Tuesday, May 09, 2006
monochrom's massive Multiplayer Thumb-Wrestling
Surfed my way over to monochrom's massive Multiplayer Thumb-Wrestling and actually almost felt that perhaps my job here is done.You know, of course, about Samurai Thumbs, and in similar of courseness, about my passion for Pointless Games. Now meet monochrom. In their own words: "monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group of basket weaving enthusiasts and theory do-it-yourselfers having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is the super-affirmation of the globalization trap. monochrom has existed in this (and every other) form since 1993." Who, apparently have also managed to contact the Playful Presence, creating a new form of multiplayer thumb wrestling that can engage a minor multitude in the significantly silly. Joining in a thumb wrestle with other people who are also joined in a thumb wrestle, it becomes possible to create patterns of thumb wrestling multitudes, ranging from the "Snowflake" and "Token Ring" to the three-player "Death Star Nuclear Reactor" and the "Down Under" where "A chain formed by sticking the hands between the legs. Please take care not to fall over and hurt your heads!"
Now, if we could only get them to put little foil helmets on their thumbs....













