mom pwns

Oh, why not: Busted.

Here we go,,,

Brion
Level 57 Night Elf Hunter
Guild: Crimson Sky
Realm: Cenarion Circle
Re: Alterac Valley for Tuesday 08-16-05 | 8/16/2005 3:29:01 AM PDT

ok i have a proposition for the horde, let us kill Korrak while you sit and watch. and well let you get all the honor youll ever want=}. no? ok well it shall be a great battle then, hope to see everyone there!

The now infamous response: In summary. lvl 59 mom to lvl 56 son:

Faydra
Level 59 Human Priest
Guild: Crimson Sky
Realm: Cenarion Circle
Re: Alterac Valley for Tuesday 08-16-05 | 8/16/2005 8:44:27 AM PDT

((OOC))

Pardon me for hijacking the thread, here..

But, Brion - if you don't want your mother to know you were up and on the computer at 3:29 in the morning - DON'T post on a forum that she reads.

Busted.
Grounded.

What does she mean ‘grounded’ the dude is level 56, he can’t be getting out that much now can he. A few posts down all becomes clear:

Faydra
Level 59 Human Priest
Guild: Crimson Sky
Realm: Cenarion Circle
Re: Alterac Valley for Tuesday 08-16-05 | 8/16/2005 12:14:47 PM PDT

Yeah, you won't be seeing Brion at Alterac Valley tonight...

I'm going to make him watch a movie with me instead. I'm thinking a real chick flick - Steel Magnolias or Moulin Rouge. :)

/giggle

Assuming this is legit. Note the details. Not only are mom and son both playing WoW, they are both on the boards, on the same realm and in the same guild!

Parents playing with kids – who would have thought it?

Well, us, actually:

Jakobsson and Taylor - The Sopranos Meets EverQuest
Dave Ricky - Nuclear Family Fallout
Nick Yee - Parents Who Game With Their Children
Ren Reynolds (parents who really dont game!) - What could I say ?

Anything new here? For MMO watchers, not really. But for the rest of the world - maybe. I picked this up on from Keith on the UK Guardian’s gamesblog - which is edging towards a mainstream audience.

One of my issues with the whole media effects thing is the buck passing that goes on around parental responsibility. Sure this is not new either but with computer games parents have a new excuse – it technology and like science and mathematics generally it’s something that society seems to condone ignorance of.

Time to kick the ghost of CP Snow. Even well educated liberal types seem happy to admit that they don’t know squat about science. It’s fine not to know the first thing about genetics but lacking any clue about Hamlet or Mozart would be frowned upon.

But this is a side track anyway. The fact that an 18 or M label is on a computer game is no excuse to not read the 18 bit and take some notice. So real or fictive, I’ll take good roll models how ever they are served up – three cheers for pwning mom.