bizarre

I imagine this is referring to World of Warcraft.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20070126/FASS26/TPComment/

Sweatshop gaming?

"In one of the more bizarre human-machine relationships I've yet come across," writes Douglas Rushkoff in Discover magazine, "Chinese workers play the boring parts of online games that Westerners don't want to bother with -- all the tiny tasks that a player's fictional character must perform in order to earn virtual cash within a game world. Then players in the United States use real money to buy the play money generated by the factory workers. That's right: People who love playing in online game worlds will buy game money over eBay from digital sweatshops in China instead of earning it. . . . There are even published exchange rates between game money and U.S. dollars."

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Well I had a fun day at the SCA thingy, I went to Pickering. It was good. I had dinner, I met with ashendari again, and with my friend from college again. I had some things to return to her, that I hadn't managed to give back to her before today - she had forgotten what they were, so it was a bit like Christmas. :P Dinner included many yummy things, some moist lovely pork, and duck - I'd never had duck, it was good. Again, afterwards, I had a warm fuzzy feeling, maybe like the first day of school taken down a few notches. :D :D :D