I bet none of you have the BALLS to play this

Here's the link- don't play it, seriously
http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/

****************READ THIS BEFORE PLAYING OR ELSE YOU'LL BE PISSED**********************
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.

Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the player's mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics. Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land?

Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right?

By way of exploring what it means to kill in a video-game, Lose/Lose broaches bigger questions. As technology grows, our understanding of it diminishes, yet, at the same time, it becomes increasingly important in our lives. At what point does our virtual data become as important to us as physical possessions? If we have reached that point already, what real objects do we value less than our data? What implications does trusting something so important to something we understand so poorly have?

KILLING ALIENS IN LOSE/LOSE WILL DELETE FILES ON YOUR HARDDRIVE PERMANANTLY

OHHH NOESSSS MYYY PORNNNN!!!!
WTFHACKBBQSTEAKAMATEUR!!!

Lol I want to play it just to see what I'll lose

well there goes my math notes

goodbye Secondary porn reserves...

Damn it just killed one I didn't even do anything. I hope it didn't delete anything important.

OMFG!
this my other computer went crazy and showed me this...

^rofl

Well, yeah, data is almost the same thing as physical possessions.

lmao did you actually play it VC?
Brb sending this to family

Yeah I didn't do anything I just hit play and suddenly my ship was there running around and shooting and I saw one alien go pop before I closed it. Hopefully it was just the title screen or something but I don't want to know lol.

Did you hit play?

I really want to get a shitty comp that like barely runs and play this.

lmao! Or play it on your bosses comp

Gonna play it off of one of my schools computers! >.>

Ballsy

dude i'm gonna play this at the library

I want to play it sooo bad

It would be funny if it was the next Halo game or something and if you wanted to play it in its awesomeness prepare to lose files

deffinitly not playing this on my laptop. i love all my pictures and movies. not gonna f*** around with this

You should f*** around with this

i have an old laptop i dont care about. ill try if i remember

It's going to bug you as to which files you are deleting
Its like when you know a robber broke into your house

Your signature is getting on my nerves every time I see it BYD.

Spot the error.

purpose and propose

What error?

breakyoudown wrote:

What error?

Level three bitches!

Take some screenshots lol

Yeah be sure to take more than just one screenshot though lol.