Second Skin is a documentary about MMO players. It lacks the pyrotechnics of a Michael Moore probe, but it isn’t a stale watch. The subjects of Second Skin are a fascinating group of uber-dedicated denizens of perpetual digital worlds. You’ll watch lives crumble, potential being realized, and see the disconnect addicted players have with the real world.
It’s not pretty, but it the film does allow you to draw your own conclusions. And now you can do that for free. Second Skin is available on Hulu with limited interruptions (thanks, Honda) for the next five days.
What are you waiting for? This thing is worth your time.
[via Joystiq]
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5:30 PM on 08.08.2009
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I LIVE ON THE SAME PLANET AS YOU!
>:( I hate international law.
Someone scoop this crap onto YouTube, perhaps we'll get lucky on there.
canada gets shafted again.
Hotspot Shield is your friend. I'm in Canada and I watched it.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/87648/second-skin?c=4451:4480
i asked my brother to /played his WoW character a week or two ago and he bluntly refused.
i am so morbidly curious.
luckily I'm too ADD to keep attention on MMOs for long, but it's always tragic when you see people like this. :[
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/second_skin
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/SyntaxError/second-skin-mmo-gamers-are-people-too-143315.phtml
There's also a link there for non-Americans.
New York - August 7th-9th - The Tank Theater *(Tonight is the last
night!)
Los Angeles - August 14th-20th - The Downtown Independent
Boston - August 14th-20th - The Somerville Theater
Austin - August 16th-17th - The Alamo Draft House (they will continue
the run through the week if we pack the screenings.)
The film makers will be at many of the screenings. Check out the website
to see which ones. www.secondskinfilm.com
Does anyone else hate the fact that all "gamers" are pretty much associated wiht MMORPGS?
I play games, I develop them to a certain extent to, yet the one genre of game that I find not only completely unfulfilling to play, but a boring "waste of time" would be MMORPGS.
The grind is what puts me off the most. If they could make an MMO that didn't involve power leveling, grinding, and used actual fun and functional gameplay systems that are truely interactive, I'd be a fan.
But yeah, that's the reason I don't like to say I play video games around people I don't know. Because either "that crowd" will want me to join their posse or I'll be associate with "that crowd"
I know there are tons of "legit" MMO players out there who don't obsessivly play it, and/or don't exclusivly play them, but still.
But still, good watch. I'd give it a 4/5.
At one point maybe I was like that, but luckily I got through that stage when I was still in highschool, so it wasn't as bad. Coming from the inside out, it is sorta hard to give up the game. Its possible, but hard. However now I'm glad I'm done.
It might be nice to watch it on a bigger screen and see what sort of special features it will ship with...
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