World of Warcraft, otherwise known simply as WoW, is one of the most popular and successful computer games in history. It is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game that 6 million people pay $10 -15 per month to play. This type of popularity creates a sample size that is large enough to reflect the forces that control it. In Layman's terms, with this many people playing this online game at any given time human nature tends to get a stronger representation.

The first "reality" check was a bug that caused a plague to outbreak and affect people's characters in certain cases instantly killing any player below a certain level.

The second "reality" check was when this group of Warcraft players otherwise known as a guild interrupted a memorial service. Apparently, some dude dies in real life who is a popular WoW player. The people in the game think it would be nice to have a memorial for the player so they log into his account, take the character to a lake, and set it up for everyone to come pay their respects.

A bunch of dudes decide this would be a great time to ambush everyone so they run over a hill, kill the dead guy's character, and then wipe out everyone who was there to show their respects. They filmed the whole thing and put it on the net.
http://spikedhumor.com/articles/22282/WoW_Funeral_Ambush_Video.html
The Google Video

Deadly WoW Plague
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4272418.stm
http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/09/plaguelands.html


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ignesandros, on 4/12/2006 12:17:50 PM
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You all who said "the guy died in real life" and stuff like that are completely stupid. It was a chick. She had a stroke. Get your facts straight, children. It's in the video... forget how to read?
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Tbolt, on 4/12/2006 12:26:40 PM
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The last lines he(azshira) said was:
She loved to fish
she loved to pvp

and

hey gwynnie,
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GrandMassa, on 4/12/2006 2:00:20 PM
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Quote "No matter how hard you try to justify playing these games, you know deep down you are wasting your life, if you can't see this, you are simply ignorant or in denial." <----- Justify? there is no need to justify, you gave a moronic statement.

Of course its a waste of time, but isn't slaving at a job for Little to no wage? Isn't pursuing a female only to fail a waste of time? How going for a swim... I mean you dont NEED to swim, or bikeride. Or ANY hobby for that matter... Stampcollecting, Bottlecap-love, Anything that requires you wasting your time. (Get off your high horse, fool.)

To imply that most Massive-Multiplayer online people have no social life is a farce and a stereotype (like saying all potsmokers are stupid, when some are lawyers, CEOs, ETC.)

For Example, I am currently playing with a 35 year old doctor from NYC, not to mention people in MY guild all tend to be over 20, married with kids and bored just sitting home.

Time i WASTE on this game (and i dont count really, if i can get more time in, all the better) would be the average to you watching your favorite show before you go to bed.

Have i ever stayed up playing the game for 24 hours? Yeah, but have you watched TV all night unable to sleep? or listened to the stereo in your room and kept you up?

Do you watch television? AT ANY TIME? I know for a fact you do... So what is the difference from you sitting down to watch Law and Order for a hour, then another favorite show for another hour, each day, each week?

People who critique Gamers need to psychoanalyze their own lives, and notice that they are really mocking themselves... You do nothing different than us, you waste time by absorbing into 'Non-reality' in VARIOUS ways, why focus on our one? Makes not a shred of sense.

I'm wasting my life playing a game, yes I know that... I mean while im playing this game, I could be out cheating on my girlfriend and spitting in the face of my son. Getting royally smashed at bars, driving home and getting killed... leaving my son fatherless and my girlfriend alone... yeah.

And before you pull out the old 'You could be paying attention to your son/woman' (I can predict your response, your that transparent)... Who is to say I don't? I mean, if my child is sleeping, the woman is neck deep in her Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars and the house is secure. Whats playing a game harm?

Nothing.

Now go home and hug your Productive-pillows.
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GrandMassa, on 4/12/2006 2:05:16 PM
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And for people saying 'SHE WAS A FEMALE'. She was a human being and a gamer, stop using female sexuality to draw pity.

It makes no difference if she had a penis or a vagina... this isnt about that... It's about a guild ransacking a funeral staged in a horrible place to have one.

I swear most people use 'OMG SHE WAS A CHICK' 'This guy was actually a female' for leverage in arguements. Again, her sex doesn't matter, unless you are a necrophiliac looking to dig up some fun? I thought so too.

She could of been a non-gender viking midget with a thong, matters not.
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G33KGURL, on 4/12/2006 2:45:22 PM
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WOW!!!! there really are some terribly sexually frustrated 13 yr old boys posting on here i mean come on people i use a "little" L33T and you all go of the deep end i mean please it was meant to be a tribute to the fact that im proud to be a "GEEK!" and besides id rather fuck my laptop than any of you limp dicked disgruntled postal workers out there
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G33KGURL, on 4/12/2006 3:16:40 PM
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WOW!!!! there really are some terribly sexually frustrated 13 yr old boys posting on here i mean come on people i use a "little" L33T and you all go of the deep end i mean please it was meant to be a tribute to the fact that im proud to be a "GEEK!" and besides id rather fuck my laptop than any of you limp dicked disgruntled postal workers out there
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Motsew, on 4/12/2006 5:37:58 PM
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"She died...

I find your lack of empathy scarier than the fact that she died playing games. You probably, like most people on this forum, either refuse to contemplate that, or just blocked it out to look cool. This whole "I'm too cool to feel sorry for people" thing is really pissing me of.

When you die would you like people to say that about you? And imagine if someone close to you died and someone said that about them, would you agree?

If the answer is yes to any of those questions, you're either lying or insane."

Those things would never be said about me because I wouldn't be so fucking stupid as to play WoW seven days straight.
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GrandMassa, on 4/12/2006 6:21:07 PM
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I fully agree with said poster that many of you say LOL SHE DIED to look cool. Like your some bad-assed uncaring Dischord. The size of balls you have, like O M G!

Heh, then again it's Security-behind-a-PC, no one will have to nut up to what they say... I guess thats the joy of a forum though. Least I know i'm not your 'Go-With-The-Flow' types, you sheep. ^_^

It ain't cool, nor are you for supporting someones harmless death, repeatedly slam your head into a wall because.. CONGRADULATIONS! Your a Type-B Moron. Awards are after the ceremony.

Then again, I empathize for those who felt the loss but not to the extreme as some of the prior posters... Some of you just like drama. Period. And it's a shame you use this to extract subliminal guilty pleasure.

And g33kgurl, you aren't leet. J00 DOUBLE POSTED! LAWL NUB PWNED! j/p.

(Fucking a laptop would be pretty gross IMO, especially 'Fitting It In'. Suppose enough vaseline and duct tape will fix anything))
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Got Purp?, on 4/13/2006 5:18:43 AM
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yea geekgurl could fit a semi in her vaginal crevice. FUCKING SLUT.
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G33KGURL, on 4/13/2006 9:19:35 AM
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@Got purp
oh hell yea baby when i fart it echos *psssh* like im gonna take notice of a guy that probably dreams about being Paris Hiltons douche calling me a slut
and @ Grandmassa
Yea i double posted you tend to get the jitters gaming for 4 days and drinkin nothing but coffee


------G33K and loving it------
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