Rookery.

Bayani? You draw that icon too? It's really good too.

Becky, never has science been so aptly described as in the use of "whooshy scienticial thingamdooders"

/e gives Nobel Prize.

If you live inside a Dilbert cartoon Fedor, that would mean Becky is Catbert, evil HR director! :O

Shecky never gives me a slice of B2524 pie.

/e grumps.

Becky you could be right...he moderated that thread in the future and we haven't caught up to it yet.....I suspect we will be coming across the modding any moment now.

Time travel: It really is more of an art than a science.

Mod 8 never calls ME at home. I got lots of dirty Latin phrases to share.

/e makes phone motion with hand and silently mouths to Mod 08 "Dico mihi."

/e writes in journal," Subjects seem reticent to be observed. I shall have to offer pamcakes to win their trust."

:P

/e wanders over to look at train wreck on tech support forum.

Sounds like a PhD. :P

Maybe he was out sick the day they covered Tuskegee.

/e flutters in with a clipboard and a pencil over the ear.

Good Morning all! And Happy Birthday Phoe! /e gives cake.

Don't mind me I'm so totally NOT doing research on all yalls behavior.

/e looks away and scribbles down notes while observing Capn and Pogo and Fedor.

:P

Social anthropology is murky and dubious to begin with and it doesn't appear this fellow has helped it's case.

It seems it had little in the way of scientific rigor beyond the 'researcher' using his character to abuse others within the rules of the game. One game, 2 servers does not draw a line. Multiple servers, multiple games would go a long way towards solidifying his thesis. Ellis makes the point very well.

He picks a very specific instance to substantiate his point, droning, but nothing else.
He tried this on Champion and Freedom...how about Virtue, since it seems his methodology was to in effect role-play a hero. Would the RPVP community have reacted the same?
I saw nothing in his paper discussing the 'warping' of the social group due to the lack of power players have over others due to COX being primarily a money making venture. Does it matter? Doesn't it? He doesn't address but I think it would have been worthwhile to cover.
Nor does he address the issue that the society has chosen such unwritten rules to address a failure of the simulation, drones, because COX doesn't want one side camping the other side waiting to blast anyone who shows up making again for an unpleasant play experience and potentially driving away a paying customer. Most folks do not join an mmo to play 'Lord of the Flies.' except maybe Darkfall players.

A concern I also have is one of privacy in that avatar names can be tied to player accounts and billing information in real life. He should have had to get consent to use them in any experiment as far as I understand. Maybe his IRB board didn't understand.

Also, he was potentially using children in his 'experiment' and I know IRB boards are very particular about the use of kids in humans subjects testing. I can't imagine they were ok with this if they knew.

Honestly he would have found out the same thing in a badly played game of DnD or better, a game of "Bang Bang. I shot you! You are dead!"

At least archaeologists just get accused of grave robbing. :P

/e gives caek!

Grae lot another bet!

Welcome.

And good mornign Yuri....yah. yard work is never done :\

Ah well I don't think w are suppossed to get involved. Just observe and report back.

But by all means go ahead and watch out for that low key fellow....he looks like trouble.

Oh but I've said too much..I won't speak of it again.

Nevermore.

Morning Fedor!

/e flutters in with a twin rook...

I'm Huginn and that one Muninn!

I think...

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong.

Good morning Madisen and Bayani.

Thanks for the heads up on the Phillipine hero!

Is it better or worse than this?

Cause this is pretty darn cool!

Also not a rickroll....build a thousand bridges but rickroll once and what do they remember you as?

Sheesh.

Here's the link!

Don't tell nobody!

Happy Canadian Day ya hosers!

How's it going with al those British symapthizers eh?

That's a good skill to have there Bayani.

/e counts down the seconds. 4080....4079....4078....4076....

/e glees.

Hehe. Well ANY toon I play qualifies as a dummy toon. :P

But I would play them too. Rohal would be good. Yes?

You all are too much!

Hope yall all had fun, I was planning to come but I found myself fighting fire breathing ants and before I knew it....it was too late.

I will happily donate prestige to the production of the base by the way.

/e hops up and down on the bannister, crying out in a wheezy voice.

"The Drain! The Drain!


It's clogging up and the water is going everywhere!


Smiles everyone! Smiles!

Thanks again Moggie and Nezumi!

I had homemade chili with beef dogs and wheat bread. It was gooooOOOoooD!

And there's....uhm....none left. :\

Yes....yes they are Stryph.

There's movement all over the place!

It was redecorated by a dog this morning. He did a darn fine job.


Grrr. I gotta go work now...dagnabbit!

What whole thing?

Life?

The Universe?


EDIT>>> Morning Tiger and Dj Shecky Plotty McPlottersons. Whatchoo plottin?

Mornign Wyld and Neko and Yuri and Pogo.

/e stuffs Jester into the crawlspace under the floorboards.

Stay down there! 30 days! No cookies!

Hope you all have a good day. /e stomps on the boards again once more for good measure.