Taboo: The Sixth SenseThis article concerns the ending of the show The Sopranos; don’t read it if you don’t want the ending ruined.
Taboo: The Sixth Sense really isn’t a game so much as an attempt to destroy the video game industry from within. When you start it up you are asked for your name, birth date and sex. You are given the opportunity to ask a question, and afterwards you are given a tarot reading. I can hardly imagine what this game looks like to an evangelical Christian. Tarot cards, skulls with fiery eyes, nudity. Shit, when your reading is done they even give you lottery numbers so that you can go gamble. It is fucking awesome.
When faced with the opportunity to ask the spirits any question there is really only one correct one:
Let’s see what they got for us.
The first card, The Lovers, states that “within your present frame of reference is a strong or deep feeling [of] love, trust, harmony, or confidence.” I’ve always been fairly confident that Tony walked out of that diner. I think rather than death, his fate was to live out his remaining days having to constantly look over his shoulder.
The Five of Cups seems like a pretty ominous card. Things aren’t looking good for Tony.
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The Five of Cups and now the Death/Change card. The spirits are clearly telling me that “Man in Members Only jacket” wacked Tony.
These cards, like the ending of The Sopranos itself are vague as shit. By referring to ‘being misled’ and ‘a time of instability, falseness’ they manage to strip away all of the directness of the previous cards, leaving me to wonder who is misleading me. David Chase, the spirits themselves?
The Final Outcome Card: The Emperor. I’ll be damned if that fat fuck of an emperor doesn’t look exactly like Tony Soprano. “The culmination of the events revealed before will be a tendency to make and/or dominate wars or arguments.” So basically the spirits were just jerking me around, they don’t have a fucking clue either. But hey, they hit me up with some Lotto numbers.
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