As Senatorus Rex, I do meetings.  And so I found myself in media res meeting one of the directors of Blue Line Simulations this week (meaning every week, dear Clockwatchers!).  We bought each other drinks - I guess he's not technically a stranger, so I'm not going to try to get points for the dirty Ketel One I bought him even though I NEVER drink Moscow Mules unless it's Russki and authentic and super gingery and because I didn't have a camera on me - though we talked about all kinds of crap including a little itty bitty about games and simulations. 

He shared some thoughts about homeomorphic topology and millennium problems and prizes and laik complete beauteous equivalence and also the value of raising your children to drive stickshift and even the return of McCarthyism and the paradox of the false Malthus and the reasons Sri Lanka is much more peaceful and maybe surfable and then the future of simulations and l e a r n i n g and he and another guy were also talking about what it would take to do learning/business simulations at the consumer-gaming level and that it was a really interesting challenge. 

He took a deep breath and told me about what he's observed about kids playing games (think of this: WoW is teaching people of all ages about leadership!) and then because I work for a diversity company we talked about a game mechanic where what if the way to win or advance was to pull together more and more diverse characters in the game - rather than just an army of bot-orcs or whatever whatever.

But I also said mellifluously, "Hey, listen to me, man, this is hard-core serious style like ice, you really need to see this game.  It's incredible.  The game mechanic is ENTIRELY controlled by the players. "

"What do you get out of it?"

"Dude, I said game mechanic.  But if you insist... SCORE, natch."

"Yeah, but what do you do it for?"

"For prepositions.  And extra spaces.  And score.  And hot, hot music.  And personal growth.  Seriously."

"It's free?  I don't have to tap into my forex accounts or something?"

"Free.  Yes.  Free like your kilt blows.  And the players make the game for each other and it's beautiful and San Francisco and glorious and life and DO IT and awesome."

"Sounds uh, interesting.  Are you snorting something?"

"It's awesome I said.  Here's my card.  My other card," and I laughed cacklingly harrumphingly chokingly on my welling wet tears of joyous alcoholic effusive naches and handed him my sf0 character business card.  I told him the website is on there and he and his people need to check. it. out.  "It'll become immediately clear how great it is.  And how much potential the mechanics have to inspire things.  MECHANICS."

"Ok.  I get it.  Sexy mechanics."

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So I guess, look out Korporate America, SF0 is spreading like Nutella!