It's a little bit slow on the video front right now since I'm in the middle of a massive set of self-inflicted computer issues on my home network, and the computer I was using to capture video is currently sitting in pieces (I've tried capturing video with it anyway, but it's being stubborn).
In the meantime, I thought I'd talk a little bit about a book I came across recently, the attention-grabbing Press Start To Play.
In a moment of weakness after thumbing through it in the store and glancing a few pages with some ASCII art on them I went ahead and bought it, not really knowing what to expect. It turns out that this was an error.
The stories in the book are supposed to be video-game-related, but the editors have an extremely loose definition of what counts as 'video-game-related'.
One of the stories features a guy who keeps getting killed and his ghost/spirit/whatever jumps to the closest person where he manages to get killed again, repeat a whole bunch of times (the title is 'Respawn', which is technically a word that shows up in a lot of video games, but so are words like: jump, points, and hidden staircase).
Another of the stories attempts to be a some creepy horror thing that was so badly written that I had to go back and make sure that I didn't just black out and miss a few pages of exposition (I hadn't). That one at least had a (fictional) video game featured in it.
Another featured a kid who liked to play video games and made one for his friends, but it's incidental to the plot (what there is of it).
And so on.
I think my favorite part of the book was that the first story in it was written by one of the editors (because of course it was).
Full disclosure, I didn't make it all the way through this thing. The stories were the kind of thing you'd find on bad fanfiction sites or cribbed from a high-school notebook, only not as polished, so my brain rebelled and wouldn't let me read the rest of it.