If you haven’t seen it already, you absolutely have to watch this hilarious video, part-machinima, part-fan fiction, called “Half Life: Full Life Consequences.” Apparently someone actually wrote the voice over as an honest-to-God Half Life story. Then, realizing its potential for hilarity, someone else went into the game and filmed it. The result is… Well, there’s no describing it. You have to see if for yourself. All I can say is that made me giggle so hard I distinctly felt my organs hurt.

“Zombie goasts leave this place!” “But this is where we live…”

Mondays being Bonnie days, I wouldn’t be doing my faithful duty if I didn’t report on this week’s Click Me, which is about cybersex addiction. Is it really a terrifying menace threatening more than two million Americans–or just a bit of sex-negative sensationalism? If you’re one of my readers who’d like to give cybersex a go, but fear might get hooked, you should read definitely this article. Granted, I do write about (and talk about, and think about) cybersex all the time, so I’m probably not going to tell you to run screaming from the collective world of internet pleasure.

The other thing going on in the land of Bonnie writing at the moment is that I’m contemplating writing a book. Sounds big, right? Okay, I’m contemplating contemplating talking to some people and maybe possible sometime writing a book. Actually–and yes, now I’m just getting ridiculous–I’d really like to write two books. One would be about sex & gender studies as they apply to video games; I’ll be sure to talk about that one more later. Of course, the second would be about cybersex.

I’m not sure yet whether I’m thinking something along the lines of an educational, informative book (the cybersex equivalent of Tristan Taormino’s guides to anal sex), or a revealing, hands-on, almost ethnographic book (somewhere between Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life and Laud Humphreys’ Tea Room Trade). One thing I do know is I need to get my act together and starting reading up on all the books on the topic that are already in print. So I’ve started a list:

-Regina Lynn’s Sexier Sex
-Regina Lynn’s The Sexual Revolution 2.0: Getting Connected, Upgrading Your Sex Life, and Finding True Love–or at Least a Dinner Date–in the Internet Age
-Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Net: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration
-Amanda Brook’s The Internet Escort’s Handbook
-Kimberly Young’s Tangled in the Web: Understanding Cybersex from Fantasy to Addiction
-Jennifer Schneider and Robert Weiss’ Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy or Obsession?
-Deborah Levine’s The Joy of Cybersex: a Creative Guide for Lovers

Obviously they range from sex-positive, to purely practical, to straight-up sex negative–but it’s important to know everything that’s out there. So if anyone knows of any more non-fiction cybersex titles, or you’ve read one of above and want to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down, the input is muchly appreciated!

First off this week is an actual working link to my “The Top Ten Reasons Why Cybersex is Good for You” piece. Better late than never, right? Also you, yes you, go out and have cybersex! Or at the very least, spread the word. Faux-science has proven it will make you live longer and earn more money and be a sexier lover. Okay, only that last one is true–but there are still nine other reasons left.

Also this week, we’ve got the upcoming release of the MMO documentary Second Skin. Watch the trailer or head to SXSW (fingers crossed for you, Pure West) to see the real thing. I’m disappointed it doesn’t look there are any female talking heads in the film. Second Skin was shooting two years ago while I was living in Ireland. I was supposed to fly out to talk about–surprise surprise–sex and gender in MMOs, but pooped out on the plane ride, etc. I hope it’s still compelling, even without my oh-so-compelling face in it. Maybe they’ll even mention how you can get jeans glued together in Second Life…

Last, in the wake of the Mass Effect travesty, we’ve got this entertained list from Wired’s Lore Sjöberg of video games big media never realized were sexual. Of course, none of them actually are, which is what makes it all the more hilarious. Check his justification for sensationalizing Geometry Wars:

Geometry is math. Math leads to science. Science leads to lies. Thus, Geometry Wars directly indoctrinates our children into the evolutionary lie that we’re all descended from homosexual monkeys. Naked homosexual monkeys. We recommend instead the game Intelligent Design Wars, which is just like Geometry Wars, except that the credits read, “We don’t know who made this. (But it was probably God.)”