with the sight of white dots...
musicals don't quite go with sci fi movies. hmm.
anyway. the title says it all. it's almost scary. more bots are massing around lumby, swarming aroundthat pond next to farmer fred's with willows round it. the theory's that it's an army of them, out for vengeance as a response to the shop update. i mean, well, that's heartening, the shop update rocks, in a nicer way of putting it, but...
a little too many bots to handle, if i do say so myself.
of course, there's reporting done in about as many droves, though by slightly less a number of people. just, well. brings up the whole macro issue again too. i just found this post on vaskor's blog, about real world trading. only just came across it, but the links really are interesting. in their differences.
most of all this, from runehead. there's the claim that it isn't "immoral". i almost was convinced myself. it's kinda pathetic that i'm not more able to keep to the same view. but i finally did, and it is immoral. in more plain langauge, it's stealing. it's not a service that's being sold, it's property of jagex being stolen in that what's exchanged for it is real world money.
it's immoral in that you're going behind the backs of other players to gain an underserved advantage for yourself. like backstabbing, of the worst order, because you're doing it to every single person you come across who does not, also, real world trade, and because it's children backstabbing, or being backstabbers, who also, simply, don't understand.
then there's this other link, also from vaskor. (whom i owe alot to, thank you. i'd tried before to find runescape blogs worth a visit to, and hadn't previously found any at all. just logs, and blogs chock full of quoted updates, nothing else. i knew blogs existed, i just never could find them. must've been walking about with my eyes closed. i hadn't even realised tip it had a news section. of sorts.)
http://www.chinesegoldfarmers.com/
it explains the perspective most of the spoilt children and brats i come across never look to. while it doesn't make real world trading any less wrong, it does do something more. i'd touched on this earlier, but the people i knew didn't at all have this much to lose.
anyway. there was this one sentence that struck me.
They think that the game world should be a level playing field, that it should
be a magical circle free of the corruption of the real world.
precisely. i think the whole world should be like that, and in as many places as it is possible - whyever not?
i don't like the idea of pragmatism, even though i'm more pragmatic than i'd like. it just seems so... crass. like living to eat. like being obsessed over money yourself just because money's a major driving force behind many other people, when it shouldn't be. it's just crass. i can't quite find another word for it.
and well. that's all i have to say.
i suppose it's all old news to you, and those others expressed it so well i don't feel a need to. i just write because it's how i think. it's how i go about thinking, not an expression of my views per se. i don't write about what i think, because i don't know what i think till i write it.
and that's what it seems a blog's for. yep.
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