The State of Debauchery: Herald Paparazzi Camp the Lindens
by Alphaville Herald on 31/10/04 at 6:01 pm
photos by Pat the Rat
Well, they don’t call it the State of *Play* for nothing! Pat the Rat camped the Linden’s on their after-conference prowling on the Mean Streets of Manhattan, and may I just say: Move over Hollywood bad boys, cuz no one thows down like (or outmacks) a game dev! Read on for all the sordid candid shots!
Beth Noveck (New York Law School), Philip Rosedale (Linden), and Ernie Miller (Information Society Project, Copyfight!) start the evening with some tequilla shooters. Let’s just stress the word ‘start’, shall we?
Philip Explains to Uri that contrary to what he heard, there is no studly way to drink a Mojito.
Overcome by the power of his mojito, Uri puts the moves on Philip. Oblivious to this sordid event are, from left to right, Jennifer Schlegel (writer, producer), Ian (Linden), Beth, Uri, Philip, Ernie, and Wagner James Au (aka Hamlet Linden).
Not what it looks like. We understand that Philip does this to everyone who is about to have their account terminated. It’s Don Filipo’s kiss of death. Or is this his Cowboy Roy kiss? Hmm… really hard to know…
Hamlet is not only the editor of New World Notes (the 2nd best blog ever), but he is also the Official Linden Massage Therapist. Here he helps Cory Ondrejka (Linden) chill after a hard day of … well whatever it is that Cory does.
Exhausted from a hard day of massaging tense Linden execs, Hamlet passes out in the foyer of the bathrooms at Bar 89. Good choice Hamlet! That’s a comfy spot. We know it well.
Refreshed from his massage, Cory passes the next few hours comparing piercings with John Lester (Neurology, Mass General Hospital) and swapping navy stories with Ernie Miller. Ahem… we didn’t ask, so don’t tell guys.
John again, apparently with one of his patients.
As the party spills into the street, the Linens are accosted by game dev groupies. Here one throws herself at Cory. She is denied! (well, that’s the cover story anyway.)
Philip, being the CEO, lands two game dev groupies!
Rutgers philosopher Jason “Cheddar Cheese” Stanley gets all doe-eyed over Philip’s forceful ways of making his points. And who invited a philosopher anyway?
Well, a new bar and a new, shall we say…satanic…atmosphere overtakes the evening. This is where Pat puts away the camera and joins in!
RB
Nov 1st, 2004
haha. Uri got pissed. Did the professor pickup any dev groupies outside too?
- RB
Death GRace
Nov 1st, 2004
guess we see were that 8 mil is going sure isnt in servers…..
ian
Nov 1st, 2004
RB he was probably denied too
Hey, isn’t Phil married?
urizenus
Nov 1st, 2004
Death, the thing you have to realize is it takes a crowbar to open Phil’s wallet. I mean, I got there and they were drinking Rolling Rocks. It wasn’t until things went on the Herald expense account that the Cris and caviar started flowing.
Ian, yeah Phil is married, but that doesn’t mean we should expect him to keep his hands off me. I mean who could resist??!
ian
Nov 1st, 2004
I know, what a stupid question to ask! You are just lucky I didn’t come up there!
Mr Fairplay
Nov 2nd, 2004
That front page pic of that article has to be one of the funniest pics ever posted on the Herald…Philip looks like a deamon trying to draw blood out of Uri… who ever took that pic…I owe them a drink.
Gina Fatale
Nov 2nd, 2004
ROFL – great pics Uri loved seeing you drunk off your ass lol
Zero Medici
Nov 2nd, 2004
After doing shots of Goldschlager, things got kind of fuzzy. So I am glad to see that I apparently had an awesome time. Woop!
Thanks for posting the pics, Uri. Great to hang out with you and everyone.
-Zero (aka “John”)
mental patient
Nov 4th, 2004
i need an old priest and a young priest…
-mental patient (carol)
urizenus
Nov 5th, 2004
woot! Hey Zero, hey mental, let’s do that again (but let’s ditch the gamedevs and lawyers next time…).
humdog
Nov 9th, 2004
i am glad to see that there was a nice party and that everybody had a good time. it is wonderful to behold and the joy i feel about this is shaking my soul to its very roots.
now here are my questions:
(1)why does it seem novel to people that the government might show up and limit speech and behavior in so called virtual worlds, given the present political climate and the accompanying apparent disregard for such documents as the bill of rights?
(2) why does it seem novel to people that a large multi-national corporation might be interested in establishing its own, non-bill-of-rights-based system of governance for applications etc that it appears to have the title to?
because this is what puzzles me about virtual worlding and it puzzles me in the extreme. i read all this regal academic nonsense about the possibilities of government and corporate control of expression and my first impulse is: ya think??? huh?? maybe??
and then we talk about member misbehavior? and please tell me what does THAT mean? ok i know: its some guy who didn’t read his betty friedan and camille paglia. so what?? now if the guy had been a chick and he was setting up shop to spank boys or something, well that’s fine. so there’s like gender discrimination there in reverse. & why is that more weird or less weird than somebody signing up to be a virtual sex toy and talking like a fictional version of 19th century france? or somebody else deciding that they need wings? is the goal of second life about running a virtual iowa?
i am a female and i am totally in support of the developers who “refused to take a stand against the trader”.
i hate PC and i think that all this crap about “misogynistic” (and please can somebody tell me why the holy fuck these idiots can’t just say “woman-hating” is it not a smart-enough word???) behavior”. furthermore i understand why they’d want to do something like that, take that stance to provoke activity. people are so fucking boring. really.
the only real reason that the discussion of free speech is taking place at all is because there isn’t any.
love from me
one of your editors
humdog
urizenus
Nov 10th, 2004
I think the answer to (1) is that there is no surpise at all.
The answer to (2) is also that there is no surpise at all.
As for the woman-hating NPC trader, well, I think everyone would agree that Teppie was within his rights to do such a thing. The question is whether that was the best way to interject drama into his game. People will argue about that, but I don’t know of anyone calling for shutting him down or gagging him.