As Hafner says, "The trick now [for interactive games over the Internet] is to create social worlds rich in graphics for games of all kinds, featuring chat spaces where players can boast to one another, commiserate over a defeat or just pass the time of day"" (74). In the tribal war chat room there were always 150-200 people present, with approximately 25 to 35 participating in conversations at a time. I often left my guest name signed on over night and remained idle, only to wake up to a whole assortment of conversations. It is this kind of dedication and commitment of constant involvement that it takes to make an online community and keep it alive and well. .
One thing that often took place was, as expected, discussions about "Tribes." Through MIRC, players learn scripting and programming. Scripts were often exchanged so players could learn how to do things faster. Players teach each other everyday about how to perfect their aim or graphics. At one point I intervened during a conversation asking if anyone was willing to talk with me about "Tribes" as an online community. Masquerade talked one on one with me and offered this, "All you have to do is ask anyone how to use a certain line of code for programming or html or java and they can easily tell you what and how it works " (#tribalwar 10/16/02). Oftentimes in the chat room all kinds of terms extremely foreign to me were being tossed around. .
"Estrogen is in siege mode atm, " player Daemon posted at one point (#tribalwar 10/15/02). I figured out that #estrogen was another chat room hosted by irc.dynamix.com consisting of females. Later, talking to another player, I realized that "atm" was an acronym for "at the moment." "Siege mode " still remains an unfamiliar term to me. Another time I was reviewing conversation in the chat room I found that a player named Vang had said, "I'm about to start DdoS on wctoc. I need people to refresh, k? " (#tribalwar 10/15/02).
Alcoholism is defined by Lab Tests Online "as a condition resulting from excessive drinking of beverages that contain alcohol-. ... In a similar study by Patricia D. ... A study by Lillian A. ... Solutions like these need to be formed for the Native American community. ... They need to be helped; they need to live on as a community in the U.S. ...
For example, back to 1637, the ancient Indians attended the Pequot war with the English Puritans which made Indian's tribes burn and hundreds of Indians were killed. ... It carried smallpox inside and appeared "among the southern-most tribes along the river" (Brown) before it actually speared out to the "Mandans at Fort Clark and tribes north" (Brown). ... I think if he was determined to go back to fix this problem, the smallpox may not killed so many Indians because the hospital can study the vaccination rather than let it go free in the numerous Indian area westward,...
In this study, scientists collected data about the women while they were still in their mother's womb, namely the level of androgen present. ... Risman suggests that "the positivist model of science not only failed in this particular instance to recognize and exclude the expression of particular political values- She also argues against Udry's claim that he conducted a "value free" study, therefore no bias could have tainted it, then provides examples of how the study truly was biased. ... His "intergration of state of the art 1960's sex role theory with his equally moribun...
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...
