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by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/13/2007, 12:23am PDT |
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Fussbett wrote:
...through idiot mouthpiece Dean Takahashi.
The hope is that games will become even more addictive as they take on the trappings of MySpace or Flickr or Second Life or YouTube. Inside Sony's virtual world, anyone you meet can instantly know your interests, favorite movies and game achievements.
This is happening because people in modern society are suffering from the "lost village'' syndrome, says Trip Hawkins, the CEO of cell phone game maker Digital Chocolate and founder of Electronic Arts.
Hawkins' theory: We're all basket cases because we no longer live in closely-knit villages. People reside among strangers in big cities far from families, work away from home, and don't know their neighbors. To him, we're all desperately using technology to restore or extend our social networks so we won't be isolated anymore.
o "Digital Chocolate" is still the dumbest fucking name for anything.
o Carmack is doing cell phone games now, according to the latest PC Gamer. I like to think that he sighed, nodded his head and down to work there because he knew that otherwise, people with cell phones might be forced to play fucking Trip Hawkins games
o Trip predicting anything about any subject means he's automatically and hilariously wrong. I wish I could see his NCAA bracket before tomorrow, I'd reverse his picks and win enough money to pay original retail for a 3D0. Oh, by the way -- we've all enjoyed a decade's worth of inflation ,and asking more than $600 for a console in 2007 is still universally regarded as a moronic idea, you dumb, orange-skinned bastard. On the other hand, playing the 3D0 version of Ur-Quan masters on every single piece of technology except the 3D0 is one of the greatest moments in video gaming. I would predict that even your (Fussbett's) steel rack of game systems does not include a 3D0, because what's the fucking point.
o "Lost Village syndro--" what the fuck is this guy even talking about?
o Trip's theory is that we are all basket cases. This is his big theory. No, actually, all of us are fine: the reason we're not buying your horseshit, no matter what form it takes, and haven't been for years is not because there is something fundamentally wrong with us, and you're going to be able to fix it by stealing money from people who can't get MAME running on their cell phone. The reason nobody wants to give you any money is because you're irrelevant.
o I am DESPERATELY using technology and posting desperately and desperately trying to feel like I have even a wisp of a tether to the rest of the world. Meanwhile, Trip is all cool and collected as he lets people download titles like "Rollercoaster Rush" and "Tower Bloxx."
o Lastly, I will give $700, or a used 3D0, to anyone who can correctly identify the gender of the middle creature on the Digital Chocolate website. My shitty SyncMaster is still 17" wide and if I try to show anyone a game I am playing, even something other than Dwarf Fortress, I get thin-lipped smiles and quick exits because my goddamn head is in the way. Trip's games are so great, however, that a randomly and racially diverse group of women and Poser6 Errors will totally gather around a phone to cheer on the lead character in "Brain Juice."
the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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