve as replacements for their real-life signifiers as the world’s population has become overwhelmingly urban during the past two decades.
I was recently re-reading Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, and I was like, “Damn, I’ve had these same experiences... but only in video games.” I thought that might be interesting to talk about, if only in the form of a twelve(ish) page/panel comic.