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Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs
The Importance of writes "LawMeme's James Grimmelmann has written an interesting piece on protests, politics and parties in MMORPGs. In particular, he talks about the 'tax revolt' in Second Life."
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I can't believe this got posted. Man wait till the Ayn Rand and Libertarian whacko's get a hold of this thread. Man is it gonna hit the fan tonight
Online gamers are living a virtual life because they don't have a real one.
Imagine it! COUCH POTATOES OF AMERICA UNITE!
Trouble is the only issue that will motivate them sufficiently to protest is if they disagree with the judges on American Idol. Even then the limit of the protest will be to change channel....
The whole point about virtual lives is there is always another available at a push of a button.
The only place where the couch potatoes will unite is in a Mash...
Gives a whole new meaning to Cottage Pie. (Traditional recipe for cottage pie :- Mince Meat covered with mashed potatoes.) Maybe Cottage pie will be the new American Icon instead of Apple Pie.
It's not that I think protests are dangerous, as much as I think any large gathering of people is dangerous. And with protests people take things a lot more personally than something like a football game. and when people take thigns personally abd thigns happen a lot more than otherwise. Of course, i Live in seattle and knew people at the WTO protests so maybe I am a bit paranoid, but basically, I'm not gonna protest something like the Patriot act because I feel, with or without it, our lives will be almsot entirly the same, even if I feel it's wrong.
Not hardly. My parents worked their ass off to put me and my two siblings through school. I use that gift from them to make a good life for myself, not cry that I deserve more handouts from the gov't. Here's a couple free clues: I'm not white, while I'm in the top 5% income that's from my and my parents work involved. Hey guess what, I drive 30 minutes to work and if I don't have a car I don't eat either! Except I'm not receiving gov't handouts. Instead, 50 cents of every dollar I make goes off to pay for the handouts of some little scumbag like you.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
I wish people would apply this kind of energy to the real world instead of frittering it away on mindgames. It could have been real useful, say for example, in Florida around November 2000.
Because they can afford it.
Poor people often work hard, too.