I decided to take a peek at the online scene at b.net a few minutes ago and this is what I saw.



THREE CHEERS FOR B.NET VARIETY!!

hip hip HURRAY!!!
hip hip HURRAY!!!

/sarcasm off
Oh, and that "3..." was (drumroll) DOTA!!!

Well, its may seem that "justice" is not a foreign word in the virtual world after all.

A gamer in the upcoming MMORPG "Roma Victor" had undergone an unusual punishment for unacceptable online behavior. Was it a banning? No. This player's character was sentanced to 1 week of puplic crucifixion.

Thats right. For a whole week his character gets to dangle from a cross in a public square, free for everyone to jeer at. Although the religious motif may be a bit controversial (well, it IS a religion-heavy game), I wonder if other companies are taking notes for similar ideas of dealing with players who ruin gaming for everyone else.

You can read the story here.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/03/25/online_cruxifixion_romavictor/

Also, everyone gets mad at games at one time or another. We've all been there. But have any of you ever gotten THIS MAD?
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/hissyfit.html
Its in German, so maybe one of you German speakers out there can give us some enlightenment on what this kid is pissed about. I can only tell that he's playing a game by the music and that he's got his fingers on the WASD keys.

The results for the Map Making Contest can be found here

Congraduations to.... VGsatomi for his RPG Inu Yasha- Taisetsu Na Hito. VGsatomi will soon recieve his prize, a forum hosted at Hive Workshop, a usergroup, a rank and his own sub domain. Congraduations VGsatomi!

Also Congraduations to Ralle who has won the minigames section with his map Spider Forest.

Darkdraak must also be congradulated for his Tower Defence, Linked TD, he won the Tower Defence section!

Congradulations to VGsatomi again for his map Burning Fest in the "Other" Catergory. You won that as well!

Congradulations as well to The Darkness for his map in the melee catergory Ragefire Chasm!

And last but not least Wakoo has won the AOS section for his map Desert Battle, congradulations!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest, and thanks to Ghost for judging. Its been a fantastic contest everyone!

-Bob27

In case you don't know who Phred Phelps is, he's the scumsucking waste of oxygen who organizes the "We're glad your son is dead" celebrations at the funerals of slain soldiers, further proving that no place or event is sacred to those who like to express their radical political views. Well, that same lack of basic human decency has hit WoW.

On Feb 25th a WoW player from Illidan realm passed away in real life. Members of her current and previous guilds (both horde and alliance) planned in in-game memorial service. Here was the original announcement:

"On Tuesday of February 28th Illidan lost not only a good mage, but a good person. For those who knew her, Fayejin was one of the nicest people you could ever meet. On Tuesday she suffered from a stroke and passed away later that night.I'm making this post basically to inform everyone that might have knew her. Also tomorrow, at 5:30 server time March, 4th. We will have an in game memorial for her so that her friends can pay their respects. We will be having it at the Frostfire Hot Springs in Winterspring,

because she loved to fish in the game ( she liked the sound of the water, it was calming for her ) and she loved snow.If you would like to come show your respects please do. Thanks everyone.

We're planning some cool stuff and we're going to make a video of it to show her family . So

I would appreciate it if nobody comes to mess things up."

They did this by having someone sign on with her character and do a one-last walk past all those who gamed with her, as sort of a last goodbye to the character that she played.Well, thats not how it turned out. Clan "Serenity now" crashed the memorial service with all all-out raid attack, killing all those who attended. (keep in mind most of the attendees were wearing tuxedos, dresses and other non-protective formal attire and did not have any weapons equipped).

Here were some of the tactful comments made the "noble" members of Serenity Now.

"GNOMELAND SECURITY Has Successfully Completed Operation 'Shock and Awe'."

"Jihad upon your memorial"

"Phred Phelps is what we do."

"I was told she loved PVP. Just wanted to honor her."

"btw, she only gave me 19 honor."

"Even in her death, she has contributed to the server by giving us a sweet 19 honor. I would

like to thank her for that."

"Now she has 70 virgins and golden honey"

"I would like to buy her account. Please PM me info. I always wanted to own a dead woman"

"First off I wish I were undead so I could have cannibalized her corpse."

"I've got a video she would like to see!"

....indeed....and a video they made. You can see it here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7667194685876573666&q=serenity+now

Granted, it may not have been smart to hold such a memorial in a contested area of a PvP realm, but that is still no excuse. Both horde and alliance players attended without "accidents". I don't know about you all, but I think Blizz shoudl jump in on this one and have made every one of those attendees count as a dishonorable kill.

Wall.

Online idiots.

Firing squad.

You figure out the rest.
-VGsatomi

In case many of you missed out on this gem from a ventrillo conversation in Dark Age of Camelot;
http://wowseriousbusiness.ytmnsfw.com/ (thanks to miseracord for the link),

Here is another from an Onyxia battle in WoW, involving an overly micro-managing guild leader getting angry;
http://onyserious.ytmnsfw.com/

WARNING: BOTH OF THESE CONTAIN VERY FOUL LANGUAGE!