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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. Food and Fainting by HardcoreGamer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's the Everquest equivalent of "gabba-goo"?

  2. Aaagh my eyes! by blitzcat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is this blue on black mess?

  3. Re:What's the difference between Government... by glenebob · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You have the rights of petitioning the government or taking up arms
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    No, we do not have the right to take up arms. Not in any useful or practical sense anyway. When that legislation was written, the people really did have that right. A 'well armed militia' used to be a match for the army, but that hasn't been true for at least a century. If you think we have the right to bear the sort of arms it would take to overthow any modern government, you're nuts. We can't legally own any automatic weapon, and no breech loader over 50 cal. You gotta have a license. Hmm, I wonder if the government would give out automatic weapon licenses if they knew a 'well armed malitia' was in the works. Sorry, but the old right to bear arms thing has been chewed up and spit out to the point of complete uselessness. It now means we have the right to go hunting, and little more.
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