Nerd Showdown: Second Life vs. World of Warcraft
Amanda murphy
Issue date: 2/24/09 Section: Marginalia
Second up is Warcraft. Don't lie, I know you've downloaded the free 10 day trial. Just like Second Life, you can create and customize your character to make it represent who you want to be in real life. Only you're not really a six-foot-tall blonde babe, you're a four-foot-tall gnome with super powers- actually - you're not really that, you're a disgusting green ogre with no dental plan. You pick from two sides, Alliance (the pussy 'good guys') or Horde (the 'bad guys' who are way sweeter to play, and less whiney). Each side has a couple of different races: cows, ogres, elves, humans and trolls to name just a few. Each one you pick you can choose a class; for example, you can have magic powers, heal other peeps, or just be a typical bad ass and Chris Brown all your enemies with different weapons.
Unlike Second Life, there are goals and each quest you complete brings you money, weapons, reputation, and the satisfaction that you just spent five hours in a dungeon with four other sweaty nerds via Ventrilo, a program that lets you actually talk to these people in real time. There is a whole economy present, with real time market fluctuations and supply and demand.
Now that you know the basics of both, it's time to play Nerd Showdown, where I will pick three main elements these games have and tell you which one has the best.
Pedophiles
Man oh man, you can't have a real online game without these guys. Without pedophiles, what would Hilary Clinton even talk about? In Warcraft they are existent, but only as attention-starved Texans that will trade you 60 Void Crystals to "/flirt" with him … Maybe pretend to be his sexy troll girlfriend.
As for Second Life, pedophiles are all up on that like 15-year-old girls and blue eye-shadow. They have hundreds of sketchy places that prey on kids, and because you can create avatars that look like children, you can bet all the Michael Jacksons will be at that playground losing their puppies like nobody's business. I'm declaring Second Life the victor in pedophilia.
Unlike Second Life, there are goals and each quest you complete brings you money, weapons, reputation, and the satisfaction that you just spent five hours in a dungeon with four other sweaty nerds via Ventrilo, a program that lets you actually talk to these people in real time. There is a whole economy present, with real time market fluctuations and supply and demand.
Now that you know the basics of both, it's time to play Nerd Showdown, where I will pick three main elements these games have and tell you which one has the best.
Pedophiles
Man oh man, you can't have a real online game without these guys. Without pedophiles, what would Hilary Clinton even talk about? In Warcraft they are existent, but only as attention-starved Texans that will trade you 60 Void Crystals to "/flirt" with him … Maybe pretend to be his sexy troll girlfriend.
As for Second Life, pedophiles are all up on that like 15-year-old girls and blue eye-shadow. They have hundreds of sketchy places that prey on kids, and because you can create avatars that look like children, you can bet all the Michael Jacksons will be at that playground losing their puppies like nobody's business. I'm declaring Second Life the victor in pedophilia.
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wow gold
posted 2/24/09 @ 10:14 PM EST
Nice article you got here but I have a question though, are you once a Nerd? :)
Ahelmil
posted 2/25/09 @ 4:00 AM EST
As a level 80 elven hunter and a 2 year resident of SL - great article; Romance bloomed for me in SL - whereas the sweaty nerds in my guild just bang on about armour stats and how my leet Devilsaur out-tanks our lvl 78 warrior and resident dent-a-din! Roll on the day I can be with the avatar of my choice!
Elune shine on you - cept in WG where my dino bites your arse!
professortiki
posted 2/25/09 @ 5:15 AM EST
hmmm... the old pedophile myth again, huh? So what are the great valuable things YOU are doing with your computer?
Thuggee
posted 2/27/09 @ 5:36 AM EST
... wow. Is.. Is this serious? I mean... wow. Because if it is... I.. I'm just... without words.. My 10 year old little brother is more capable of writing a press article than you apparently are. (Continued…)
Ruibo
posted 3/01/09 @ 4:08 AM EST
No offense but how can you compare World of Warcraft to Second Life? The 2 games are comparatively different other than the fact that they're both MMOs. (Continued…)
Amanda Murphy
posted 3/26/09 @ 7:37 PM EST
I'm comparing them on the basis that they are both deemed 'nerdy'. That's it, I'm not claiming they are similar at all.
Ya i'm totally going on stereotypes, but it's cool, I play both so I'm allowed to. (Continued…)
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