| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
 | Technology and its abuses; which started, as a thought, from this image. For those not familiar with the vagaries of ragdoll physics or Deus Ex 2, the person in the case has been rendered either dead or unconscious and dropped into her own luggage. It's something that the game presumably did not intend for you to do, but which, thanks to the freedom of action provided, is perfectly possible.
This in turn reminded me of the Cantina Crawl, in which those who have decided that they want to be entertainers in online Star Wars role-playing (and who didn't want to be the elephant playing the keyboards?) get together for beautifully choreographed digital dance sequences. Cantina Crawl XII, although protesting about perhaps the world's tiniest problem, is a remarkable document of how online communities based around dirty dancing on Dantooine can produce works of startling polemic intensity.
Which takes up back to DeLappe, and ultimately maybe to poor deluded Sanford Lewin.
So, what do you use games for? As mentioned before, I primarily use them to meet girls.
3 Comments:
Ahh! That's where the ridiculous number of views on that photo are coming from! Thanks for the traffic.
I make no apologies for my actions. That remains the single greatest thing ever. And if it helps, she's unconscious rather than dead.
It's a physical pun on the name of the box, in case that isn't obvious.
Oddly enough, the fact thyat she is unconscious, even though she doesn't exist, does seem to make it better. I can applaud your ingenuity with a clear conscience...
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