September 23, 2005
MAYBE THE COULD TRY READING BOOKS?:
Although limited to only a few of the game's servers the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands.
Originally it was thought that the deadly digital disease was the result of a programming bug in a location only recently added to the Warcraft game.
However, it now appears that players kicked off the plague and then kept it spreading after the first outbreak.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 23, 2005 10:54 AMHaha. The hard core players do read books – on optimal strategies for playing the game. If I wanted to teach advanced math to young boys, I'd get them to play games like this and then analyze the various strategies. It's stunning the amount of data and analysis they'll perform just to get a slight edge.
Posted by: at September 23, 2005 11:37 PMSince we're geeking here, I'll point out that the previous comment was anonymous even though I'm signed in via TypeKey with the little "Thanks for signing in, Annoying Old Guy" message above this comment box. Yet I suspect that this comment will be anonymous as well. I can't even correct easily, since the presence of that message means that I don't have boxes to enter my psuedonym nor e-mail. Interesting.
Posted by: at September 23, 2005 11:40 PMWhen I was 17 our family frequently was awoken with frantic phone calls at 4am, "Help! I got killed! Puh-leeze bring me back to life!".
They were MN high schoolers playing my Scepter of Goth (Wikipedia) in the late 1970s.
You can imagine what it was like for me to try to explain it to my mother.
Posted by: Gideon at September 24, 2005 1:37 AM