Darkscorps Diary

[Darkscorp]

Tho I have been reticient to do so,I have decided to go ahead and at least give this Diary thing a shot.

I have been placed into a very unusual situation at the moment. Placed doesn't mean much really...no one gets placed anywhere unless its of their own volition..or not.

Hmm ill have to think of a different way of expressing that,but nonetheless,things irl have been fraught with more than what I would consider the usual mayhem.

It has impacted my usual time within PE. I haven't been able to play as much as I would like,but on the other hand, if I did, I wouldn't get what I needed to do done at all.

Herein lies the dilmema. Does one foresake all wordly goods for the virtual bliss we call PE? Or do you tough it out irl and make PE a secondary pleasure?

The answer is plainly obvious. One must eat and feed ones family. A shelter must be provided to house and keep ones family safe.

But oh the heartache! I barely envision myself leading a life that that I would call anything less than fruitful,yet must return to that gray zone we all have to endure upon awakening when the alarm clock goes off,screaming at us to get up and face reality...

I guess that PE has become an alter-existance for me. One that allows me to be someone that irl I wouldn't be or, would want to emulate the most?

 

[Darkscorp]

Hmmm..seems I have been remiss in writing here so I guess I will do some updates.

Just found out a few hours ago that my Grandmother passed away. She was 98 and pretty lively for a person her age, tho she had suffered from a heart attack last December.

She lived a very full and happy life. I'm both sad and happy,because after her heart attack she developed some problems and I don't think she was happy anymore.

Being so far from home makes it hard. I had hoped that I'd be able to see her again and to let her see her two great grandsons again. She hadn't seen them in close to 15 years.

She always took care of me when I was a kid and was there for me when I had some very troubling times when I got older. She was to me what a grandmother should always be.

I'm going to miss her alot.

 

[Darkscorp]

An Observation

A very funny thing happened yesterday while I was work. I was doing some paper work when Ace popped up in MSN telling me to send His and Angels gratz to my wife Rose for her global.

So I called her immediatley whereupon she was like "Huh? whaaaat? How'd you know? Are you ingame?"

"Duh..am I up on your FL?"

"uhm...no. So how'd you know?"

"ESP....." lol

I confessed that Ace had told me when I got home from work. We talked about how the social interaction in PE is incredible and how tottaly virtual a world it really has become. PE was our first MMORPG but since we've started we've tried other games and have found them to be somewhat "sterile" when it comes to interacting with other players.

We wondered why that is the case. We've watched our oldest son play WoW and came to the conclusion that games of that genre cater to "instant gratification" which does appeal to the younger players.

PE on the other hand does have that feature,yet its not so instant,nor is it gratifying at times. You have to WORK to get anywhere in PE, even if you deposit.

This aspect could be one of the reasons why PEs community is so unique. Humans have a tendancy to form interpersonal relationships when they are faced with adversity and no where else have I seen this to be more true than within PE.

I had introduced a friend to PE not to long ago. He didn't get far from PA but he did say that he seemed to like the game,but that was over a course of about 2 hours total. I told him to get out there and explore and on the way he was bound to meet other people. He leads a pretty busy life so he kind of dropped the game. He did go on to try other MMORPGs briefly but wants to try to get back into PE.

He had done a few websearches for other games and wondered why PE wasn't way up there with the "Big Boys"

I told him thats because PE isn't a game really, and that not many players that come in can hack the "Virtualness".

"But it is a Game!" he said

"Yes..it is..and it's not. It depends how you look at it. If you play it like its a game chances are very high you won't succeed."

"Huh?...It is a game!"

"OK...lets take EQII as an example" I explained. "You get in to the game and first thing ya gotta do is go do some stupid quests right?"

"yeah..so?"

"Then you go do more stupid quests like getting the Golden Phallic scepter of Ishtar or whatever. Then go gather holy shamanic feces. whatever...the point being is that you are being LED along the way regardless of what path you THINK you are taking."

"In PE you choose what ever it is you want to do. And if you screw up? Too bad, just like in real life."

"Huh," he reponded "Maybe I'll give it another go. Whaddya think?"

"It's up to you,Mikey. But if your gonna start over, try not to make your Avatar look like Vin Diesel again."

"Why?"

"Cuz your last attempt made you look more like a penis with legs..bwahahaha.."

 

[Darkscorp]

I wanted to make a quick entry here as it is important.

It seems that a friend of mine has gotten herself, through no fault of her own, into a real mess, both ingame and irl.

A certain player by the name Nvidia has blackmailed her (irl Female) over some photos he aquired by way of webcam without her permission. He has shown these pics to a few of her socmates and has threatened to send them to her workplace if she ever set foot into PE again. He also said she didn't deserve to be there.

Apparently this person has alot of info about the victim, and she is very scared and extremely humiliated.

He has taken close to 3K ped from her and has left her with nothing. I have screenies of what he said to her that she took herself. Problem is its all in spanish.

I've spoken to a Socmate of hers that collaborated her side of the story, and also because he spoke english.

I also learned from her socmate that this player had scammed Lusox out of a very expensive weapon. He has also scammed alot of other people from what I understand. He has multiple avatars,one of them going by the name Dandy.

Reason why I'm writing this down here is to protect her anonimity. Chances are this Nvidia person won't find it if it's posted here.

What really pisses me off is the heinousness of the crime. This person is a monster.

So if anyone here reads this and knows spanish I'll glady send you the screenies if you pm me.

My friend has come to the conclusion that the only way to get back ingame is to create a new avatar. Shes not happy about it, but wants everyone to know how hurtful this criminal is.