What would you lie for?

I am posting this based on an experience I had at ComicCon, that hopefully did not make this particular individual truely upset at me. I hope he is only joking when he says "Your dead to me".

G4 was at ComicCon interviewing players that happend to walk by a booth, asking them to do an interview about Game Y, if they liked it and what they thought of it. I am friends with people that work for Company Z who make Y, but I am not particularly a fan of Y. If I can be blunt, I think that Y is a waste of a license, and that the initial brokenness of the mechanics involved create an unbalanced organized play environment. Many changes need to be implimented to fix this inherant flaw in the execution of what appears to be a fluent design. I could have said this, on camera, and really had a negative impact on Y, but I declined, citing that I really did not want to say what I have to say on camera. They accepted this and moved on.

However this seemed to upset someone that I would not talk good about the game his company makes. I really like this individual, and want to be able to work with him in the future, but I wonder if he really wanted me to lie to people? I know he didn't want me to tell them bad things about his game on camera, so was he expecting me to lie for him?

I am not sure, which brings me back to my initial question. What would you lie for? There are things that I would lie about, to make others feel good when they really need it. Most "mom jokes" are lies (except that one night with Girard's Mom...) and a number of times I will lie to players that I am teaching a game to, that they are not retards and that they should still play game XYZ. But lying, on camera, for no real benefit, except to boost some sales seems like the wrong thing to me.

So to that individual that I saw this weekend, if you are truely offended I am sorry. I just won't lie about a game. I hope you (and everyone) can respect that, because if I say your game is good, I hope you will realize that it IS a good game in my mind, and that I am not delivering you lip service, and if I have nothing to say at all, well, you get the idea... =)

Game On

Back for a moment...

Back from Anime Expo. Man, that was an experience. I was unprepared for all the COSplayers there and they way that people would dress. Shorts that would be inapropriate in any other forum... I think a new law for conventions should be passed for those of us that can't tell a person's age simply by looking at them. Age bracelets. Something that clearly identifies the person as under 18, 18-21, and over 21. I don't care if I am 10 years older than the people I am watching, but I need to know... well... if they are old enough for me to be watching them or not.

And where were the parents of these kids that were obviously too young to be at a convention alone dressed like that!!?!? Are there parents that think dressing up thier kids like their favorite woman of Anime is appropriate? Anyway, I was lucky to miss the inappropriate Areith, the Sakura who could have been played by me, and a number of other horror stories I heard through out the weekend. Unfortunately I saw a number of travisties including the band of men in nothing more than tighty whities and a green leaf. I assumed it was part of some Frat hazing and not done by choice. I am believing this reguardless if it was true or not... =/

Anyway, I have a few weeks to recover and rest before ComicCon International and then even less time before GenCon in August. Crazy time of year this is. I am really looking forward to the games but I need to work on sleeping more in the future...

Game On!