Ok, after some reconsideration, its pretty obvious that this is getting way out of control; the arguements are getting circular and personal.
The destructive nature of this thread is not in the spirit of these forums, and I am just as guilty as the next guy for that.
So ignore my last post. I give up. You win. Sorry to everyone who wasted their time reading this thread.
Peace.
ktms
In case you guys haven't heard about this yet...
A person who played Warcraft recently died (in real life) and his friends and guild members held an online funeral for him. He played a Horde character.
A guild from the opposing faction (Alliance) found out about the funeral and showed up and ambushed the funeral and killed all the members online.
Here is a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfAfcXYIbY&search=warcraft%20funeral
Anybody who has ever played in an online environment like Warcraft or even Halo or Mech Assault from Xbox Live gets to see a cross section of the kind of people that exist in the world. There is a lot of scum (in addition to a lot of cool people, of course).
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