We’re Paying People to Play Our Video Games for Us
The very idea of a “virtual world” scares me. I don’t understand Second Life, and it makes me a little sad. I understand this makes me a bit of a curmudgeon, but I just can’t believe people would pay...
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Octopus pulp covers. I heart you internet.Expert in alienation, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore subpoenaed in World of Warcraft law suit.Patent for a “fabricated baked potato” (via Alexis...
View ArticleLove (or Something), Virtually
And the winner of Best Opening Line Ever goes to: “I was a gay man playing ‘Warcraft’ as a beautiful woman, and he was a Mormon virgin. Our romance was a time bomb.”Over at Salon, Elliot Glen tells the...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Andrew Ervin
It’s probably fitting that a novel titled Burning Down George Orwell’s House doesn’t focus much on the author of classroom classics like Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Instead, Andrew Ervin’s...
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