WoW fan makes permanent statementGives right buttock for an imaginary horseBy Nick Farrell: Wednesday, 09 January 2008, 9:37 AMA WORLD of Warcraft player has tattooed the name of his guild onto his right buttock in a bid to raise 'money' for a 'flying steed'.The bloke, who goes by the handle of Ghosti, found himself short of enough virtual gold for an epic flying mount. He went to his guild which is called Garithos and offered that if people paid him enough virtual gold he would tattoo the poetic phrase “Garithos.com Swallow or its going in your eye” on his backside.He didn't expect to be enough takers, but as is the way of the internet, the guild called his bluff raised enough cash.Despite the fact that his girlfriend, his girlfriend's mum and indeed he himself thought the whole thing was the 'fecking stupidest thing he had done', he went ahead with it.To prove that he had done it, he made a NSW YouTube documentary of the whole thing.The story has been picked up by the news blogs. Some of the Garithos guild are not too happy about this. They have been claiming that the real world have not treated Ghosti's act with the respect it deserves.“They just don't understand the whole social thing,” one gamer moaned.Might be a bit difficult to explain the meaning of your tattoo to your grandchildren. “Oh it was this silly online game that we all played and they were arranged in clubs. Well you will have to ask your Mother about the 'in your face' comment.”
A young Russian man has been charged with murder after an internet game jumped off the screen onto the street. It's alleged he killed an internet gaming rival after they met face to face in the city of Ufa.Violence on screen isn't harmful to anyone. But when virtual reality and real life collide an innocent game can end in tragedy.It all started when two clans - the Coo-clocks, made up of mostly students, and the so-called Platanium with more experienced gamers of over thirty - started fighting to wipe out each other on screen. 33-year-old Albert used to spend hours in front of his computer. On the web he had his own clan and a dozen of warriors. Just days before the New Year in a virtual battle his clan killed a member of the hostile Coo-clocks. Days later the enemies agreed to meet literally face to face in the real world.Their confrontation led to tragedy. Albert was badly beaten and died from his injuries on the way to hospital. “I think they have confused the game and reality. And after we buried him on December 31, they continued to threaten us,” Albert’s sister Albina says. The alleged murderer hasn't shown regret and hasn't justified himself. 22-year-old student just calmly explained why he killed his opponent. On the web each of the clans had its own hierarchy and rules“Beat everything that moves, and everything that doesn’t move - move and beat!” – this is one of the rules of the Coo-clocks clan.In this case the rule applied to real people in real life. Members of the internet Coo-clocks clan continue to harass the family of the murdered man, threatening to kill his sister, who hasn’t turned on the computer for days. In an unrelated case another gamer in his twenties came to Moscow from Ukraine to meet his rival. The confrontation ended in with the Moscow man being beaten to death. And a twenty-year-old from Petrosavodsk killed his grandmother after she interrupted his game calling him to eat.
Let me add some more 'fuel' to this fire.Fox news over Mass Effect.Well, its Fox news, so what did you expect. Your thougts?
