OK, first-watch this video I saw on youtube the other day, then I'll post some other comments...
OK, you're back. Now I thought this was frakin' funny. Then I started thinking of a certain change that's happened in our society...
Now back in the mid 90's (OH SHIT-THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO?!) I played, then later help run, some Vampire LARP (that's Live Action Roll Playing) games here in town. It could be fun, made lots of new friends form here and other cities (linked campaigns kind of thing) but in all this fun where was the media?
Totally against us. I stayed home sick one day to see a talk show where the "guests" proclaimed that all stuff from the company that produced the game should be burned by parents. One time cops in Indy harrassed the game there because it was "obvious" and they were "well informed" that we were just like the Columbine shooters (there was a disproven rumor they were into the games).
Now, if someone set up a game based on Twilight (and I actually will insist most of Twilight rips off of the original setting for the game Vampire) the media would be swooning over it and calling it so great and wonderful which makes me wonder if gaming is just more accepted or the media will just adore whatever the hell is popular at the time in order to boost ratings/readership/whatever. Personally, I think the geek haven't inherited the Earth-we're just profitable.
Well, anyway I probably had more but someone (read: DA GWEN) needed a bath-and my train of thought is derailed. Anyway-more BEDA goodness tomorrow...
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