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"Most of us are pretty comfortable with the idea that videogames can provide arenas for transgressive play that allows people to explore taboos and societal no-no's with impunity."

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"They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, [...] all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democra

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"Is griefing simply emergent play that some folks don't like?" More thoughts on the philosophy and sociology of computer games and MMOGs.

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