Real World Losers Find That They Can Be Just As Losery In Fake Worlds… With Real-World Results!
West Chester lawyer Marc Bragg was amassing a real estate empire, building casinos and a condo development, and buying and selling land as if he were Donald Trump.
None of it was exactly real - until it became the subject of a lawsuit he filed this year in Chester County Court. Bragg assembled his properties on Second Life, an online world whose more than one million residents travel, shop, build and even create businesses that generate real U.S.-dollar revenue.
[...]“There’s a real fantasy element. You can do things you can’t do in real life,” said Kim Gregson, an assistant professor of television and radio, whose students research Second Life in her classes at Ithaca College. “You can drive motorcycles real fast, attend art and music exhibits, stream live music. Ben Folds is going to have a CD-release party in the game. A lot of people could never go to that in real life.”
Like us, for instance. We could never go to a Ben Folds CD release party because Ben Folds is A FUCKING LAMEASS LOSER WHO HOLDS HIS CD RELEASE PARTY IN ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES.
Seriously, people, really: Are we this disconnected from our fellow man? What is it going to take to bring us all back around?
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