Mar 18 2009
Community Fun
So, Im pretty damn evil in my games I play. But it is still just a game. anddddd no one likes me, well except those that have realised it is just a game. Somewhere in the deepest darkest realms of the Internets there is a guy on a bike and he is riding as fast as his little feet can peddle.
Why?
So he can run the one very and only computer in a town where they hold the death shrine to me. On a very cold stone is my name, in blood i imagine. With sentiments of smut ridden language, this man peddles and another man yells in some off language, FASTER FASTER!
He then posts on the group forum how his entire village will sacrifice their only goat in a ceremony that will disease my crops and ravage my herds. *blinks*
Ohhhkay, and yes, he did say this. Why? Well I sabotaged his alliance and wiped out their DA, duh. Well of course it makes pure sense now.
How a person can get so angry with someone is irrashional. I digress.
An entire community, based on my actions in a game, loathes the mouse I click. To an extend a few years back, people paid a hacker to hack my account and some in my alliance. What drives people to such a hate, they would pay cash money to another to destroy sometihng that can simply be replaced with the click of a button and a new account. But these people still came at me, and still do, not with such a force though. Death threats, insults, secret meetings about how to run me out of the game.
They still hate, but not with such a drive and desire as they did in the past. Some hold grudges, and when they encounter me it leaves them with memories they just cant let go. As if I had personally come to their home and taken their last piece of candy, or for that matter, their mouse.
It is mind boggling to me that the role I play in a text based game, enrages some to fits of drinking and cursing and yelling, and I don’t even get to enjoy it. How can someone hate another like this. Most have never seen me, most have no idea whom I am where I live, they just know that whomever sits behind my account they have a passionate hate for.
Surprisingly, most of these people are not teens or young adults, they are older men and women with families and jobs. Whom outside their text based realms no one knows of this brewing hate for a women about a million miles away, on the Internet. And the only thing I did was play a game.
Its an interesting emotion online. I mean sure you hear of people falling in love online, so i assume the same can be said of hate and loathing. But you don’t fall in love because of an account in a game. Makes me laugh a bit when I think about it.
