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The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005
jkdove writes "GamerGod rolls out their list of "The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005". From the article: "Our list draws from a wide slice of the gaming community. A respected game designer is on the list, but so is a political figure, a game player, a man with an agenda, and even a modder. Each person was selected for their ability to grab and hold the headlines with their design, deeds, or words; and for their contribution to twelve months of gaming headlines, news, scandals, sensations, and entertainment.""
Bam. Why aren't more video game figures on more publicly visible lists? Mario makes everything Nintendo manufactures, but we can't have visionary entertainment creators here? Metal Gear is way more ground breaking than most stuff Bruckheimer ever did...
All the world's a stage, all the people but players.
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Or was that 2004..
10. They always leave something essential out- to-rub-games-on-her-butt/ (from TFA)
9. They do it on purpose to generate "buzz"
8. Even David Letterman doesn't hit the mark everytime
7. Should be titled "9 things that didn't win and the one that did"
6. They include URL's like this: http://www.joystiq.com/2005/12/12/psp-licker-vows
5. 9 times out of 10 you don't agree with their number one pick
4. 47.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot
3. Jack Thompson will argue that top ten list are terrorist training for suicide bombers (counting backwards like a bomb timer)
2. The woman sitting next to me on the bus read "suicide bomber" on my laptop and is notifying the police
1. People love arbitrary catagorizing. We're all winners! Uh, no the police have surrounded the bus...
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I still find it hard to characaterize him as "in gaming".
It might help if we look at "gaming" as a metaphorical person. If "gaming" is viewed in this way, then Jack Thompson would be trying to ram his flaccid cock into gaming's ass while screaming "WHOSYERDADDY!!!!" and "IMAGUNASUEYOU!!!!!" over and over. From that perspective, I think we could characterize him as "in gaming".
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To me, the Leeroy Jenkins video is something like a George Bush clip show on Letterman. Everytime I play with some idiot in a pick up group, I now laugh a little bit thinking that this idiot might be the next Leeroy Jenkins; just like everytime George gets on his soap box, I think how entertaining this will be on Letterman or Jon Stewart tonight.
Let's do this! Geeeeeeoooooooooooooorrrrrge Bush!
'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it...
"At least I have Chicken" best part.
I had college once, but I drank some fluids and got a lot of rest and eventually it was cured.
How can you not say he is in gaming? Defamation of Character: A Jack Thompson Murder Simulator. How much more in gaming can you be?
Of which half of the list will be duplicates...
Interestingly, some websites go down when you even think of linking to them from slashdot.
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