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Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him
D1gital_Prob3 writes with this excerpt from a story about David Myers, a Loyola professor who spent some time studying superhero MMO City of Heroes/Villains:
"... he aimed the pointer at his opponent, the virtual comic book villain 'Syphris.' Myers, 55, flicked the buttons on his mouse and magically transported his opponent to the front of a cartoon robot execution squad. In an instant, the squad pulverized the player. Syphris fired an instant message at Myers moments later. 'If you kill me one more time I will come and kill you for real and I am not kidding.' ... As part of his experiment, Myers decided to play the game by the designers' rules — disregarding any customs set by the players. His character soon became very unpopular. At first, players tried to beat him in the game to make him quit. Myers was too skilled to be run off, however. They then made him an outcast, a World Wide Web pariah that the creator of Syphris — along with hundreds of other faceless gamers — detested."
teleported you to the cartoon robot death squad, did he? ;P
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I find the moderation on this comment particularly ironic!
Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman!
Wait, was this guy a professor in anthropology? Because this sounds like what a professor of anthropology would do if he could.
"What kind of reaction would being a douche monkey bring from people in a society? Wish I could test this somewhere other than reality due to fear of my life. Oh, online gaming!"
So he gets to play MMOs all day and be a cock in them, AND he gets paid for it?
Shit, all this time I've been doing it for free....
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
And yet, what, they still got their asses handed to them? Methinks they need to spend less time chatting and more time playing the fucking game.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell.
Rain on your wedding day isn't ironic without a big stretch, but a free ride when you've already paid could easily be situational irony.
Go ahead and burn a flag. It's within the rules, but people will hate you for it. Wow. I should write a paper.
depends - does the guy who wants to play baseball starting pitching the ball at the sunbathers?
FGD 135
And that's related to the OP or article how?
You must be new here.
Minne-snow-da: Winter is comming...
Didn't start with Jedi Outcast.
People'd get so pissed in Dark Forces: Jedi Knight when you'd force pull their weapon away then lightsaber them to death before they could do anything. Like, boot-you-from-the-server pissed. WTF? Play in a non-force-powers game then, ya jerks!
I think it would be ironic if everyone were made of iron...
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
no, that would be ferric.
Through Hitler, obviously!
As someone that used to frequently play Counter Strike, I feel the need to correct your statement of CS's purpose. It was demonstrated to me time and time again that the purpose of Counter Strike is to run ahead of your team mates and drop a flash bang just before they round a corner where the opposing team is holed up. This is followed closely by knifing team mates in the back while hopping around and lagging behind to see how many of them you can kill with a single AWP round.
Rain on your wedding day is not ironic, it is just unfortunate.
:-p)
Unless you're getting married to a weather forecaster and he/she set the date! Then it is fairly ironic.
(Ed Byrne