LooHOO...serHER...

DISCLAIMER

As you know, I so rarely edit a post after the fact, and I never retract, but judging from my comments I'm getting a feeling I should clarify.


I am not saying that all people who play RPG's are pathetic losers. I am saying that those who spend most of their daylight hours playing them, in lieu of actual human interactions and relationships, ARE. Those who take it as seriously as they would an event in real life are subject to ridicule.

Those wise souls who acknowledge that there needs to be a balance between online and real life are NOT losers. As I said, to each his own. I don't have time for that shit, but some do, so more power to them.

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As it turns out, many people pay $15 a month to play World Of Warcraft, which is an online role playing game (or RPG, as it is known to geeks the world over). There are various guilds and I guess they run around blowing each other up and casting "Level 12: Magic Wand" spells upon each other for the sole purpose of wasting time until there comes a day when they are finally laid. Whatever. To each his own. I've generally paid little attention.

Today I came across a fairly hilarious story. Apparently, a popular WoW player died IRL ("in real life", to those of us who don't speak geek) and her fellow players decided to have an online "funeral". Someone hacked into the dead chick's account, stood her by a lake and spread the word so other players could come to this location (specifically picked out because she "loved the water") to pay their respects.

This, alone, is somewhat odd...but whatever. Again, to each his own. But a rival guild, seeing an opportunity to blast the asses of unsuspecting enemies, planned an ambush. Oh yeah, and they captured the whole thing on video.

WoW Funeral Ambush

The video flashes back and forth between the funeral (as I said, it's on a lake, and there's this mournful music playing and a line forming to go see the dead chick by the water) and the guys running through the woods to launch the attack (also set to music). When the scene goes to the funeral, you see a couple of the guys from the rival guild getting into the receiving line.

Suddenly, one of them walks up to dead chick, and blows her away. Then everyone else jumps out of the bushes and carnage unfolds.

Angry message board threads popped up all over the internet, some angrily protesting such a heinous act, and others pointing and laughing.

LOLZ, U GOT PWN3D N00B!


Sadly, I can't help but point and laugh myself. A funeral? Online? For somebody you've never actually met, and could quite honestly be playing possum?


Some people are really fucked up and sad, thus making them open to ridicule. Heh heh.