The Rumpus Interview with Andrew Ervin
Andrew Ervin discusses his debut novel, Burning Down George Orwell’s House, social media and writing, and how video games can serve as a way to understand the post-human world.
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Posts Tagged: World of Warcraft
Love (or Something), Virtually
And the winner of Best Opening Line Ever goes to: “I was a gay man playing ‘Warcraft’ as a beautiful woman, and he was a Mormon virgin. Our romance was a time bomb.” Over at Salon, Elliot Glen tells the story of his pixel-mediated relationship with a callow, straight, Mormon virgin: I first met SaltySaber […]
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Octopus pulp covers. I heart you internet. Expert in alienation, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore subpoenaed in World of Warcraft law suit. Patent for a “fabricated baked potato” (via Alexis Madrigal) Scientists working to extend our lives indefinitely by 2029. More accidentaly geography.
...moreWe’re Paying People to Play Our Video Games for Us
The very idea of a “virtual world” scares me. I don’t understand Second Life, and it makes me a little sad. I understand this makes me a bit of a curmudgeon, but I just can’t believe people would pay real money for virtual genitals. But now, I learn (thanks to the Chinese government), something even […]
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