Comments on: WoW guild griefs online memorial service for player that dies in real life http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/04/wow_guild_grief.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Levi Anansi http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/04/wow_guild_grief.html/comment-page-1#comment-42505 Levi Anansi Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:28:37 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1994#comment-42505 This might be months old, but it does really bring out how the mmo can truly destroy any human belief in altruism. I remember when my friends and I were playing q3f pretty religiously a few years back, a member of he community passed away nickd "zapped again". He always played a heavy weapons specialist, and he was quite literally deadly with that character. There were times, usually when the servers were repopulating, when we stopped for a minute and chatted. We would laugh over how my medic sicked him, or how he blew me away in a fraction of a second when I thought I was being stealthy. For a week the server he played on allowed no prof selection other than HW in his honor, and we were all very serious and teary when we were playing. Please don't even get me into the events we put together in swg before the back hand a few months ago.... The point, the crashers of this thing were obviously, and hopefully, kids. The most we can hope for is that they experience a similar loss sometime in what is to be a short life, and when they turn to the friends they made online for support, they have their systems crushed in similar fashion. Can't help it, I believe in respect for your fellow man, not altruism... This might be months old, but it does really bring out how the mmo can truly destroy any human belief in altruism. I remember when my friends and I were playing q3f pretty religiously a few years back, a member of he community passed away nickd “zapped again”. He always played a heavy weapons specialist, and he was quite literally deadly with that character. There were times, usually when the servers were repopulating, when we stopped for a minute and chatted. We would laugh over how my medic sicked him, or how he blew me away in a fraction of a second when I thought I was being stealthy. For a week the server he played on allowed no prof selection other than HW in his honor, and we were all very serious and teary when we were playing. Please don’t even get me into the events we put together in swg before the back hand a few months ago….

The point, the crashers of this thing were obviously, and hopefully, kids. The most we can hope for is that they experience a similar loss sometime in what is to be a short life, and when they turn to the friends they made online for support, they have their systems crushed in similar fashion.

Can’t help it, I believe in respect for your fellow man, not altruism…

]]> By: rod furlong http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/04/wow_guild_grief.html/comment-page-1#comment-42504 rod furlong Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:54:36 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1994#comment-42504 this is MONTHS old. this is MONTHS old.

]]> By: Urizenus http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/04/wow_guild_grief.html/comment-page-1#comment-42503 Urizenus Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:55:58 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1994#comment-42503 Ah yes, the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction machinima, now that was a classic! Ah yes, the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction machinima, now that was a classic!

]]> By: glitch http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/04/wow_guild_grief.html/comment-page-1#comment-42502 glitch Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:29:14 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1994#comment-42502 yes, well, this diseased mind certainly wishes the Jessie Wars (or the TSO adventures actually) had some video documentation like that one...who could have possibly produced such an objective documentary video on these shocking and horrifying events....?!!?!? i guess this is what happens when virtual journalists retire. the Gangs are forced to do their own PR..... http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/2006/03/glitchy_link_bo.html and, speaking to the art of the machinma, i guess nothing comapares to the highly stylized recreation of the janet jackson titty slip that was posted to herald some time ago. that was a piece of true machine cinema : ) yes, well, this diseased mind certainly wishes the Jessie Wars (or the TSO adventures actually) had some video documentation like that one…who could have possibly produced such an objective documentary video on these shocking and horrifying events….?!!?!?

i guess this is what happens when virtual journalists retire. the Gangs are forced to do their own PR…..

http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/second_life_future_salon/2006/03/glitchy_link_bo.html

and, speaking to the art of the machinma, i guess nothing comapares to the highly stylized recreation of the janet jackson titty slip that was posted to herald some time ago. that was a piece of true machine cinema : )

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