Evercracked, an EQ documentary
 

Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtqG1u2hqUY
Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pngCH0F7s
Episode 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLH8U8hMuoI
Episode 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=022CU1p7Jbk
Episode 5, Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXucCOAOdOA
Episode 5, Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHpiy8wAPKc

I saw those awhile back. If you can ignore all the bad jokes, it contains some very interesting info and history. Worthwhile.

I cannot believe curt schilling played eq.

There were quite a few popular names that played EverQuest back in the day.

I liked Evercracked, though. It was pretty good.

There was a 60 Minutes report on Everquest that paints the game in a horribly negative light, primarily thanks to Ben Stein (whose son played), an ostensibly terrible and inaccurate voiceover whenever they showed the title screen ("EV-ER-QUEST!!!!!) and the mother of that wackjob who killed himself (she blamed EQ for his death, despite the fact that he lived alone in a sea of pizza boxes and stopped taking meds). My favorite part was when the reporter said "Many times during our interview, the gamer seemed to forget I was in the room while he was playing".....he was healing a NTOV raid, even Dan Rather would have been ignored....

Don't even try to understand gamers, imo. The mainstream media can kiss our asses. Amirite?

Mainstream media would like nothing better than to have people glued to their advertisements 24/7.
It's not that they care at all - they are jealous.

News media - in my house gets ZERO attention. I have better things to do - like Game. Screw them and their rhetoric. One station tries to spin people one way, the other tries to spin them the opposite way.

I'm surprised the same people don't own them all now... or maybe they do through investment companies... http://www.newscorp.com/corp_gov/bod.html

If you go look, you'll find some of the 'investment companies' with people on News Corps board also have holdings at CNN, etc.
I don't even care anymore, I don't watch cable news. What news I get, I get from new media.

The same corporations that keep these news channels alive with advertisements own the politicians. If you think that's not the case - think about it simple: Who puts up the money to get politicians in office? After you answer that easy question, ask yourself one more easy question based on that answer: Who do you think the politicians represent?

"The people" - or the ones paying to put them in office?

The 'media' likes to try and over complicate it all and likes to keep people polarized to one party or the other - they don't care as long as they keep the people divided. That's the goal, it makes them easy to control.

I think you can simply ascribe that sort of thing to them wanting a "story". One guy with depression who killed himself (and just happened to play EQ) is just a statistic.

Video games / Dungeons and Dragons / etc *causing* people to kill themselves is interesting, despite the fact that it's just not true.

This.

To a large extent, role-playing games (online, console, and pen/paper) have kept a lot of us alive in some very dark times.

No better place to escape imo.

Watched this awhile back. Funniest part was when Schilling played for days non-stop prior to a game lol.

He plays WoW now. And word on the street was that he's not very good at MMO's !!:eek:

Don't know, but he is passionate about them. Enough so to start up his own company in order to make one.