Wacky Chinese game companies

The Chinese online role-playing game "King of the World" has banned male users for playing as female characters. Female users must verify their gender with webcams in order to continue playing their avatars.

The general response so far is:

1) This is stupid. Role-playing game, hello? Must I also be tall and skinny to play and elf?

2) This is even more stupid. What about androgynous-looking males - do they get a pass? What about people with the brains to get a female friend in front of the webcam for the verification? What about people with no webcam?

3) This is kinda creepy. Women are not barred from playing male characters - so in other words, this is solely to ensure that female avatars have female players. The only people to whom this could matter are people whose masturbatory fantasies or upcoming stalking plans depend on the object being the desired gender.

My WoW characters are split about 50-50, but it does happen that the most active ones are female. This is more coincidence than planning. OTOH, I don't eroticize my World of Warcraft, either. No random messager's getting cyb0rz3x off of me!

There's a voice in my head that drives my heel

I got Guitar Hero 80s last week. First-ever five-star ratings - on "Radar Love" and "Turning Japanese", naturally. This has an excellent song list as far as I'm concerned!

The weather down here lately has been incredible. Clear blue skies, sharp edges on all the polygons - err, objects nearby, and temperatures in the high 60s to mid 70s. On the other hand, It's really dark when I get out of bed now, and the sunset is happening sooner and sooner. I don't like this at all, no sir.

Still trying to figure out if I've got the money to do all the traveling I'd like to do in October. The pirate wedding was a reminder of how much I miss old friends.

I wish I was doing more interesting stuff to talk about. If I can do the traveling, that'll help a bit :)