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Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:47 pm**

\"Several high-profile cases involving people who met playing online games have led experts to caution that such Web sites have a unique environment that could be a breeding ground for criminal minds.\"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316333,00.html

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:01 pm**

Only the idiots (read: 90% of this country) would be oblivious to this

FOX is true to form. exaggerations and 5th-grade emotional pandering. FOX is such a disease.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:24 pm**

Who would have thought the DBB is actually a TERRORIST BREEDING GROUND! OH NO DESU! !O_O!

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:14 pm**

World of Warcraft is evil anyway; who the hell would pay money to play a game, as in you buy the game and have to PAY to actually USE IT!!! GRAAARRR!!!

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:05 pm**

I played WoW last year, I will never play another MMORPG again. They have an addictiveness that sneaks up on you. I can play Halo3 for 15-30 minutes, I couldn't play WoW for less then 2-3 hours

And that makes all the difference in the world on how dominent I want video games to be in my life.

....and oddly enough, at least half of the time I played that game, I was doing things that I considered extreamly boring....

How does Blizard do that?

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:10 pm**

FOX news blathering about violent video games again! Their ratings must be in the toilet and they are trying out more of the same agitprop.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:38 pm**

Hey, you know what else?
Canada also has meeting areas that could potentially breeding ground for criminal minds. I say we bomb Canada.
It's the American way.

tunnelcat wrote:FOX news blathering about violent video games again! Their ratings must be in the toilet and they are trying out more of the same agitprop.

Actually, I say it looks more like their ratings are soaring! Regular people love listening to the same agitprop over and over again.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:54 pm**

Only complete losers play that game anyways.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:49 pm**

World of Warcraft is evil anyway; who the hell would pay money to play a game, as in you buy the game and have to PAY to actually USE IT!!! GRAAARRR!!!

Only complete losers play that game anyways.

Who indeed. Their current subscriber list is only 9.25 million people paying $15 a month each. That gives them a paltry monthly income of $138,750,000.00. What can you do with a drop in the bucket like that?

There are more members of World of Warcraft in the United States than there are farmers.

It is a disease though, my son is in university and went to the War Gamers Club to play a Dungeons and Dragons type table top game. Except for the dungeon master and my son every other player was multi-tasking between a laptop game of WoW and the table top game in front of them. Apparently they would look up when prompted to toss some dice and then go back to WoW.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:03 pm**

Gooberman wrote: ....and oddly enough, at least half of the time I played that game, I was doing things that I considered extreamly boring....

How does Blizard do that?

ya know.. I was wondering the same thing. o_0

see??! It IS evil!

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:51 am**

ah yes.. foxnoise. breeding ground for fear and lies.

why people don't turn it off even after the fact it's been caught after blatantly lying time and time again is just astounding.

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:53 am**

> a unique environment that could be a breeding ground for criminal minds.

More like a breeding ground for FREE minds AMIRITE?

(urgh, i got through 3/4ths of this trash FOX article before i was gagging from the stench and couldn't go on. Our thread here is cool though

)

Woa Ford Prefect, $1.66 Billion a year!

With that income, i wonder what their overheads are. ie: how many employees do they have? they could afford to pay a LOT of salarys. And with the subscription income model, i bet their income is quite steady and predictable (none of this week by week \"ratings\" stuff the TV industry has to deal with, it must be a nightmare to try to create art under that pressure). I bet it'd be a great system to work in for creative talent.

I have visions of that RPG anime Hack/.Sign (i watched some of it

). It'd be so awesome to have a world like that you coudl just chill in. and that's what i'd be doin, just chillin. When i play immersive games i find myself just savouring the feeling, staring around. That's how i felt in Homeworld. That kindof escapism in a more robust VR form... man that'd be so awesome. *sigh*

There are more members of World of Warcraft in the United States than there are farmers.

hahahaha, man i never thought of it like that. that's really interesting

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:19 pm**

I been saying WoW was evil ever since that day someone in Kali said \"Hey! I got WoW! I'm going to try it out, be back tonight!\" and then I never see him again...

And then some other pilots disappeared too. Then they come back later and when we ask where they have been, it's WoW.

WoW is evil!

IT'S STEALING OUR PILOTS!@

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:39 pm**

I've seen a few WoW games and...I don't see the attraction at all. I can't imagine being so weak of mind that I would play for days with no food and DIE.

Not even Descent has that power. Hell not even women have that power.

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:08 pm**

i used to play xcom for ages on end. You are addicted to the next goal. ZOMG I MUST RESEARCH AND BUILD THIS COOL NEW SHIP.

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:36 pm**

I've never seen the appeal of MMORPGs. Gimme Dragon Quest anyday!

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:40 pm**

Ferno wrote:ah yes.. foxnoise. breeding ground for fear and lies.

why people don't turn it off even after the fact it's been caught after blatantly lying time and time again is just astounding.

Yea, and Comcast bumped MSNBC to a higher channel to put on Fox Noise Business Channel, that has like, ten viewers. So now you have to have a cable box to watch Keith Olbermann!

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:40 am**

When these ignorant media types refer to such things as the Napster service and World of Warcraft as a \"web site\", it makes me want to stab them in the face.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:22 pm**

I planned to buy it, but now I never buy that freaking game because more than 60,000 players got BANNED.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:26 am**

9,250,000 users and they give 60,000 the boot. Who would notice? Got link for that 60,000 number? I would be interested as to what you have to do to convince Blizard they don't want your $15/mo.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:41 am**

Jonathan Paskiewicz wrote:I planned to buy it, but now I never buy that freaking game because more than 60,000 players got BANNED.

So... one in every 154 players on it got banned, most likely for disobeying the rules to a large extent.
Yes, I can really see why that's a perfectly reasonable excuse not to play the game.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:04 pm**

I think, Blizzard is tried and sickness of players use cheat codes, programmable keyboard, Anti-AFK, insulting, spamming, and more ya know.

Then now Blizzard is crazy and out of control, banning 'em like bit*h.

Anti-AFK Youtube

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:17 pm**

Jonathan Paskiewicz wrote:Then now Blizzard is crazy and out of control, banning 'em like bit*h.

Blizzard never went out of control. Nearly all MMORPGs have using external programs like that a bannable offense. The reason that Blizzard bans the most is that WoW gets the most users.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:24 pm**

So.....does that mean Stresstest is a terrorist now?

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:43 pm**

The only reason a company bans is that their statistics show that they will lose more people if they don't ban. They are opting to loose $15/mo.

The people that get banned in WoW deserve it, and if the things that they did became common place, then the game would get ruined.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:34 pm**

WTF are people making anti-AFK devices, I thought the point of having a game was to play it. Or are these WoW idiots too embarrassed to admit that the game is crap?

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:01 pm**

In battle grounds you get experience even if your team loses. So people set up systems to automatically join these battle grounds, to automatically get experience.

Blizzard will kick you from them if you are afk, i.e. not helping your team, and so deney you the expereince. Hence the afk machines. (In a recent patch it was fixed so that you only get experience if you engage someone in combat, so these don't work anymore).

This experience, or reputation, can be used to buy things. Weapons, mounts, etc. So doing this is like earning game money.

When I was playing WoW it was really common to have a few members on each team doing this.

People would set them up, go to work, and come home to a days worth of \"game income\".

Yes, extreamly lame.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:15 pm**

Yeah... That sucks...

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:16 pm**

Damn I hate being an out of touch old fart.
What is AFK?

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:25 pm**

Away From Keyboard.

In WoW, you'er \"afk\" after something like 5 minutes of inactivity and you're logged after something like 20.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:33 pm**

Gooberman wrote:In a recent patch it was fixed so that you only get experience if you engage someone in combat, so these don't work anymore

good to hear.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:14 pm**

Ford Prefect wrote:What is AFK?

If you have more question about short words. Just go to... Urban Dictionary: Define Your World

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:44 pm**

Well I got over my laziness and Googled it but your link didn't have it.

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:21 pm**

your google-fu is weak

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site% ... com%2F+afk
---> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=afk

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:50 pm**

Duper wrote:Away From Keyboard.

In WoW, you'er "afk" after something like 5 minutes of inactivity and you're logged after something like 20.

Posted: **Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:13 am**

you know... i've never played WoW. Someone talk, sell it to me, is it good?

Posted: **Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:40 am**

I think I need to review the Alphabet Song since I had trouble finding it in the Urban Dictionary.

I got it right away when I Googled it.

Posted: **Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:53 pm**

roid wrote:you know... i've never played WoW. Someone talk, sell it to me, is it good?

Yeah, its very good. But you need to play it alot to go far in that game. I believe you can try it for 10 days for free with a character.

Like I said before, I don't know if its WoW, or all MMORPG's, but they take more time out of my life for gaming that I am willing to give up.

Posted: **Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:59 pm**

bleh, i feared as much.

they need some kinda Virtual Reality RPG like portrayed in the Hack/sign anime, that's fun and rewarding no matter what.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:27 am**

How about a game where you can fly around in spaceships, and the longer you play, the better at dodging you get and the better at aiming? Every character would gain exp. points at different rates and doing different things, and it would take a few more years to master (at least become as good as other players) than the year it would take for wow?

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