Love In The Time of Warcraft 87
Via Edge Online, an article at the Wall Street Journal talking about the process of finding love in an MMOG. From the article: "Nick Yee, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Stanford University who studies online games, found in a survey earlier this year that 29% of women players and 8% of men said they had gone on to date someone they met in a game. He says the games are filled with scenarios that shed light on players' personalities. A risky raid on a dungeon, for example, can reveal whether someone is a team player. 'These are trust-building exercises,' he says. Players 'are constantly having to make decisions like, Do I run out and save myself or help the others survive?' Situations that reveal so much about someone's character are less common in the real world, he thinks. Yankee Group, a Boston technology-research firm, estimates that MMOGs, which can be played simultaneously by thousands of people using the Internet, are played by 25 million to 30 million people world-wide."
i know all there is to know about the crying game (Score:4, Funny)
My God! (Score:5, Funny)
We need to stop that. Those stereotypes and social stigmas are time honored and sacred traditions. If we lose those, the terrorists have already won.
I need to be able to say, "Well, at least I didn't meet my wife online!" in order to point out how obviously better I am than everyone else. I got drunk at a bar and knocked my wife up and that's how I became happily married. My son and his son are going to do the same thing if I have anything to say about it!
This is change & I don't like it. We need to stay as static as possible and prevent this from becoming the norm. Sure kids in my day listened to rock music and went to dances despite what our parents said
Someone get me Jack Thompson, we need a man of religious convictions that will secure the sanctity of this nation!
Something Awful (Score:5, Funny)
Epic Mounts, Part 1 [somethingawful.com] and Part 2 [somethingawful.com].
lollerskates (Score:3, Funny)
Druid Pick up lines (Score:1, Funny)
Baby, You Mean The World Of Warcraft To Me (Score:3, Funny)
Part of the eHarmony matrix? eHarmony MMPORG! (Score:4, Funny)
"When Johhny cast the spell of Eternal Light and destroyed the dark lord I just knew he was the man for me!"
eHarmony MMPORG
Sad man (Score:2, Funny)
> online games
And you thought `media studies` students were a waste of skin...
Re:My God! (Score:2, Funny)
Channeling Jack at your request:
Marriage is a sacret institution between a man and a woman, NOT between a night-elf and an orc.
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Re:It's All in the Numbers (Score:3, Funny)
Do you mean that all those lovely Blood Elves are guys!!! Now you've totally burst my bubble.
I know of such things (Score:3, Funny)
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