@Lane: I am a huge fan of super-hot foods. Jalapenos are nothing! Bust out the REAL stuff or I’m outta here!

Maybe I’ll post my cookpot chili recipe on here sometime. It is “gamer fuel” in the sense that when one eats it, one need not eat again for several days as it forms into a thick, concrete-like substance on the walls of the stomach for a period of three days. After that, though, all bets (and your stomach lining) are off.

Then again, all of you are from the great white expanse known as “Northlahoma,” which extends from just above Waco to the North Pole. I don’t know… Texans teach intelligent mapmaking, rather than geography. Anyway, I’m told that none of you can handle chili spicier than what we feed to babies to wean them off of jalapeño whole milk, so maybe I shouldn’t.

While I don’t particularly care if my twitter or facebook gets filled with spam, I can understand the annoyance people feel towards it. That being said, I really don’t have much of a leg to stand on against this, since I just tweeted this morning about beating Borderlands X_X. Stupid ironic timing.

For the most part, though, I’m with Ethos on the “apathetic” front. I haven’t even fired up any of the apps on my consoles yet, and don’t really plan to any time soon. I guess it’s good they’re there for reading and such, though. Maybe. In case all my computers spontaneously combust or something.

That being said, I did enjoy the article, as it brought up some interesting points I hadn’t considered before.

@Lane: I wouldn’t call those Chili Recipes attention whorish. In fact, they are beneficial to all who have you on their friends lists (like me).

Since I’m no longer on my phone…

I dislike this sort of media integration. Yes, I have a Twitter (that use for centralizing news and game updates) and a Facebook (recently revived, so that Lusipurr may continue his burnt offerings to my visage), I don’t particularly think anyone cares if my Dragon Age trophies or my latest WWS Report gets linked there. The pervasive need for people to display what they’re doing is this generation’s version of the mating dance; it’s a showy display meant to attract attention.

I can’t really knock it; I do attention-whorish things myself, like, oh, blog pretentiously about video games. Or post chili recipes to my Livejournal. Still, the integration of it all bothers me. It makes the social intrude upon my escapism, and the remedy for that is… fire and steel.

Mind you, since I’ve started playing Dragon Age, that’s my remedy for everything. Evil mages got ya down? FIRE AND STEEL! Silly, jumped up paladins Templars going all uppity and genocidal? FIRE AND STEEL! Hordes of demons emerging from some half-forgotten underworld, driven by the mad ravings of a draconic demigod driven demented by centuries of formless dreams? FIRE. AND. STEEL..

I may have issues.

I’m pretty apathetic about the whole thing. Facebook loads pretty well on the 360, but I still don’t expect myself to really ever use it. Especially not to update, better to browse photos.
Although I don’t mind the DSi Facebook integration, but that’s because the DSi is the only camera I have.

@Lane – wtf

@Lusi – lol

This editorial makes several excellent points. I will now buy it!

Attention whores are attention whorish. This is new media’s version of the chain forward.

Fire and steel is the only appropriate response.

Good editorial, I never even suspected that Micrsoft was using it that way. I just thought they were putting it in to appeal to a broader audience.

I don’t see this as beneficial to the gaming community. how could it be? Though this doesn’t seem to be causing a real problem either, except maybe spam on facebook.

oh yeah, I don’t have a facebook account or a tweet. you’d think I was a mystical creature of myth the way people stare at me when I say that.