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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.
first post?
Or not?
/.: why the hell am I here?
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I 0wn you suckas
I'm*A*T Roll
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Waste a mod point modding me down, plz. That way, some of my real trolls can last a few seconds longer
--Sarah
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I mean, come on, cut us some slack...it's Friday and all...
"I feel raped by this thread's parent."
a little overboard, i feel.
but it cant have been nice.
Can't wait for the new Harry Potter book!
I'm going to a party at a local bookstore, where I hope to meet some chicks!
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get it
I will laugh my ass off when somebody sues Slashdot for linking to their site and with the full knowledge that denial of service is the probable result. I would do it myself, but I don't have enough money (or a site Slashdot would link to).
There seems to be a rash bad/false articles comming out of the NYT these days. What a shame.
I didn't even know that Anarchy Online was that popular. I thought Everquest dominated everything. Oh well, Star Wars Galaxies looks really good and it has a good chance of swallowing up both of them.
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02, @12:36PM (#3809654)
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Mozilla is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Mozilla community when IDC confirmed that Mozilla market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Mozilla has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Mozilla is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Mozilla's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape 6 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Netscape developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Mozilla is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Mozilla.org leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Galeon are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Galeon posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Galeon users. Chimera posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Galeon posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Chimera. A recent article put Netscape 6 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 6 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 6 usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Mozilla, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape went out of business and will probably be taken over by AOL who sell another troubled browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Mozilla has steadily declined in market share. Mozilla is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Mozilla is to survive at all it will be among browser dilettante dabblers. Mozilla continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Mozilla is dead.
Fact: Mozilla is dying
I suppose you are saying that his comments trivialize the actual crime of rape.
I agree.
However, the accusations of young women that they have been "raped" when, in reality, they were too drunk to remember consenting to having sex, they regret having sex with a person and fear the repurcusions (e.g., pregnancy), they dress like women of the street, or they engage in some act that led to their being raped and/or completely falsify facts about being raped, trivialize the true crime of rape even more than his (valid) statement.
"Date rape," "acquaitance rape," "spousal rape": give me a break.
Instead of taking responsibility for their own actions nowadays, girlsâ(TM) first response to sex that they regret is to scream "rape" until someone who cares hears.
Keep doing it, girls, and no one will care any longer.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
--Ronald Reagan
After reading the article, I felt somewhat depressed about Rick's life _because that is how the article portrayed him_. I think anyone reading that article would feel the same way: "This guy is kind of weird, down-and-out to some degree, without much hope for the future", which then led to the thought, "This is the kind of person who plays these MMORPG'S."
Then I just read (again, because /. posted a story), Rick's reply to this article, as well as his fellow Anarchy Online gamers in that game's forum. After reading his reply and defense of himself, I feel sincere sympathy for him. Basically, Rick says this article's writer at best misrepresented him, and at worst, outright lied about things that he said. I believe Rick when he says these things.
And I was taken aback when I saw the top-modded posts on /. slamming this man without any kindness at all. Many of the posts said, in effect, "Rick could be lying as easily as the NYT article writer, and it's his fault anyway, even if the srticle writer did lie." I disagree with this rationale, and here's why: Do you think someone would submit to an interview like Rick did if he knew that he would be portrayed as a hopeless, pathetic loser with weird and even offensive behavior? I don't think so. Especially since Rick is now upset about this story. So I give Rick the benefit of the doubt when it comes to believing him or the writer of the article.
I am a Christian, whereas I think many (if not most) people who read /. are not. If you want to challenge this, just read people's sig lines or posts and be aware of the amount of anti-Christian and anti-religious content. That being said, I used to be an atheist, and I put up with the anti-Christian junk here because _I used to feel the exact same way_. I've changed now though, and so there you go. I have always been interested in technology (games, programming, gadgets, etc.) so I enjoy /. I give that disclaimer because I am going to say something sincerely religious (yes you read it right!) intended especially for Rick:
I believe in Jesus Christ, a man who was also falsely accused of many things, whose words were twisted around to condemn him, and who was killed on the basis of these lies. I also believe that he is God, and so God himself, knowing that he would be betrayed by someone who called himself his friend, much as you were by the article writer, willingly gave himself over to his betrayer so that the salvation of human beings could be made possible. Because of this, I believe that Jesus Christ himself is, in a special way, right beside all people who are wrongly condemned, who are misrepresented, and who are lied about. People called him the devil, they called him a demon, they tried to murder him, and eventually they did. He bore all of these insults and lies with love, for he knew that the people who did these things were doing wrong, and that doing wrong hurts the person who does it far worse than the person they hurt because they separate themselves from God by doing it.
Rick, I do not know if you are a Christian or not, and whether you are or not, I just want you to know that I have prayed for you and your family, that Christ will be with you, to comfort and console you, to help you through this difficult time where you feel defamed, and to restore you to peace of heart and mind. Ultimately, I pray he will give you the grace to forgive this man who did this to you, and all the people at the NYT who allowed it to happen. When Judas came to betray Jesus, Jesus looked into his eyes and said, "Friend, do what you came to do." He forgave his worst enemy, and in doing so followed his Father's desire, for in forgiving, we will be forgiven.
Peace be with you,
Devin