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08.11.08Warcraft Players are Living in a Communist StateIt's not often that I can put the word communist in a blog without an instant link to a certain Second Life blog, but in this case the communists are all in Warcraft and the writer is from Wired (emphasis added): "This is of the most-prodigious mysteries of the gamer soul....They let us cast off our mundane existence and become a colorful, empowered hero. And what do we do with this second life? We behave like obedient workers in a Soviet collective outside Stalingrad, circa 1971. Comrade, your job is to collect potatoes. For seven years. We pay $20 a month for ...
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