This is some kind of very clever parody of gaming journalism.
You know you’re in trouble when your gaming is interrupted by a scream of “come on you f**kers, who’s first?” Things generally go south from there if, when you turn around, you find a completely naked man with a giant erection standing in the middle of the room, beckoning for someone to come over and sit on his lap.
“What the f**k?” I said, turning to my opponent in a now paused game of Rise of Nations. He laughed and leaned towards me so that our crazed colleague couldn’t hear – quite unnecessary, as he was now loudly harassing someone at the far end of the room – and said, with that glint in his eye and half choked laughter in his throat, “we spiked his soup with sextasy.”
“What the f**k is sextasy?” I asked, ever the innocent farm boy.
“It’s E[ecstasy] and Viagra,” my opponent turned guru explained. “E can make you go limp, which is a bitch because it makes everything feel so much better. Mix E with Viagra, though, and you solve that problem.”
Yes, I am frequently accosted by large priapic men while playing real time strategy games.


#1 by Megaera on August 30th, 2006
Wow. Its not everyday you read the phrase “priapic men”, and I suspect I’ll never again read the phrase “large priapic men … playing real time strategy games”.
Bravo Lum! \\applause
#2 by Megaera on August 30th, 2006
O…Kay…. after reading the post below… there appears to be a phallus theme running today. /ponder
#3 by scottj on August 30th, 2006
Sometimes a pickle is just a pickle.
#4 by galt on August 30th, 2006
and sometimes Freud disagrees
#5 by grant on August 30th, 2006
Hmm, what if you ARE a large priapic man?
#6 by GreyPawn on August 30th, 2006
Some gamers can’t help but get a rise out of Rise.
#7 by Kithias on August 30th, 2006
It’s de_dust, nub.
[PriapicWarriors] Kithias (headshot) [MMODevs] Lum
#8 by Bobwl on August 30th, 2006
large priapic men – I smell a really bad Guild name
#9 by Apache on August 31st, 2006
We can only hope that the Roundtable in Vegas will meet and beat these lofty expecations!
#10 by chabuhi on August 31st, 2006
Isn’t “priapic man” redundant?
#11 by Stephen W. on August 31st, 2006
If only all “word of the day” entries were like this, we’d all have much larger vocabularies. I’ll certainly never forget the meaning of priapic after this.
#12 by perianwyr on August 31st, 2006
The presence of the “gaming addiction addict doctor” in the article tells me it is bunk, I am glad they made her picture so big.