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Alternate-Reality Gaming Crime Shows

Okay, so I like gaming just as much as the next person (I play O-Game, Halo, KOTOR, etc.) but enough is enough with the Second Life references on TV crime shows.

It's overdone, outplayed, and on CBS is coming off as a shameless plug for their own newly revised website that has components of Second Life in it.

Tonight, is the FOURTH crime show since September that will featuer an alternate-reality gaming scenario on Numbers. Come on people, the first one was pretentious and annoying, the FOURTH will be unwatchable. As much as I like Numbers I just can't sit through another 'look how cool and tech-savvy we are' episode.

Enough already.

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Posted by goodgirltv, 11/09/2007 8:50am  0 Comments
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