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zeph’s pop culture quiz #50 Who is checking the time on his fob watch? Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #50 Who is checking the time on his fob watch? Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a … Continue reading →
a cyberanthropologist’s reflections on e-sports At a tremendous pace computergames and gaming-culture get more and more attention and coverage by ‘traditional’ electronic and print mass media. More and more institutions of said media take computergames to be a serious and … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #2 The screenshot was taken from the opening of a classic horror movie. Throughout the movie vistas of the house are to be seen many times. Interestingly enough the house’s spectacular interior was not used at … Continue reading →
While currently reading and rereading all kinds of articles on research methods online it came to my awareness that I till now did not document my daily routine of doing thick participation online and ‘inside’ the ↵MP-community. Of course, … Continue reading →
The following thoughts are based on a forum entry of mine at ↑PayneReactor (meanwhile the ↑original thread has migrated to ↑MaxPayneForums) dating back to 29 July 2004. The post was an answer to an article dated 28th July 2004 by … Continue reading →
The location of the ↑Fighternight VII is somewhat strange—well, it’s ok, but it definitely hasn’t the ambience ↵Wolfenstein had. The tables have a crude wooden top, so you have to use a mousepad. That’s not the problem, but the hall … Continue reading →
“Subway Shenanigans” is a montage of stunts and trickjumps done in “Subway Surfers,” the popular endless runner mobile game. You will see all 52 characters available in the game until today, performing jumps you may not have seen before. … Continue reading →
welcome to the 21st century Since quite a time ↵I was eagerly awaiting ‘↑Coming of age in Second Life: An anthropologist explores the virtually human‘ by ↑Tom Boellstorff—it just arrived with yesterday’s snail-mail, so I had not yet the … Continue reading →
a psychological action thriller As ↑E3 approached the usual straylight had again started to sift through the closed hatches of the nordic creator gods’ realm—and hit my modding community of course, too. Everything seems to have started on 19 … Continue reading →