It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find out that the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is a jerk. It is surprising to find out just how much of a jerk he is: Joe Francis, the founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself against me, shouting: “This is what they did to me in Panama City!” It’s after 3 a.m. and we’re in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing. Francis isn’t laughing. He has turned on me, and I don’t know why. He’s going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexua...
A tad lengthy... but that seriously kicked ass. Makes me pine for some early phantasy star.... sniff.
ReplyDeleteThat was pretty much my reaction as well. "That's really smart! ...But long!"
ReplyDeleteI especially liked the NPCs saying the same stuff; you keep hoping there will be something new. I am getting the same thing going on in Dead Rising right now; I keep trying to hit Jessica up for a date, but she's only got the one line response.
I have not played Dead Rising, but I've watched it plenty and I can imagine what you're referring to.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of tracking games played, you should add your XBL tag widget to the right side. Unless there's an anonymity issue, of course...
You're right. I'll do it either here or in my LJ's userinfo. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteIf you figure out how to put it in your userinfo, let me know. I put it in the Bio section and it failed to appear - I think LJ doesn't want to allow the iframe tag.
ReplyDeleteIn the LiveJournal community "gamers" there are some people who have managed this pretty handily through a separate service: MyGamerCard.net - I have updated mine accordingly.
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