http://rampelter.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-horde-is-evil-part-2/ Lie to me. Just make it good. Fri, 29 May 2009 03:46:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://rampelter.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-horde-is-evil-part-2/#comment-249 The Horde is Evil? Part 3: Carnival! - Carlos Hernandez Sun, 18 May 2008 13:11:26 +0000 http://rampelter.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-horde-is-evil-part-2/#comment-249 [...] In my last post, I took issue with the “deliberately choosing a wicked character” part of his definition. You might deliberately choose to play the “evil” side of a game for a bunch of reasons that have nothing to do with “being” evil: whatever “evil” means (and which Castronova never defines). Hell, Castronova even stipulates a few of the reasons at the beginning of his post, and I give two big ones in my previous post. But I want to explore a different aspect of Castronova’s argument: the “when the avatar is considered an expression of self.” Because it most definitely is not always an expression of self. Sometimes it is a purposeful expression something outside the self. [...] [...] In my last post, I took issue with the “deliberately choosing a wicked character” part of his definition. You might deliberately choose to play the “evil” side of a game for a bunch of reasons that have nothing to do with “being” evil: whatever “evil” means (and which Castronova never defines). Hell, Castronova even stipulates a few of the reasons at the beginning of his post, and I give two big ones in my previous post. But I want to explore a different aspect of Castronova’s argument: the “when the avatar is considered an expression of self.” Because it most definitely is not always an expression of self. Sometimes it is a purposeful expression something outside the self. [...]

]]> http://rampelter.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-horde-is-evil-part-2/#comment-2 The Horde is Evil? Part 3 — Carnival! « The Rampelter Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:23:04 +0000 http://rampelter.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-horde-is-evil-part-2/#comment-2 [...] In my last post, I took issue with the “deliberately choosing a wicked character” part of his definition. You might deliberately choose to play the “evil” side of a game for a bunch of reasons that have nothing to do with “being” evil: whatever “evil” means (and which Castronova never defines). Hell, Castronova even stipulates a few of the reasons at the beginning of his post, and I give two big ones in my previous post. But I want to explore a different aspect of Castronova’s argument: the “when the avatar is considered an expression of self.” Because it most definitely is not always an expression of self. Sometimes it is a purposeful expression something outside the self. [...] [...] In my last post, I took issue with the “deliberately choosing a wicked character” part of his definition. You might deliberately choose to play the “evil” side of a game for a bunch of reasons that have nothing to do with “being” evil: whatever “evil” means (and which Castronova never defines). Hell, Castronova even stipulates a few of the reasons at the beginning of his post, and I give two big ones in my previous post. But I want to explore a different aspect of Castronova’s argument: the “when the avatar is considered an expression of self.” Because it most definitely is not always an expression of self. Sometimes it is a purposeful expression something outside the self. [...]

]]>