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Hilarious video. :lol :lol :lol
Netrunner2k2 said:Me too. My mom thought something was wrong with me.
Maybe there is.
abq said:This is sad and funny at the same time.
To those thinking having a funeral in WoW is pathetic, I remember when BuddyC (I think) organized a donation drive to buy flowers for the funeral of a GAF member's child. I don't think anyone would find it funny if a group of people had derailed the topic about buying flowers with panda pictures.
It might not be the same thing, but still...
Red Scarlet said:Surely in some gangster movies/real life mobster families have used funerals as opportune times for an ambush. Pure strategy. Asshole, yes. But one of the best times to conquer their rivals.
Cerrius said::lol :lol :lol
I started bursting out laughing when I heard scatman
Ferrio said:It's no different than some asshole on an FPS randomly shouting out racial slurs and being a general asshat.
ccbfan said:I mean how would Gafers feel if one of the more popular posters died in RL and someone decides to have a topic dedicated to him and his remembrance(which is basically is what a funeral is). Only to have jerks from Gamefaqs and Gamespot posting obscene pictures and trolling in the topic. Saying crap like "Good, once less PSTool in the world is a good thing")
krypt0nian said:Again, GAF has PVP?
krypt0nian said:Again, GAF has PVP?
ccbfan said:Did I mention PVP anywhere?
Can you read?
I did mention posting obscene pictures and trolling though, which GAF has plenty of?
Ferrio said:See, this is the asshattery I'm talking about. You can't draw the line between being an asshole or taking the moral high road. Just because YOU CAN do something on the internet doesn't mean you fucking should, or that it's right to.
krypt0nian said:If they were harrassing the funeral with words you'd have a point. They would have been reported for that. THAT would be the equivalent of trolling a death thread on GAF, which I do not support at all.
They are conducting world PVP in a contested zone. They have every right within the TOS of WOW on a PVP server.
It's not "the internet" Its within a game whose very purpose is to conduct WAR on the opposing faction on PVP server. Not stand in a field in a contested zone, and play "funeral"
ghostlyjoe said:This is fascinating from a sociological perspective. It's also indicative of the growth and sophistication of online communities.
Folks, we're going to be see more and more varied virtual communties, be they MMORPGs or otherwise. Those communities are going to struggle with eithical questions just like real-world communties. This is classic case study in the maturation of the Internet as a collection of global communities.
The responses in this thread are also fascinating. There seems to be a clear ideological divide on this issue. Some see the "funeral" as a legitimate means of expressing shared grief, and thus it should be respected regardless of the stated purpose of the virtual community. For these people, the Internet is an extension of reality with legitimate social concerns. Others seem to believe that society ends at the threshold of the virtual world, that WOW is a game and that the game creates its own cultural norms and rules. Thus, getting offended by the attacking players' actions is ludicrous, as is expressing real-world grief in the game in the first place.
This divide is going to be a point of serious contention and discussion -- in places well beyond GAF -- for a long time to come.
If the funeral guild actually cared about the girl, they'd take a few minutes to send a card or flowers to her family in real life, or write a tribute online or something. Standing around beside the water because "she liked the water" is lame and is a shitty way to commemorate the dead girl.
WOW is an MMORPG where people fight
This is fascinating from a sociological perspective. It's also indicative of the growth and sophistication of online communities.
Folks, we're going to be see more and more varied virtual communties, be they MMORPGs or otherwise. Those communities are going to struggle with eithical questions just like real-world communties. This is classic case study in the maturation of the Internet as a collection of global communities.
The responses in this thread are also fascinating. There seems to be a clear ideological divide on this issue. Some see the "funeral" as a legitimate means of expressing shared grief, and thus it should be respected regardless of the stated purpose of the virtual community. For these people, the Internet is an extension of reality with legitimate social concerns. Others seem to believe that society ends at the threshold of the virtual world, that WOW is a game and that the game creates its own cultural norms and rules. Thus, getting offended by the attacking players' actions is ludicrous, as is expressing real-world grief in the game in the first place.
This divide is going to be a point of serious contention and discussion -- in places well beyond GAF -- for a long time to come.
ccbfan said:Not really.
I personally couldn't care less about my online persona. I troll all the time and I really don't care what anyone thinks of me or get banned. As long as I can come here and read the news and sales charts, I'm fine.
Stuff likes this sickens me though. There's just stuff you just don't do as a human being. This person died in real life and unless this person was some evil person whatever kind of good nature remembrance, even something as stupid as a MMORPG funeral, shouldn't be defiled. Now if this was some character that got mistakenly banned and the clan had a funeral for that crap, then PK away cause thats just stupid. Its not so much the crashing of a funeral thats sickening but more the fact that these people know this girl died and wouldn't even let her online friends have some show of remembrance for her. Like I mentioned before its like a remembrance topic for a long time GAFer geting hijacked by some Gamefaqers.
ccbfan said:Also trolling as long as its substancial to the topic and posting obscene pictures is not against the GAF TOS. Pictures like a coffin getting shat on by a horse and someone saying "Good, always good to have one less PSTool in the world" would not be considered against the Terms of Service
ccbfan said:Stuff likes this sickens me though. There's just stuff you just don't do as a human being. This person died in real life and unless this person was some evil person whatever kind of good nature remembrance, even something as stupid as a MMORPG funeral, shouldn't be defiled.
ccbfan said:Now if this was some character that got mistakenly banned and the clan had a funeral for that crap, then PK away cause thats just stupid. Its not so much the crashing of a funeral thats sickening but more the fact that these people know this girl died and wouldn't even let her online friends have some show of remembrance for her. Like I mentioned before its like a remembrance topic for a long time GAFer geting hijacked by some Gamefaqers.
That actually made me sad T_TKabuki Waq said:On Tuesday of February 28th Illidan lost not only a good mage, but a good person. For those who knew her, Fayejin was one of the nicest people you could ever meet. On Tuesday she suffered from a stroke and passed away later that night.
I'm making this post basically to inform everyone that might have knew her. Also tomorrow, at 5:30 server time March, 4th. We will have an in game memorial for her so that her frriends can pay their respects. We will be having it at the Frostfire Hot Springs in Winterspring, because she loved to fish in the game (she liked the sound of the water, it was calming for her ) and she loved snow.
If you would like to come show your respects please do. Thanks everyone.
not really funny but a bit umm wierd and cheesy wouldnt you say?
ELS-01X said:If the crashing was random, it's fine, but if it was indeed planned, it just shows the assholes they are for doing it, and most of you for defending it.
Preach it brotha! I'm using my funeral money to fund a massive party for friends and family when I go.The Eatable Arab said:Pft, online funerals. A new level of funeral, both of which I dislike.
If a person I like dies, I'm not gonna sit and mope around. I'm gonna celebrate their life.
Then indeed those guys, and most posters in this thread, are assholes.VisionaryQuest0 said:It wasn't random, watch that video. SerenityNow knew exactly where they were running off to. Hell, I think it actually shows they had one character from their guild at the funeral before the attack scoping the scene out. It was a perfectly thought out raid.
ELS-01X said:Then indeed those guys, and most posters in this thread, are assholes.
krypt0nian said:NOTHING to do with this. Try a new comparison.
It's WOW. They are in a contested zone. The end.