RuneScape

“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…

“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…

Throughout your modifications of the video game Laura Croft, one thing has always stayed the same. This is the over sexualizaition of the main character, Laura Croft. This is consistent throughout all of her games. She wears very little clothing, along with large lips and her butt and chest are also overly embellished. The features I stated are also accented significantly as if to appeal toward a particular sex. She is fighting bad guys in unrealistic clothing while managing to look sexy for the…

Like usual my friends and I went to the shopping center near our house, Village Point center, and pick ourselves up some membership cards for a game called Runescape. Village Point was full of small buildings and structures that was scalable and I guess it was a hot spot for traceurs, of course I didn’t know that at the time. As we were about to leave the bustling shopping center I met them, the three strangers…

delightful grade point average. As you all know, I am very proud of my average of 110-120 words per minute typing speed, with a cap at an average of 130 words per minute. I love Sour Patch even though it always makes my tongue blue. Occasionaly, I play RuneScape (DarkScape) and Plants vs. Zombies. I also play Clash of Clans with a Town Hall level of 8 (I'm a scrub). I'm a very skilled trapper as many have experienced (sorry :p). I'm also a decent PvPer, however, definitely, not compared to other…

Video games are a safe haven for people and gamers alike. They provide refuge from the burdens of everyday life — a virtual simulation where everything can be molded and be manipulated to the desires of its wielder’s hands; freedom on their own terms, all within the bounds of the virtual context. However, when real-life laws and its permissible consequences extend beyond reality and into realms whose entirety is made up of intangible pixels, things can become quite problematic. In his text,…

When asking an elder how they met their significant other, many answers range from meeting in a social setting, work, or even church. If you were to ask couples who married from 2005 to 2014, over one third of them will admit to meeting online (AFP RELAXNEWS). Relationships and friendships are now being created through common friends on Facebook, or even random strangers met online. There is a drastic difference between the friends you meet in person, and friends you acquire over social media.…

They introduced me to PC gaming, Runescape which incased slaying dragons, and Maple story a 2-D side scroller that had a great community at the time. When we got home we would all hop on the computer together and play. One of the greatest things about video games is all the people you meet…

Video game have become increasingly popular ever since 1977 when home entertainment systems where introduced to japan and later to the rest of the world. Since then they have been a device that keeps kids and even adults entertained. Because video games are fairly new and so popular that most people can remember playing them with either there kids or as a kid, games like Mario, Pac-man, Asteroids, Super pit fall, and many more. Ever since video games were created people have used them to blame…

You are surrounded by a horde of pixelated demons ready to destroy you and make you lose all your hard earned gold, when suddenly your friend from the warrior’s guild comes into the screen plunging a sword into the abdomens of those demons. Many of you know this doesn’t happen in reality, but some of you may not know that scenes like this are being played out this very instant, between millions of kids and adults worldwide. In a world where technology is making ungodly leaps and bounds beyond…