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Dec

Virtual Pets: The childhood achievment of having your own pet- without the mess!

Posted by kraftdinner9  Published in Participant-Observation, Pets, Snapshots, Stereotypes

This is a blog reply to Shimmer’s blog on pets entitled Project Update. Although I consider myself to have limited knowledge on pets, as I have only been playing World of Warcraft since the beginning of our group projects, after playing a month with my warrior character in World of Warcraft, I specifically created a [...]

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Tags: hunter, pets, World of Warcraft

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Dec

When Anthropology and YouTube Came Together

Posted by Anouska  Published in Links, Overheard, Participant-Observation

I was in my other Anthropology class’s lecture this morning when the Professor showed us the following YouTube video, created by an Kansas State university professor and his students. I wanted to post this because it represents what this class is about or at least a common theme I have found, which is the relationship [...]

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Tags: Anthropology, Digital Ethnography, ethnography, Identity, YouTube

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Dec

Decoding WoW Abbreviations

Posted by kraftdinner9  Published in How-To, Links, Names, Overheard, Participant-Observation

If there is one thing I have still yet to master in World of Warcraft, it is the language used in the chat interface. No not english, I am talking about the abbreviated language all WoW players seem to posses. Now like most of you reading this blog and being on the internet in general, [...]

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Tags: abbreviations, chat, language, World of Warcraft

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Dec

Final Fantasy Offers an Extra 30 days FREE

Posted by XxCapucino  Published in Links

If you have played the new Final Fantasy game, you’ll know that the game is very much under developed in it’s current stage. There isn’t even an auction house and game-play is very choppy. This is coming from a game that is renowned for it’s graphics and game play. Nevertheless, Unix Square (the makers of [...]

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Tags: Final Fantasy

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Dec

Hacking, Call of Duty and Rigged??

Posted by midnightfr3ak  Published in A Day in the Life, Stereotypes

Well seeing as how all i’ve been hearing from this class is about mmo’s and wow and games of such. As much of an interesting topic this is, i wanted to blog about the recent Call of Duty Black Ops. One of the biggest games hyped up this year and the release was even bigger. [...]

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Tags: Call of Duty Black Ops, hacking, Modern Warfare 2

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