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Fear and Loathing in the Mess Hall Complex

Posted by chrisd on from the 1-more-grenade dept.

Flynnhustler writes: "Our upstart videogame culture site, Robot Street Gang, has just posted a new story by seasoned videogame writer Peter Olafson. The story, Stuck, is a first person account of Olafson's tortuous attempts to beat the PSOne game Alien Resurrection. If you've ever read his Game Theory columns in the New York Times or his oft linked San Jose Mercury-News piece about gaming after Sept. 11, you know that Olafson takes a very personal approach to the exeperience of gaming."

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  1. Re:Sure gaming is personal by Foxman98 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on admit it, it was *you* that dressed up.... ;-)

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  2. Server upgrade? by cosyne · · Score: 4, Funny

    Flynnhustler writes "Our upstart videogame culture site, Robot Street Gang, has just...

    Ok, so maybe the next time you submit a story on your own site to /. you should tell the guys at the data center or at least link to a very small frontpage with a list of mirrors? It's not like you got slashdotted without warning....

  3. Re:Sure gaming is personal by phyberop · · Score: 3, Funny

    damn, you got me....

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  4. It almost becomes part of your soul by Ghoser777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find myself humming or whistling a song from FF2, FF3, or Chrono Trigger when I walk to class. I make bad jokes referencing role playing games with my friends... too bad most of them don't know what an rpg is. I play RPG's like I use to read books - they are the only intellectually stimulating games I find anymore (ever?). But when you're out jogging and the music is going off in your head almost ten years after you first played it, you know it's had a big effect on your life.

    And think of the life lessons! I know now that if I kill a young girls mother and destroy her town, she'll trust me if I promise to protect her (valuable lesson from FF2).

    F-bacher

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  5. NY Times. by WasterDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF? "Purchase Full Text of Article"

    Is anyone else getting this? Has my IP fallen into some kinda white list for people who actually buy stuff across the net? Since when did Slashdot take to linking paid content?

    God, I remember whe... Purchase full text of rant

    Dave

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  6. Was it the 'up' or 'start' that confused you... by b0r0din · · Score: 2, Funny
    Doesn't seem very wise to post anything beginning with

    A) Our upstart company just acquired its first 128K ISDN line with a K6-2 running at 450mhz! My sister knows MySQL and she's our CEO/CIO/graphic artist! Post our story on slashdot! We swear our site can take the load!

    or

    B) Anything posted by someone named (Larry) Flynnhustler (Magazine).

    *cough*

  7. Re:Sure gaming is personal by Chundra · · Score: 4, Funny

    Becauthe the Japanethe verthion wath written in Lithp.