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On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.

Posted by Miko on June 21st, 2007 at 3:04 pm · 3 Comments

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A few months ago, Wired published photographs of people’s faces in the midst of gaming. The artist indicated that we got to see “raw emotion” as people let their public face disappear. Personally, I thought it was a kind of a twisted insight into the religion of atheists (not to say that gamers are all atheists, but they have the kind of devotion & rapt attention written on their faces of which mystics could only dream).

I just ran across a similar photographic study of people who play games online. This, however, shows gamers alongside their avatars from various games. What does this show? How gamers look in their minds?

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Elise // Jun 21, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    That was a pretty amusing slideshow, thanks for sharing.

    So this Second Life thing is pretty big, huh? People really play it for 30 hour a week!?!?

  • 2 Miko // Jun 21, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    or 80!

  • 3 Bored in Vernal // Jun 21, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    As for me, I look exactly like my avatar…

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