Judging people...Why? (Score 2, Interesting)

So... who are you guys to judge Thedeacon? Do you know the guy? Not that it matters, since what one does with his own time should be solely up to him, and should be respected, like any choice one might make. This seems like to elementary me, but I suppose most people haven't thought that far... I play AO, and as an Officer in Storm, I know Thedeacon pretty well, although only on a virtual level. However this is enough to tell that Thedeacon is not the geek he is represented as in that so-called Article, which quite frankly is an insult to jorunalism. Sure he plays 7 hours a day sometimes, so what? He is no exception, and the professional situation in which he is right now has nothing to do with his hobby. If it had, all players of MMORPGs would be outcasts with no lives, which is far from being true, since many of us are successfull in their jobs/studies and social lives. What amazes me the most is that you people seem to blindly swallow whatever information the press presents you, which shows a big lack of judgement. After all the media are just another form of propaganda, and they need a scapegoat which has evolved over time, from violent movies, to videogames, now focusing mostly on online games. Does every person that watches a violent movie turn into a mass murdered? No, the same thing goes for online gaming, and becoming a "social reject". It happens, but those people are the vastest of minorities, and lack the strenght of character to avoid this, which would probably have led them the same way, if they hadn't played a game like AO. All I see here are a bunch of people judging others for the sole purpose of feeling better about themselves, a more and more common action in our world of the so-called politically correct. If people could just put aside there pride for a few minutes, and admit that we are all freaks in one way or another, this kind of bullshit could be avoided, but I guess thats not an easy thing to do in a world which pushes us to "perfection" which is an illusion anyway. The only real thing to discuss about this article is the fact that the so called journalist, wrote information he never should have (regarding Thedeacon's reallife) and made him look bad, by distorting and exagerating the truth, to say the least, which could have repercussions on Thedeacon's professional life. If you can't understand Thedeacon's legitimate anger, and think it is ok that a newspaper writes bullshit, in order to sell more, at the cost of a "random joe" like The deacon, then I wish the same thing will happen to you one day. Greetz, Lino.