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« More on the Mooninite generation gap | Main | DJ kit of the 21st century? » Friday, February 2, 2007What's with the pants obsession?According to Wired, in Japan there is a new Korean-manufactured video game that is becoming extremely popular: In Boong-Ga Boong-Ga, known in English as "Spank 'em!" the player jabs a plastic finger into a jeans-covered bottom, which juts from the machine as if a person's head and torso were stuck inside. The brochure explains that this "is a fun game of spanking the people who make your life miserable," since the characters in the game represent your ex, a "golddigger," etc. The Wired article goes into a pretty deep dissection of the psycho-sexual implications, which I don't really care to discuss here. The closing line, though, is superb. A former Carnegie Mellon student, known only as Alison, has a Web site on which she broadcasts Web-cam pictures of the inside of her pants. (This has marginal relevance to Boong-Ga Boong-ga, I felt, but still interesting stuff.) Her quote ends the piece: "Pantscam is completely non-sexual, though people may infer sexual undertones, since the camera is in my pants." Posted by Evan Hughes at 03:15 PM
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