Attention gamer chefs!

[subplotkudzu]

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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/06/alttext_0618

Comments

[thismustbetheplace-rjs.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Cute. :) I'm actually rather taken by the idea of a show about RPGs. People watch talk shows, don't they? Where no one really *does* much of anything. There could be running subtitles of kibbitzer commentary.

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

With an infinite amount of time required to fill on cable stations, one must only be patient. The big problem: the cooking shows are 30 minutes to 1 hour. Game sessions take at the very least 2 hours and upwards of 6 to finish a single concept (analogous to a recipe). Maybe if we had judicious editing to remove the digressions about ice cube trays, train history and those little spots you get on the mirror when you floss your teeth it might work. But then would it really be gaming?

[adoxograph.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is most serious food forums get way more obsessive than that about these details... and I read a LOT of things exactly like that when the new Joy of Cooking came out, when they defatted a lot of the classic recipes "for modern cooks". Seriously. I mean, our AC forum has four pages on what to tip for takeout and 37 pages of serious debate on local barbeque.

Now if you could get a gamer cook show, that would be serious fun. Dice roll to see if you add onion or not! A crit success would mean you remember you can use shallots, crit failure is, um, bad. Fwoomph.

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

But do they have anyone saying they could never ever cook anything from the earlier Joy of Cooking editions now that the new one is out?

[codemonkeygirl.livejournal.com]

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/04/alt-text-video.html

That had me laughing!