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A World of Warcraft World
An anonymous reader writes "On ebay people are paying real money to buy WoW gold... while some guy in Korea murdered another guy over a rare sword that existed only in an MMORPG. This essay looks at the way more and more people are failing to draw a distinction between their real and online lives and takes it to its logical, yet utterly insane, conclusion." Amusing, and with more than a few ounces of truth.
Only old people kill each other for swords.
It's all about fucking philosophy, you can't tell someone whether or not they are living a seperate life online because it would be the same EXACT thing as telling someone they're living a seperate life by sitting down and watching TV or going out and playing football. If you can't make the connection you can stop reading and shoot yourself.
Oh no! Some idiots are spending real money on fake gold! Some stupid kid killed some other kid! Why is it that whenever a couple of crazy people do something crazy, it gets portrayed in the media as an epidemic? Is this taught in Journalism school, or is it something you learn how to do on the job?
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
boo hoo that's right. People need to respect my right to dress my fat lardy ass in a star trek uniform and masturbate myself while using googlefox os on linux boxen to view radical thought provoking sites like the bbc sci fi archive that I translate into Klingon which I have a degree in. people just dont understand me. it's not right.
Bull shit. The numbers your questionable web site quote do not discuss various type of crime. The content is also highly racist. I assume you agree with its questioable and offensive conclusions. You must live in the inner-city or the South.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck