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Comments on Online Death Leads To Offline Arrest
Bizarre case of broken hearts and avatar erasure. (Read
the complete story)
| "The best sfnal example I can think of where if you die in a virtual world, you die in the real world would be the Matrix trilogy. Not the best example for this one, but close..." (Roo 10/27/2008 5:14:40 PM) |
| "Roo - no, that's actually pretty good. But I could swear that I've seen examples where somebody gets edited out of virtual worlds - a virtual hit, as it were." (Bill Christensen 10/27/2008 8:53:42 PM) |
| "i think there is a csi episode about an assassin in Second Life or something. Someone attempted to snuff out her avatar but ended up being tracked down in real life and killed for the attempt.
don't know if that is similar." (gid 10/29/2008 4:52:13 AM) |
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