Re: Real Death in Online Game Forum Communities
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:54 pm
Luke wrote:dedalusdedalus wrote:The way these programs work is that they send you an email once every month or so, and you click on a link to confirm that you're still alive. If you fail to click on that link, an email goes out to your contact list.
That's one of the most ridiculous "programs" I've heard of.
"For a fee we want all of your email contact data, annoy you once a month, and may perhaps send an email blast to everyone you know falsely stating you died".
Who would want that, and who would want to break the news with an email?
Fw: Your friend Chuck is dead, do not reply.
I agree. This sounds like a ridiculous service, and I wish that I had invented it.
In any event, when I die, I expect each of you to send one game to me so that I can be buried with it like an Egyptian pharoah (and gaze upon - but not play - my marvelous video game collection from the afterlife).
If one of you dies, I will go to a street corner in a shady part of town and "pour out some games for ya." By that, I mean that I will fill a small brown paper bag with Gameboy games, place one into a Gameboy, and say "This is for me." I will then pour the remaining games on the pavement, and say "...and this is for my dead homies" (before scrambling to place all of the precious, precious cartridges back into the bag and driving away as fast as I can).