Wednesday, February 05, 2003
This is really evil of me to say, but I'm kind of glad The Sims Online is doing so badly. After the novelty of the first evening of play wore off, the game is stupefyingly BORING and in no way worth what they're charging for it.
posted by Jenny 9:21 PM
Thursday, December 19, 2002
This article, Gamers Live a Double Life, sums up nicely what I discussed in my paper. It looks as though there will always be a big debate over online multiplayer games such as TSO, but the evidence each side presents is facinating:
"But for every worried parent who claims EverQuest and games like it are designed to be addictive, is a person who cites the virtual world as a place to learn, live and even fall in love.
'We've had in-game marriages, people who met in the game and got married in real life,' Sony Online Entertainment marketing vice president Scott McDaniel said. 'Around Sept. 11, people were helping each other. It was amazing to see this virtual world of dragons and ogres and knights helping each other in coping with the real world.'
'I think in the year 2100, people will look back … and these games will be either an obscure vanished form of mass media like penny arcades,' Burke said. 'Or they're going to be an incredibly common and important part of mass culture and entertainment.' "
posted by Jenny 1:23 AM
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
I just finished my research paper and I'm so ecstatic and relieved to be done, I had to share it with everyone. I'd like to think it's a pretty damn good piece of writing (it better be, for all the hours I spent on it) but we shall have to see what DJ says about it. :-) Huge thanks to Katie and Jill who read the drafts and gave me valulable feedback. You guys are the best!
Now...I celebrate by sleeping.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled posting.
posted by Jenny 4:24 AM
Monday, December 09, 2002
Aw, yeah...page eight. Coming into the homestretch now...
posted by Jenny 1:12 AM
Sunday, December 08, 2002
Dude! I got a mention on SIManic Weekly, on their list of fan sites. Like everyone else, they spelled the weblog's name wrong, but nevertheless, I am most pleased.
posted by Jenny 3:22 AM
So I've been researching and working on my academic paper like a woman possessed (and I'm still only on page three of ten...arghhh), which is why this little top post spot has been depressingly empty the past couple weeks. But I digress. In one of the books I took some research from, it talked about experience versus addiction, and gave an account of one young man who escaped his problems by actually logging more than 120 hours on his MUD (Multi-User Domain, a computer program usually run over the Internet that allows multiple users to participate in virtual-reality role-playing games) during one particularly depressing week.
One hundred and twenty hours?!
I would have called myself obsessed before...but I am obviously wrong.
posted by Jenny 3:13 AM
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
UW-Eau Claire students commit virtual murder
Katie: well, I have a short little story for you...when Devin wanted to kill the Sim, I was like NO! You can't! And he's like, why not? I'm not going to save it. But I'm like, but, but... ::sigh:: I guess, fine. So we walled in a guy next to the fridge and microwave, so all he could do was eat...and it took "days" and "days" ...finally he died just after we released him from his horrible prison...and then he died while watching TV. It's a sad, sad story...and I feel just a little bit evil for letting it happen :-(
Jenny: LOL
Jenny: I can't believe you walled him in with the fridge
Jenny: so he could subsist
Katie: hehe...well, it wasn't my idea...
Katie: it lasted til he ran out of money
Jenny: I usually build a 1 x 1 "vertical coffin" so all they can do is stand there and wail
Katie: then no more food, and he was walking in his own trash and dishes
Katie: ...you're so morbid...
Katie: at least he had a light
Jenny: sometimes I build death shacks with a fireplace and put plants all around it...and then remove the door...
Katie: ........
Katie: dude, you're...horrible :P
posted by Jenny 12:56 AM
