"Is this something I'd need to be a virgin to care about?" "Not all who wander are lost!" "Work is for people who don't know how to fish!" Pick one, they're all equivalent. It's about as clever or original as Hallmark cards, bumper stickers or those cheap keychains they sell at gas stations. It might even have been funny the first ten million times, but I honestly can't remember. $SOCIAL_LIFE $PARENTS_BASEMENT $SEX_WITH_GIRLS $DUNGEON_MASTER. Yeah, LOL NEEERRRRRDDDDSSSSS! Seriously, this kind of shit could be written by a script. You aren't funny, you aren't original, and you're spending your day on a fucking blog postulating some sort of superiority over other nerd-related activity. I've looked at all the links and I've read this entire thread and I still have no idea what the fuck you nerds are talking about. naming their spaceships after Nazi concentration camps, or referring to in-game money making efforts as "jewing" having more control/influence in the game. People managing corps and alliances have to spend a silly amount of time working around this shit.Īlso, those of us who are in neither of the large camps involved aren't necessarily thrilled about a bunch of guys who think that, e.g. Well, probably the main controversy is that the game interface and mechanisms for managing corps and alliances (the main in-game player groupings) is so screwed that this is even possible, basically. What's controversial about when I have a hotel on Park Place and Boardwalk and decide to charge rent from Mr Wheelbarrow when he lands there? Across the street from CCP in Iceland, police received complaints from residents nearby for excessive laughter.But aren't these shenanigans exactly the point of the game? It sounds like cyber-Diplomacy "with carsspaceships". As usual, all those petitions fell on deaf ears. Many petitions were filed that day, even Sun Microsystems employees filed petitions. While Sun Microsystems (working with Quaff Marketing Agents) to launch the event, BoB came in with Interceptors, Heavy Assault Cruisers, Battleships, Carriers and Motherships and podded everyone except for the GMs. Unfortunately, a large in-game Alliance known as Band of Brothers, setup a trap to permit tons of people into pouring into their soverign territory. Sun thought Querious, which permitted word play for 'query' and provided them to boast their server and sql database presentation, would be a good idea to rally tons of people to the event. Reports are scarce, but from credible witnesses flying around in Polaris ships to monitor the event, the endeavour quickly became a fiasco. Sun Microsystems first attempt was to do a massive, universal campaign in another popular online game, EVE-ONLINE. That loss would be more than offset by using this to allow me to attend far more learning and idea sharing forums. In fact, once VoIP is fully integrated, and dynamic expressions become easier and clearer (a frown while someone is listening to you, or the tone/type of clapping after your presentation provides a world of useful information back to a speaker) this could replace 80% of the gain I get from attending conferences. OK, now if you want more people to show up, you have to get a bigger meeting space, arrange dates for when it's not in use by some other organization, arrange for people to travel to the location, arrange for places for them to stay, and figure out a way to pay for all of that.īut if we can get all of the advantages to a real-time, interpersonal learning environmet with top notch presentations and leading experts, but with none of the travel, hosting, or cost issues, isn't this exactly the kind of value added service we (that being technology advocates) have touted the web as providing for so many years? Yes, it comes wrapped in all the other silliness and baggage that is Second Life, but had Sun released this as a stand alone client/learning environment, and Second Life didn't exist, everyone would be hailing this as proof that tech can provide most of the benefits of a real life meeting, while avoiding the static and overly artificial interaction of webpages and forums. Oh, wait, now maybe there is some advantage to the classroom/conference format. Pheonix U online should be just as good as Harvard or MIT. So you see no advantage to going to conferences or classrooms as learning experiences? Let's just shut down all the colleges then.
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