World of Offline Gaming

Short comedy where typical online gaming behavior invades real life: World of Offline Gaming. Deadpan Entertainment’s production notes are here ($70 plus beer to produce) and their reaction to some of the critical commentary on the WarcraftMovies.com is on their rant page: Haters .. why do they have to hate? (2nd 2/27/06 entry. Permalinks wru?) I dunno, some of the cited hate seems like legit criticism but I’m not the one that spent 70 bucks plus beer to make an indie short.

Let’s Talk About SEX

I’m really trying to take the high road here when I read and comment about the Sex in Video Games Conference and the keynote speaker, Regina Lynn, Wired’s weekly Sex Drive columnist, who will draw “… from her own cybersex experiences and her research into how sex in virtual spaces has evolved.” Far as I’ve seen, from my limited experiences in the big MMOGs, the cyberskank game hasn’t evolved at all: she (he/it) places her hand on your pulsating orb, next thing you know, your virtual bank account is empty and all you’re left with is the orb, which may or may not be still pulsating. The low road would have been: cybersex has evolved to cyberskanks getting paid to speak at cybersex conferences. I didn’t take that road. Remember that.