neonascent

I ran across an insightful and humourous explanation of the mechanism behind corporate customer care services:

…The monkey has two buttons in front of him. One is red, and one is green. The red button is very small and, when pressed, redirects the e-mail to someone higher up - say, the janitor. The green button is huge and, when pressed, sends a form letter to the sender and promptly deletes the e-mail… and then a banana drops out of a chute and a small electrode in the monkey’s brain gives him an orgasm.

The quote is taken from The Independant Gaming Source, which is a nice blog of interesting activity in the indie games scene. It’s worth a look if you’re after refreshingly creative games, most of which are at least as high gameplay and production standard as mainstream.

Also worth a look is the Freeware Top 40 - a great site to find distractions for all your procrastination needs, and all completely free! I’d give very solid testimony to the simple genius of Spirit Engine, to be found at Natomic Studios.

Note that the image accompanying this entry is for illustration only. The original can be found at http://marcoe.net/Cheeky-Monkey.jpg