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The Warriors Stood in the Shape of a Heart
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a picture of Warsingers funeral. Warsinger was an in-game persona in the rather good MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot". and generally well-liked.
The real person behind Warsinger was a 32-year-old with heart trouble, who really died.
So the players on his server organized an in-game
funeral.At the funeral, players from the three realms of Camelot, who normally kill each other gleefully on sight, stood in the shape of a heart (check the pic above); the two figures in the center of the heart are Warsinger's real-life sister and girlfriend."
Phoning my mother is an entirely different case, because I clearly do know her in person. I've talked to her, spent pretty much a large part of my childhood with her and I currently still live at home. A better example would be my cousin. I don't see him very often in person because of various reasons, but I quite often see him on MSN and we talk a bit often, yet I still miss talking to the guy in person because the Internet as a communication's media simply doesn't cut it for me. If other people communicate through the internet differently, that's up to them.
I currently play a MUD, which is note quite unlike a MMORPG except it's text-only for those of you who don't know what a MUD is. Some time ago, a player of that MUD died in a car accident and much to my surprise, it was dealt with like it should. People expressed their sympathy through an in-game messageboard. Plain and simple without acting like retards. They realized the difference between expressing one's sympathies and acting like an idiot by grouping together a bunch of TCP/IP connections.
Hate me!
Good point, I believe anyone would is not capable of producing in society whether they can or not should be put down. I mean that's what a smart farmer does to animals. As a matter of fact why don't you hold the gun. You can get rid of all the fat slobs you sit around doing nothing, the recluses who give nothing, the severally physically disabled who can't do anything, and those with IQ lower than 40 who are too stupid to contribute anything.
But wait! If we kill off the stupid people then you would be the first to go.
This is why you all are getting pathetic loser comments. You were at home, in front of a computer. Your character was standing next to so-and-so doing such-and-such.
Big difference between the two of you, pal.
A group of people decided to show respect for someone's death online. Did it deserve this much hoopla?
It is neither more or less shocking than writing a letter to show your regreat over the death of your pen friend.
There are no issues or amazing stuff to discover here. The world has changed. Deal with it.
Even death has become too easy, you can sorrow online and forget it tomorrow.
Next we just need some Firemen to burn all the bodies as soon as they die. Maybe throw some books in with him.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
I'd taunt you, but you've taken all the sport out of it.
If you're not getting it, then the hint is that signing yourself "Level 42 Armsman" is a pretty good contradiction of your own assertions. Let me remind you:
I'd recommend that your stop spreading your game persona to "real life" (as far as Slashdot counts in that respect). Doing so is a good indication that you are indeed detached from the reality perceived by people outside your game.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
"When the line between reality and fantasy becomes THIS blurred, people need to take a step away from things."
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"Jezus christ, those people"...
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POT! KETTLE! BLACK!