A World of Warcraft World 457
An anonymous reader writes "On ebay people are paying real money to buy WoW gold... while some guy in Korea murdered another guy over a rare sword that existed only in an MMORPG. This essay looks at the way more and more people are failing to draw a distinction between their real and online lives and takes it to its logical, yet utterly insane, conclusion." Amusing, and with more than a few ounces of truth.
Or... (Score:5, Funny)
You fools (Score:5, Funny)
But we need a one hour break from 6-7, Mom will murder me if I'm not there to eat dinner with the familly. Don't worry, this "real world" instance seems to be pretty persistant, our progress wont be lost, just aa few minutes to clear the repop...
I was taking this article somewhat serious... (Score:4, Funny)
"Just think of how porn changes when the user also gets to go in with the toned body of an underwear model. It'll make our current online porn look like just the tip of the assberg."
Was that really needed?
Anyway the article smells of someone trying to get posted on
I'll be worried... (Score:5, Funny)
And what sort of conspiracy that my verify word was 'sorcery'
Re:violence (Score:2, Funny)
i beg to differ - i did coke, raped loads of women, beat up pretty much all of my peers at least once and never really bothered with sports at all
Re:I was taking this article somewhat serious... (Score:5, Funny)
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YOU STOLE MY FUCKING CLOUDSONG! (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory YOU STOLE MY FUCKING CLOUDSONG!
Re:All those wacky Asian countries are the same? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:violence (Score:1, Funny)
Re:As Fark might say.. (Score:2, Funny)
Of course not, this is slashdot; we don't get that kind of stuff here...
Re:violence (Score:5, Funny)
That is one messed up personal ad...
Ahh, kids, they think they invented everything (Score:2, Funny)
That's obvious, you ban the guy, even though you promised you weren't going to use your powers to interfere in the game anymore [ludd.luth.se] and then watch the society you built crumble into dust.
Swords?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:GP Score 2???? (Score:3, Funny)
Don't get me started on the color blue! Just thinking of the color blue makes me see red! I'm not a violent man, but if the color blue were ever hit by a bus and tasted its own blood, I would want to be there to see it.
In short, down with the color blue!
(except for the periwinkle shade, which is kind of nice.)
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Re:Or... (Score:5, Funny)
Is it impossible to watch a movie without buying popcorn and soda? With determination, one CAN go for two, or even three, hours withiou eating a snack. Work up to it, start by watching a 30-minute sitcom without eating.
If the monkey is really on your back, it's not hard to smuggle snacks into a cinema.
Re:There's no such thing as "real" money (Score:3, Funny)
Happy happy, joy joy . . . . . .
Re:Or... (Score:3, Funny)
A DVD rental is next to free with netflix, and if you can't watch it for some reason, and you have a computer, you can copy it off for later viewing for the cost of a DVD blank.
I only go to the movies when my stupid gf wants to "go to the movies", as opposed to "sit home and stare at the tube all evening" again. In which case I do go to the movies, because my other options are pretty much limited to taking her to some "cozy" yuppie restaurant and spending the evening staring at her face and listening to her silly chat. Not that I mind the look of her face, but the movies have the advantage that she can't really talk all that much there:-).
Re:You fools (Score:4, Funny)
Fuck man, it's not an instance! There's people there I run into over and over again, and I'm telling you, they're not in my team!
Rock and Roll baby (Score:1, Funny)
For ages, the Christian groups (not just the fundaMENTALists) wanted to make you believe that Rock and Roll filled people with the devil and therefore would turn everyone into murder machines that were selling their souls to satan.
I think there was an era where TV was the passage to hell and damnation. If you watched the idiot box, then you must be a murderous mad man. Don't forget kids jumping out of windows to be just like superman and the morons trying to impersonate the Terminator in all his actions because he was cool. And then you have the snapped military fruitcakes that try to be Rambo after eating a few too many outdate MRE's.
I heard that in more cases than not, smoking leads to marijuana usage. Once you smoke the doobie, you're no longer thinking straight and have a 95% chance of moving onto speed, cocain, heroine, elvis music and even worse, christianity. As you can see, the incredible downhill slope is obviously inescapible.
Now it's video games. They are obviously the key to the soul from what I read in the news these days.
See, it's obvious. If you play video games, you will be forced by an uncontrollable nature of human beings to impersonate the character roles in the game.
If you play Final Fantasy, you'll run around with a sword 4 times your body length slicing at everything.
If you play Smurfs, you'll have to spend eternity singing la la lalalalaaa.
If you play GTA, then it becomes entirely obvious that you'll run around shooting everyone, stiffing hookers, running over nuns and shooting cops since they tend to intefere with the fun things.
Wait... let's get a grip here. Let's take a moment to figure this out.
I am personally willing to believe that if we went through excessive steps to cleanse society from all evils including but not limited to
- Guns
- Cigarettes
- Heroine
- Cocain
- Elvis CD's
- Swords
- Television
- Radio
- Religion
- Rock and Roll
- Video games
We would have new evils. Stupid people are well stupid. If you take a bunch of teenaged morons from Columbine and try and explain to them that shooting your classmates is bad, well then they'll chuckle like Bevis and Butthead and say "Yeh baby, I'm bad too" or something stupid like "But we have to kill the sinners".
If you take the idiot in California that claims he murdered because of playing too much GTA, he'd have probably still killed but blamed it on another bad habit of his. Maybe rock and roll or maybe too much choir music on Sundays.
If you take the moron in Korea that killed over an in-game weapon. I would pay a million dollars to the first person that could possibly convince me that a guy with that large of a testosterone problem wouldn't have killed or mamed someone else over something equally ridiculos elsewhere.
People are stupid. There are people that can't be taught because they live in the wrong place. Or because they feel persecuted, or because they went to Sunday school, or because mom and dad are just plain stupid and don't put the slightest effort into trying to teach their kids. There are tons of reasons why people are stupid. But the fact is, that in any large group of people, you have at least one person born with no-form of brain damage that struggles at the age of 20 to tie his shoe laces.
Statistically speaking (and I love speaking statistics since they're as accurate as the bible) there are substantially more stupid people that intelligent ones. More importantly, when you form a group of more than 5 intelligent people, you've no degraded their class to disfunctional idiots. The US senate shows what happens when you take 100 people that are of varying degrees of stupidity though still smart enough to graduate from the ivy leagues and put them together into a group.
And even more importantly, there's
You know you're addicted to WoW.... (Score:5, Funny)
Regards, Martin
Check this out (Score:2, Funny)
Kewl.
Re:GP Score 2???? (Score:3, Funny)
That was your first mistake.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.