Caught in the Net: Fan-Tastic
There are many kinds of geeks — hell, “geek” has ceased to be a pejorative term (and, regrettably, no longer refers exclusively to people who bite the heads off live animals for the amusement of carnival-goers). Geeks can even be sexy — or, at the very least, sex-obsessed. Some geeky freaky links:
In one of my first columns I linked to “Whorecraft,” a live-action porn site inspired by the massively multiplayer online fantasy roleplaying game World of Warcraft. The site has since moved domains and been renamed “WhoreLore”, perhaps for reasons of trademark infringement, but the naked babes with pointy ears remain. Some enterprising WoW players have taken matters into, ahem, their own hands, however, creating a nudity mod that allows their computerized avatars to appear in all their bare-bodied glory — nipples, butt cracks, and all. (In the normal mode, characters can only strip down to their skivvies.) Some players have even created in-game porn, which you can view here, if you dare. The phrase “That guy’s hung like a Tauren!” comes to mind. (For those of you who haven’t consumed the Warcraft Kool-Aid, Tauren are humanoid bulls. See? I’ve just proved anew that if you have to explain a joke, it isn’t funny . . . Maybe I should have gone with “hung like a centaur.”)
For Valentine’s day, the science fiction blog io9 asked people about their science fiction sex experiences, posting a couple of brave respondents on video. They discuss their very special loves for Quantum Leap and The Matrix, respectively. Well, we’ve all got to get our sexual awakenings somewhere . . ..
Livejournaller Adam (AKA slipjig) posted the lyrics to a little ditty called “88 Lines About 44 Fangirls” (an amusing parodic response to the famous “88 Lines About 44 Women” by the Nails, of course). It’s got some genius moments: “Cindy had the cell phone number/THX-1138/ Gwen looked like Hermione/She always made me levitate.”
Of course, there are other varieties of geek than gamer-geek and science fiction-geek. One of the most venerable members of the phylum is the chess club geek. But how, you may ask, can you find the hot chess players? Fortunately, the people at Chesspics.com have done it for you: Consider their gallery of “The Most Photogenic Chess Players.” The “most photogenic” is sincere; it’s not technically a gallery of slamming hotties who happen to be chess grandmasters (some of them are rather on the young side), but there’s a lot of very bright eye candy there. Makes me wish I was better at chess so I could play in a tournament or two . . . but I suck at chess, so I’m stuck with naked elves on World of Warcraft.
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on Thursday, 28 February 2008 at 10:52 pm StarChaser Tyger wrote:
Unfortunately, the nude mods in Warcraft no longer work; the client was patched to prevent people cheating by doing things like making resource nodes enormous so you could see them farther away, and the nakedidity was a casualty.