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Next time you're on a multiplayer server, you might want to askeveryone who's a Canadian, and then ask who among them are dudes.Because according to a Microsoft survey, every fifth one of them (inthe long run) has gamed in the nude, and might be doing so now.
Microsoft commissioned a pretty serious poll up in the Great WhiteNorth, asking Canadians all sorts of questions that sound like a Cosmobedside astrologer survey, if "game" is used as a euphemism for "sex."Do you game at work? (30 percent). Do you game in the bedroom? (27percent). The bathroom? (7 percent — WTF?!) In public? (19 percent).And yes, they asked who does it completely bare. The answer 17 percentof Canadian men, 9 percent of Canadian women.
What in the hell could possibly be the use of that information(other than giving bloggers a reason to post something aboutMicrosoft?) The survey seems to include any kind of computer game inthe nude question, so playing Minesweeper with your torpedo danglin' isthe same as playing Mario Kart Wii nekkid as a jaybird.
Racking my brain, I am not sure that I have ever played a video gamecompletely butt-ass naked. I've had phone conversations on the john,downloaded porn while wishing Grandma a Merry Christmas and otherdepraved shit, but I could always delay my urge to play Team Fortress 2until I got a pair of droodies on, at least.
So, of course, this begs our own Kotaku poll. Tell us, have you everplayed a game — and for purposes here, we're talking console, PC title,or handheld, but not Facebook games, solitaire or minesweeper — in thenude? Feel free to expand on your answer in the comments.