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  “When I first saw a picture of the ↑Boomslang in an advertisement, I immediately fell for its aesthetics,” I wrote in 2004, when I first attempted a case study in cultural appropriation of peripheral computer hardware, called ↵the taming of the boomslang. Not everybody around me shared my appreciation of the aesthetics of this legendary gamer mouse—when a close friend of mine first saw my Boomslang, she said: “This resembles more a rat than a mouse.” Anyway, Razer went on producing peripheral hardware, I stuck with their product line and later got my ↵new snake, which I am using … Continue reading

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  Meanwhile I have sung the song of high praise of ↑David Kushner‘s “Masters of Doom: How two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture” (↵Kushner 2004 [2003]) enough, I guess—and really urged everybody interested in the history of ↑id Software and computergames in general to read it. For all of you who are—despite of my authority—reluctant to read, there is a solution. The book has been adapted to a popular format: ↑Masters of Doom: The Animated Series. … Continue reading

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