Dialogue

I am not sure if this is the right way to do it, but I am doing the dialogue on the topic of the online media (in this case online gaming) and the affect toward our interaction with people. I setup the stage, and create a situation for the following dialogue, and it may contain some use of bad languages due to the topic and the setup where this dialogue is happening:


In the Lost City of the Tol’vir, there are two dead bodies lying on the ground after an expecting wipe. The on laying the corner near the market street is Shadowz, the high undead shadow priest of the Under City, and the one laying near the stair is Dacoon, the mighty goblin shaman of Kezan.


Dacoon: WTF…
Shadowz: I can’t believe that just happened!  He purposely waited until we started the fight and left, so we will all die.
Dacoon: Yea, it’s crazy how people do that all the time.
Shadowz: Just because his didn’t get that chest, he was begging for that since the last boss.
Dacoon: ….
Shadowz: So he waited and left when we just started this boss…what a dick!
Dacoon: True true.
Shadowz: I bet he is someone that has no life and just sits in front of the screen every day, and gear is like more important to him than anything.  I bet he could level a toon from 80 to 85 in a day or something…
Dacoon: Yeap.  There are more and more people like this too, it happened to me twice last night.
There was one shammy who just kept calling everyone stupid and saying how he was better than everyone else because he knew everything..blablabla and in the end he just pulled some random mobs and got the whole group killed…
Shadowz: Name?
Dacoon: No idea, but he isn’t from our sever.
Shadowz: well that’s why he was doing that.
Dacoon: why?
Shadowz: I bet he would ever do something like that in real life, or even to the people on his same server.
Dacoon: Well, that depends on the people…
Shadowz: People are always trying to make themselves feel better.
Dacoon: So you mean by being stupid and calling other people names will make them feel better?
Shadowz: Partly, it’s a power thing, it’s because they can’t do that in real life.
Dacoon: what do you mean?
Shadowz: Like how we as human try to find ways to make ourselves feel stronger over others.  This just gives us a way we can do that without letting anyone know who we are.  It’s like getting to bully people without ever getting in trouble, or having them ever get revenge.
Dacoon: huh…
Shadowz: In the past we would swing swords to settle disputes. As we don’t swing swords anymore, our power is in the words we say.
Dacoon: well…we still use swords here.
Shadowz: so it’s even more metaphorical then, we can assume the role of these big hulking brutes with huge weapons.
Dacoon: huh…
Shadowz: and the only ‘pain’ we can cause through the online media is with words, and sometimes that’s almost worse…especially when there is nothing you can do to retaliate.
Dacoon: what pain are you referring to?
Shadowz: like emotional pain I guess, like telling someone they suck etc
Dacoon: so if you say certain words to people online, it will cause as much pain as in real life?
Shadowz:  People are likely to act meaner online than in the real world because we don’t know who they are. Like in here you can ninja items from people because you may not meet that person ever again. Obviously this is like blatantly stealing something while knowing the owner can never track you down to get it back.
Dacoon: but the acts you do online are like the acts you do in life, so this game sort of reflects your personality in the real world.  Do you think people are just being nice because they know they will see each other again?
Shadowz: not necessarily…that makes it sound like they are just naturally mean, which I’m sure some people are. I’d say it’s mostly that there are some situations where it is fun to be a dick to someone, but yes, like our situation in wow, it could be fun because of the knowledge of never seeing that person again, or having to pay for your actions in any way.
Dacoon: If there was a random man that was going to fall down a building or something, and there was a hard drive with the best ever gears in it, and you can only choose to save him, or let him die and get the hard drive. In the condition of no one will ever know what happened, what will you do?
Shadowz: how many items?
Dacoon: lol…full set
Shadowz: then the set, of course
Dacoon: cool cool…
Shadowz: bahahaha…it its BoE, it could potentially be sold on ebay for like a grand. He wouldn’t give me a grand for saving him, he’d just say thanks.  Nah I am just kidding lol, but see, that was a perfect example.
Dacoon: So do you think that sometime people do mean and stupid things online because they think it’s funny? Like that famous Youtube video about one guy that didn’t listen to the plan and let his whole team wipe?
Shadowz: dunnos…it may not be funny in the moment to some people who are serious about their gaming.  This is also a game you pay to play, so some people might take it more seriously, more like real life..  but I thought that video was hilarious…. Finally we got another healer!


The new healer revives the two, and they keep going on with their long journey to save the world of Warcraft.


FIN.