cheating in games, sports, and politics - losing conditions (eliot spitzer)

During last night's class, we embarked on an interesting discussion on cheating in games and whether programmers should allow it. It incited a lot of heated debate about Hal0 III, which I can't really comment on. They all seemed to be against it in both a single-player and multi-player environment. I suggested since entertainment is the primary goal of most games, that it should be a user-defined condition. I went on to use the comparison of sports in real life. Somehow the topic kept returning to Halo and San Andreas. No doubt, the moral obligation in games is a hot topic.

So I decided to expand on cheating in sports AND politics, thanks to this real life Johnny Dangerously little brother. This guy is way more of a real disappointment to me more than all these juicing sports figures nabbed by the media. I don't hold athletes to their so-called moral obligation of being a hero and a role model. I certainly don't feel that way about politicians. I really try to not react to private life matters, but when you are a halo-hailing, crime-busting "steam-rolling" politician, and you fuck up, after raising the stakes of yer own egomanical game ... Reap what you spew, blowhards!

gaming friday

I have began to immerse myself into gaming quite abit ... or at least recognize how frequently games in the loose sense play a roll in my procrastination lifestyle. "Let me play x games of mahjonng before I do the dishes. I will complete this 1 crossword puzzle before I do anything else." Within that crossword puzzle, I have a condition to not take more than 3 hints before I have to accept the fact that I have cheated.

So beyond the casual gaming, I also stumbled upon the world of warcraft after seeing a creative director's justification of using a rhone (rune sp?) for a blood elf because it looked cool. While the other director explained it was clearly part of the lore.

I also registered for Disney's Pirates of the Carribean which is my first online role-playing gaming experience. So in this game, you get extensive ability to really carve out your avatars appearance down to bridge and nostril width. You even get a sliding scale of body type from Kiera Knightly to Lara Croft.

So in exploring my gaming experiences, I wonder what this wii does for Katamari Damacy... you get a giant ball right?

Feather in Cap, Bee in Bonnet FICBIB- installment II

fridays are a hard day to blog. so last fridays bit of wisdom is this:

when you have made an error, or in my case, I should state, when you are involved in an error at work, and your supervisor likes to keep a Bodyworlds2 type reproduction of your cajones on his/her desk, it is best to take a soft approach. This means that while you are in the company of other colleagues, be sure to address to your supervisor that you need their 'help' with a project later on. This helps them feel like they are the big gorilla. At that later time, you can explain the situation in a way that seems like anyone would have made the same mistake and it all goes unnoticed.