CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Spoiler: the answer following the question posed here is that Death is not only a living entity but also a loving one. From Ghost Trackers Newsletter, 1989.
It’s actually not all that easy to find weird computer/video games anymore. Everything seems to be created by focus groups or is otherwise homogenized. The weirdest games from other nations either don’t ever get exported or never get translated, and blog posts about weird games tend to be written by folks who haven’t seen enough weirdness in life to know actual idiosyncrasy when they see it. (Image source.)