Fortnite | March Through Time is a game in a game about progress.
This game has once again turned my dm's into a slip and slide asking for hot takes. "Aren't I appalled, spalding, ball ?" "How many rolls has MLK done in his grave thanks to this?" Oh, and my favorite "I thought they couldn't do worse than putting Harriet Tubman on the dollar but they did, now validate my worldview in that snarky yet noncommittal way you do!"
Listen: I won't bury the lead. I love it, here's why:
Oh wait actually before that let's get in front of few of things. "March Through Time" is an interactive demonstration that takes place within a hyper-violent weapons based battle royale, this is true. But real life America is a hyper-violent, weapons based, battle royale, and that is the server MLK played on. So what type of facts are those?
Also, this interactive demonstration was not made by a soulless corp as a cash grab, it was made by JuVee, ChaseJackman, GQuanoe, XWDFr, and YU7A ; teams of talented black creators and game devs that knocked it out of the park. But by all means, keep rapping off the head about the made up corp creeps. Do they work in the basement of a pizza parlor too?
Last thing to get out of the way is I ask to please stop being offended for the man. I believe MLK would have enjoyed everything about this project because was a big fuckin' nerd who is literally the reason Star Trek stayed Star Trek.
So yeah, I love it. More please. The lionshare of people I run into that don't enjoy it are the people you would expect to not enjoy it, for reasons so predictable you can set your watch to them. The other group of people are the exact type of people MLK wrote about in that Birmingham Jail.
There is always some mysterious right time and place with them. They never know when or where, just not here and now. Meanwhile hate's digital marketing and event plans are fuckin' lit. They are Shaq in the 90's breaking backboards while the armies of love are livestreaming from the stands. I know it's been twenty years and you probably won't, but please, I'm begging you, click the link at the top, download the game, play it for yourself, and form your own opinions. It's free.
Also shouts to information. Help me win the crew's bingo night and just tell me which boogeyman I am to them this week. You're adorable. Keep at it, almost there. Also rip TB rip tc rip Tall-T. love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
