Along comes "Promiscuous Girl" by Nelly Furtado:



And the funny thing is, this is typical for the Mos Eisley Cantina in SWG.

...when an article like this is no longer surprising, shocking, or in any way bizarre:

"The Sociopaths of the Virtual World" (regards "griefers", people who deliberately sow online grief in MMORPGs, such as Leeroy Jenkins and The Great World of Warcraft Funeral Raid)



"Thus began the Second Life Goon tradition of jaw-droppingly offensive theme lands. This has included the re-creation of the burning Twin Towers (tiny falling bodies included) and a truly icky murdered-hooker crime scene (in which a hermaphrodite Furry prostitute lay naked, violated, and disemboweled on a four-poster bed, while an assortment of coded-in options gave the visitor chances for further violation)...As the media hype around Second Life grew, the Goons began to aim at bigger targets. When a virtual campaign headquarters for presidential candidate John Edwards was erected, a parody site and scatological vandalism followed. When SL real estate magnate Anshe Chung announced she had accumulated more than $1 million in virtual assets and got her avatar's picture splashed across the cover of BusinessWeek, the stage was set for a Second Life goondom's spotlight moment: the interruption of a CNET interview with Chung by a procession of floating phalluses that danced out of thin air and across the stage...

Consider the case of the...Titan [class of spaceship, I guess], flown by the Band of Brothers Guild in the massively multiplayer deep-space EVE Online. The vessel was far bigger and far deadlier than any other in the game. Kilometers in length and well over a million metric tons unloaded, it had never once been destroyed in combat. Only a handful of player alliances had ever acquired a Titan, and this one, in particular, had cost the players who bankrolled it in-game resources worth more than $10,000. So, naturally, Commander Sesfan Qu'lah, chief executive of the GoonFleet Corporation and leader of the greater GoonSwarm Alliance — better known outside EVE as Isaiah Houston, senior and medieval-history major at Penn State University — led a Something Awful invasion force to attack and destroy it....the only way to make someone that miserable is to destroy whatever virtual thing they've sunk the most real time, real money, and, above all, real emotion into. Find the player who's flying the biggest, baddest spaceship and paid for it with the proceeds of hundreds of hours mining asteroids, then blow that spaceship up. 'That's his life investment right there,' ..."

And the best part (regarding the destruction of the Titan-class starship):

...The Goons, on the other hand, fly cheap little frigates into battle, get blown up, go grab another ship, and jump back into the fight. Their motto: 'We choke the guns of our enemies with our corpses.' "

Edit: I found video of this fabled GoonSwarm fleet attacking the Titan ship...it sounds as if they just blew up the Death Star at 1:20 or so:




Focus: Here's one more quote from the article to reflect upon...

[the somethingawful.com creator] recounts some of the more memorable moments. Among them: numerous cease-and-desist letters from targets of [his website's] ridicule, [and] threats of impending bodily harm from a growing community of rage-aholics permabanned from the SA forums...

I pose the question to all of you now. Is the Internet serious business? I have to say that I have had a few lawsuits and a couple of threats in the past from kickbanned people on The Wolf Web. Anyone else run into these situations?

So we were planning a multi-aircraft mission in the simulator earlier this week. I decided to get with the warrant officers to arrange a quick planning session for our mission.

I ran into a female warrant officer and started to discuss the mission. As I asked her a question, she raised her hand slightly, and I saw a deck of cards in her hand. Looking at the back of the cards, I saw not a Hoyle logo, but another, more infamous logo.

"WORLD OF WARCRAFT"

As she discussed airspeeds and time/distance/heading, I suddenly asked "You..you play World of Warcraft?"

"Yeah!"

"Me too", said another warrant officer behind me.

"Yeah," said the female warrant officer, "just about our whole company plays WoW. We have our own clan and everything! We've found that using TeamSpeak is the best way to talk to their wives back home so that we don't have to wait in line for the phones".

This brought up a cute, yet frightening image of two Orc lovers professing their undying love for one another by the light of the moon over the Lake of Azeroth or something like that.

It was kind of funny that my small group instructor in the Captains' Career Course sat me down and said, "I have some very serious reservations about your...your...'Leeroy Jenkins' act. I'm afraid that your soldiers might not get it and lose respect for you".

Au contraire, major. If you want to get in touch with average Americans, forget spending time with farmers...there are more WoWers in this country than farmers.

Back to the mission, though. "Well", I said, "you could create an elaborate plan for this mission, but when it came time to get in the cockpit, I'd just take off on my own and yell 'LEEROY JENKINS'"!. This got a good laugh out of everyone, because it's just so applicable to so many situations.

I decided to continue with my WoW knowledge. "You know what's even funnier than Leeroy Jenkins? There was this WoW girl who died in real life, and her clan decided to have a funeral for her in the game. They posted the details in their forum, and then a whole bunch of level 60 Ogre-Mages came through the funeral and killed everyone there! It was awesome!"

The WoWers looked at me in shock.

"Sir, that's just not funny"
"Yeah, what the hell is wrong with you?!"

Focus: Is the Great World of Warcraft Funeral Raid funny or what?

Link before I go to work:  The Pirates of Second Life.

Seems that in the MMORPG "Second Life", which we've discussed before, you really can do anything you can imagine.  Anything your heart can desire.

And apparently, some people's true desire in life is to be a pirate, with his crew dressed as Mayor McCheese, riding around in flying pirate ships, setting all the Second Life geeks' houses and mansions on fire, and having their way with the virtual wenches (40 year old fat dudes) in the game.

We all have our goals in life.