The Video Game Monologues

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Dec 092009
 

YouTube – The Video Game Monologues.

I don’t even know what to make of this. 🙂 I suppose I am flattered, sort of. It stars me and McKenzieWark. (Be patient, it speeds up after minute 3 or so).

  13 Responses to “The Video Game Monologues”

  1. Brandon Amato says:
    December 9, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Thanks for taking the time to watch the video (and for understanding that it’s supposed to be tongue-in-cheek). It was just a little project for a grad class here at Georgia State University, never thought you’d actually be watching it. I’m obviously a big fan of your book, thanks again!

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    December 10, 2009 at 12:47 am

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  3. Richard Bartle says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Looks as if someone mistook the contents of your book for the entirety of your thoughts.

    Richard

  4. Morgan Ramsay says:
    December 10, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Put the model of Raph on Metaplace or something, so we can dress him up in battle gear and fire lasers at space monsters. 😉

  5. Richard A. Bartle says:
    December 10, 2009 at 3:52 am

    Morgan Ramsay>Put the model of Raph on Metaplace or something, so we can dress him up in battle gear and fire lasers at space monsters.

    That military entertainment complex has really got its claws into you.

    Or it could just be evolution.

    Richard

  6. len says:
    December 10, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Gamers taking themselves taking themselves a little seriously. Ok.

    It would be funny if the Raph avatar hit the McKenzie avatar on the back of the head with a basketball at the end. That’s entertainment. Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!

  7. Morgan Ramsay says:
    December 10, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    Richard:

    Actually, I was paying homage to Raph’s son! “This would be awesome if you had a ray gun. All good games have enemies and ray blasters.” (<a href="link)

  8. axcho says:
    December 11, 2009 at 1:05 am

    Wow, this is awesome! Like a combination of The Matrix and Ishmael, for games. It lacked a real conclusion though – I was hoping for something more.

    Still, it was entertaining, and gave me something to think about. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

  9. Richard Bartle says:
    December 11, 2009 at 3:19 am

    Morgan Ramsay>Actually, I was paying homage to Raph’s son!

    Well, that military entertainment complex has really got its claws into him, then!

    Or, put another way, “boys will be boys”.

    Richard

  10. Yukon Sam says:
    December 11, 2009 at 7:20 am

    “boys will be boys” — Or girls. Or hedgehogs. Or robots. With ray guns.

  11. len says:
    December 11, 2009 at 8:51 am

    Looking at the BBC mashup of pundits punding at Kevin Kelly’s site, I sense the weboligarchs are in for a satirical pasting.

    http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/12/the_web_is_larg.php

    I watched the Danah Boyd video, read her speech and thought to myself, cry little girl but you walked right into this thinking somehow that giving droning speeches of profundities that were old before you came on the scene and not noticing that the entertainment appeal was tight sweaters and strawberry blondeness is noobie to the anklets. If she really believed attention is power, she would have pulled up the sweater and dared anyone to keep looking at their TwitBoxes.

    All stages are entertainment regardless of venue or cause. All audiences turn when they get bored. If all you have is cover material even where ‘reimagined’, you’re going to get air horn borne at some point. Man up, reinvent, or retire. That’s show biz.

    “It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world ‘cept for Lola.”

  12. Mantees says:
    December 17, 2009 at 11:04 am

    You haven’t played EVE Online before?????
    I am disappointed!

  13. Raph says:
    December 17, 2009 at 11:26 am

    Mantees, the fictional person in this who bears resemblance to me is not actually me. 🙂

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