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...proper time-say when I turned 30. But like most of my generation, I was wrong. Our assumptions were based on the idea that video games would never grow up. But no genre has worked harder to disprove that maxim than MMOGs-Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Unlike with normal video games, where you interact with just a computer, MMOGs allow millions of people to play with each other in sprawling online virtual worlds. Most MMOGs target people like me who, as kids, took 20-sided dice and J.R.R.Tolkien a little too seriously, and none do it better than World...
...What's implicit in that, however, is a sense of defeat, an admission that for the denizens of Azeroth, our normal lives just aren't good enough. This is why most adults who play WoW are ashamed, and, on a scale of morals, rate their hobby only slightly above porn. We ourselves razz those who are ultra-accomplished in WoW, asserting that they are either kids with no responsibilities, or more likely, dudes who can't get laid. This unspoken envy only conceals a potentially darker truth-that we've all come to accept that WoW is fundamentally better than...
...destruction was very important. There are significant interests connected with oil production in Libya and it has joined in the struggle to restrict illegal migration from Africa to Europe. These are real interests to the U.S. and Europe. But for Libya to fit in completely in the framework of normal international relations - which we would also like to see - it must convincingly safeguard human rights, including in this trial...
...Faculty was able to muster the courage and patience to meet 14 times, including a January meeting. But when meetings were scheduled for this year, the Faculty decided to revert—even with the daunting task of finalizing the curricular review before it—to its normal, nine-meeting schedule...
...Debra S. Poaster, both UHS physicians, arrived at the scene and continued O’Brien’s CPR while administering an automated external defibrillator. The doctors shocked the professor four times before they were able to quell the arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, and restore his heart to normal. The University has defibrillators in various areas on campus, ranging from UHS to the Malkin Athletic Center, that were donated by the Kadan Foundation, said UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59. The Kadan Foundation was started by a group of HBS faculty members for one of their...