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Games As The New Pub

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-to-get-drunk-in-2L dept.

The Guardian Gamesblog has a column up talking about a panel held at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival last week. A discussion was held with several folks from the online world development business, where they discussed games as new social playgrounds or pubs. From the article: "In Korea, the gamers play online games together. It's a social replacement. It's a way for non-social people to socialise. They've even started developing games for bored girlfriends of the guys who're playing Starcraft with their mates."

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  1. Re:hmmm... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: -1, Troll
    "The true religion, interesting the whole human race at all times and in all situations, ought to be eternal, universal, and self-evident; whereas the religions pretended to be revealed having none of these characteristics, are consequently demonstrated to be false."

    [Attributed to Diderot, possibly written by translater Julian Hibbert in "Thoughts On Religion", 1770]

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  2. ooooh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Zonk, when your boyfriend parts your spotty ass curtains to insert his diseased member, what goes through your mind ?

    oooooooooooooh, bohemian 'undergound' lifestyles, trendy coffee shops, multiculturalism, pro Europe, pro Globalist, pro gays and lesbians raising children ?

    You are a demented faggot Zonk, living in cloud cuckoo land.

    Many complain about Cmdr Taco and Timothy and Cowboy Neil's stories but everything you post is a revolting statement about your pathetic, useless lifestyle.