Scott Jennings

Worth a read. The reason we react negatively to power-levelling is once again the hang-up over whether or not someone “earned” their “position.” And I am increasingly unsure that the very notions of “earning” “position” make a damn bit of sense in these games. Especially don’t miss the comments.

From Wagner James Au’s latest attempt at arguing that Second Life isn’t all about the sex0r (emphasis mine): Take the center stage of the very popular Barbie Club, for example. Were you to count the sexual content in this most adult of places, only the dancers’ costumes, their

SOE issues a white paper on the Station Exchange one year out. Gamasutra has a copy and interviews John Smedley about it. Sara Jensen has commentary. (As will I when I get a chance to, you know, read it.)

Jeff Freeman has more users than Second Life, and it’s all the fault of those credulous bloggers for not checking on Tobold’s figures. It must be true, he has charts. Freeman also links to the mainstream media blamestorming bloggers for not holding Second Life’s numbers up to

As found on a SomethingAwful.com forum thread, and courtesy of YouTube, this is in its entirety, “The War Game”. “The War Game” is a British mock documentary from 1965 that was never shown on television at the time because it was deemed too horrifying. It describes in loving detail

An interesting game was released today to the public. The goal of the player as the leader is to establish a stable resolution to the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict and win the Nobel Prize before his or her term in office ends. The difficulty level can range from calm to violent. Any