[gameprogrammer] Re: Are AO games bad for CVs?

[Brian <brian.ripoff@gmail.com>]

On Jan 10, 2008 8:16 PM, Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:42 -0500, Robbert de Groot wrote:
> > --- Chris Nystrom <cnystrom@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 10, 2008 11:39 AM, Sam Nova <sam@novalicious.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > My first published game was Cover Girl Strip Poker :)
> > >
> > > Is the source code available?
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > Tsk,  This is a friendly all ages forum...  No code porn! :P
>
> Ok, this is very odd... "code porn" rhymes with "pop corn"... there has
> to be a game plot in there somewhere, or at least a limerick.

A friend of mine discovered (to our hilarity and his dismay) that it
also sounds very similar to 'cock porn', when he asked us to hand him
some of our pop corn.

> Bob Pendleton

> I also never understood the dichotomy between violence and sex in video games. It is perfectly 'Ok' in this society to
> depict decapitations, blood, gore, etc etc, but the second there is an inch of skin on the screen, the censors go wild.

I find it amusing, but at the same time a little depressing. Then
again, one of the reasons violence is popular in games is perhaps
because there is no real way to experience violence in real life,
whereas sex... :)

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