This morning my girfriend said to me
"I like you more now that you have stopped playing video games"
I like myself more, I am more sociable, I am doing more exercise and I think I am in a better mood! However
I still desperately want to play some Left 4 Dead. I couldn't get enough of that game. It is like cross breeding
Terminator 2 with Evil Dead and Romero films and then putting you in both the director seat and the lead
role.
I highly reccomend giving it a go. Especially the Versus mode where you can play a zombie who has to kill the survivors!
Thinking about it makes me want to play it more than Zombies want brains!
I saw an interesting article today about the embezzlement of virtual funds (80bn) from a MMO (massively multiplayer online game) bank
This is not too disimilar from the 'Made off' scandal of recent weeks. I find it amazing how MMOs can build up such complex
mechanisms and systems. The chief of the virtual bank even issued a statement and two virtual bank managers have stepped
down from their roles! The highlight of the article must be the thiefs message he sent to the bank:
'So long, and thanks for all the fish"
If only Madoff had been that witty
C
If you like that story then try reading Halting State by Charles Stross.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Halting-State-Charles-Stross/dp/1841496944/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233008396&sr=8-11
I'll lend it to you if you want.
Mike