Dustin vs. Playstation

I do not watch baseball, and I do not have a Playstation. (Although I played Little Big Planet with my brother recently and it was AWESOME). But I do enjoy this campaign from Deutsch for MLB09 The Show called Dustin VS. Playstation:



On Playstation's site, you can view 6 more videos of the debate, 3 from Dustin and his backers and 3 from Playstation's side. The best one in my opinion is the one with Dustin and his coach in the kitchen. Couldn't find it on youtube, but visit the site and check them out.

Coho, Salmon, what the heck is going on!?

So I was innocently chatting away online the other night when I got an AIM from CollegiateCoho saying Hey, Jimmy. 

Clearly, I'm not Jimmy.  Nor have I seen this screen name before.  Now I know more normal people would X out, but being the extremely curious person I am, I dove right into the conversation.  This person, who I later found out was supposedly a twenty-something gamer from Ottowa, Canada, claimed that I had IMed him the same greeting, and that my screen name was CrazyCoho or something.

I googled and wiki-ed away until I finally found an explanation.  This Canadian dude and I had unwillingly been a part of a huge social-experiment/internet game that started in 2007 through Livejournal (who knew people were still on that? So 6th grade).  It started out as "The Great Hatsby"... a program grabs screen names that are listed on livejournal, twitter, facebook, anything...and matches it up with another screen name.  Something like an AIM bot instigates the conversations between the two and their replies are sent thru the bot so that their real screen names are never shown.  All the screen names have "adjective+coho" or "adjective+salmon"

Don't really know what the point was exactly, I guess it's a fun little game for those looking for random friends on the internet?  I've never really been the chat-room, let's be fast friends with strangers type. 

But hey- I now know who to IM if I want to discuss hockey, old SNES games, indie movies, or Canada. 

Another VIDEO GAME??

One of the joys of being in Tallahassee for the holidays is the chance to see ads I would never otherwise see in New York. The local ads are still terrible, but this spot caught my attention (I wonder why...see my previous post on video game ads lol):



Interesting way to deliver the message. Don't know if it's effective or not.

Video Game Advertising: Evolution or Devolution?

You make the call.