A report published by Media Proffessor, David Myers from Loyola University chronicles his account of social interactions within City of Heroes. He performs a number of various social experiments, the most notable of which was to see how people reacted to aggressive actions that were purely within the games rules.
He apparently set about hunting down and killing villain player characters, as he is apparently allowed, even encouraged to do within the games rules. However, what he found was that most of these people preffered to hang out in their little fantasy world, believing the games rules to not apply to them. And when killed, the list of threats and reactions Myers recieved is nothing short of impressive.
You know what I see in this report? Scrubs. This is yet more proof that scrubs are all around us, they want to play their own little game in a corner somewhere entirely outside of the main gameplay rules. Pathetic.
Anyhow, it makes a very interesting read.
Link to source: http://kotaku.com/5308780/college-professor-trolls-for-science-finds-people-hate-him
Scrubs really are everywhere. Science inside!
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