Comments on: The History of Virtual Worlds https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/12/01/the-history-of-virtual-worlds/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:56:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: withywindle https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/12/01/the-history-of-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-2395 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:56:21 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=308#comment-2395 Benedict Anderson, he got copyright on imagined communities. He and you fight for possession, he pwn you.

Life more than signs? I direct you here: http://www.fivemanelectricalband.ca/signslyrics.html
Now you know truth.

Das Pwn, nein; Das Boot, ja. Und der Englische film, “A Room of One’s Pwn.”

Et aussi, “Mon Pwncle d’Amerique.”

]]> By: jason https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/12/01/the-history-of-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-2394 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:34:53 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=308#comment-2394 perhaps i should have said “imagined” community. however, if you think all is virtual, i suggest standing on top of a tall building. contemplate jumping. your virtual character may do so without serious consequence; you can’t. despite what some postmodernists think life is more than signs.

i was completely ignorant about “Cockfight Pwnage”. You mention German–have you seen the German film “Das Pwn”?

]]> By: withywindle https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/12/01/the-history-of-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-2393 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:14:23 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=308#comment-2393 Ah, but what is a “real community” grasshopper? For is it not said, in French and German polysyllables, that all is virtual? And you know not the first movie from Baliwood?–“Cockfight Pwnage”? With special guest appearance by Mel Gibson as Mr. Rooster? You miss cinematic genius!

]]> By: jason https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/12/01/the-history-of-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-2392 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:49:08 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=308#comment-2392 not as much betting. a different type of status–a virtual community vs. your real community. plus, no pwnage in Bali.

]]> By: withywindle https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/12/01/the-history-of-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-2391 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:43:22 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=308#comment-2391 So many days, so few comments. Alright, a question: How is this different from a Balinese Cockfight?

]]> By: Joey Headset https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/12/01/the-history-of-virtual-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-2389 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:39:45 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=308#comment-2389 On a personal note, I’m having a hell of a time finding primary sources for my “History of Pwnage” dissertation.

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