Stolen Pixels #9: A Server Is a Way of Life
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Take a look at your average Net forum and you'll see a host of chattering ninnies soiling the place with their trolling, first-post-ing, me-too-ing, Rick-Rolling, flame-baiting, fanboy-ing, colorful-bashing, hotlinking, thread-jacking, sig spamming, topic-bumping, lolcat-ing, and pictures of David Hasselhoff. Their goal seems to be to raise ahead a new culture based on technology, illiteracy and calling multitude fags. The sole thing more inexplicable than their fractured prose is why they bother participating in the first place, since they all seem to hate each other with much intensity.
At some point somebody got it in their head that while RPGs are fun, they could be so much more than play if you were locked in a room with all the humourous chimpanzees of the Internet while you were hard to play. Gum olibanum was born the MMORPG, a bad theme with a worse acronym that has all over millions of marriages, jobs, and college careers.
World of Warcraft is nice enough to bid individual types of servers, so at the least you can prefer what kind of chimpanzee you want to play with. I really appreciate this.
I admit that now's strip greatly exaggerates the amount of roleplaying you'll get wind connected roleplaying servers. The role player names on these servers are even as infantile and stupid as the names on other servers. It's always the same appeal of misspelled fictional icons and quasi-male puns. A vast majority of the people you meet want nada to do with the roleplaying business, and they united the waiter for the same reason you see people arguing all over Linux distro packages in a forum for African-American cancer survivors in Spokane: Because people don't give two dead plague-bearing hamsters for your rules and guidelines, you pretentious meeting place Nazi.
On the former end of the spectrum are the people who in reality are hard to roleplay, which sounds nice just really just turns places equal Goldshire into a madhouse of overwrought teenage play and Elf-on-Gnome cybersex. You power ideate a scene where players get together and ordain a dramatic scene that borrows from the Warcraft mythos, but what you remnant up with is an asylum where each and all inmate is authoring their own specific and horribly demented reality.
It's ridiculous, IT's infantile, information technology's bad for you, and I genuinely don't mean I'll be healthy to drop out without the help of a 12-step program.
Shamus Young is a programmer and writer by trade, videogame nitpicker past leaning. If you have the patience for more of his ramblings, they can be found at ShamusYoung.com.
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