Archiv nach Monat: Mai 2005

Gamers Manifesto

I found this on /. , and thought it too good to not share it:

http://​www​.point​less​was​teof​time​.com/​g​a​m​e​s​/​m​a​n​i​f​e​s​t​o​.​h​tml

Screen Real Estate

AAAaaaRGH! How I hate was­ted real estate on my screen. Micro­soft Mes­sen­ger promp­ted a nee­ded update for secu­rity rea­sons. Thin­king that would be a safe thing, I agreed to the update. No idea if this is any more secure, but it cer­tainly got a whole new look. Not nicer. Big­ger! More than half of the win­dow is now wasted by

adver­ti­sing
stu­pid but­tons

Happy Towel Day

Happy Towel Day Folks !

Bow“ he types

I found this on a ger­man news­site: „Bow Nig­ger“. Regard­less of the vali­dity of the con­tent, it’s a grip­ping read, and cap­tures a lot of emo­ti­ons online play­ers often experience.

While most rea­lize that play­ing online games is just a recrea­tio­nal activity, that things are just a game, games can trig­ger power­ful emotions too.

At one point, the aut­hor descri­bes his stress of the