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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."
This from someone calling himself "Dark Lord Seth".
Back in the days of BBSing there was this BBS in Rochester, NY, and one of the users of this BBS had a heart attack while online.
After the incident the welcome screen was modified to read "Welcome to xxxx BBS" and down near the bottom: "Frags: 1"
For all of us who have logged on at 4am just to talk to friends and occasionally do some killing....
I find it humorous that such a statement can be made in this day and age... Back 30 years ago (or today in a public school) that same statement would land you in jail or a looney ward. Today... It's a common statement among the plugged in crowd and is understood by the non-plugged in.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I doubt any trolls could have disrupted the ceremony, as they were all posting to slashdot at the time.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
"Are all your penises that colour ?" er.. too much hentai. sorry.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Sadly an anonymous coward playing ruined the moment seconds after that picture was taken by casting a fireball spell that engulfed the circle of mourners and gained 60,000 XP.
They seem to be a race on slashdot as well.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
That should give anthropologists something to think about in a few thousand years when they find his burial site.
A circa 21st century human buried in full plate armor with a sword. Maybe we should also have buried an explanation along with him.
Actually, if you look at the picture, you can see that there are trolls in attendance.
My other Slashdot ID is much lower.
Maybe he should have bought the Lipitor +2 instead of the Palladin Shield.
Hey, I've won Excellent karma in the Slashdot game. Lend me $50. I'm good for it. You can trust the karma.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.