{"id":1241,"date":"2010-03-01T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:10:41","slug":"unexpected-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected world"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis is the poster for Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 movie The Girlfriend Experience<\/a>, starring Sasha Grey, who works in the porn industry.
\nAt this link she can be seen playing D&D with a bunch of other people from the porn industry<\/a>. (All links are totally safe for work, btw.)
\nThe blog Playing D&D With Porn Stars<\/a>, and the D&D game described therein, are run by Zak Smith, who also illustrated every page of Gravity’s Rainbow<\/a>. The D&D w\/ Porn Stars blog is an excellently thoughtful and creative blog that is closely tied to the Old School Renaissance<\/a> that has hit D&D since Gygax passed away, with James Maliszewski’s blog Grognardia<\/a> as its totemic centrepiece. (Grognardia is here described briefly<\/a> on the blog of Seattle’s alternative paper The Stranger<\/em>).
\nZak Smith and some of his players recently got into an honest-to-blog feud with a gaming podcast<\/a>, said podcast being more attuned to the Story Games RPG community<\/a>, which is kinda the hipster end of gaming but without the irony. Substance of feud: story games people didn’t give due respect to the breadth of Zak’s gaming knowledge and understanding.*
\nPoint being: culture is fragmenting as the potential for internet communication to create asynchronous non-geographical communities beds deeper.
\nOr, more succinctly: porn stars<\/em> just battled elite role-playing game nerds<\/em> over geek status<\/em>. You’re not living in your father’s culture any more. Heck, you’re not living in your older brother’s culture any more. The world is getting weirder and wilder all the time.
\nThat’s a feature, not a bug, by the way.
\n* Feud since resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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