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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:Slashdotted already! by mrseigen · · Score: 2, Troll

    Maybe we can solve world hunger... if we slashdot that world hunger ad clicking site

  2. chrisd by GaylordFucker · · Score: 0, Troll

    when i see you at Linux World Expo at New York... i'm gonna laugh at you for not closing Italics... can you slashdot weenies stop using vi, pico or whatever shit crap you use to edit webpages and use a real tool... like FrontPage?

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    Get that rats nest off your head, you numbskull -- Wesley Willis
  3. So?? by DrBlubGut · · Score: 0, Troll

    And I'm reading this because?? Play computer games or don't (I do). but why on earth would I care to read about you playing a game and getting stuck? Will somone please explane to me why in heaven anyone cares about how you sublimated your life to a game?

  4. Please believe this isn't a troll... by jailbreakist · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but who the fuck cares who this guy beat this game? Fuck.

  5. This article was awful. by Kengineer · · Score: 1, Troll

    The guy who wrote this, whoever he is, is completely pathetic. Yeah, sometimes I get stuck in a game, but I don't let it RULE MY LIFE.

    Just a few days ago I was playing FF3, and I accidently let my ninja character get killed by not waiting for him when my party escaped from the floating continent. Yeah, I was bummed, but I didn't start the game over, which is what this chump would have done.

    Hey! Man! Play the game once. Books are much more enjoyable if you just read them once through, then put them away. You don't have to focus on every word of every paragraph of every chapter and get it PERFECT to have a good experience.

    - kengineer