[Ford Prefect]

I don't play WoW, and I don't usually post internet videos, but as far as I'm concerned, this WoW clan officially wins the internet:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7667194685876573666&q=serenity+now

[Mefustae]

Nah, too simple. I prefer nigh-on serendipitous events like Goob's photoshoping shenanigans...

[Flipside]

hehehe

Reading those comments at the start (at least the ones large enough to read) suggests people take their WoW far too seriously.

[freespacegundam]

You know, I'm a hardcore WoW junkie, and I'll admit the video is funny.  But that the whole incident was just in poor taste.  The Horde guild has every right to be angry.

[Rictor]

No, no, no!

These guys are so much better:

http://www.partingvisions.com/onywipe/onyxiawipe.swf

edit: apparently, it's getting pretty big on the Interweb, there's even a site dedicated to it.
http://mordots.com/

[Flipside]

....Waaaaay too seriously.....

[Jetmech Jr.]

Thats disgusting. Online or not, it was a group of people paying respects to a deceased friend.

If it was my funeral, I'd be clawing my way back to life just to beat the members of SN to death.

[Grug]

....Waaaaay too seriously.....

[Mongoose]

I don't see what's "too serious" about any of those reactions.  There are a hell of a lot of people who put a hell of a lot of hours into this game, and they form close relationships with the other people they play with on a regular basis.  When one of those people dies suddenly, the desire to do something to commemorate that person is a natural human response.  Since these people all knew the deceased through those hours of playing WoW, that's the form in which they chose to create a memorial.

Now, I don't know how the rest of you feel, but I happen to think that friendships formed over the Internet have the potential to be every bit as meaningful and fulfilling as friendships formed through face-to-face conversation.  I've heard far too many stories of people meeting in forums and chat rooms and eventually going on to get married; I happen to know a few people who have done so.  Some people claim that the Internet isn't "real;" I say that it's as real as you want to make it.  No matter what you say, there are flesh-and-blood people sitting in front of monitors typing that text, controlling those characters, or flying those ships.  The conversations that these people have are real interactions between real people; how can that not be "real"?  There are probably a few cases where people are more "themselves" online than they are in face-to-face conversations; to a certain extent, that's true for me as well.

This was an important and meaningful event for those people who were participating in it; seeing a bunch of asshats just crash the party like that, without any consideration or respect, just pisses me off.  These people are probably just as idiotic in "real life;" they're probably the same types of people who take everything as a joke, who always have to be laughing at something.  I can't think of any type of person that I dislike more intensely.  There's a lot more to life than getting your kicks through cheap humor, and this was as cheap as it comes.

[Shadow0000]

I think and feel just like Moongose, the problem is that most people consider it as "too serious" because they have something recorded in their minds "games are meant to be fun" and so on by killing others emotions and situations is like there will be by no at or by any means even a bit of reality in it. Basically some has died in "reality", but not in the so wrongly believed "alternate universe"/"unreality"/"another dimention" (aka "internet"). I would be really pissed if they do that to me or any in the funneral, people just forget about respect just because they consider it nothing more than a game.

When someone talk about as the internet as not being part of the reality, the response is quite instataneous, you just ask him/her "What's reality?", and it's end of the talk, they never have a bit of idea of what it is, because if they do then they woulnd't be talking about that, just in case:

Reality in everyday usage means "everything that exists". The term "Reality", in its most liberal sense, includes everything that is, whether it is observable, accessible or understandable by science, philosophy, theology or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being.

Here is stated that internet is officialy considered part of reality, and anyone can go to jail if they go against the law in the internet (...)

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I wonder if a Funneral or some event like this has happened around Final Fantasy XI...

[an0n]

That's the absolute height of trolling and WoW warfare.

Far as I'm concerned, the Alliance guild did great - it was the Horde people who ****ed up by not winning the battle in honour of their friend.

A funeral should mean you take all your best armour and weapons and potions and commendations and ****. Not hang around in your best black cloth armour and surrender your weapons at the door.

The chick who died spent hundreds of hours in WoW because she liked playing the game, killing ****, doing quests and pwning noobs who wandered outside their level-area. A battle at her funeral only seems fitting.

And like I say, the Horde guild shoulda expected something like this and been ready to totally ****ing annihilate any Alliance attack in honor of their friend.

[Ford Prefect]

Reality in everyday usage means "everything that exists". The term "Reality", in its most liberal sense, includes everything that is, whether it is observable, accessible or understandable by science, philosophy, theology or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being.

You know, aside from the fact that many philosophers would argue that being is nothingness essentially because it is the verb "to be" without any qualification, I can't believe you actually launched a phenomenological attack on a WoW clan.

[WeatherOp]

I didn't understand it until what you guys posted, but even watching it, I failed to see what was so funny about it. But, since the fact that I now know someone really died, I really know how stupid that was.

Just another sign to show, that stupid people do stupid things to get their thrills.

[Flipside]

Thing is no-one in that guild killed the person who's funeral was taking place. Why are they wishing death upon the people and families of people who interupted a virtual funeral? It's like Fred Phelps, he's a world-class asshole, and many would say he deserves to die, but would killing him make you any better than him?

I do think the guys involved were assholes, but some of the comments being made to them simply because they were assholes were completely out of order.

[Taristin]

The internet is going to be the thing that destroys civilization. Not the atom bomb. Not communism. Not terrorism.
The internet.

[an0n]

Yes, when SkyNET achieves sentience on August 29th, 1997....

[aldo_14]

Yes, when SkyNET achieves sentience on August 29th, 1997....

Unfortunately, Skynet has yet to finish answering all its spam email.

[Flipside]

It does, however, have a huge Penis and enough Herbal Viagra to last for years after the Armageddon...

[aldo_14]

It does, however, have a huge Penis and enough Herbal Viagra to last for years after the Armageddon...

Not to mention knowing literally thousands of hot lonely naked russian housewives.  Now, all Skynet needs to do to complete it's wicked plan is to raise the funds via Barrister JOHN MGUMBO, via a no-risk transaction.

[Ace]

The worst thing of it all is that Horde lost to pathetic, squishy, Alliance scum?

Impossible! (at least on Kirin Tor)