Nerdy drinking games are the best. This one involves the New York Times, the internet, and tech buzzwords. Perfect.
I have little experience in designing games, so I'm open to suggestions about how to actually make the this work, but here's the basic concept:
To play the game, players go to the New York Times website and see how many articles they can find from that day that contain the words "facebook", "twitter", "texting", or other media-darling tech buzzwords. Each article containing one of those counts for one drink or something like that (or more if multiple different buzzwords are involved). An article specifically about one of the buzzwords would be some bonus number of drinks. Search function is cheating. You have to browse and skim.
Like I said, I don't know how the rules would work, i.e. who would hunt for buzzwords, who would drink, how many drinks, etc., but if the logistics could be worked out, I think this would make for some fantastic Friday night entertainment for snarky bloggers like myself. Also, the game could easily be expanded into as many rounds as desired by going to different news websites, newspapers, magazines, whatever. (Wired may have to be off-limits. That could result in alcohol poisoning. Plus, at Wired they actually know this stuff backwards and forwards. That defeats the purpose. What makes this game fun is reading middle-aged non-tech reporters desperately trying to be hip, but trying way too hard way too late.)
7 hours ago
3 comments:
haha i totally agree with your last and only parenthetical statement. it IS so much more fun (because it's sad) when ppl who have no idea what they're talking about say tweet and wall post.
i wanna hear the results of the test run for this.
or i want to be part of it.
i remember the day when i first saw the word 'facebook' used by a higher authority...like the news.
it was weird.
ok...authority was not the word i wanted...'a larger way to exchange information', maybe??
either way,
it was still weird.
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