Culture Jam / Second Skin

This week was very interesting for the simple fact of how I felt I was reading and watching a part of my life in the passages from "Post Human" as well as "Second Skin".  Its really weird talking about this just because the general public all have the same perspective that anyone who plays warcraft is a geek or weird, and this video doesn't do my arguement and justice, however the game is extremely competitive. The people in "Second Skin" are taking this a little to far in my opinion, because they are in a documentary and for the purpose of it being succesful they needed to spice it up a bit.

The person who wanted to kill himself because he couldnt face his family due to losing his business, girl friend, and house is pathetic. I use to play during the school year probably 7-10 hours a day, and I still obviously went to school, had a job, and played a year round sport in high school. The only thing that really bugged me about Second Skin was how everyone they showed were overweight.  The video itself is a perfect example of the Post Human passages in culture jam, but just to be repetitive "some" online games are just an escape from reality and create a world with a better reality than your own, and instead of taking the time to better your own life you can have a new life after 2 hours of downloading a game.

Its kind of funny because one of the quotes from "the cult you're in" expresses how I got hooked.
"You light up a Metro, a designer cigarette so obviously targeted at your demographic... which is why you steered clear of them until one day you smoked one to be ironic, and now you can't stop." This quote isn't exactly how it happened but I remember it perfectly from lunch in high school, the lunch table I sat at just joked about one of my friends for playing warcraft and I made fun of him also, not to be hurtful but just because that's what my mentality was at the time, but after playing it for the first couple of weeks I was addicted.

Introduction to me

What are your interests/hobbies? 
-Guitar, Volleyball, MMA, Brazilian Jui-Jitsu, and videogames

What is your major/minor? 
-Geo-environmental sciences

What interested you in this class?
-Discussing technology in society today interests me because of how it impacts my life and it will always be apart of our lives.

What was the last book you read?
-I cant remember

What type of popular culture are you interested in? Music, movies, television, video games, art, etc.
-Music: I am a big fan of heavy metal and screamo music, but I like listening to almost anything.
-Movies: I enjoy watching lots of movies but comedies are my favorite.
-TV: I dont watch that much TV but I like Comedy Central, G4, Spike, etc...
-Videogames: First person shooters, and some MMO games

What are your past experiences reading "literature"?
-Just high school and Wifys from ship

What is literature, in your opinion?
-Literature is a way to express emotion in some cases or its a way to pass the time by reading and using your imagination to see what your reading.