Take a few minutes to watch (Bostonian — AHEM) Seth Priebatsch’s thought-provoking TED talk about ‘the game layer on top of the world’. The next decade, he says, will be the “decade where the framework for the game layer is built”. We want in. We are in. We are so totally in.
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It’s hard to explain what we do, what a Chaos Thaoghaire event is like, or even what it all means. But those of you who have come, or are regulars, or have walked out in a huff will know that we take our commitment to the ludicrous seriously, not because we’re wacky or quirky, but because we like the idea of creating a sort of story hothouse. By turning everything upside-down, enforcing a set of rules, and shouting and banging a lot, we like to think people forget they were ever self-conscious and just get with the story/game sausage machine already.
There’s a game layer on the top of our world, and it’s in a matrix of stories, most of them funny, and, as we learned at the last Chaos Thaoghaire event, many of which frequently involve references to real or simulated awful, awful things done to real or imagined or synthetic representations of creatures often found on a farm. What is it to participate, anyway, you ask? I ask.
Oh, and some of you are wondering how I got out of the woods. Keep wondering. Wonder real good.
Anyway, it’s far too nice out to be in this house, and the kitchen smells rotten, and I’m typing this standing up, and that has nothing to do with anything, does it?
