"Tribes" is an online multiplayer game where different missions, worlds, weapons, and players are utilized to defend and destroy. Players use mouse, keypad, and voice commands to target and destroy the enemy as they sneak around trying to capture the other team's flag and return it to their own base. But it is more than just a game that these players have created with "Tribes" They have created a whole online community with an interactive website leading to discussion forums and chat rooms, where the action really takes place. Call it a behind the scenes look at "Tribes." Teams are put together, players are taught and assisted, and even more so, long-lasting friendships are made. I studied the discussion forums of Tribalwar.com and continually entered the Tribal war chat room hosted by the server irc.dynamix.com for a period of two weeks. I found an online community full of life constantly being infested with anything from small talk to serious gaming talk. .
In the article "Log on and Shoot,"" Katie Hafner discusses online gaming becoming a sort of addiction. She claims it is turning into a "virtual party " and that oftentimes the game becomes the underdog when conversation takes over" (Hafner 75). And this, Hafner says, is the kind of stuff that gaming networks want. They want to have the social environment it takes to create an online type of community for gamers in order to keep their clients and players devoted (Hafner 75). .
Tribalwar.com states that the "Most users ever online was 212 on 09-23-2002 at 04:20 AM " (tribalwar.com). Take note of the time. With that many people actively using tribalwar.com in the early hours of the AM, it is only plausible that every time I read the discussion forums there were never less than 150 members and guests currently active. Every post had responses. MIRC is the program in which the Tribes chat room server is put to use. Irc.dynamix.com is a specifically registered server for individual channels based around Tribes and the Tribes community.
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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. ... This study identifies these theories as it relates to origination, treatment, and prevention/protection. ... Further, this study compared beliefs among Black South Africans and African Americans. ... Secondly, this study will compare and contrast conspiracy theories among Black South Africans and African Americans. ... Wilkipedia, an online encyclopedia, states that conspiracy theories is the belief that historical or current events are the result of manipulations by one or m...
The purpose of this study is to examine some instances of the influence that the English language exerts upon Porteño Spanish both written and spoken, as well as the difference in the social significance of the use of words of English origin. ... This somehow paradoxical situation will be surveyed in the first part of this study. ... No estoy diciendo que las dificultades que experimentamos alrededor del mundo' (ClarÃn, online edition October, 2006) This may be said to be just a case of a hasty translation, in which the original meaning has been perhaps poorly conveyed, but n...
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...
