http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/03/12/in-china-monks-mix-counter-strike-with-spiritual-enlightenment/
This is an interesting article about Chinese monks spending time in an internet cafe playing Counterstrike. Apparently Buddhists have no problems achieving moksha after cutting bloody swathes through a virtual realm. I guess teenagers are the same everywhere. It's nice to know that those that walk "a higher path" have the same sense of fun as the rest of us.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/03/06/in-game-advertising-continues-to-grow
295 million USD in 2007. That is not very much money. More money was spent on the Super Bowl alone. This number, however, is going to continually increase. E-marketer predicts that this number will be 650 million by 2012. Those who don't want to see
their storied franchises violated by these ads probably have nothing to worry about. Their is a lot of criteria for
choosing product placement, in-game ads, etc. and Zelda, Mario, and Final Fantasy probably aren't there yet (and probably never will be).
Just for Fun
Little. Yellow. Different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7thSdlRhuM
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/19
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Well, I suppose if the monks don't see anything in violence in video games as a corrupting element, maybe we shouldn't either.
That is really surprising about the monks; it doesn't seem like something they would do I guess. Thanks for the humorous posts too.
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