on Jan 5th, 2009The Nailing Game
The game involves a tree stump, some nails, and a hammer — the type where the back end of the head is a thin blade rather than a fork. The object of the game is simple: each player takes a nail and tries to bang it into the stump using the thin end of the hammer head. You get one swing at a time, and if you miss the nail completely you have to drink some beer
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The Nailing Game had an answer too to my own presentation, in which I had been expatiating on what a friend fondly calls my “Marxist bullshit” about how contemporary videogames recreate the structures of industrial labour and so lull us into rehearsing and normalizing our own slavery to capital in our “leisure time” — while also, in a diabolical twist, taking our money.
I’ll get a Monday Jam up later.