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Anarchy Online Gamer Responds
An anonymous reader writes "Thought some people might be interested in seeing a follow up on the NYT article about the Anarchy Online player. His reaction to it was less then supportive. You can read about what he had to say and what other players had to say." See the original story for background.
for even more interesting and insightful "background" visit the somethingawful.com review.
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Thedeacon:
I'll come right out and say that my future in AO is shaky right now as a result of the slanderous and untrue article posted about me in the New York Times last Thursday. I don't make this post to create more drama, but rather to state my case and also to shed some additional light on what's going on in my life right now in relation to this horrible article.
Before I go any further, I want to first thank the entire community for all the words of support I received in the past few days. It shows what good people play Anarchy Online, to come to the aid of one of their own. It does make me feel good that you guys don't buy into what that article said, because it's just not true. I'm still reeling in shock over the amount of untrue information was in that article and how certain private issues (bankruptcy) were thrown in that article after the reporter, Seth Schiesel (ingame name Amis) had agreed not release private information such as financial info, school info, etc.
I got so many wonderful and supportive replies in the forums, through email and through private messages, not to mention the fact that Amis has not had the balls to log into AO since the article broke, so I should feel great, right?
Well I don't. I did a search on my name, as someone mentioned they had heard about the article from some dutch site. "Dutch site?" I said to myself. So I did a search on my name, both real name and ingame name and I was shocked to find what people were saying about me. It was absolutely crushing to my ego and my self worth, as I know deep in my heart that the article itself was a lie and Seth's motive may have been to exact revenge on me for flaming an old article he did on AO last year
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/showthread.php? s= &threadid=58442 is the link. What I said wasn't even that bad, it was more of a joke, but it bothered Seth enough to mention it to me dozens of times while he was here. That should have been my first clue. This was like right when the Jayson Blair story was breaking, so my guard was down because I hadn't fully read up on the Blair situation.
You might have noticed I'm not logging in much lately. when I do, I've been trying to pretend like everything is alright, but I get this sinking feeling, a feeling like I'm going to be judged for my online time and it's totally sucked the fun out of the game for me.
Just reading that article in the Times, looking at the "creative writing" he did and how he left off so much of the positive aspects of my life shows me that he wrote this article with malice. I treated him like family while he was here and he turned around and stabbed me in the back.
Much of what was in that article that actually was true (VERY little of the article had any truth to it, but things like me filing bankruptcy was infact true) were things I had told him outside of the interview to explain a bit of the situation. Both my wife and I demanded that this be left off the article, which he agreed to. I was told that the article was not about ME per se, but rather a positive article about the online gaming community of AO, as told through my eyes. None of my personal information was to be released in this article. I was lied to, my wife was lied to, my friend stuntiliator who he also interviewed was lied to, and now the world is being lied to via this article.
I feel raped. There's no other way to describe it. The person described in the Time article is less than pathetic. He's a weak person that gave up on life. And damnit, that just isn't me at all. I'm no recluse, im no social outcast, I'm no mmorpg addict and I'm no quitter.
7 hours a day. you know what? That's such a load of crap
I would say it's quite rare that I'm ever online for more than four hours a day. Any longer and it's usually me logged into the chat channel or my character sitting doing nothing while I chat. So why am I on so much? Well figure this: I work from my home. There's the occasional downtime while I'
I believe that was Newt Gingrichs' mother.
Taken from here
Chung: "Mrs. Gingrich, what has Newt told you about President Clinton?"
Kathleen: "Nothing. And I can't tell you what he said about Hillary."
Chung: "You can't?"
Kathleen: "I can't."
Chung, leaning forward: "Why don't you just whisper it to me. Just between you and me."
Kathleen, leaning in and whispering: "âShe's a bitch.â(TM)"
Chung: "Really? That's the only thing he ever said about her."
Kathleen: "That's the only thing he ever said about her. I think they had some meeting, she takes over."
Chung: "She does?"
Kathleen: "Oh Yeah, yeah. But when Newtie's there, she can't."
For some odd reason, she was fired, not the producer of the segment. The page has a link to a realplayer clip if you care.
Mrs. Gingritch was very naive, to say the least, after all, she was talking to the wife of Maury Povitch!
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
from a sexual assault website:
"There are many types of sexual assault, including rape, forced sodomy (anal intercourse), and forced oral copulation (oral-genital contact), rape by a foreign object (forced penetration by a foreign object, including a finger), and sexual battery (the unwanted touching of an intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal)."
All rapes are sexual assaults. Not all sexual assaults are rapes. You are the one needing a refresher course. I thought the parent's comment was quite apt.
beware the jabberwock, my son! the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Not all rapes are sexual assault. Try looking for a definition that's NOT on a sexual assault web site.
From dictionary.com.. note # 2 and 3
rape1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rp)
n.
1) The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
2) The act of seizing and carrying off by force; abduction.
3) Abusive or improper treatment; violation: a rape of justice.
From dictionary.com:
1. The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
2. The act of seizing and carrying off by force; abduction.
3. Abusive or improper treatment; violation: a rape of justice.
from a sexual assault website:
You are the one needing a refresher course.
Sounds like you're the one who needs to get a clue. Common, you know that words can have multiple meanings and that a website about assault is likely to have only one of them.
It was Newt Gingrich's mom. Connie Chung asked during the interview what Newt thought of Hillary Clinton, but Newt's mom hesitated. So Connie leans in close and says, "well why don't you tell me, just between you and me?", so Newt's mom says "Bitch", and Connie turns around and tells the world.
Public opinion turned majorly sour on Connie Chung, and it wasn't long before CBS fired her ass.
Mostly the whole thing was the result of the public view that Newt's mom was victimized by an unscrupulous reporter. Unfortunately I never read the NYT article because I refuse to register, but from the thread provided in this article it seems Deacon was made to look like a total loser in the newspaper.
I don't really feel sorry for him though. Only one thing can happen when you are living your life in an MMPORG and a newspaper wants to talk to you about your "hobby". It's like the popular kids asking who your favorite X-Man is. The chances are pretty good they don't want to know, and only want to make you look like an idiot. Well newspapers are the same way. If I were in Deacon's position I would have told them to shove off.
-R
Grab your asbestos panties. I'm about to flame the hell out of your jelly belly, Dr. Schole's, pencil protector wearing, ain't had pussy since pussy had you, slashdot reading, wannabe flaming asses.
:p
Let me ask you this:
If I was as poor as this fella makes me out to be, how in the hell can we afford car payments, insurance, Cable TV, High speed internet, entertainment (not AO, ya goobs)
Easy.....the guy lied. Um, and here I though slashdot readers were supposed to be smart?
Wow...I don't get out much, yet somehow I find time to go dancing every weekend, go to trips out of town, etc.
"Shy"....Come to Madison or log into AO and see how "shy" I am.
Let's break it on down for the less estute among us:
Rent: RSPC@home.com645/mo
Cable: RSPC@home.com60/mo
Internet: RSPC@home.com50/mo
car: RSPC@home.com299/mo
Insurance: RSPC@home.comshit, I forgot. I think it's 1-200 or something. Yeah, I got speeding tickets, bite me.
Food: roughly 300/mo (I like my steaks)
AO: RSPC@home.com12.95/mo
Clothes: I buy alot of clothes, so sue me? roughly RSPC@home.com500 a month.
Other entertainment: meh, 5-800 a month or so.
Last year I cleared just under RSPC@home.com100k after expenses. No, I'm not poor at all. in fact OMFGRSPC@home.comROOFLESMAYO. Do the numbers. I make 50-100 per hour times 20-40 billable hours per week. That equals: a buttload more than half you bitches pull in
If the walls were "crashing down around me" and I was so poor, how the hell was I able to afford a RSPC@home.com50 game and RSPC@home.com200 in clothes that day?
Easy. The guy lied.
I mean, there's so much about the article that doesn't make sense. Yes, I'm oh so poor, let me lean back in my leather chair and play AO on my brand new 21" monitor.
Here's what I see you people writing:
"OMG this guy is such a loser, he plays MMORPGS and has no life, blah blah blah how pathetic. I think I'm going to spend the next 26 consecutive hours blasting him on the slashdot forums.
the very fact alone that you bother to read the article and then post flames about it makes you look far more pathetic than even that article could make you look.
You call those flames? Panty waists. Amateur flamers. Get some meat behind some of these weak ass jabs and maybe you'll be blessed enough to have Thedeacon own your Linux lubbin asses individually.
Um guys? YOU READ SLASHDOT. You read slashdot and troll the forums for all day. Hey, it's reality calling. JOO ARE A DORK.
I play for 40 hours a week. Heh, to be honest, when you consider how much TV (and forum trolling) most americans do, that number is not too horrible.
Of course that number is grossly exaggerated (I work for 9 hours a day, make dinner, watch a movie with my wife, I write, work out, I do stand up comedy, I read, etc, so it's a physical impossibility that I play that many hours, unless I've gained the magical ability to increase the length of the day by 6 hours or something).
Wow, the Linux freaks on this boards sure are in a place to talk. Lessee, "Slashdot: News for nerds". Um, "nerds". And you guys are proud of this. What does that say about you?
I think the flamers on this thread are more pissed that I play games and still get the pussy, while they're spanking it to midget porn.
People, get your collective heads out of your ass