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Winning Souls In World Of Warcraft
Steve Rock writes "Many of us have heard about the various ways in which real life and massively-multiplayer role playing games intersect, which usually involves the exchange of in-game characters or items for real life money. Well apparently religion is spilling over into World of Warcraft." From the article: "We meet under the docks in Booty Bay for a bible study every Tuesday night."
Please?
Congratulations, you've managed to post a troll site on Slashdot.
If you look at the content on this site, it's either obviously fake or belongs to a cult, none of what they have posted is even remotely close to any church I've ever been to.
I suggest deleting this story and forgetting someone ever submitted it.
They left out the fact that those gay boys and fat little pale-faced wiccan girls have credit cards (or at least a job to buy prepaid cards).
I highly doubt those described characters would want to piss away $20/mo (or whatever it is) to escape their pathetic lives in a video game. More than likely, they would escape their lives in something like Counter-Strike Source for a one-time cost, or simply use Alcohol (if they're of age), or just spend the $400 on a gun.
Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
why was this even posted?
/. but c'mon - this is a well known satirical site....
normally I don't bitch about the stories posted on
I almost bought it untill I saw the link..
It's a joke on a particular facet of the Christian community. Your in the same boat I am on it: There are so many people who actually act like that that it's not immediately clear wether or not it's a joke.
I believe the death toll you're referring to is over 200,000 people now, but it can't be purely blamed on DHMO -- large amounts of monosodium chloride was also found on the deceased, for example.
Also, when you say `this year alone', you should be more specific. You mean in the `previous 365 days', right? Not `2005 so far' ...
That's delicious! A *Christian* arguing that *another religious group* has no evidence to support their outrageous claims and that the text is self-contradictory. Pot, meet kettle... kettle, say hello to my good friend pot. And while we're at it... someone call Alanis Morisette, because it sounds to that it's like rain on your wedding day, don't you think?
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But, this is exactly why I won't pay for /. Crap editing, dups and crap submissions. This is /. not Fark. If we are going this far with /, where are the Boobies links?
If you don't agree to accept their religion, they use their character to kill yours. Hmmm...that seems to violate both the old and new testament. Old Testament - Thou shalt not kill.
New Testament - Love thy neighbor as thy self.
They protest about being stereo typed but they offer up a pretty grim stereo type of gamers that isn't even accurate. Stastically speaking, the average gamer is 23 year old male with a life who likes to game to blow off steam.
I personally like to game. I scuba, rollerblade, and ride horses when I'm not gaming, so I'd say that the no sports thing is probably a wash too.
Then they actually brag about following people around to annoy them in to converting or staging "conversion duels". Frankly, if they are free to express their religion, I'm free to express mine.
BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME NOW, PUNY MORTAL!!!!HDGary secures my bank
Probably because it's still not much of an exageration.
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.