where did I put that ....
Hot on the heels of the lost ipod is the lost night elf.. level 25/6 and weeks of work on world of warcraft..(horribly life-suckingly addictive, don't buy it for your child, don't load it and don't 'just have a go' as a character, if you do.. kiss your offline arse goodbye and accept you won't write that book/walk that dg/relate to that spouse for some time.)
So what? I lost a character (or rather a corrupted set of tags and field attributes on a database on a box sitting in some server farm at blizzard control in Europe).. its just a game, he's a only a pixelated alter ego with big silly ears, a pet bear and a set of really mean weapons. Well.. he’s actually the first (for me) real sign of the much vaunted blurring of digital and carbon/body senses.. Forget play station, or xbox, or gameboy, or even old days promise via the bbc micro etc etc.. all that talk of immersive experience has only just happened in my opinion. okay no goggles, no bio-feedback VR as such but a very real place, with real intelligences (i.e humans on line) in real time reacting to you. This is the start of memory/game experience bleed.. I’ll be dreaming of valleys or roads I’ve traversed, quests I completed as a night elf almost as much as 'real' places I’ve been and seen. And that’s why losing him after weeks of work (yes - I meant fun) is a bummer.
Hot on the heels of the lost ipod is the lost night elf.. level 25/6 and weeks of work on world of warcraft..(horribly life-suckingly addictive, don't buy it for your child, don't load it and don't 'just have a go' as a character, if you do.. kiss your offline arse goodbye and accept you won't write that book/walk that dg/relate to that spouse for some time.)
So what? I lost a character (or rather a corrupted set of tags and field attributes on a database on a box sitting in some server farm at blizzard control in Europe).. its just a game, he's a only a pixelated alter ego with big silly ears, a pet bear and a set of really mean weapons. Well.. he’s actually the first (for me) real sign of the much vaunted blurring of digital and carbon/body senses.. Forget play station, or xbox, or gameboy, or even old days promise via the bbc micro etc etc.. all that talk of immersive experience has only just happened in my opinion. okay no goggles, no bio-feedback VR as such but a very real place, with real intelligences (i.e humans on line) in real time reacting to you. This is the start of memory/game experience bleed.. I’ll be dreaming of valleys or roads I’ve traversed, quests I completed as a night elf almost as much as 'real' places I’ve been and seen. And that’s why losing him after weeks of work (yes - I meant fun) is a bummer.
