Not that i needed reminding this time.  There's a really great article over at Terra Nova concerning real reactions to virtual communities and events.  And the discussion was equally interesting.  But that, as with all good things, came to an end when it suffered a full-on spam-missive comment attack by the USS Prokofy Neva in full ...

I'm tempted to write ''that is all'', but what the hell.  The Escapist has an issue on Serious Games.  I played PeaceMaker through as both sides and eventually won from both sides and it was quite fun but mostly what i learned was ''in order to make peace, beat the shit out of your own militants continually and (Israeli side) get a lot ...

It always seems like such a good idea.  The sheer pretentiousness of it, not to mention that many if most of the things that go on in it are pretty despicable all by themselves.  The pretentiousness of its cheerleaders (the ''Emotional Bandwidth'' line still has been torn between rushing to the bathroom with one hand clenched over my ...