Anyone wanna help me out on a topic for a research paper?

[Perant]

I have one due at the end of the semester, which ins't for a while, but I'd like to get my topic sorted out. I originally had planned doing one on addicition to MMOs, using articles like, the guy who died in Korea after playing for some-odd hours straght in a cafe, the guy who killed the other guy over in Europe after an in-game argument, and then articles like the one about Chinese game-time being limited by the government, crap like that.

I was wondering if anyone still had these articles lying around? I think I saw the one on the Korean guy on gamespot, but I can't find it, and I don't remember where I read about the other two. So I was hoping someone here had saved them, or at least knew where to find them. Any help would be appreciated.

[Digita1]

Korean - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article553840.ece

China - http://www.joystiq.com/2005/08/24/china-to-set-three-hour-limit-on-mmorpgs/

Euro guy - http://kotaku.com/gaming/moscow-times/lineage-ii-gamer-kicks-player-to-death-232857.php

That's not the actual article for DVP, I'll see if I can locate that.

[Archaos]

I just gave a speech on that shit.

[Perant]

I just gave a speech on that shit.

really? on the exact same topic?

[YuriSakazaki]

Be sure to mention that one addiction community, I forget their name.

[YuriSakazaki]

OLGANON is the name, google motherfucker.

[Grindrolas]

addiction is the wrong word to use, but I'm so sick of explaining why that I'm not even gonna bother...

[Victis]

If you need someone to proof read etc. Let me know, I can polish up things if you want some constructive criticism.

[lilcookie]

I did a paper kind of like this last quarter, heres a good site with a lot of great info:

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/

[YuriSakazaki]

I can also give constructive criticism, and by that I mean call you a fag and tell you how much it sucks.

[Will]

Make sure you focus on the wide age range of those who can be considered to be active mmo gamers. It is powerful enough to ensnare those who are old enough to know better.

I can provide myself as a case study if you like :)

[Perant]

nice one yuri, i totally forgot about that, and i just read an article on it recently too. and thanks to the nickylee.com link, gonna have to check that one out big time.

thanks for the responses guys, and the offers for a proof read. there's one detail i gotta flesh out about it, apparently my professor wants two of the sources to be tangible, and not off the internet. i'm not too sure if i can get past this. i'm sure there's gotta be an article on that gaming addiction clinic in europe somewhere i can get my hands on.

oh, and thanks for the case study offer, will, even though i think i could be my own case study, lol

[RickyMartin]

Man, would like to give whatever you write, a read perant :D

[Perant]

um, thanks ricky, but all i've done so far is a bad paper on Darton, and two really gay essays for a really gay english class

[Archaos]

I LOVE gay English classes!

[Perant]

I LOVE gay English classes!

can't stand it, the professor aggrivates me to no end, we're always doing some "free-writing" bullshit, and she always pronounces entire words perfectly, we're in New York and she's fully pronounciating "written," with emphasis on the t's, and every time she does i just want to get up and leave

[Archaos]

:<

Me sorry. You should go to Iowa, they have a good Journalism school.

However, since it's so well known, you end up with bitches like my rhetoric teacher who is from fucken Turkey.

[Pseudonymous]

Just finished up an experiment for the science fair^_^