So apparently Mark Zuckerberg talked about my Mario post at F8 today. Here’s a screencap:

Zuckerberg:

“I cried when I saw this. … I appreciate that whoever made this realized that all modern games should be social, but I also empathize with it because it really is one of the worst experiences on our platform that when you are just in the middle of some app doing something and then all of a sudden it just pops something up and asks you to share… So today we want to make it so that you no longer have to do this.”

For the record, I’m jazzed that I can have some small impact on the world, but the “whoever made this” (He would probably know who made this if his people didn’t scrub my watermark from the image) does not believe that all modern games should be social. Unless he means something different than my conception of what they think social means.

I’m on Kotaku again for random Twitterings:

I don’t get the reference, Bashcraft, help me out here.

For old times’ sake, here’s the first my appearance on Kotaku, where I had a whole post to myself and could stretch my legs. That post is still the third most trafficked one on the blog, behind the two completely out of date Mafia Wars player’s guides. The Internet works in mysterious ways.

Hey look, I got 9.5 seconds of fame. I like to cash it in with very small increments to make it last longer. The clip got the date wrong. My position was eliminated in January not November, but since they said my name right, all is forgiven. They pretty much took the most banal thing I said in the whole interview. Oh well. I’m also a big fan on how the YouTube thumbnail catches me mid-blink so I look either stupid or stoned. Very attractive.

The whole segment is available on CBS’ site.

To add to the wonderful exposure from the Orlando Sentinel and WDBO, I just finished an interview this morning on-camera with the CBS Evening News (the national one with Katie Couric). They are doing a story on how the economy is affecting those in diverse fields. My girlfriend says I did great, but I felt very self-conscious.

Anyway, it is supposed to air this Wednesday during the primetime edition at 8, but it may be bumped off. I’ll update this post when I know more. Very exciting, no? I’d just rather have been interviewed about doing something awesome rather than being a chump who was laid off.

Back to looking for a job!

UPDATE: Segment moved to Friday at 6:30pm.

Hey, look, we made the Orlando Slantinel for our office pranks / ball pit. Neat.

The story then migrated to Kotaku where a bunch of unemployed mouth breathers that have never been in the industry started making snarky comments. To them I say: eat a dick. To everyone else, enjoy the article.