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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."
When the line between reality and fantasy becomes THIS blurred, people need to take a step away from things. There is a difference between expressing your sympathy and turning the whole issue in some sick display on online emotions. Jezus christ, those people you're talking to aren't people, they are simple electronic connections to a server using the TCP/IP protocol.
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"Warsinger was a 32-year-old with _heart_ trouble"
Then They all gathered in the shape of a Heart...
That's pretty screwed up...
That's like paying homage to a Crucifix to represent the death of a person Crucified...
Pretty Morbid if people would do such a thing...
Being buried in plate armor is a nice touch and all, but how can we be sure it wasn't just because rigor mortis had already set in ?
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
... All stood in silence to pay their respects, except for SEXPOT_PHUCK2944, a level 99 knight, who with godly plate of the whale and the ultimate demon sword, slaughtered the unsuspecting group and took their gold.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Am I the only one that took a West Virginia sort of view on that description and had to look at the pic to see if there were one or two characters in the center?
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
I find it disturbing that people accept and praise the idea of "Virutal" relationships, "Virtual" friends, and a "Virtual" life. I find it sick that people consider this online funeral "a great showing of compassion" If that were the case they should have sprang a few hundred bucks (or pooled their money so those players that couldn't afford it), flew out to the REAL funeral and made a REAL heart to honor a REAL friend. When a friend of mine from UO died I popped $450 for the plane ticket and wen't to the the funeral. REAL PEOPLE DESERVE A REAL FUNERAL AND IF YOU ARE A REAL FRIEND YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING REAL. Here is the problem, if you identify that these VIRTUAL lives you live have value you open a can of worms the like that has never been seen. If these VIRTUAL activities are EQUAL to real activities in merit and value and you hold them as EQUAL then don't be suprised if someone charges you with VIRTUAL theft, infidelity, emotinal damages, or murder. I refuse to honor such a foolish act. It is no better than those who "wept" and "sobbed" when JFK Jr. died. Sorry YOU NEVER MET HIM AND MOURNING HIM WITH SUCH A PATHETIC DISPLAY ONLY DIMINISHED THE "REAL" GRIEF OF THE FAMILY. Has society slipped to far that the the lines between reality and fiction have slipped so far? If he was a "REAL" friend you should have done something "REAL" to honor him. Next thing you'll be doing is emailing bad news like ,"Sorry Mrs. Doe, your husband died during the sugery. :( "
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