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Some days, I just want to stand on a chair and scream, "GET A LIFE!".

Of course, I have zero investment in these MMORPGs, so my view might be somewhat biased.

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My sword-wielding electronic alter-ego can kick you sword-wielding electronic alter-ego's ass!

Sure, but while you're doing that I'm breaking into your machine and stealing all your iCh00nz!

Of course, I have zero investment in these MMORPGs

What do you call

nerdsholm, then?

It's not "Massively Multiplayer", nor is it, for the most part, a Role-Playing Game. It is, however, Online. One for six.

The last description I saw of MM that bothered to define a strict cutoff was 32 players. We beat that easily.

I think you're wrong about the RPG aspect, too. Maybe it's not a game.

Also, I thought you meant Maximum Mayhem: Online Rocket-Propelled Grenade.

Don't tell me that when you first read 'Neuromancer' you weren't all over the fantasy of living as a cyberspace avatar.

These kids are doing it. You could only wish.

Of course they're going to wake up in their thirties and go 'ooooorg', but you hadn't taken that into consideration back then either.

Honestly? No. When I first read Neuromancer, I was enamoured with the largely-undescribed interface mechanisms that Case used - the deck, the 'trodes, that stuff. The book didn't make a big deal about how people presented in the Matrix, and I honestly admit I didn't even think about it. I was solely impressed with an interface that seemed to meld the best features of the present - keys you could punch, dramatically, if necessary - and those of the future, such as a direct neural interface of some sort. I've never had a particular attraction for any sort of hyped-up online representation.

Funnily enough, as I'm 30, this stuff still interests me. Avatars-as-portrayed-here (to get around the fact that technically, my name anywhere I log in is an avatar of sorts) still strike me as more-or-less needless fluff that get in the way of the interesting stuff.

I first read "Neuromancer" about a year or two ago.

To say that those kids are "doing it" is, at best, extremely charitable.

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