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The Mafia Everquest Connection

Posted by simoniker on from the bada-bing dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the 2003 Melbourne Digital Arts And Culture Conference site, where a large selection of new academic papers about videogaming have been disseminated online. This includes The Sopranos Meets Everquest - Social Networking In Massively Multiplayer Online Games (PDF file), which discusses why "instead of having Gandalf as a role model, [Everquest players] would be better off trying to think as Tony Soprano, a present day mafia boss in New Jersey from the American TV show The Sopranos."

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  1. Good Lord, what is the world doing? by saskboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "academic papers
    about videogaming"

    Dream job, or make-work project?

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    1. Re:Good Lord, what is the world doing? by SkArcher · · Score: 4, Funny

      Strange, at the last party I was at gamers outnumbered non-gamers. We ended up having a big arguement/conversation about what makes a good MMPORPG, with people who had played everything from UO right up to one who is beta testing Star Wars Galaxies.

      The non-gamers got exiled to the kitchen, and were talking about Big Brother :) stereotypes, huh?

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  2. Re:better still: by i.r.id10t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes... but I don't think there are red Swingline staplers in EQ....

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  3. That poor little looter... by bluemeep · · Score: 5, Funny
    "While Phrank had quick benefit from this loot/linkdeath scam, a not uncommon one, the question is if he knew the larger repercussions from this kind of action. Needless to say, none of the members is ever likely to invite Phrank into a group again except perhaps for the chance to punish him. Several members took the time to inform their guildmates that this character was not to be trusted."

    And now not only does that guild know, so does everybody that's read the paper through Slashdot. If he hasn't deleted that character by now, I'd say he's about to!

  4. Yeezus. by Freston+Youseff · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't even imagine the combination of smells in that conference room: horrible body odor from the Everquest people mixed with the excessive stink of aftershave that the Sopranos guineas wear. I predict a big rumble taking place, namely the Everquest people sucking fist and nursing head wounds.

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  5. Badda... by ctve · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ping?

  6. The Possibilities by Malicious · · Score: 4, Funny
    With the recent Shadow Bane hack, prompting legal battles in virtual worlds, it would be incredibly funny to see Extortion, and Murder charges coming from higher level characters, threatening or pkilling lower lever characters.

    Q: Whadda you in for?
    A: Virtual Murder 1.

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  7. Hmm.... by c3rb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gandalf...Gandolfini...

    Coincidence? I think not.

  8. What a Load of... by Quaoar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you remember what happens in Return of the King? When Gandalf cuts off Frodo's head and hands, and hurls him into Mt. Doom?

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