I Ain’t Here to Argue About Facial Features

Let’s talk about race.

At the risk of boring the young punks out there (and aren’t you supposed to be doing homework instead of screwing around on the net?), in the old days of You Will Play EQ or UO (cuz they be the only games in town), we had no idea what race our fellow players were. Or had pledged to. Or were drafted into. However that works nowadays.

Hell, we didn’t even know what gender most players were, much less any physical markers that may, or may not, identify them racially. (Maybe I’m not supposed to talk about that.)

I always found that most refreshing: I don’t know anything about you, you know nothing about me, let’s keep it that way. Your history, your ancestors’ history, not interested. I’m not really interested in real life either, but some people insist.

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Feels Good to be a Gangsta

As reported by All Headline News, NCsoft’s recent poll of 700 gamers reveals that most players would rather be villain than hero. The over 30 years old moderates to a 59% villain/41% good guy ratio, possibly because they’ve had just about enough of real life shitheads plus, there’s plenty of 20 year old shitheads in game to go around. Hey, not judging. I used to be a 20 year old shithead. (25 year old shithead, too — slow learner.)