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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
I'm so happy today. I finally found a place to buy my shampoo. Background: I use an ecological shampoo produce by a small danish company - URTEKRAM - with only a few alternatives for getting their products outside Denmark. Since I don't live anywhere near Rotterdam or Amsterdam here in The Netherlands, and I'm not up for a trip back to my fatherland, I found out that I can get it in Berlin, where we go 'holidaying' next week. With the aid of the Berlin Stadtplan I figured out that it's a small shop in Kreuzberg. On my way through my investigation I found out, that there should be a VERY nice bakery (Märkisches Landbrot), and an archived graffiti in the same street no. 12. ---- I'm about to kick this internetconnection, computer and everything to hell. I can only get into my blog everyother day, filesharing runs with VERY low speed, and google runs like sh**!!!!! ---- The rest of my afternoon I will be buried in J. Huizinga's classic "Homo Ludens. Proeve eener Bepaling van het Spel-element der Cultuur". He made me think about to what degree the actions in EverQuest can be called gaming. If I f.ex. stand in front of a forge all day smithing swords in order to get my blacksmithing skills up, or I stand by I shore clicking the "fishing" button every 6 seconds, is that considered playing/gaming? Personally I find it boring. Hence it can't really be gaming. On the other hand, if I play a "house", and I have to make 10 "cakes" of sand for dinner - the process in which I fabricate the cakes in the sandbox could be utterly boring, but the overall "dinner"-situation could be fun. Is it really a question of trade-offs? That we do things in a game that isn't fun in order to achieve some other degree of fun? Now I come to think of it, I never enjoyed being the goalkeeper on the winning team in football (a position my teacher put me all the time in public school, because I sucked BIG time at football) - but it sure was fun winning! *** - | posted by Tommy on 2:34 PM ---ooo--- |
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