YellowjacketX

So...who's goin'?

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I don't think its the fact that he received negative responses that shocked him, it was more what the responses contained - for example the death threats.

Although his method may be considered "cheap" or "unfair" by other players, the fact remains that the ability to do what he was doing remains in the game because the lawmakers (read: developers) deem it fair and a valid method of playing the game. Just because there is some "unwritten law" created by the player base, he has no obligation to follow it and is free to play the game how he wishes so long as it is within the guidelines set forth by the devs.

I can imagine people becoming frustrated having their characters teleported in front of an unbeatable robot, but there are ways to deal with it: Stay away from the guy with teleport foe!

I find it funny, in almost any video game that contains online play, people will always find some something "cheap" about one way or another of defeating someone, yet 99% of the time that method will remain in said game. Typical examples include sniping, camping, bunny hopping, in one game I played the rocket launcher itself was frowned upon and called a "noob cannon" only because every other gun required some sort of effort in aiming while the rocket launcher didn't. In every single one of these situations the only reason people complain is because they are normally defeated by the person using these tactics.

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DING DING DING DING DING!!! We have someone who has made salient, thoughtful points. The line to stone this person to death starts at my immediate left.

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ok, I am right now studying psychology, and what i see is a guy with really no life making an excuse to abuse others then wright a book on it and make money.

he really has issues and i should break out a DSM and figure his diagnosis, and wright a book on it. :-P

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Of course he has no life, he's a freaking professor...sheesh.

:-P

Yeah, yanno, this guy is definitely the mother of all toolboxes for violating the unspoken social norms that make up any collective group. And truth be told, I have deep questions about the efficacy and design of his "experiment" with Twixt but...

FTFA

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When Myers took a break from the virtual world and went on vacation for a couple of weeks with his wife and daughters, players noticed his absence. One player started a discussion thread that claimed Myers had been banned from the game because he had called a fellow player a "n----r."


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Another posting claimed Twixt was a convicted pedophile.


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This pretty much speaks for the sad, consequence-less state of the Internet. This is the kind of stuff you'd never say to people IRL unless you were just looking for a fight. Seriously. This is just a more academic way of phrasing what was so eloquently expressed in Penny Arcade comic.

Also this last line here (again FTFA):

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"If you aren't a member of the tribe, you get whacked with a stick," he said. "I look at social groups with dismay."


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That there is just sociological fact. Doesn't take much more than a cursory glance of history to see that it's pretty easy to villify that which is not like you.

*shrugs* So yeah, the dude is a [censored] griefer, but to say his work was entirely without point, or to say that we (as a community of gamers) are all victims of his terrible griefing and entirely without any fault whatsoever is pretty weaksauce.

WOW LJ. This is looking REALLY GREAT

You are the awesome.

(( I just want to say....freaking...WOW /applause ))

SAY IT LOUD! I'M A ROLEPLAYER AND I'M PROUD!

OOOW! HIT ME!

*Blackstar grooves to James Brown on his iPod*