Comments for INTERACT Games LLC Blog http://interactgamesllc.com/discussion Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on The 15 minutes a Day Challenge by lil http://interactgamesllc.com/discussion/2009/08/the-15-minutes-a-day-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4 lil Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:21:43 +0000 http://interactgamesllc.com/discussion/?p=21#comment-4 I woke up this morning and wondered what I could possibly do for my 15 minutes. So for the first time in a long time I picked up a paintbrush and started painting again. 15minutes turned into an hour and hopefully a regular thing. What's next Michelle? Anybody else got anything they'd like to share?? I woke up this morning and wondered what I could possibly do for my 15 minutes. So for the first time in a long time I picked up a paintbrush and started painting again. 15minutes turned into an hour and hopefully a regular thing.

What’s next Michelle?

Anybody else got anything they’d like to share??

]]> Comment on Twitter or Talk by Sir Wanton Cleavage http://interactgamesllc.com/discussion/2009/06/its-a-small-world-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Sir Wanton Cleavage Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:41:23 +0000 http://interactgamesllc.com/discussion/?p=1#comment-3 First to Twitter . Point one, its a fad . No one need worry about whether they twitter or not . Its merely a personal decision ,roughly on a par with whether to greet people by kisssing on both cheeks or not . I choose not to kiss any body at all , by the way. People ask the question " why would I want to follow a trail of random banal postings " Therein lies the answer - you wouldn't . So dont . Some one is having a massive joke on us and personally I am not laughing . Twitter is utterly pointless . For those for whom it fills a need I suggest intensive therapy . To be dragged in to something so meaningless out of a need to either belong or to be seen to be an early adopter is simply sad . Its soemone elses construct and as such to join in is to totally sell your soul . The original posting begs the question about a need to be connected . Its not a connection , its a dis connection . Its a further contribution to the increasingly dystopian society we live in . Hell use to be other people , now its just everyone . Now Facebook . Here is a phenomonon. I am rapidly coming to the view that no one over about 25 should be anywhere near Facebook . It is the final destination on the route to indignity and banality that we have been travelling since the invention of the mobile phone . Before the mobile phone was invented , dignity and privacy were a natural part of human behaviour . Since the mobile phone came into being the descent into endemic crassness has been meteoric. Mobile phones went from expensive business essential and poseurs status symbol to the absolute bane of modern life in a scant decade. Now its impossible to escape the reach of friends, salesman and family for a second . If people cant reach you they go mad . the notion of the mobile phone being for the owners convenience has vanished to be replaced by a belief that everyone must be available to anyone all the time. Worse than that we all have to share the outpourings of all and sundry wherever we are . Everyone has a mobile phone and therefore we all have to listen to the crushingly boring and inane conversations of strangers everywhere - all conducted at a volume guaranteed to ensure it cant be blanked out . Each parties right to dignity is lost . So there was the beginning of it . Next up celebrity culture and its tragic cousin reality TV . Fuelled by the compulsive argument that to be like Jade ( RIP ) is OK, the whole chav culture exploded in our faces and of course embraced these four essential elements of modern life . Celebrity culture , an abandonment of dignity , contempt for privacy and a willingness to buy into any fad . Into this compost heap someone added the most potent agent of decay - Facebook . Now everything has to be on Facebook or it hasnt happened . Even random thoughts ( a la twitter ) have to be shared to be real. The notion of doing anything for its own sake has been consigned to the history books of human behaviour . Its not a stretch to iamagine that people now do things only in order to be able to share them on Facebook . In terms of loss of dignity and privacy this is the zenith or should I say the nadir. Living in this undignified , public world , forced to share the lives of people I despise is desperately uncomfortable . I am a normal person - get me out of here ! Sir Wanton Cleavage First to Twitter . Point one, its a fad . No one need worry about whether they twitter or not . Its merely a personal decision ,roughly on a par with whether to greet people by kisssing on both cheeks or not . I choose not to kiss any body at all , by the way. People ask the question ” why would I want to follow a trail of random banal postings ” Therein lies the answer – you wouldn’t . So dont .
Some one is having a massive joke on us and personally I am not laughing . Twitter is utterly pointless . For those for whom it fills a need I suggest intensive therapy . To be dragged in to something so meaningless out of a need to either belong or to be seen to be an early adopter is simply sad . Its soemone elses construct and as such to join in is to totally sell your soul .
The original posting begs the question about a need to be connected . Its not a connection , its a dis connection . Its a further contribution to the increasingly dystopian society we live in . Hell use to be other people , now its just everyone .
Now Facebook . Here is a phenomonon. I am rapidly coming to the view that no one over about 25 should be anywhere near Facebook . It is the final destination on the route to indignity and banality that we have been travelling since the invention of the mobile phone . Before the mobile phone was invented , dignity and privacy were a natural part of human behaviour . Since the mobile phone came into being the descent into endemic crassness has been meteoric.
Mobile phones went from expensive business essential and poseurs status symbol to the absolute bane of modern life in a scant decade. Now its impossible to escape the reach of friends, salesman and family for a second . If people cant reach you they go mad . the notion of the mobile phone being for the owners convenience has vanished to be replaced by a belief that everyone must be available to anyone all the time. Worse than that we all have to share the outpourings of all and sundry wherever we are . Everyone has a mobile phone and therefore we all have to listen to the crushingly boring and inane conversations of strangers everywhere – all conducted at a volume guaranteed to ensure it cant be blanked out . Each parties right to dignity is lost . So there was the beginning of it .
Next up celebrity culture and its tragic cousin reality TV . Fuelled by the compulsive argument that to be like Jade ( RIP ) is OK, the whole chav culture exploded in our faces and of course embraced these four essential elements of modern life . Celebrity culture , an abandonment of dignity , contempt for privacy and a willingness to buy into any fad . Into this compost heap someone added the most potent agent of decay – Facebook . Now everything has to be on Facebook or it hasnt happened . Even random thoughts ( a la twitter ) have to be shared to be real. The notion of doing anything for its own sake has been consigned to the history books of human behaviour . Its not a stretch to iamagine that people now do things only in order to be able to share them on Facebook . In terms of loss of dignity and privacy this is the zenith or should I say the nadir.
Living in this undignified , public world , forced to share the lives of people I despise is desperately uncomfortable . I am a normal person – get me out of here ! Sir Wanton Cleavage

]]> Comment on Twitter or Talk by Jane Moloney http://interactgamesllc.com/discussion/2009/06/its-a-small-world-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jane Moloney Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:54:47 +0000 http://interactgamesllc.com/discussion/?p=1#comment-2 I think we are more likely to misunderstand written word in an email, blog or facebook site. Spoken word face to face is accompanied by facial expression and tones and inflections in the voice as well as body language. On more than one occasion I have noticed people taking offense to an email or facebook/twitter message as they have taken it out of context. I do not think, and hope that the virtual world does not ever take the place of face to face, person to person conversation. I think we are more likely to misunderstand written word in an email, blog or facebook site. Spoken word face to face is accompanied by facial expression and tones and inflections in the voice as well as body language. On more than one occasion I have noticed people taking offense to an email or facebook/twitter message as they have taken it out of context. I do not think, and hope that the virtual world does not ever take the place of face to face, person to person conversation.

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