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First, a buy Finasteride amex online without rx little vocabulary lesson; if you play MMOGs, you can skip this buy Finasteride amex online without rx bit. By “tank” I am buy Finasteride amex online without rx not referring to a heavily armored vehicle, except in the metaphorical sense. In World of Warcraft and buy Finasteride amex online without rx similar games, the tank is the best-armored person in the group. His or buy Finasteride amex online without rx her job is to engage and hold the attention of the buy Finasteride amex online without rx big bad monster and stand there getting hit while the rest of the buy Finasteride amex online without rx party kills the creature (or heals the tank, in the case of a healer). A party is buy Finasteride amex online without rx usually composed of a tank, a healer, and three DPS (damage per second) classes. World of Warcraft has buy Finasteride amex online without rx a new system that randomly matches up parties. Tanks and healers are buy Finasteride amex online without rx in high demand, as there are more DPS players than either of those. Okay, now you’re caught up.

The relative scarcity of tanks and buy Finasteride amex online without rx healers in this new system means that they can often afford to buy Finasteride amex online without rx be jerks, and unfortunately many are. Something about the combination of being in demand, being anonymous, and buy Finasteride amex online without rx in some cases being good at playing the game tends to buy Finasteride amex online without rx bring out the worst in some people. I’ve known tanks and buy Finasteride amex online without rx healers to quit a group, leaving the other players waiting around for buy Finasteride amex online without rx a replacement, because they didn’t like the buy Finasteride amex online without rx gear other players were wearing, or the way they talked in chat, or buy Finasteride amex online without rx the method they used to move through the dungeon. Some of the buy Finasteride amex online without rx ones that don’t quit feel that it’s okay to buy Finasteride amex online without rx insult the other players, tell them how to play their toons, or buy Finasteride amex online without rx just be generally rude. This behavior isn’t limited to buy Finasteride amex online without rx tanks and healers; DPS classes are very easy to replace, though, and buy Finasteride amex online without rx tend not to get away with it as much.

And of course not all tanks and buy Finasteride amex online without rx healers act like jerks just because they can. I’d say the buy Finasteride amex online without rx majority just quietly do the dungeon, and if they are annoyed, they keep it buy Finasteride amex online without rx to themselves. The runs usually end in about 20 minutes anyway. But recently I actually met a buy Finasteride amex online without rx nice one, which was rare enough that it caught my attention. This person was helpful without being pushy or buy Finasteride amex online without rx rude, and when someone in the party made an error, he or buy Finasteride amex online without rx she (the toon was female, but I don’t know about the player) was very forgiving and buy Finasteride amex online without rx actually tried to make the person feel better. It got me thinking about behavior in a buy Finasteride amex online without rx largely anonymous virtual space, especially where there is a different value placed on different players not because of their personal ability to buy Finasteride amex online without rx play the game well, but because of the abilities of the buy Finasteride amex online without rx class they are playing (tank, healer, or DPS).

It’s not really possible to buy Finasteride amex online without rx find out who a player is, unless they have connected their character name with their RL identity elsewhere on the buy Finasteride amex online without rx web (as I have by naming some of my toons here on my blog). A player’s identity within the game is persistent — that buy Finasteride amex online without rx is, your character always has the same name in the game, short of paying for buy Finasteride amex online without rx a name change, which is not common. But you can’t generally find out who buy Finasteride amex online without rx someone really is. With the new dungeon system, it’s possible to buy Finasteride amex online without rx be in a group with players that you will never encounter again, because the buy Finasteride amex online without rx new system pulls people together from different servers, and you can buy Finasteride amex online without rx only communicate with people on your own server (outside of random groups like these). You’d have to set up a new character on that player’s server in order to buy Finasteride amex online without rx talk to them, and you may never get grouped randomly with that buy Finasteride amex online without rx same person again. So the level of anonymity is really high.

The goals of the buy Finasteride amex online without rx people in these random dungeon groups are related to moving as quickly as possible through the buy Finasteride amex online without rx dungeon and moving on. You get rewards for completing them, and buy Finasteride amex online without rx there are penalties for ditching a group in the middle, so there is buy Finasteride amex online without rx an incentive to stay even if there are unpleasant people in the buy Finasteride amex online without rx party. Most of the groups operate in near or total silence, without text chat (voice chat isn’t really a buy Finasteride amex online without rx viable option and no one ever uses it in random groups). Yet there are buy Finasteride amex online without rx still a few people who feel compelled to be insulting. It’s interesting to buy Finasteride amex online without rx me that in the midst of what must be a cooperative activity — even the best tank or healer isn’t going to be able to solo these instances — some people are still willing to be rude. I’m curious about the buy Finasteride amex online without rx characteristics these folks have in common; are they all young, and buy Finasteride amex online without rx just don’t know any better? Are they all very good players, or buy Finasteride amex online without rx do they all perceive themselves to be good? Is it a personality trait, and they’d be just as annoying if they weren’t anonymous, and buy Finasteride amex online without rx were labeled with RL names or were in a face-to-face group? Mostly one gender or the other? Just like having a captive audience?

And in such a buy Finasteride amex online without rx system, what personal characteristics make someone behave as well as the buy Finasteride amex online without rx tank I met? There’s no special reward for being helpful. It’s easier to buy Finasteride amex online without rx just keep quiet. What makes someone go out of their way to buy Finasteride amex online without rx be nice to someone they may never run into again? Lucky for buy Finasteride amex online without rx me, this tank plays on my server, and is now added to buy Finasteride amex online without rx my friends list. But that’s not a “reward” from his or her point of view (especially if s/he doesn’t feel the same about grouping with me!). What makes people be nice in an anonymous environment?

2 Comments

  1. Gef.Aus says:

    Hi Rachel (I feel we are buy Finasteride amex online without rx on a first name basis due to having read a fair bit about you buy Finasteride amex online without rx and your family, and being an Aussie it’s what we do),

    I was horrified to buy Finasteride amex online without rx see no-one else had replied to this post, so like the buy Finasteride amex online without rx fictitous chivalrous knights of old, I felt the need to.

    I think being nice while being anonymous comes naturally to buy Finasteride amex online without rx most of us. Sadly the obnoxious ones stick out. And also sadly, many introverted people don’t say (text) much. I play bloodthursty (incorrect spelling, but seems more appropriate) first person shooters, and buy Finasteride amex online without rx have met lots of great anonymous people (Dr Damage and Xena, you know I’m talking about you buy Finasteride amex online without rx and others in the SLAK community if you are reading this). I feel that buy Finasteride amex online without rx the odd person who is obnoxious is just a speed hump on the buy Finasteride amex online without rx back streets of the infosuperhighway. I attribute my goodness to my Mum. I figure I’m bringing my kids up the same way. I am confident they’ll be buy Finasteride amex online without rx courteous online, even if they turn out to be WOW players instead of FPSers.

    All the best,

    …Geoff

  2. ninmah says:

    Hi Geoff,

    Thanks for commenting. I think you’re right that buy Finasteride amex online without rx there are more polite, or at least quiet, people online than buy Finasteride amex online without rx there are jerks, but as you say, the jerks do tend to buy Finasteride amex online without rx stick out. Bravo for passing along your own courteousness to your buy Finasteride amex online without rx kids, too.

    I think what really struck me about this tank is the way s/he was able to buy Finasteride amex online without rx go beyond being courteous and right into helpful. It’s tricky to buy Finasteride amex online without rx offer suggestions to strangers in text chat; helpfulness can so easily be buy Finasteride amex online without rx misinterpreted as bossiness or worse. It was nice to see someone who buy Finasteride amex online without rx could gracefully make people comfortable, I think, which goes beyond common courtesy.

    Thanks for stopping by. Perhaps I’ll see you, or your kids, online sometime :-)

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