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"Should Gamers Be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing" -author Alex Weiss argues against the decision of the Dutch Supreme Court to rule in favor of a 13-year-old victim of virtual theft. Playing virtual reality games requires investing time and occasionally money to achieve a goal. With the loss of a shield and amulet, it was enough for the boy to seek legal action. When taking into account the time the 13-year-old spent to get the items, the court's decision to rule in his favor was not…

“Should Gamers Be Prosecuted For Virtual Stealing?” by Alex Weiss is an argumentative essay in which he calls out the criminal system for allegedly putting on trial a teenager for committing theft in a virtual game. Even though it was a very straightforward trial, it quickly turned heated when questioning whether or not it was correct to trial him. Also, more important, it makes us ask ourselves, are actions in a game a proof of a person’s ethical values and beliefs? Weiss states that putting…

A Gamers Choice Do you play video games? Do you consider yourself a gamer? Maybe a child in your household does. Well as a gamer or even as a parent of a gamer, you have many options on what kind of system as a customer might want to buy. The current gen systems are the: Wii U, Xbox one, and the PlayStation 4. What are some things to consider when buying them well: one is priced or how much are you going to invest into the system for the next couple of years, the games that are for each system…

The growth of technology has sparked a new addiction all across the globe. Many youths have suffered from the epidemic of Internet Addiction Disorder, commonly known as Problematic Internet Use. It took the internet only 4 years to reach an audience of 50 million. (15 Amazing Facts about the Internet 1) The Information Age has officially taken over everyday lives. Although the internet can be utilized for education, it makes things too easy for us. “While we used to have to think about things…

“Should Gamers be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing?” By Alex Weiss Textual Analysis Alex Weiss, a graduate from Arizona State University, wrote this essay on virtual theft for his Work and Play in Contemporary Fiction/Digital Media class. It was later published in the online magazine Slate (Bullock and Goggin 731). Weiss is clearly an educated writer, but refrains from fairly acknowledging the other side of his argument: that gamers should not be prosecuted for virtual theft. The title of his…

addressed as gamers, devote a significant amount of time to playing video games and many like to play alone or with others online in gaming sessions or a parties. The gaming community is very intriguing to me because I consider myself an avid gamer. This assignment will allow me to take a deeper look into this particular discourse community and its language practices as well as their distinct jargon. For this paper, I will use my observations on another fellow gamer, Delanders2k, as well…

percentages indicated that gamers are far from a minority of those in society, but gamer subculture does not necessarily encompass everyone who plays videogames. With the rise of mobile gaming and the dominance of casual games, those who are part of the gaming subculture are a much more niche selection of the broad scope of gamers. The individuals who participate in LAN parties and play games competitively are part of the gamer subculture proper. Seeing as many casual gamers and people who play…

attention to the marginalized, LGBT gamer community as well as issues of gender representation in the video game industry. The film is composed of several individual interviews that touch upon the same broad topic of LGBT gamers. The propositions advanced in the documentary offer temporary relief to marginalized gamers, but in order to ensure that gamers are not persecuted based on sexual orientation or gender, a new empathetic perspective has to be adopted by gamers as well as by video game…

genres.) III. Each genres have different effects the gamer 's actions while playing the game. e. Action/adventure do have effects that the gamer like by challenges the gamers. 1. According to Drew Guarini from HuffPost say that 'Mario ' is like a steroids for your brain. 2. German researchers had conducted a study by using two groups of gamers as subject for the MRI machine. It shown the differences in the brain structure of the gamers, and the direct causal link between video gaming…

for all of the gamer in the worldwide. The organization are an American based company and founded at 1998, headquarter are in California, United States. In nowadays, Razer are one of the leading brand in the gaming series market compared with the Logitech and the Republic Of Gamers. Other than the Razer have offer various type of the gaming laptops, gaming mice, gaming keyboards, gaming gamepads, gaming mousepads, watches, headsets and they also having some software for all the gamer to use as…