Last month, a Virginia Tech student was found dead in the Target parking lot of the Christiansburg, Virginia store with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. His name was Daniel Kim, a 21-year old senior at the university. Unfortunately, some individuals have already started making assumptions that somehow his death was related to and possibly caused by gaming.
After doing a little research, I discovered that gaming is actually the one thing in his life that gave him a chance to live. Daniel was an avid Warcraft player who had developed numerous friendships playing the game over the past couple of years. The only warning signs that he was on the edge came in the form of emails sent to the university from various WoW players who were concerned for his safety. Unfortunately, little action was taken from the warnings and as we all know, Daniel Kim is now dead.
This was an unfortunate and probably preventable tragedy. It’s also unfortunate that some people will try to blame games when gaming may have been the only positive thing going on in his life. Online multiplayer games have a social aspect that the media simply does not understand. You create bonds with people you have never seen in real life. When it’s the middle of the night and there’s no one to talk to in person, there’s always a gamer somewhere online who will talk. When things are heavy on my mind, I often fire up the Xbox 360 and play some “big team battle” with my Halo 3 friends. I’ve never met any of them in real life, but I consider them true friends. I think one of the major problems with the media right now is that they simply do not see the overall kindness and generosity most gamers have in their hearts. As gamers, we do talk a lot of smack, but that’s honestly part of the fun. In the end, I truly believe that most hard-core gamers are good people with kind natures. Continue reading »
Ahhh I havent updated my blog for almost 10 days. I was …. quite busy… Went to a friend’s wedding party and I was actually the bestman lol. It was amazing, best wedding party I’ve ever attended. and coming up more, is the latest Apple Keynote (2008). Seriously, MacBook Air is A MUST-HAVE for all you fellow Apple fans! A MUST-HAVE!
最近The9人事动荡,CFO走人了,股票也跟着跌了,估计撑不了多久了… 但是玩家呢?玩家又得到了什么?无限的lag,无限的排队(近期这个排队issue有所改进,完全是因为大学生放寒假).就着这个trojan, virus, backdoor, spyware横生的年代,玩个游戏也不太平.动不动就在raid的时候看到有人突然就hearth然后vent上面狂吼"我被盗号了!可是我有密保卡阿!这怎么回事儿!"莫高一尺,道高一丈阿朋友.The9估计也是真的没什么办法了,这不连公司上VPN用的TOKEN也开始发售了,用RSA SecurID玩WoW是不是有点夸张了… 100块一个,叫什么安全令牌… 我真晕…
More info on 安全令牌 can be found at http://www.wowchina.com/topic/s-token/
Today is my first working day in 2008… I was so excited to take the recently launched ‘Line 6′ tube service… and you know what? HOLY SHIT! I almost got killed in the bloody underground! 首先,今天超级的冷,已经零下x度了。早上兴致勃勃地下楼决定坐地铁,结果到了地铁站我今天早上上班的噩梦彻底开始了… 车站上是人山人海,6号线本身就是4节车厢,我当场就有点小晕,在一看,这么多人… 关键是站台上的广播不停的再说‘请大家避开高峰,选乘其它交通工具’ 我真的开始有点崩溃了。6号线每10几分钟一辆,到了我家楼下已经完全pack得不能装人了… 每次都是1-2人被硬生生的塞进去… 我等了2辆车,终于成功地被人塞到了第三辆车上面。
好不容易到了世纪大道,我想终于可以上2号线了,结果我那班6号线的人全都下车了… 都在这里换乘.Oh my god,那些人啊…就像是新上映的大片或者什么1线歌手演唱会散场,就像是下饺子… 那个多啊… 上了第二辆2号线,顺利到达了张江。本以为终于噩梦结束了,结果呢… I’m still in the middle of fucking nowhere! 站在寒风里面等了30分钟shuttle bus 还是没有等到,本来明明可以早点到公司的!最后还是同事提醒我说今天班车坏掉了… What the fuck man? Seriously, what is this?!!! 最后我还是taxi来公司的。( “Calm down, James. Be cool.” - background noise. “WHAT? I AM COOL! HOLY SHIT MAN! SHUT THE FUCK UP!”)
If you don’t want to die on your way to work, DO NOT take stupid Line 6! 6号线完全没有缓解浦东上下班rush hour的交通,反而让本来坐地铁舒舒服服的人们更加麻烦。总之,我还是每天taxi上班好了,我可不想死在地铁里。
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